Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 2 March 2011

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 Wednesday 2 March 2011
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 2 March 2011

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 2 March 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 Wednesday 2 March of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 2 March see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) the Law Officers' Departments and (ii) the (A) agency and (B) other non-Ministerial Departments for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43964)

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

2	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department provided funding for the 2010 survey of universities by Universities UK; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43883)

3	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to determine the level of funds to be released from asset sales to be provided to the proposed Green Investment Bank.
	(43989)

4	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43756)

5	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what financial assistance his Department makes available to graduate medical students.
	(44029)

6
N

Duncan Hames (Chippenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which contracts entered into by UK companies in (a) Bahrain, (b) Democratic Republic of Congo, (c) Egypt, (d) Libya and (e) Saudi Arabia the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) has supported in each of the last five years; and what the monetary value of claims made on ECGD guarantees was in each such country in each such year.

(43408)

7 N	Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many licences were issued to companies for the export of arms to (a) Egypt, (b) Bahrain, (c) Tunisia, (d) Libya and (e) Algeria in each of the last five years; and what the monetary value was of such transactions.
	(43573)

8	Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to provide information to small employers on statutory holiday entitlement.
	(43663)

9	Simon Kirby (Brighton, Kemptown): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to abolish regional development agencies sooner than currently planned.
	(43726)

10 N	Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the monetary value to the financial services rector of credit guarantees provided to that sector by the Government in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43270)

11 N	Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on job creation and apprenticeships in the North West; and if he will make a statement.
	(43569)

Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.

(43963)

13	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the reasons are for the time taken to determine the future core budget for the Technology Strategy Board for 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.
	(43921)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

14	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate has been made of the number of couple households of one full-time worker and two children in (a) Glasgow North East constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.
	(43682)

15	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43746)

16	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43949)

17 N	Joan Ruddock (Lewisham, Deptford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Office for National Statistics has taken to engage with community media to promote the 2011 Census; and what budget has been assigned for publicising the Census through local and community media.
	(43253)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

18 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the effects on the credit rating for UK debt of placing the liabilities of the proposed Green Investment Bank on the national balance sheet.
	(43265)

19 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings he has had with (a) the Deputy Prime Minister and (b) other Ministerial colleagues on capitalisation and accounting practices for the proposed Green Investment Bank.
	(43266)

20	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to introduce Government-backed individual saving accounts enabling investment in environmental industries.
	(43676)

21	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department made a recent assessment of the (a) availability and (b) gross monetary value of individual saving accounts enabling investment in environmental industries.
	(43677)

22	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on issuing Government-backed bonds for investment in low-carbon industries.
	(43678)

23	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has met representatives of the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association to discuss the creation of Government-backed individual saving accounts enabling investment in environmental industries.
	(43679)

24	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has met representatives of the UK investment industry to discuss the creation of Government-backed individual saving accounts enabling investment in environmental industries.
	(43680)

25	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal measures his Department plans to put in place to increase levels of private sector research and development in agricultural industries during the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(43696)

26	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made on the effects on fiscal policy of rising global food and commodity prices.
	(43993)

27	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide tax relief to assist dairy farmers in preparing for implementations of the Nitrate Vulnerable Zone regulations in each of the next four financial years.
	(43994)

28	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the extension of net lending targets to the financial institutions covered by the Project Merlin agreement.
	(43999)

29	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the contribution of fiscal measures to reduce levels of waste to landfill to the Government's carbon emission reduction targets.
	(44001)

30	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal measures he plans to introduce to reduce levels of waste to landfill over the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44004)

31	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to prevent banks from offsetting losses incurred since autumn 2008 against their tax liabilities.
	(44012)

32	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) corporation tax and (b) proportion of gross profits paid in corporation tax by the banking sector in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.
	(44014)

33 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect of the decision to reduce the rate of childcare support from 80 per cent. to 70 per cent. on the weekly income of families (a) in each income decile and (b) with each number of children.
	(43459)

34 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the change in the number of people paying income tax at the 40 per cent. rate with effect from 5 April 2011 in each region.
	(43460)

35 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate of the change (a) in weekly cash income and (b) in proportion of weekly income for families in each income decile of the decision to remove the baby element from the child tax credit from April 2011.
	(43567)

36	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43753)

37	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his estimate is of the monetary value of tax credits claimed fraudulently in each month since May 2010.
	(43906)

38	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the future funding of environmental projects following the closure of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.
	(43657)

39	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the future use of revenues raised through the aggregates levy following the closure of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.
	(43658)

40	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to expand the enhanced capital allowance scheme to increase the use of remanufactured energy-saving equipment.
	(43731)

41 N	Ann McKechin (Glasgow North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer from the Secretary of State for Scotland of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 893W, on private rented housing: fines, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Executive on the use of funds received from fines rendered against private landlords in Scotland.
	(43410)

42	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43957)

43	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff at the Financial Services Authority were entitled to receive a bonus in 2010-11; and if he will make a statement.
	(43884)

44	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will revise the objectives of the Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority to include the promotion of corporate diversity.
	(43919)

45	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent meetings he has had on the (a) possible remutualisation of Northern Rock and (b) financial health of friendly societies; and if he will make a statement.
	(43920)

46
N

Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the net effect on the public purse of changes to corporate branch taxation proposed in the HM Revenue and Customs paper on corporation tax reform of 29 November 2010; and what assessment he has made of the likely effect on levels of corporation tax avoidance of implementation of such reforms.

(43256)

47	Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has for the future level of the mileage payment allowance.
	(43711)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

48	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on specifying in planning guidance his Department's issues to local authorities the degree of protection for ancient woodland.
	(43691)

49	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43758)

50	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the continuation of Homes and Communities Agency capital funding to the home ownership for people with long-term disabilities scheme.
	(43777)

51	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes in (a) the London Borough of Newham and (b) West Ham constituency are available for people participating in the home ownership for people with long-term disabilities scheme.
	(43785)

52	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether an equality impact assessment was undertaken in respect of the new investment framework for the Homes and Communities Agency.
	(43789)

53	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in (a) London, (b) the London Borough