Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 29 November 2010

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 29 November 2010
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 29 November 2010

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 29 November of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 29 November of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 29 November see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Attorney General, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of Crown Prosecution Service expenditure in respect of criminal prosecutions where witnesses failed to attend in (a) England and (b) Hampshire in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(27385)

2	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Attorney General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent on calling witnesses from abroad in each of the last five years.
	(27387)

3	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Attorney General, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by the Law Officers' Departments; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27482)

4	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Attorney General, what expenditure the Law Officers' Departments incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27532)

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

5	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2010, Official Report, column 480W, on higher education: finance, what the outcomes were of his discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
	(27309)

6	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2010, Official Report, column 485W, on the Regional Growth Fund, what types of proposals will meet the criteria to be considered as strategic investment programmes.
	(27335)

Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the long-term future of the cap on university tuition fees; under what circumstances higher education institutions may disregard the cap; and how he expects application of the real interest taper to affect (a) educational institutions and (b) students attending such institutions.

(27089)

8	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to support competitiveness in the manufacturing sector.
	(27090)

9	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to continue to undertake research and development.
	(27091)

10	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to ensure that lectureships in further and higher education institutions remain an attractive career choice for graduates; and if he will make a statement.
	(27095)

11	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27367)

12	Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received from the British Bankers' Association on bank bonuses in the current year; and what estimate he has made of the likely change in the level of such bonuses between 2009 and 2010.
	(27636)

13	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) strategic and (b) other powers he plans to enable local enterprise partnerships to exercise; and if he will make a statement.
	(27646)

14	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the level of (a) central Government and (b) local authority funding for local enterprise partnerships in each year of the Spending Review period.
	(27647)

15	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to put in place mechanisms to ensure representation from the Federation of Small Businesses and the Chambers of Commerce at the most senior level of management of local enterprise partnerships.
	(27648)

16	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has plans to put in place mechanisms to limit spending on (a) administration and (b) communications and marketing by local enterprise partnerships.
	(27649)

17	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how local enterprise partnerships will provide assistance in respect of small areas of deprivation in (a) Harlow and (b) other towns with similar demographic features.
	(27650)

18	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the proposed local enterprise partnerships will consider the former staff of regional development agencies as potential employees.
	(27651)

19	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, by what mechanisms he expects smaller sub-regional economic areas to (a) integrate in and (b) work with the larger local enterprise partnerships.
	(27652)

20
N

Mr Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye and Lochaber): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State of 22 November 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column 959, what legal status the agreement signed on 22 September 1948 establishing the US-UK Fulbright Commission has; whether the agreement constitutes a legally binding treaty; and if he will make a statement.

(26892)

21 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the Government's policy is on the principle of internet neutrality; and if he will make a statement.
	(26821)

22 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date he expects his Department to publish its White Paper on Growth.
	(27475)

23 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what budgetary changes he expects to arise from implementation of his plans to reform adult community learning; and if he will make a statement.
	(27115)

24	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanisms his Department has in place to support social enterprises and community interest companies.
	(27644)

25 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether further education institutions will be required to fulfil any statutory duties under his plans for the Discretionary Learner Support Fund.
	(26975)

26 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2010, Official Report, column 753W, on research and development, what his policy is on the EU target of three per cent. of gross domestic product to be spent on research and development.
	(27134)

27	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to determine the funding allocations for growth hubs.
	(27591)

28	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many officials in his Department are working on the plans for the establishment of growth hubs.
	(27592)

29	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27481)

30	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27514)

31	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the University Challenge projects.
	(27327)

32	Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to restrict the practice of establishing phoenix companies.
	(27108)

33	Bob Stewart (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to take steps following the implementation of the proposed increase in tuition fees to ensure that students have sufficient access to debt management advice after graduation.
	(27112)

34 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of merging the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission on the time taken to complete investigatory procedures.
	(26881)

35	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consultation his Department has undertaken with the public sector and private sector employers on his plans to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees.
	(27243)

36	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the Barnett consequentials for the devolved administations as a result of the proposed reforms to the functions of the national consumer councils.
	(27155)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

37 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what dates Ministers in the Cabinet Office have met Lord Wei to discuss the National Citizen Service.
	(27274)

38 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by what date he expects the Big Society Bank to (a) be established and (b) commence distributing funds.
	(27275)

39 N	Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what procurement process his Department undertook for the pilots of the National Citizen Service.
	(27450)

40	Nick Boles (Grantham and Stamford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions Government departments have required professional indemnity from a contractor to the level of £1 million or above in each of the last five years; and what the monetary value was of the contracts concerned.
	(27166)

41	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has for the role of the National Citizen Service in providing public services; and what plans he has to monitor and assess the service's performance in that role.
	(27299)

42	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what roles and responsibilities the proposed community organisers will have; and what mechanisms he plans to put in place to monitor and assess their effectiveness.
	(27300)

43	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to reform procurement rules to facilitate the delivery of public services by (a) charities, (b) social enterprises, (c) small businesses and (d) other non-governmental bodies.
	(27301)

44	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department plans to take to monitor the effectiveness of the transition fund for charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises.
	(27302)

45	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in respect of (a) the Prime Minister's Office and (b) the Deputy Prime Minister's Office.
	(27372)

46	Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the working population of (a) North Tyneside, (b) the North East, (c) England, (d) London and (e) the South East is employed in the (i) public and (ii) private sector.
	(27634)

47 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what skills and experience were identified as being required for the role of Secretary to the Iraq Inquiry; how many candidates were identified as having such skills and experience; and on what basis the successful candidate was selected.
	(26897)

48 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps were taken in the process of appointment of the Secretary to the Iraq Inquiry (a) to identify potential conflicts of interest and (b) to ensure that any such conflicts did not affect the independence of the inquiry.
	(26898)

49 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which of his Department's human resources procedures were followed in the selection of the (a) secretary and (b) press secretary to the Iraq Inquiry.
	(26899)

50 N	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, column 143W, on public sector procurement, what plans the Office of Government Commerce has to monitor compliance with its 2009 guidance on promoting skills through public procurement; and what mechanisms it has in place to do so.
	(26969)

51	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to bring forward measures to reduce the annual cost of grey fleet expenditure to Government departments; and if he will make a statement.
	(27588)

52	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to enable national and multi-national companies on the Office of Government Commerce framework to subcontract to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their local areas for the purpose of helping SMEs obtain Government and local authority contracts.
	(27394)

53	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the merits of authorising suppliers on the Office of Government Commerce framework on a regional basis for the purpose of assisting small and medium-sized enterprises to tender for Government and local authority business in their regions.
	(27396)

54	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average monetary value was of a Government contract awarded to a (a) small enterprise and (b) medium-sized enterprise in 2009-10.
	(27641)

55	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27480)

56	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27513)

57 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution to the Big Society initiative of proposed changes in his Department's funding of community groups and charities.
	(27445)

58 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on (a) community groups and (b) charities of changes to their funding as a result of the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(27451)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

59	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proposals his Department has for the (a) taxation of and (b) establishment of a floor price for carbon.
	(27426)

60	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has assessed the effect of the mortgage market proposals made by the Financial Services Authority on small businesses with a turnover under £1 million.
	(27483)

61	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on house prices of the mortgage market proposals made by the Financial Services Authority; and if he will make a statement.
	(27484)

62 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letters of 5 and 15 October 2010 from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay on his constituent Mr Kerwin.
	(27276)

63	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research he has evaluated on the likely effects on access to mortgages of the Financial Services Authority's mortgage market proposals.
	(27602)

64	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Financial Services Authority's mortgage market proposals on the operation of the housing market.
	(27603)

65	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the evidential basis for the Financial Services Authority's assessment of the effects on house prices of implementation of the Authority's mortgage market proposals.
	(27604)

66	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the comparative effects on potential new house-buyers of (a) the Financial Services Authority's responsible mortgage-lending proposals and (b) the lending proposals of the European Commission.
	(27605)

67	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2010, Official Report, column 473W, on public assets: land, how often the ownership status of land directly owned by (a) Government departments and their agencies and (b) other public bodies is re-evaluated.
	(27229)

68	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2010, Official Report, column 894W, on banks: loans, if he will undertake an assessment of trends in the criteria for setting personal guarantees for loans over the last 10 years.
	(27308)

69
N

Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the sale of the lease for the former Saxon Square Health Centre in Christchurch; what his Department's role is in (a) negotiating and (b) approving the sale; when he expects his Department's decisions on the sale to be communicated to the Department of Health; what the reasons are for the time taken to date; and if he will make a statement.

(27379)

70	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to maintain the duty differential for liquefied petroleum gas beyond 2015.
	(27211)

71 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women will be affected by the changes to child tax credit announced in the June 2010 Budget by 2014-15.
	(26775)

72 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women will be affected by uprating working tax credits by the consumer price index by 2014-15.
	(26776)

73 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) men and (b) women will be affected by the freeze to child benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget by 2014-15.
	(26779)

74 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding from his Department was allocated to the Conflict Pool in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
	(27265)

75	Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to bring forward proposals for regulations to provide for charitable incorporated organisations.
	(27388)

76	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27362)

77	Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the likely level of growth in the (a) private and (b) public sector in the North East in each year of the Spending Review period.
	(27633)

78	Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) increasing and (b) reducing the capital gains tax annual exempt amount by £5,000.
	(27589)

79 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the Government's policy is on the implementation of the recommendations of the Walker Review of the corporate governance of the UK banking industry; and if he will make a statement.
	(26820)

80	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of revenue which accrued from income tax from employees in each business sector in each of the last three years.
	(27548)

81 N	Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the tax yield from a financial activities tax levied at a rate of (a) 0.01 per cent., (b) 0.025 per cent, (c) 0.05 per cent., (d) 0.1 per cent and (e) 1 per cent. on (i) all UK financial institutions and (ii) internal UK financial transactions.
	(26822)

82	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2010, Official Report, column 274W, on incentives, what activities HM Revenue and Customs sponsored in 2009-10; and how much it spent on each sponsorship activity.
	(27476)

83	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2010, Official Report, column 274W, on incentives, from which of its budgets HM Revenue and Customs funds expenditure on promotional material; and how much has been spent from each such budget in each of the last three years.
	(27477)

84	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27502)

85	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27528)

86 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to ensure that private sector debt collection agencies comply with (a) data protection legislation and (b) principles of confidentiality in handling taxpayers' personal information under his proposals for collection of tax arrears.
	(27143)

87	Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Office for Budget Responsibility will take into account liabilities under the student loan scheme in its assessment of Government debt.
	(27296)

88	Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to enter the debts attributable to the Student Loan Company on the public sector balance sheet.
	(27550)

89	Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what controls (a) he and (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer exercise over arrangements made by the Student Loans Company to securitise its loans.
	(27551)

90	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter of 1 October 2010 from the hon. Member for Torbay on low value consignment relief.
	(27606)

91	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will seek agreement from the Council of Ministers to zero-rate value added tax on repairs to historic church buildings.
	(27098)

92	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assumptions in respect of the rates of air passenger duty were used in calculations to obtain the forecasts for air passenger duty receipts contained in table C11 in the Budget 2010 report.
	(27163)

93	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates of air passenger numbers were used in calculations to obtain the forecasts for air passenger duty receipts contained in table C11 in the Budget 2010 report.
	(27164)

94	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methodology was used to calculate the forecasts for air passenger duty receipts contained in table C11 in the Budget 2010 report.
	(27165)

95	Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to introduce lending targets for those banks which are part-owned by the Government.
	(27102)

96	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has assessed the effect of the mortgage market proposals made by the Financial Services Authority on small businesses with a turnover under £1 million.
	(27533)

97	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has assessed the effect of the Financial Services Authority's mortgage market review proposals on the (a) availability of mortgages and (b) operation of the housing market; and if he will make a statement.
	(27534)

98	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has discussed with the Council of Mortgage Lenders the proposals on responsible lending made by the Financial Services Authority and their likely effect on the housing market.
	(27535)

99	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that the implementation of the Financial Services Authority's mortgage market review proposals does not have a negative effect on home-buyers and the housing market.
	(27536)

100	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of borrowers who may not be able to take out remortgages following the introduction of the Financial Services Authority's proposals for the mortgage market; and if he will bring forward measures to assist such borrowers.
	(27539)

101	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of mortgages granted since 2005 which would not have been issued under the Financial Services Authority's proposals for the mortgage market.
	(27540)

102	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) self-employed and (b) other homebuyers with variable incomes will be able to obtain mortgages under the Financial Services Authority's proposals for the mortgage market.
	(27544)

103	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much tax revenue was raised in respect of the UK-based music industry in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007, (d) 2008 and (e) 2009.
	(27232)

104	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment of the merits of tax incentives to encourage the development of UK musical talent.
	(27234)

105	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the additional revenue to the Exchequer attributable to an extension to 75 years of musicians' copyright in the last 10 years.
	(27346)

106	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) start-up and (b) annual running cost of the Combined Online Information System database.
	(27154)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

107 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of (a) 6 September and (b) 20 October 2010 on MK Electrical Devices and Systems.
	(27258)

108	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on financial assistance to first-time homebuyers who commit a large proportion of their income in mortgage payments in order to get on to the property ladder.
	(27601)

109	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many residential park homes there are on licensed park home sites in each county.
	(27180)

110 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of levels of expenditure per 1,000 people on youth services in each local authority in England in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(26896)

111	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission has spent on hospitality since the announcement of its abolition.
	(27190)

112	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions five-star hotels have been booked by the Audit Commission through the Expotel hotel reservations service in the last 12 months; which hotels were booked; and at what cost to the public purse.
	(27191)

113	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of (a) squatters and (b) unauthorised encampments.
	(27311)

114	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to implement his proposals to replace draft circular 01/2006 on Gypsy and Traveller sites.
	(27312)

115	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will cease all funding to the English Regions Network; and how much the Network received from his Department and its predecessors in each year since its inception.
	(27313)

116	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authority plans to deliver savings do not disproportionately affect the voluntary sector.
	(27303)

117 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on future levels of social housing rents; and if he will make a statement.
	(26341)

118 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many of the proposed new affordable homes to be built in the next four years he expects to be built in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) London; and if he will make a statement.
	(26342)

119 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the bidding system for prospective tenants operated by housing associations; and if he will make a statement.
	(26343)

120	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects of the proposed increase in social housing rents to 80 per cent. of markets levels on construction of (a) social and (b) affordable housing in each region; and if he will make a statement.
	(27096)

121

Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects of the proposed changes to rules under which new social housing can be constructed on the potential for small housing associations who do not construct new housing to amalgamate with other (a) large and (b) small housing associations; and if he will make a statement.

(27097)

122	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27366)

123 N	Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2010, Official Report, column 807W, on social rented housing: construction, when and in what form more detail on the implementation of new affordable rent tenure will be published.
	(26373)

124	Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what provision his proposed revision to the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity will make in respect of unnecessary expenditure on publicity by local authorities.
	(27201)

125	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty homes there are in (a) City of Chester constituency and (b) the North West; and how many such homes have been empty for six months or more in each of those areas.
	(27639)

126	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27500)

127	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27511)

128	Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will assess the merits of bringing forward proposals to enable larger parish councils to retain their business rate income.
	(27109)

129 N	Ian Swales (Redcar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many units of social housing were (a) built and (b) sold in (i) the North East and (ii) Redcar constituency in each year since 1997.
	(26963)

130	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Financial Services Authority on its assessment of the effect on house prices of the introduction of its mortgage market proposals; and if he will make a statement.
	(27538)

131	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on financial assistance to first-time homebuyers who commit a large proportion of their income in mortgage payments in order to get on to the property ladder.
	(27541)

132	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has assessed the effect on the (a) housing market and (b) supply of new homes of the mortgage market review proposals made by the Financial Services Authority; and if he will make a statement.
	(27542)

133	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has discussed with the Council of Mortgage Lenders the likely effect on the housing market of the Financial Services Authority's proposals for responsible lending.
	(27543)

134	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have received grants from the Community Cohesion Fund; how much each has received; and what information his Department holds on the use to which each grant has been put.
	(27110)

135	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme.
	(27233)

136	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many incidents of squatting were recorded (a) in Brighton and Hove constituency and (b) nationally in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, and (iii) 2009.
	(27236)

137	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the Localism Bill.
	(27245)

138	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of new houses which would need to be built in Southampton Unitary Authority area in each of the next five years in order for the authority to establish a net income gain under the terms of the New Homes bonus scheme.
	(27192)

139	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the citing of party political publications as evidence in consultation documents issued by his Department.
	(27198)

140	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many housing completions there were in the Southampton Unitary Authority area in each of the last five years.
	(27199)

141	Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department expects to bring forward amendments to planning circular ODPM 01/2006 on Gypsy and Traveller sites.
	(27156)

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

142	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, who he plans to invite to the meeting of the Sports Cabinet planned for early 2011.
	(27401)

143	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will invite representatives of School Sports Partnerships or their young ambassadors to the meeting of the Sports Cabinet planned for early 2011.
	(27402)

144	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what subjects will be on the agenda for the meeting of the Sports Cabinet planned for early 2011.
	(27403)

145	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the relationship between the level of success at elite level sport and mass participation in sport at grassroots level; and if he will make a statement.
	(27407)

146	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, in what ways the School Olympics will differ from the UK School Games; and if he will make a statement.
	(27408)

147	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what conclusions he drew from his visit to the UK School Games in 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(27409)

148	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether Ministers in his Department plan to meet Youth Sport Trust Young Ambassadors when they deliver their petition against changes in his Department's expenditure.
	(27412)

149	Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department have had with directors of the Newsquest Media Group on local media provision.
	(27336)

150	Mike Gapes (Ilford South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on arts organisations based in the London Borough of Redbridge of local authority funding reductions.
	(27179)

151	Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will assess the effects of reductions in funding for local authorities on arts organisations in Luton Borough Council area.
	(27128)

152	Gareth Johnson (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much Arts Council England spent on projects in Dartford constituency in each of the last 5 years.
	(27103)

153	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of reductions in local authority funding on arts organisations in the Bristol City Council area.
	(27220)

154 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, column 132W, on broadcasting: Scotland, for what reasons he rejected the recommendations of Ofcom in respect of the award of qualified independent producer status to Scottish Television.
	(27170)

155	Mr George Mudie (Leeds East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on arts organisations based in Leeds City Council of local authority funding reductions.
	(27226)

156

Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2010, Official Report, column 333W, on regional development agencies: North East region, what mechanisms he has put in place to ensure that the interests of the tourism industry are represented; and what mechanisms he plans to put in place to ensure that assistance to businesses in the tourism sector is maintained during the transition from regional development agencies to local enterprise partnerships.

(27125)

157 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2010, Official Report, column 604W, on Departmental degrees, what information his Department records on the qualifications and expertise of its staff.
	(27130)

158	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27499)

159	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27520)

160 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what legislation he proposes to bring forward in respect of the Royal Parks.
	(26769)

161 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what objectives he has set for the Royal Parks Agency for the next five years.
	(26770)

162 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what guidance he has issued to the Royal Parks Agency on the holding of large-scale commercial events in the Royal Parks.
	(26771)

163 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the backlog of maintenance works in the Royal Parks.
	(26772)

164	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what plans he has to reduce the (a) regulatory and (b) administrative burden on organisers of live music performances.
	(27235)

165	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will assess the likely effect on the British music industry of the expiry of 50 years copyright on recordings in the next 10 years.
	(27347)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

166 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to announce his plans for the implementation of the re-basing of military personnel in Germany; and whether he has made an estimate of the costs to his Department on such re-basing.
	(27141)

167 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had on other countries fulfilling the role that would have been performed by Nimrod MRA4 aircraft.
	(27142)

168 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what underpinning work his Department carried out prior to the announcement of the 2015 deadline for the withdrawal of British combat troops from Afghanistan.
	(27278)

169 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with Rolls Royce on the likely effects on the level of employment of his decision to procure the non-short take-off and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter.
	(27279)

170	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current shortfall is in respect of each rank of reservist medical personnel; and if he will make a statement.
	(27574)

171	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on redevelopment at each RAF base in the UK in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of likely expenditure on work classified as redevelopment in each of the next five years.
	(27575)

172	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what timetable he has set for the implementation of the proposed increase in the number of Typhoon Eurofighters in operation at RAF Leuchars.
	(27576)

173	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions Royal Air Force fighters were scrambled from (a) RAF Leuchars and (b) RAF Coningsby to intercept aircraft in each of the last five years.
	(27577)

174	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the date on which the RAF Typhoon will take over responsibility for Quick Reaction Alert from the RAF Tornado.
	(27578)

175	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was spent under each budgetary heading on running costs for each RAF base in the UK in each of the last five financial years; and what the equivalent figures are for 2010-11.
	(27579)

176	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) civilian and (b) military staff were employed at each RAF base in the UK in each year since 2007.
	(27580)

177	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of RAF Leuchars; and if he will make a statement.
	(27581)

178	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of staff are employed in the Ministerial correspondence section of his Department.
	(27127)

179	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel (a) who were killed and (b) who lost a limb in operations in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan were aged 21 years or younger.
	(27663)

180	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of new infantry recruits were aged under 18 years in each year since 2001-02.
	(27325)

181	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) corps and (b) regiment had the highest (i) fatality and (ii) casualty rate in (A) Iraq and (B) Afghanistan in each year since 2001-02.
	(27326)

182	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of infantry soldiers were aged 21 or below in each year since 2001-02.
	(27329)

183	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27365)

184 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of regulations limiting the rights of discharge of under 18-year-olds from the armed services on the UK's compliance with the provisions of International Labour Organisation Convention No. 29 on forced labour.
	(27374)

185 N	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects his Department's review of proposals for helicopter search and rescue under the Private Finance Initiative to be concluded; and if he will make a statement.
	(27373)

186 N	Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have been diagnosed with (a) active and (b) latent tuberculosis following a tour of duty in Afghanistan since 2001.
	(26889)

187 N	Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether armed forces personnel retiring from tours of duty in Afghanistan are routinely tested for (a) active and (b) latent tuberculosis.
	(26890)

188 N	Eric Joyce (Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have served in Afghanistan since 2001.
	(26891)

189	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of replacing Trident in current prices.
	(27413)

190	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what mechanism his Department has achieved cost savings in joint work with the US to procure a common missile compartment for the planned successor submarine; and how much funding has been allocated by his Department to the common missile compartment project to date.
	(27414)

191	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his plans to co-operate on nuclear warhead testing with France, whether the UK will continue to (a) participate in or (b) receive the results of US sub-critical nuclear tests undertaken at the Nevada nuclear test site.
	(27415)

192	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the proposed UK-France treaty on nuclear weapons co-operation, whether military flights between the UK and France will involve the transportation of nuclear materials.
	(27416)

193	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assumptions were made in respect of the number of submarines to be manufactured when his Department made its estimate of the cost of replacing Trident included in the summary of the Value for Money review.
	(27440)

194 N	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many submissions to the Strategic Defence and Security Review from members of the public were (a) read, (b) acknowledged and (c) replied to substantively.
	(26960)

195 N	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the readiness of the Afghan National Security Forces to take control of security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
	(26961)

196 N	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with what frequency, and by what means, the Government plans to assess the readiness of the Afghan National Security Forces to take control of security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
	(26962)

197 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2010, Official Report, column 597W, on departmental research, what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on research and development in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
	(27133)

198	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27498)

199	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27519)

200 N	Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many accommodation units of each (a) type and (b) number of bedrooms his Department owns in each location in Argyll and Bute constituency; and whether each such unit is occupied.
	(27259)

201 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the future of RAF Rescue services.
	(27139)

202	Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether HMS Ark Royal will be offered for sale to foreign navies following her decommissioning.
	(27188)

203	Mr Lee Scott (Ilford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what date he expects the A400M transport aircraft to enter service with the Royal Air Force.
	(27189)

204	Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution the UK made to the US and Estonian Joint Nato exercise in October 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(27111)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

205	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what arrangements his Department plans to put in place to co-ordinate the work of (a) returning officers and (b) chief returning officers for elections in (i) 2011 and (ii) subsequent years.
	(27690)

206	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether the ballots for the proposed referendum on the alternative vote and the elections to the Scottish Parliament in 2010 will be on separate ballot papers.
	(27693)

207	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the merits of establishing the Interim Electoral Management Board for Scotland on a statutory basis.
	(27694)

208	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether he plans to put in place arrangements to take account of circumstances in which a local government by-election takes place on the same day as elections to the Scottish Parliament and the proposed referendum on the alternative vote.
	(27695)

209	Graham Jones (Hyndburn): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what recent representations he has received on the effect of his proposals for constituency boundaries on the boundaries of constituencies serving mill towns in East Lancashire.
	(27221)

210	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Torbay of 29 September 2010 on the payment of interns.
	(27454)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

211 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department plan to meet the Youth Sports Trust Young Ambassadors when they deliver their petition against changes in his Department's expenditure.
	(27136)

212 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had recent meetings with the Youth Sports Trust Young Ambassadors; and if he will make a statement.
	(27137)

213 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had recent meetings with Baroness Campbell of Loughborough to discuss the work of the Youth Sports Trust.
	(27138)

214	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of his Department's budget for funding for school buildings and facilities he expects to be spent on sports facilities; and if he will make a statement.
	(27400)

215	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received from local authorities on planned changes in his Department's expenditure on school sport.
	(27404)

216	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions Ministers in his Department had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the work of the Youth Sports Trust.
	(27406)

217	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the level of participation of pupils in competitive activity between schools; and if he will make a statement.
	(27410)

218	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he made of the proportion of school children who undertook two hours of sport or physical activity at school in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
	(27411)

219
N

Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral Answer to the hon. Member for Chesterfield of 15 November 2010, Official Report, column 628, on secondary school standards, if he will estimate the change in the level of resources schools will allocate to school sport as a result of the removal of the ring fence on funding provided for sports; and if he will make a statement.

(27462)

220
N

Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral Answer to the hon. Member for Chesterfield of 15 November 2010, Official Report, column 628, on secondary school standards, where meetings with Baroness Campbell took place; who was present at each such meeting; how long each such meeting lasted; what subjects were discussed at each such meeting; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the agenda and minutes of each such meeting.

(27463)

221 N	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the likely effects on the future of youth participation in sport of the withdrawal of funding from the Youth Sports Trust.
	(26741)

222 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to (a) measure and (b) reduce rates of teenage pregnancy following the end of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy.
	(26957)

223 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the forthcoming Curriculum Review will consider sex and relationships education.
	(26958)

224 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish its Curriculum Review; and whether it will be subject to public consultation.
	(26959)

225	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Health on his proposed changes to school sports funding; and if he will make a statement.
	(27182)

226	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will commission research on the effect on the participation in competitive sport by young women whose access to (a) dance and (b) aerobics classes will be affected by proposed changes to school sports funding as a result of the decision to scrap the Sport for All funding.
	(27183)

227	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of (a) the change in the number of children able to participate in sports activities as a result of his proposed changes to school sports funding and (b) the number of children he expects to take part in his proposed School Olympics.
	(27184)

228	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on participation in non-competitive sport of his proposed changes to school sports funding; and if he will make a statement.
	(27185)

229	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the likely effects on levels of youth crime of ending the funding for the School Sports Partnership prior to taking his decision to do so.
	(27590)

230	Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what mechanisms will be in place to assist those schools whose project funding was reduced or cancelled in the Building Schools for the Future capital spending review in respect of capital funding for projects in the Spending Review period.
	(27384)

231 N	Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of people in each (a) socio-economic and (b) ethnic group received education maintenance allowance in each constituency in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(26466)

232	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many members of staff are employed in the Ministerial correspondence unit of his Department.
	(27205)

233 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the likely effects of the closure of the School Sports Partnership on the participation rates in sport of young people; and if he will make a statement.
	(26747)

234 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department made of the capacity of school sport partnerships to co-ordinate the work of national governing bodies of sport with schools in a local area prior to making the decision to end funding for school sport partnerships from April 2011.
	(25046)

235 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has issued guidance to school sport partnerships on the identification of alternative funding sources from April 2011.
	(25047)

236 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what account his Department took of economies of scale for schools arising from school sport partnerships (SSPs) prior to taking the decision to end funding of SSPs from April 2011.
	(25048)

237 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department made of the average level of funding provided to schools by school sport partnerships (SSPs) prior to its decision to end funding for SSPs from April 2011.
	(25049)

238 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department made of the capacity of partnership development managers to co-ordinate voluntary sports clubs work with local schools prior to taking its decision to end funding for school sport partnerships from April 2011.
	(25050)

239	George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to initiate the process announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review of allowing secondary schools to bid towards capital spending schemes.
	(27330)

240	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of teaching staff in primary schools who are (a) male and (b) female; and if he will make a statement.
	(27218)

241	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27364)

242 N	Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress the Government has made on the proposal in the Coalition Agreement to take steps to prevent irresponsible advertising and marketing, especially to children.
	(26742)

243

John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2010, Official Report, columns 590-1W, on children in care, what methodology his Department used to determine that to answer the Question would incur disproportionate cost; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the calculations and accompanying background papers in respect of that Answer.

(27643)

244	John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2010, Official Report, columns 319-20W, on children in care, how many children were adopted from care in each case, excluding those children in care under section 20 of the Children Act 1989.
	(27686)

245	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he made of the average cost (a) per sixth form college and maintained secondary school with a sixth form, (b) per student in a sixth form college or in the sixth form at a maintained secondary school and (c) to the maintained secondary sector of public examinations in (i) 1996-97 and (b) 2009-10 .
	(27593)

246	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he made of the average cost (a) per maintained secondary school, (b) per pupil in the maintained secondary sector and (c) to the maintained secondary sector of public examinations in (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(27594)

247	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average number of separate (a) AS, (b) A2 and (c) A level examination or other evaluation sittings taken per student by the end of year 13 in maintained schools and sixth form colleges in academic year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(27595)

248	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of (a) A, (b) AS and (c) A2 level subject entries per student was in (i) year 12 and (ii) year 13 in maintained schools and sixth form colleges in academic year (A) 1996-97 and (B) 2009-10.
	(27596)

249	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average number of separate GCSE examinations or other evaluation sittings taken per student by the end of school year 11 in academic year (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2009-10.
	(27597)

250	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of GCSE entries was per student reaching the end of school year 11 in maintained schools in academic year (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2009-10.
	(27598)

251	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he made of the average cost to maintained schools and sixth form colleges of a public examination entry in school year (a) 10, (b) 11, (c) 12 and (d) 13 in 2010 prices in academic year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(27599)

252	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of public examination entries per student was in maintained schools and sixth form colleges in school year (a) 10, (b) 11, (c) 12 and (d) 13 in academic year (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(27600)

253	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what schools he has visited for the purpose of formulating his policy on the Schools Sports Partnership programme; and if he will make a statement.
	(27202)

254	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he had on school sport with (a) partnership development managers, (b) school sport co-ordinators, (c) competition managers and (d) primary link teachers (i) nationally and (ii) in Brighton Pavilion constituency.
	(27203)

255	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that parents with more than one child who fulfil all relevant admissions criteria are able to send their children to the same school.
	(27320)

256	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations he has received on allegations of the teaching of anti-Semitic ideology in British Madrasas, funded from sources in Saudi Arabia.
	(27390)

257	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Interfaith School Linking Network Project; when he next plans to renew the Project's performance; and if he will make a statement.
	(27545)

258	Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to meet organisations representing young carers to discuss his proposal to remove the requirement for 24 hours' notice for detention in schools.
	(27654)

259 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether academic institutions will be required to assess household income when determining the students they plan to fund through the Discretionary Learner Support Fund in the 2011-12 academic year.
	(26970)

260 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding from the Discretionary Learner Support Fund will be contingent on a minimum level of attendance at a further education institution.
	(26972)

261 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with what frequency payments to students from the Discretionary Learner Support Fund will be made in the academic year 2011-12.
	(26973)

262 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to stipulate (a) a minimum and (b) a maximum award to students from the Discretionary Learner Support Fund in the 2011-12 academic year.
	(26974)

263 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2010, Official Report, column 1228W, on Science: GCSE, when he expects to complete his assessment of the action needed to ensure that all schools offer the possibility for students to study three separate science subjects at GCSE level.
	(27131)

264	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27501)

265	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27512)

266 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for unspent funds in Discretionary Learner Support funds at the end of academic year 2011-12.
	(27464)

267 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what age limits will be placed on access to student financial support for the Discretionary Learner Support Fund by his Department for the academic year 2011-12.
	(27465)

268 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effects on student choice in applying to higher education institutions of differing levels of financial assistance being available via the Discretionary Learner Support Fund at further education institutions.
	(27466)

269 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether private training providers will be eligible for Government funding to administer their own discretionary learner support funds in academic year 2011-12.
	(27467)

270 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which training providers receive Government funding for the Discretionary Learner Support Fund; and how much was received by each such provider in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(27468)

271	Dr John Pugh (Southport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of schools not involved in competitive sports with other schools.
	(27554)

272
N

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) literature-based, (ii) television-based, (iii) telecommunications-based, (iv) electronic and (v) other campaigns and communications targeted at young people aged 16 to 24 years on (A) employment (B) training opportunities and (C) welfare in the last year for which figures are available.

(27129)

273 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of academic standards in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in Mid Sussex constituency.
	(26768)

274	Andrew Stephenson (Pendle): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether further education colleges which enrol 14 to 16 year olds eligible for funding from the pupil premium will receive a share of that funding.
	(27187)

275	Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has for the future funding of nursery education.
	(27101)

276	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to encourage the teaching of music in schools; and if he will make a statement.
	(27238)

277	Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to make legislative provision for the selective status of grammar schools which change to academy status.
	(27441)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

278 N	Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the effects of sustainable bioliquids in providing renewable heat under the Renewable Heat Incentive.
	(26467)

279 N	Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will assess methods by which sustainable waste derived bioliquids could be included in (a) the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme and (b) feed-in tariffs grandfathered under the Renewables Obligation.
	(26468)

280 N	Ann Coffey (Stockport): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has assessed the merits of grandfathering bioliquids under the Renewables Obligation separately from, and in advance of, the forthcoming banding review.
	(26469)

281	George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department plans to increase the number of renewable obligation certificates awarded for marine energy in England and Wales from two per milliwatt hour to five per milliwatt hour to align the rest of the UK with Scotland.
	(27298)

282	George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has to review the renewable obligations system in respect of marine energy.
	(27338)

283	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many deep mine coal pits are operating in Great Britain; and what proportion of electricity generated in the UK is produced from coal.
	(27315)

284	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27363)

285

Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate of the (a) cost of and (b) liabilities in respect of network upgrades for commercial landlords his Department made in preparing the Regulatory Impact Assessment on the implications of the European Court of Justice's Citiworks ruling on the provision of third party access to license exempt electricity and gas networks.

(27556)

286	Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many representations his Department has received from domestic users of onsite renewable energy techniques who (a) installed technology with the assistance of and (b) received support from his Department before July 2009.
	(27608)

287	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Renewables UK and (b) the micro-generation sector on the (i) future of solar photovoltaics and (ii) review of feed-in tariffs.
	(27119)

288	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to assist energy-intensive industries with rising energy prices.
	(27120)

289	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with energy providers to draw on their international experience to assist the on-schedule delivery of new nuclear builds in the UK.
	(27121)

290	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what meetings he has had with Sheffield Forgemasters since 1 September 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(27122)

291	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress has been made by the UK industry taskforce on peak oil and energy security; and if he will make a statement.
	(27123)

292	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 26 July 2010, Official Report, column 751W, on fuel poverty, what his definition is of reasonably practicable in respect of measures being carried out to eradicate fuel poverty in all households in England by 2016.
	(27126)

293	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27497)

294	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27518)

295	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will bring forward proposals to enable Ofgem to require major energy providers to disclose the price they pay for energy supplies.
	(27105)

296
N

John Stevenson (Carlisle): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the rules in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme which make provision for allowances to be retained during temporary closure or pending rationalisation in taking account of changes in the economic situation in respect of (a) trading and (b) availability of finance.

(25408)

297	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he made of the (a) level of domestic gas consumption and (b) proportion of the change in that level of consumption attributable to the implementation of higher standards in respect of insulation in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007, (iv) 2008 and (v) 2009.
	(27246)

298	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he made of the number of new residential properties which were built with wind turbines in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007, (d) 2008 and (e) 2009.
	(27247)

299	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of households likely to participate in the Warm Front Scheme in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	(27195)

300	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what representations he has received from the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group on the changes made to the Warm Front programme following the Spending Review 2010.
	(27196)

301	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what representations he has received on his proposed alterations to the financial incentives available to participants in the carbon reduction commitment energy efficiency scheme following the Spending Review 2010.
	(27197)

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

302	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on a settlement by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas which would not guarantee the recovery of bluefish tuna stocks by 2022.
	(27206)

303	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what submissions her Department made to the EU Council on its negotiating position for the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas discussions on a potential ban on the commercial fishing of bluefish tuna.
	(27207)

304

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness on stock conservation of the proposals advanced by (a) the Netherlands, (b) Sweden and (c) Greece prior to the EU Council meeting which determined the EU mandate for the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas negotiations.

(27208)

305	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) her international counterparts and (b) multinational agencies on banning the commercial fishing of bluefin tuna.
	(27209)

306	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on a ban on the commercial fishing of bluefin tuna.
	(27210)

307	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many grants of widow's or widower's bereavement allowances were made under the Agricultural Wages Order in each of the last five financial years.
	(27417)

308	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average sum payable as a grant of widow's or widower's bereavement allowance under the Agricultural Wages Order was in each of the last five financial years.
	(27418)

309	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many grants of dog allowances were made under the Agricultural Wages Order in each of the last five financial years.
	(27419)

310	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she received prior to making her decision to terminate funding for Farming Futures in the next financial year; and if she will make a statement.
	(27420)

311	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average sum payable as a grant of dog allowances under the Agricultural Wages Order was in each of the last five financial years.
	(27421)

312	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on her decision to end funding for Farming Futures.
	(27422)

313	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department plans to provide to the farming industry for the purposes of tackling climate change in each of the next four financial years; and what mechanism she plans to use to (a) disburse and (b) monitor the effectiveness of such funding.
	(27423)

314	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish her impact assessment in respect of the rural (a) economy and (b) environment of her Department's decision to terminate funding for Farming Futures in the next financial year; and if she will make a statement.
	(27424)

315	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking together with (a) other governments and (b) international agencies to reduce the illegal trade in tigers.
	(27425)

316	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish her Department's assessments of the value for money delivered by Farming Futures in each of the last four financial years; and if she will make a statement.
	(27427)

317	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with (a) supermarket retailers and (b) the farming industry on the sustainability of the dairy farming industry.
	(27428)

318	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with (a) supermarket retailers and (b) the farming industry on the pricing of milk, cheese and yoghurt.
	(27429)

319	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on changes in the (a) level of imports and (b) share of the domestic market of domestic suppliers of milk, cheese and yoghurt.
	(27430)

320	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what matters the Government raised at the global tiger summit held in St Petersburg, Russia.
	(27478)

321	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the New Forest National Park Authority spent on circulating the recent report on its activities to every household in the National Park.
	(27355)

322	George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had on the importance of animal welfare considerations in World Trade Organisation negotiations.
	(27331)

323	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department spent on entertainment related to the activities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27369)

324 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average annual income of (a) farmers and (b) hill farmers in (i) England and (ii) Cumbria was in each year since 1997.
	(26964)

325 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people in each county in England were employed in agriculture in each of the last 10 years.
	(26965)

326 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) cattle and (b) sheep in each county in England in each year since 1997.
	(26967)

327	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to establish specific and detailed guidance at (a) EU and (b) UK level on the treatment of building foam containing ozone depleting substances; and if she will make a statement.
	(27099)

328	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the proportion of (a) existing public buildings and (b) public buildings under construction which utilise ozone depleting substances in their construction materials.
	(27118)

329	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce mandatory reporting of carbon emissions by UK-listed companies.
	(27113)

330

Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the introduction of a No 4 production code for enriched eggs to differentiate them from eggs produced using conventional cages after 1 January 2012; and what recent discussions she has had at EU level on the introduction of a ban on eggs and egg products produced from hens housed in conventional cages after 1 January 2010.

(27611)

331	Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to review regulations governing the movement of livestock.
	(27304)

332	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by her Department; and what estimate she has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27496)

333	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure (a) her Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27517)

334	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the merits of introducing mandatory reporting of carbon dioxide emissions by listed UK companies; and if she will make a statement.
	(27200)

335	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what research her Department has evaluated on the treatment of performing animals in circuses in respect of (a) transport, (b) confinement, (c) training and (d) other conditions; and if she will make a statement.
	(27332)

336	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to publish the full results of the consultation on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses; and what the reasons are for the time taken to complete work on the consultation.
	(27582)

337 N	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to inform the public in advance of any badger culling activities sanctioned by the Government.
	(27453)

338 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the commercial growing of genetically-modified crops; and if she will make a statement.
	(26878)

339 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a Green Paper on the long-term strategy for her Department's policies affecting farming and its associated industries; and if she will make a statement.
	(26879)

340 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure long-term diversity in land-use in farming; and if she will make a statement.
	(26880)

341	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much wood was imported for burning as biomass fuel in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009.
	(27552)

342	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much sweet chestnut is under management for coppicing in each (a) county and (b) local authority area.
	(27553)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

343	Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to bring about the release of Gilad Shalit; and if he will make a statement.
	(27339)

344

Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) legislation and (b) other measures presented to the Council of Ministers the Government has agreed to adopt since May 2010; which such measures the Government did not support prior to their adoption; and what (i) legislation and (ii) other measures have been adopted in the Council of Ministers on the basis of qualified majority voting on occasions where the UK voted against since May 2010.

(27479)

345

Katy Clark (North Ayrshire and Arran): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with the Guatemalan government the steps it is taking to ensure full and effective implementation of the (a) article guaranteeing free, prior, and informed consent to communities affected by large scale extractive projects and (b) other articles of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

(27337)

346 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding his Department allocated to conflict prevention in each year since 2005.
	(27266)

347 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Afghan National Police officers have been recruited in 2010.
	(27447)

348 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Afghan National Police officers recruited in 2010 have left that police force.
	(27448)

349 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent estimate is of the number of officers in the Afghan National Police.
	(27449)

350	Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Colombian authorities in relation to the detention in Charco of Henry Castillo Perlaza.
	(27222)

351	Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2010, Official Report, column 914W, on Colombia: terrorism, what assessment he has made of the credibility of the allegations made by members of the San Jose de Apartado community of collaboration between the Colombian army and paramilitary groups.
	(27310)

352	Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports his Department received on the numbers of journalists killed in Colombia in 2009.
	(27323)

353 N	Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Tenerife on the death of Jordan Walchester; what consular assistance has been provided to Mr Walchester's family; and if he will make a statement.
	(26817)

354	Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on recent trends in the level of violence towards Christians in Iraq.
	(27635)

355 N	Julie Hilling (Bolton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in India and Pakistan on the future of Kashmir; and what recent reports he has received on progress towards self-determination for the people of Kashmir.
	(27171)

356 N	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Colombian government on the recent killing of Elizabeth Silva Aguilar.
	(27377)

357 N	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of military involvement in the deaths of children in Caqueta province, Colombia.
	(27378)

358	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on Taiwan's participation in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and if he will make a statement.
	(27397)

359	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had on the possibility of a Working Holiday Agreement with Taiwan; and if he will make a statement.
	(27398)

360 N	Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2010, Official Report, column 913W, whether the dismissed military personnel had previously participated in British military or counternarcotics assistance programmes in Colombia.
	(26323)

361 N	Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2010, Official Report, column 85W, what information his Department holds on the number of trade unionists assassinated in Colombia in 2010.
	(26324)

362
N

Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2010, Official Report, column 84W, whether those Colombian soldiers accused of involvement in drug trafficking, extrajudicial killings and working with illegal paramilitary groups had previously participated in British military or counternarcotics assistance programmes to Colombia.

(26325)

363 N	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he received on the killing of 43 people during a Catholic mass in Baghdad on 31 October 2010; and whether he has made recent representations to the Iraqi government on the treatment and protection of Christian minority groups in Iraq.
	(26370)

364 N	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of the number of Christians killed in Iraq as a result of religious or ethnic violence in each Christian group in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009.
	(26372)

365	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the killing of (a) Catholics and (b) other Christians by extremist Islamist groups in Iraq.
	(27389)

366	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what arrangements are in place in his Department to enable staff of his Department to propose innovations in working practices to improve service provision.
	(27609)

367	Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the government of Turkmenistan on the (a) fate and (b) whereabouts of Akmyrat Rejepow.
	(27314)

368	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27495)

369	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27516)

370	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which civil society organisations in the UK have received funding from EU funds in each of the last five years; how much each received; and from which EU funding programme the funds were granted.
	(27547)

371 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Egypt on the detention at Cairo airport on 9 November 2010 of Sherif Hassan Abdelwahab Muhammad and the deportation of his wife Emma Hassan.
	(27446)

372	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with which airlines his Department has contracts.
	(27104)

373	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on the development of policy to counter international piracy.
	(27107)

374 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, from which wine (a) merchants and (b) producers his Department has purchased wine since his appointment.
	(26873)

375 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) red wine, (b) white wine, (c) champagne and (d) fortified wine purchased for the Government wine cellar since his appointment.
	(26874)

376 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests his Department has received since his appointment to publish a copy of the entries in the Government wine cellar database.
	(26875)

377 N	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the NATO Civilian Representative in Afghanistan on the Representative's assessment of the safety of children in (a) Kabul and (b) London.
	(26888)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

378	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what timetable he proposes for implementation of any proposals requiring the sale of tobacco products in plain packaging; and if he will make a statement.
	(27434)

379

Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his press statement of 22 November 2010, what the evidential basis was for his statement that (a) packaging helps to recruit smokers and (b) that children are being attracted to smoking by glitzy designs on packets; what plans he has to implement legislative provisions prohibiting the display in retail outlets of tobacco product packaging; and if he will make a statement.

(27439)

380	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GP practices which have met the minimum thresholds set out in the Osteoporosis Directed Enhanced Service.
	(27181)

381	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will fund a national programme of audits of falls and bone health in primary care.
	(27186)

382	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he made of the merits of a fixed tariff compensation scheme for those affected by contaminated blood.
	(27383)

383	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether GP consortia commissioning healthcare services by tender will be able to accept tenders from other NHS organisations; and if he will make a statement.
	(27093)

384	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that NHS trusts continue to provide equal access for all patients upon becoming foundation trusts; and if he will make a statement.
	(27094)

385	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS Commissioning Board will commission salaried primary dental care services.
	(27167)

386	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27361)

387	Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the merits of extending the application cut-off date for mental health patients pursuing industrial tribunals.
	(27607)

388 N	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the membership is of the independent scientific advisory group of the multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme.
	(26893)

389 N	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients have taken part in the multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of administering drug treatments under the scheme.
	(26894)

390 N	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisation is responsible for monitoring outcomes for patients involved in the multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme; and when the results of the scheme will be published.
	(26895)

391	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients spent (a) four hours or less and (b) more than four hours from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge at accident and emergency departments in each (i) month and (ii) quarter of (A) 2009 and (B) 2010 to date.
	(27637)

392	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients (a) received treatment within and (b) waited longer for treatment than 18 weeks after referral in each (i) month and (ii) quarter of (A) 2009 and (B) 2010 to date.
	(27638)

393	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on transposing the EU Blood Directive 2002/98/EC into domestic regulations and guidelines; and if he will make a statement.
	(27431)

394	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether collaboration takes place between his Department and the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to assess risks posed to public health by climate change-related bloodborne pathogens.
	(27432)

395	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) mitigate the risks to public health posed by (i) the Asian tiger mosquito and (ii) other bloodborne disease vectors.
	(27433)

396
N

Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2010, Official Report, column 251W, on Hemofil T: clinical trials, what consideration his Department has given to obtaining information on the proportion of patients on the Hemofil T trial that were mild, moderate or severe haemophiliacs; and what assessment he has made of the levels of interest in the issue among (a) the public and (b) hon. Members and Members of the House of Lords.

(27280)

397	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to assess the cost-benefit analysis of the cluster formed by the Mid Essex, North East Essex and West Essex primary care trusts.
	(27485)

398	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) non-medical staff, (b) administrators, (c) managers and (d) senior managers there will be in (i) the Mid Essex Primary Care Trust, (ii) the North East Essex Primary Care Trust and (iii) the West Essex Primary Care Trust in each of the next three years.
	(27486)

399	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many positions will be abolished in (a) the Mid Essex Primary Care Trust, (b) the North East Essex Primary Care Trust and (c) the West Essex Primary Care Trust as a result of those trusts forming a cluster; and what estimate he has made of the cost of staff leaving those trusts as a result of the merger.
	(27487)

400	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) Mid Essex Primary Care Trust, (b) North East Essex Primary Care Trust and (c) West Essex Primary Care Trust of those trusts forming a cluster.
	(27488)

401	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been paid to officials in his Department and its non-departmental bodies in bonuses and other payments in addition to salary in each year since 1997; how many officials received such payments; and what the monetary value was of the largest 20 payments made in each such year.
	(27489)

402	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what allowances and payments in addition to salary were available to officials in his Department and its non-departmental bodies in each year since 1997; and what the monetary value was of payments and allowances of each type in each such year.
	(27490)

403	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was paid to officials in each (a) primary care trust and (b) strategic health authority in bonuses in each of the last five years.
	(27491)

404	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he received notification that the Mid Essex Primary Care Trust, the North East Essex Primary Care Trust and the West Essex Primary Care were forming a cluster.
	(27492)

405	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27493)

406	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27515)

407	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether centres of excellence for the care of conditions such as diabetes will be retained after the implemention of the proposals in the Health White Paper.
	[R] (27157)

408	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the proposals in respect of commissioning of health services in the Health White Paper will lead to (a) podiatry and (b) similar services being commissioned as single services.
	(27158)

409	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanism he plans to put in place to ensure that adequate undergraduate training places for podiatrists are commmissioned after the abolition of strategic health authorities; and who will be responsible for his commissioning process.
	(27159)

410	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS Litigation Authority will provide insurance cover for private providers of NHS services after the implementation of the proposals in the NHS White Paper.
	(27160)

411	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether GP consortia will be expected to engage directly with representatives of those local allied health professional bodies which have a formal relationship with strategic health authorities.
	(27161)

412	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether representatives of allied health professionals will have a permanent role on the NHS National Commissioning Board under the proposals in the Health White Paper.
	(27162)

413 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the monetary value of grants awarded by his Department was in 2009-10; and how much he expects to award in grants in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(27261)

414 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what grants have been awarded by his Department in 2010-11 to date; what grants he plans to award in each of the next two years; what the monetary value is of each such grant; and to which organisations such grants are made.
	(27264)

415	Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the future provision of testing strips for insulin users.
	(27100)

416	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to release the remaining tranche of funding for the Act F.A.S.T. campaign.
	(27168)

417	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Act F.A.S.T. campaign in raising stroke awareness.
	(27169)

418	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of those aged 65 and over have taken up the seasonal flu vaccine in the financial year 2010-11 to date.
	(27219)

419	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any NHS trusts have reported issues related to (a) capacity of critical care services and (b) bed availability under his Department's winter reporting arrangements since 2 November 2010.
	(27349)

420	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has received any reports of problems in patient handover between ambulance and acute services under his Department's winter reporting arrangements during November 2010.
	(27350)

421	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any (a) daily situation reports and (b) NHS trusts have identified services operation problems under his Department's winter reporting arrangements since 2 November 2010.
	(27351)

422	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the proposed NHS Commissioning Board will have regional offices.
	(27352)

423	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether board meetings of GP consortia will be held in public under his proposals for re-organisation of the NHS.
	(27353)

424	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has allocated to each strategic health authority from the NHS funding for cancer drugs announced on 10 November 2010.
	(27395)

425	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures are followed for testing herbal medicines before they are provided on the NHS.
	(27249)

426	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of the provision of herbal medicines in NHS facilities in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	(27333)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

427 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made in ending the practice of child detention through (a) pilot schemes to find alternatives to child detention and (b) recent representations made to her on alternatives to child detention.
	(27269)

428 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average amount of time a child spent in an immigration removal centre in the latest period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
	(27270)

429 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the use of child detention centres to cease.
	(27271)

430 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) health, (b) recreational, (c) educational and (d) religious facilities are available for children in the Yarl's Wood detention centre.
	(27272)

431 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she has set for measuring the requirement that a Tier 1 visa applicant has achieved international recognition or is likely to do so.
	(27173)

432 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allow students from Commonwealth countries to remain in the UK after they graduate.
	(27174)

433	Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement of 23 November 2010, Official Report, columns 169-71, whether those refused (a) student, (b) marriage and (c) family visas will have the right of appeal under her immigration proposals.
	(27227)

434	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police community support officers there are in (a) Leicestershire, (b) Leicester and (c) Leicester West constituency.
	(27640)

435 N	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers from Iraq were admitted to the UK in 2008-09; and whether she has made an estimate of the number of those admitted who were Christians.
	(26371)

436	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department monitored the presence of banned (a) organisations and (b) materials at the Global Peace and Unity Conference of 23-24 October 2010.
	(27546)

437
N

Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2010, Official Report, column 209W, on police: mental illness, whether her Department plans to undertake an assessment of the effectiveness of its new learning resource entitled Mental Health and Learning Disability in improving the service provided by the police to people with mental health disorders after its publication.

(27132)

438 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of providing (a) toilet facilities, (b) water and (c) related services to demonstrators in Whitehall on 24 November 2010; who was responsible for bearing these costs; and if she will make a statement.
	(27267)

439
N

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reports she has received from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on the estimated (a) cost of damage caused and (b) number of criminal offences committed in the course of the demonstration in London on 24 November 2010; how many arrests were made; how many people were stopped and searched in connection with the demonstration; what the cost to the MPS was of policing the demonstration; what the policy of the MPS is on recovering policing costs from organisers of demonstrations; what the cost of providing facilities to the demonstrators was; and if she will make a statement.

(27268)

440

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2010, Official Report, columns 814-5W, on police: demonstrations, what further information she has received on (a) the number of (i) arrests and (ii) prosecutions as a result of the demonstration, (b) the estimated cost of the damage caused by the demonstration and (c) the cost of policing the demonstration.

(27380)

441	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by her Department; and what estimate she has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27508)

442	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure (a) her Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27525)

443 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to continue to ring-fence the budget which funds police community support officers; and if she will make a statement.
	(27444)

444 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value of grants awarded by her Department was in 2009-10; and how much she expects to award in grants in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(27260)

445 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what grants have been awarded by her Department in 2010-11 to date; what grants she plans to award in each of the next two years; what the monetary value is of each such grant; and to which organisations such grants are made.
	(27263)

446 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current initiatives to reduce the incidence of human trafficking.
	(26824)

447 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential of Operation Newbridge in West Sussex to inform protocols for protecting children suspected of being trafficked in other areas.
	(26825)

448 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training police forces receive to equip them to investigate cases of human trafficking; and if she will make a statement.
	(26826)

449 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to initiate a further Pentameter human trafficking investigation.
	(26827)

450 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made, together with police forces, of the outcomes of the Pentameter 1 and 2 investigations into human trafficking.
	(26828)

451 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what procedures are available to her to restrict the level of immigration from other EU member states.
	(26882)

452	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to change requirements for the disclosure of historic convictions for homosexual intercourse for the purpose of preventing discrimination.
	(27241)

453	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms will be in place to ensure that companies are not inhibited by the proposed annual immigration cap from recruiting talent or transferring their staff from abroad.
	(27244)

454	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what means her Department plans to end the link between temporary and permanent migration; and what timetable she has set for the implementation of her proposals to end that link.
	(27250)

455	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sham marriages have been identified in each of the last five years.
	(27251)

456	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the likely effect of the implementation of her proposed requirement for marriage visa applications to demonstrate a minimum comprehension of English on the number of sham marriages.
	(27252)

457	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce her policy on migration post-study; and whether her Department has made an assessment of the merits of providing an exemption for the Fresh Talent programme in Scotland.
	(27253)

458	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the merits of commissioning more frequent reviews by the Migration Advisory Committee of the proposed operation of the immigration cap.
	(27254)

459	Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with universities in Scotland on proposed changes to student visa arrangements.
	(27255)

Questions to the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission

460

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, what estimate the Parliamentary Information and Communications Technology Office has made of the cost of developing a mobile smartphone application for Parliament; what the cost will be holding focus group meetings on 30 November 2010 and 1 December 2010; and when the smartphone application is due to be available.

(27382)

461	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, what checks are made with suppliers to ensure that halal and kosher meat are not supplied as ordinary meat intended for general consumption in canteens and restaurants of the House of Commons.
	(27688)

462	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether meat used in canteens and restaurants in the House of Commons in the last 12 months had been slaughtered by kosher methods.
	(27689)

463	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether kosher meat has been used in non-kosher dishes in the restaurants or canteens in the House of Commons in the last 12 months.
	(27696)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

464	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the needs of disabled people informed the Ministerial review of his Department's Education Stategy 2010-15; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure such needs inform any further such review.
	(27555)

465	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27360)

466 N	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department makes the allocation of aid to countries conditional on the upholding of standards of treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in those countries.
	(26340)

467

Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has given to trade unions in the UK and overseas through (a) the Civil Society Challenge Fund, (b) the UK Trades Union Congress Strategic Grant Agreement, (c) the Strategic Framework Partnership Agreement, (d) the partnership programme agreements, (e) the Development Awareness Fund and (f) other programmes in each of the last three years; which trade unions received such funds; and for what reason the award was made in each case.

(27381)

468	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27507)

469	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what expenditure his Department incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27524)

470	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the monetary value of grants awarded by his Department was in 2009-10; and how much he expects to award in grants in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(27216)

471 N	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what grants have been awarded by his Department in 2010-11 to date; what grants he plans to award in each of the next two years; what the monetary value is of each such grant; and to which organisations such grants are made.
	(27262)

472 N	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the number of children in Afghanistan who died before the age of five years owing to factors other than military or terrorist action in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(26887)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

473	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken between the issue of a community order with a condition of attendance on (a) a group general offender behaviour programme and (b) a sex offender programme and the commencement of the programme was in each probation trust in the lastest period for which figures are available.
	(27348)

474	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance his Department issues to probation staff in respect of the preparation of court reports recommending sentencing options for cases where defendants are in receipt of incapacity benefit on the use of unpaid work as a disposal.
	(27124)

475 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2010, Official Report, column 165, if he will publish each item of correspondence between him and Scottish Ministers on prisoners' voting rights.
	(27172)

476	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27368)

477 N	Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2010, Official Report, column 357W, on the Office of the Public Guardian, what estimate he has made of the (a) frequency and (b) cost to the public purse of the loss of documents by the Office of the Public Guardian in the last 12 months.
	(26815)

478 N	Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to provide additional assistance to those coroners who report a lack of adequate facilities in 2010-11; and when he plans to bring into force those provisions in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 which relate to such facilities.
	(26816)

479	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many registered prison visitors there were in each of the last five years; and whether he plans to take steps to increase the number of such visitors.
	(27667)

480	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27506)

481	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27523)

482 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what terms of reference have been set for the feasibility study on the future of the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement.
	(27140)

483	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what grants have been awarded by his Department in 2010-11 to date; what grants he plans to award in each of the next two years; what the monetary value is of each such grant; and to which organisations such grants are made.
	(27214)

484	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the monetary value of grants awarded by his Department was in 2009-10; and how much he expects to award in grants in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(27215)

485	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what timetable he has set for the implementation of his proposals to amend the law on universal jurisdiction.
	(27240)

486	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many court cases arose from disputes between landlords and tenants in (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009.
	(27334)

Questions to the Leader of the House

487 N	Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (Lagan Valley): To ask the Leader of the House, how much has been paid to each Member representing Sinn Fein under each category of Parliamentary allowance in each financial year since the date of the Resolution of the House authorising payment of allowances to Members who have not taken their seats.
	(27273)

488 N	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Leader of the House, if he will ensure that the number of different bodies answering questions for oral answer on the same day does not exceed the number of questions an hon. Member is entitled to submit for oral answer on that day.
	(26729)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

489	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27359)

490	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27505)

491	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27522)

492	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what grants have been awarded by his Department in 2010-11 to date; what grants he plans to award in each of the next two years; what the monetary value is of each such grant; and to which organisations such grants are made.
	(27213)

493	Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the monetary value of grants awarded by his Department was in 2009-10; and how much he expects to award in grants in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(27217)

Questions to the Prime Minister

494	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2010, Official Report, column 565W, on departmental responsibilities: urban areas, on what date he plans to make an announcement on Ministers with responsibility for cities in England.
	(27307)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

495	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27358)

496	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Interim Electoral Management Board in Scotland on the proposed joint ballot for the referendum on the alternative vote and elections to the Scottish Parliament in 2010.
	(27687)

497	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Leader of the House on the timing of the laying of the draft Scottish Parliament (Elections etc) Order 2010.
	(27692)

498	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has discussed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer the likely effects in Scotland of the end of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
	(27153)

499	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent meetings he has had with (a) voluntary, (b) disability and (c) charity organisations in Scotland to discuss the effects of the outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(27610)

500	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27504)

501	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what expenditure his Department incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27521)

502 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the future of the Post Office network in Scotland.
	(26767)

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

503
N

Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what procedure is followed in handling e-mails sent by hon. Members to the Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority; what arrangements are made to ensure that the Chief Executive sees such correspondence; and what target time is set for the provision of a response.

(26780)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

504 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of (a) 12 October and (b) 10 November 2010 on a constituent, Mr Lilly.
	(27257)

505	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mileage was travelled by Ministers in cars provided by the Government Car Service in each month between May and October in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010.
	(27442)

506	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the accuracy of the information that train operating companies running services in London provide to Transport for London on the accessibility of their stations for disabled people.
	(27230)

507 N	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion of 22 November 2010, Official Report, column 21W, on departmental equality, on what date he plans to publish the equality impact assessments referred to.
	(26885)

508 N	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East of 22 November 2010, Official Report, column 34W, whether the proposal from Dover People's Port to buy the assets of the Dover Harbour Board is also under consideration; and upon what basis his decision will be made.
	(26886)

509 N	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer to the hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion of 22 November 2010, Official Report, column 21W, on departmental equality, for what reasons the publication of the equality impact assessments will take place after the publication of his proposals.
	(26956)

510 N	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what legal advice he has received from his Department on whether primary legislation is required before any sale of the assets of the Dover Harbour Board may proceed; and if he will make a statement.
	(26966)

511	George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what changes his Department has made to its formula for assessing benefit-to-cost ratios in respect of transport schemes since May 2010.
	(27328)

512	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27357)

513	Mrs Mary Glindon (North Tyneside): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many journeys of under a mile in central London Ministers have taken in Government cars since May 2010.
	(27691)

514

Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2010, Official Report, column 188W, on bus services: finance, what estimate he has made of the likely effect of the 20 per cent. reduction in Bus Service Operators Grant on (a) bus fares and (b) service reductions in (i) London, (ii) metropolitan areas with an integrated transport authority and (iii) non-metropolitan areas.

(27645)

515	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely economic effect of train ticket price increases on (a) London, (b) non-metropolitan areas and (c) metropolitan areas.
	(27664)

516	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the likely effect on future levels of local authority funding for bus services of the implementation of the proposal to reduce the Bus Service Operators Grant.
	(27665)

517	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of new carriages required by Virgin Rail Projects Ltd for the West Coast Mainline.
	(27666)

518	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had on progress towards Taiwan's participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization; and if he will make a statement.
	(27399)

519 N	Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department's public consultation on the route for High Speed 2 will invite consideration of the principle that high speed rail links be built; and if he will make a statement.
	(26781)

520	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an estimate of the potential cost savings likely to be made from converting a Government Car Service vehicle to be fuelled by liquefied petroleum gas autogas.
	(27204)

521	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27503)

522	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) its non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27529)

523	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his most recent estimate is of the average number of international passengers using Ebbsfleet station each month.
	(27106)

524 N	Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many local authorities (a) responsible for London boroughs and (b) outside London have contacted his Department to seek an increase in charges for parking penalties.
	(27114)

525 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people his Department employs as part of the Motor Insurance Database's Continuous Insurance Enforcement Project Team.
	(26872)

526	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid Interfleet (i) £106,817.12 on 13 May 2010 and (ii) £108,379.16 on 20 July 2010.
	(27144)

527	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the legal advice for which his Department paid Freshfields £148,773.21 on 9 September 2010.
	(27145)

528	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the legal advice for which his Department paid CMS Cameron (a) £269,116.77 on 31 August 2010, (b) £98,150.98 on 27 September 2010 and (c) £166,610.73 on 28 September 2010.
	(27146)

529	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the hospitality for which his Department paid Amey Business (a) £21,933.26 on 4 June 2010, (b) £15,463.85 on 22 June 2010 and (c) £13,804.61 on 16 June 2010.
	(27147)

530	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid the Nichols Group £145,593.02 on 18 May 2010.
	(27148)

531	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid Jacobs Engineering (a) £149,911.38 on 21 June 2010, (b) £135,940.96 on 15 July 2010, (c) £112,538.46 on 2 August 2010 and (d) £114,159.35 on 3 September 2010.
	(27149)

532	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid Mott MacDonald (a) £142,963.63 on 26 May 2010 and (b) £187,567.16 on 27 May 2010.
	(27150)

533	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid PricewaterhouseCoopers (a) £162,040.95 on 20 May 2010 and (b) £102,590.87 on 16 June 2010.
	(27151)

534	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid AECOM Ltd (i) £100,000 on 2 July 2010 and (ii) £150,000 on 22 July 2010.
	(27223)

535	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid MVA Consultancy £107,819.18 on 9 July 2010.
	(27224)

536	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) purpose and (b) nature was of the management consultancy for which his Department paid the Central Office of Information (a) £113,724.72 on 10 June 2010, (b) £299,574.96 on 14 June 2010 and (c) £127,416.44 on 17 June 2010.
	(27225)

537	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed increases in user tolls on the Severn Crossings on the date on which the debt incurred by the crossing concessionnaire will be repaid.
	(27354)

538 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ring-fence a proportion of the additional income attributable to increased tolls on the Dartford Crossing for future capital expenditure on the crossing.
	(27375)

539 N	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the effect on local authority parking (a) charges and (b) penalties of reductions in central Government funding for local authority transport services.
	(27376)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

540	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much her Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27370)

541	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by her Department; and what estimate she has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27509)

542	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what expenditure her Department incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27527)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities

543	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much the Government Equalities Office spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27371)

544	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, who the speakers were at each of the 16 events.
	(27469)

545	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, who the members of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Women Councillors Task Force have been in each year since it was established.
	(27470)

546	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, how the (a) attendees and (b) delegates at each event were (i) invited and (ii) selected for invitation.
	(27471)

547	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, which (a) Task Force members and (b) strategic partners attended each event; and what costs were incurred for each in respect of each event.
	(27472)

548	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, what steps she plans to take to evaluate the (a) outcome and (b) value for money of each event.
	(27473)

549	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what overseas visits are planned for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in the Government Equalities Office in the next 24 months.
	(27474)

550	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by the Government Equalities Office; and what estimate she has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27494)

551	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what expenditure the Government Equalities Office incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27531)

552	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2010, Official Report, columns 81-2W, on ethnic minorities, how many people attended each of the 16 events; and how many people of each (a) sex, (b) age group and (c) ethnicity attended each such event.
	(27668)

553	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what progress has been made on the reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission; and if she will make a statement.
	(27242)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

554
N

Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2010, Official Report, column 117W, on state retirement pensions, how many people who were in receipt of a full state pension before 6 April 2009 had not accrued the full number of entitlement years by means of their own national insurance contributions, their spouse's national insurance contributions or bought-back years.

(27135)

555	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of households in Scotland which will be affected by the proposed capping of household benefits from 2013.
	(27178)

556	Miss Anne Begg (Aberdeen South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women over the age of 50 years who will have their state pension age raised by more than one year as a result of the implementation of the proposal to raise the state pension age to 66 years by 2020.
	(27642)

557	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the likely effects of reductions in levels of housing benefit on homelessness levels in (a) West Ham constituency, (b) the London Borough of Newham and (c) London in each of the next five years.
	(27631)

558 N	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2010, Official Report, column 908W, on departmental sick leave, what assessment he has made of the reasons for regional variations in average rates of sickness in his Department and its agencies.
	(27305)

559	Mr Nicholas Brown (Newcastle Upon Tyne East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2010, Official Report, column 832W, on departmental sick leave, what information he holds on types of absence other than sickness absence in respect of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies.
	(27306)

560 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2010, Official Report, column 911W, on housing benefit: finance, if he will place in the Library a copy of the data on the amounts and monetary values of all historical data and internal forecast assumptions referred to.
	(26883)

561 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of housing benefit in each local authority area include at least one person in receipt of (a) (i) long-term and (ii) short-term incapacity benefit and (b) severe disablement allowance.
	(27281)

562 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of housing benefit in each local authority area include a claimant in receipt of disability premium on the basis of being incapable of work for over 12 months and no qualifying benefit.
	(27282)

563 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women will be affected by uprating the additional state pension with reference to the consumer price index by 2014-15.
	(26777)

564 N	Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women will be affected by the changes to lone parent conditionality announced in the June 2010 Budget by 2014-15.
	(26778)

565	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to simplify the processes involved in applying for benefits; and if he will make a statement.
	(27086)

566	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to mitigate the risk of home-owners losing their homes in the event of becoming unemployed; and if he will make a statement.
	(27087)

567	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to increase efficiency within the administration of the benefits system; whether he has considered the merits of gathering customer feedback to inform decision-making on efficiency measures; and if he will make a statement.
	(27088)

568

Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to combine the replacement SERPs scheme with the graduated pension payment scheme to create a single pension scheme; what assessment he has made of the effects of implementation of his proposals on pension reform on women who do not have a full record of national insurance contributions at the point of their retirement; what plans he has for the future of means-testing on pension entitlements; and if he will make a statement.

(27092)

569 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people he expects to transfer from incapacity benefit to jobseeker's allowance or employment and support allowance by 2015.
	(26810)

570 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many placements have been commissioned under the Work Choice programme.
	(26811)

571 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many placements he expects to be commissioned under the Work Choice programme by 2015.
	(26812)

572 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms are in place in the Work Programme to encourage employers to recruit people with disabilities.
	(26813)

573 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consultation was undertaken before the new Access to Work guidance was issued; and by what mechanisms the effects of the new guidance are being monitored.
	(26814)

574	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many incapacity benefit advisers Jobcentre Plus employs.
	(27297)

575	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Islwyn constituency were in receipt of disability living allowance in each year since 1997.
	(27316)

576	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assistance his Department provides to young people with a disability who wish to move from education into work.
	(27317)

577	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of adults of working age in Islwyn constituency claimed incapacity benefits in each year since 1997.
	(27318)

578	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 50 years and over moved off benefits and into work in the last 12 months.
	(27319)

579	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial support his Department provides to terminally-ill people without an estate, next of kin or life insurance to assist in making funeral arrangements.
	(27322)

580	Chris Evans (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of people who have moved off jobseeker's allowance onto (a) incapacity benefit and (b) income support in each of the last three years.
	(27443)

581	Graham Evans (Weaver Vale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on entertainment activities related to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
	(27356)

582
N

Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assistance his Department provides to (a) pensioners, (b) benefit recipients and (c) other vulnerable individuals resident in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency in meeting the cost of their fuel needs; and what steps he is taking to ensure that people not in receipt of a state pension or other benefit administered by his Department are aware of the help available to them.

(26971)

583

Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the average period of time for which claimants will continue to receive jobseeker's allowance (JSA) after the reduction in the level of their housing benefit payments after having been in receipt of JSA for 12 months; and what the average period of time was for which claimants remained on JSA after having been in receipt of payments for 12 months in the latest period for which figures are available.

(27435)

584	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be affected by the reduction in housing benefit for those who have been in receipt of jobseeker's allowance for over 12 months in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
	(27436)

585	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methodology he used to calculate the number of people who will be encouraged to take up work as a result of the implementation of the 10 per cent. reduction in housing benefit for those on jobseeker's allowance for over 12 months.
	(27437)

586

Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the £110 million savings expected to be made from the implementation of the proposed 10 per cent. reduction in housing benefit for those on jobseeker's allowance (JSA) for over 12 months he expects to be made as a result of (a) lower payments to some JSA claimants and (b) a reduction in the number of JSA claimants consequent on people moving back into work.

(27438)

587	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the monetary value is of his Department's contract with Atos in respect of medical checks on benefit claimants.
	(27655)

588	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance standards are required in his Department's contract with Atos in respect of medical checks on benefit claimants; and what the outcome has been of performance assessments of Atos undertaken by his Department in the last 24 months.
	(27656)

589	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how frequently his Department receives performance reports under its contract with Atos in respect of medical checks on benefit claimants.
	(27657)

590	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what tender process Atos won the contract with his Department for medical checks on benefit claimants.
	(27658)

591	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) formal complaints and (b) representations containing complaints his Department has received in respect of its contract with Atos in the last 24 months.
	(27659)

592	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policy on its contract with Atos of the recommendations of the independent work capability assessment review led by Professor Richard Harrington.
	(27660)

593	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria are used to determine geographic location of each testing centre used by Atos under its contract with his Department.
	(27661)

594	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the duration is of his Department's contract with Atos in respect of medical checks on benefit claimants.
	(27662)

595	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the overall average default rate for loans made through the Social Fund was in the period from 2004 to 2009.
	(27584)

596	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the running costs, excluding grants and debts written off, were of the Social Fund in each year from 2004-05 to 2009-10.
	(27585)

597

Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money was paid out through the Social Fund in the form of (a) community care grants, (b) budgeting loans, (c) crisis loans, (d) Sure Start maternity grants, (e) funeral payments, (f) cold weather payments, (g) winter fuel payments and (h) grants or loans in each other Social Fund category in each of the last five years; and how many people received grants or loans of each such category in each year.

(27586)

598

Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) grants and (b) loans from the Social Fund were made in the form of (i) community care grants, (ii) budgeting loans, (iii) crisis loans, (iv) sure start maternity grants, (v) funeral payments, (vi) cold weather payments, (vii) winter fuel payments and (viii) grants or loans in each other Social Fund category in the period from 2004 to 2009.

(27587)

599

Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's budget he plans to allocate to (a) pensioners, (b) physically and mentally disabled people and (c) carers for assistance with housing in each year of the Spending Review period following the implementation of his proposals for spending reductions in respect of housing benefit; and if he will make a statement.

(27228)

600	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the payment arrangements for Flexible New Deal providers are for (a) initial referral onto the Flexible New Deal programme, (b) a 13 week sustainable outcome, (c) a 26 week sustainable outcome and (d) incidental payments, including travel or training allowances.
	(27321)

601 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funds have been made available from his Department's budget to assist the implementation of the recommendations of the work capability assessment independent review led by Professor Malcolm Harrington.
	(26818)

602 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which of the recommendations of the work capability assessment independent review led by Professor Malcolm Harrington he expects to have been fully implemented before the national migration from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance begins in April 2011.
	(26819)

603	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the effects on the number of Jobcentre Plus advisers will be of the Government's proposed Claimant Commitment.
	(27391)

604	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what Jobcentre Plus services his Department plans to make available via the Post Office network; and how many Jobcentre Plus staff he expects to be deployed in post offices.
	(27392)

605	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which disability organisations the Minister for Disabled People has met to discuss the future of the Independent Living Fund.
	(27612)

606	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applications for employment and support allowance made by residents in Livingston constituency in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010 were rejected on the basis of the work capability assessment; and in respect of what proportion of such applications that decision was (i) reversed and (ii) upheld on appeal.
	(27613)

607 N	Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on local authority funding of women's aid projects of changes to housing benefit.
	(26884)

608	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many EU directives are pending transposition into domestic legislation by his Department; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such transposition.
	(27510)

609	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) the non-departmental public bodies incurred on sponsorship in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.
	(27526)

610 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) consumer price index and (b) retail price index in measuring the increases in living costs of pensioners.
	(26976)

611	Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the (a) effects on and (b) cost to local authorities in Scotland of the removal of the mobility component of the disability living allowance from residents in publicly-funded care homes.
	(27212)

612 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Fife receive local housing allowance.
	(27277)

613 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on those in receipt of local housing allowance of his proposals for changes to the allowance.
	(27452)

614
N

Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its non-departmental public bodies spent on (a) telecommunications-based, (b) literature-based, (c) electronic, (d) television and (e) other campaigns and communications targeted at young people aged between 16 and 24 years in respect of (i) employment, (ii) training opportunities and (iii) welfare in the latest period for which figures are available.

(26823)

615	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the jobs filled in Colchester constituency in October 2010 following advertisement of a vacancy via Jobcentre Plus were (a) part-time and (b) full-time.
	(27583)

616	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria the Child Support Agency uses to determine the (a) individuals and (b) organisations it consults as stakeholders.
	(27340)

617	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances the Child Support Agency (a) is required to and (b) chooses to consult stakeholders.
	(27341)

618	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methods the Child Support Agency uses to consult stakeholders.
	(27342)

619	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how often representatives of the Child Support Agency met external stakeholders in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(27343)

620	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with what frequency the Child Support Agency consults (a) external organisations and (b) members of the public on its activities.
	(27344)

621	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions the Child Support Agency has had on its activities with (a) stakeholders and (b) other interested parties.
	(27345)

622	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of out-of-work benefits there were (a) in Brighton and Hove and (b) nationally in (i) 2005, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007, (iv) 2008 and (v) 2009.
	(27231)

623	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the amount of public expenditure allocated to welfare in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	(27324)

Questions to the Attorney General

624	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of cases in which the Crown Prosecution Service called witnesses from abroad resulted in convictions in the latest period for which figures are available.
	[Transferred] (27386)

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

625 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many non-EU students studied in the UK in the latest year for which figures are available; what estimate he has made of the contribution to the UK economy of such students in that year; and how much funding universities received from fees paid by such students.
	[Transferred] (27175)

626	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to reduce the number of refrigerated display cabinets disposed of in landfill sites.
	[Transferred] (27193)

627	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to encourage the re-use and recycling of (a) refrigerated display cabinets and (b) other white electrical goods.
	[Transferred] (27194)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

628	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his most recent estimate is of the population of the London Borough of Newham; and what methodology his Department used to make that estimate.
	[Transferred] (27630)

629 N	Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications for compensation his Department received in respect of prisoners claiming the right to vote in UK elections in each of the last five years; and how much has been paid in such compensation.
	[Transferred] (26968)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

630	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of implementation of the Financial Services Authority's proposals on availability of mortgage finance on home-ownership in the UK.
	[Transferred] (27537)

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

631

Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with (a) the Scottish Executive, (b) Historic Scotland and (c) the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland on his proposal to end the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme; and what plans he has for the future value added tax liabilities of repairs to listed places of worship.

[Transferred] (27152)

632	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the revenue likely to be raised as a result of the co-production agreement between the UK and Israel in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	[Transferred] (27239)

633	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he has assessed the merits of extending to other countries the provisions of the co-production agreement agreed with Israel.
	[Transferred] (27248)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

634	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to meet Youth Sport Trust young ambassadors when they deliver their petition against changes in the expenditure of his Department.
	[Transferred] (27405)

635 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the future status of ring-fenced funding provided to local authorities to support children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (27256)

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

636	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to bring forward proposals for a mandatory requirement for large companies to publish information on their carbon dioxide emissions.
	[Transferred] (27632)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

637	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what timetable he has set for bringing forward his proposals to reduce the incidence of squatting.
	[Transferred] (27237)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

638	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms will be put in place to support disabled homeowners whose disability prevents them from earning an income.
	[Transferred] (27393)


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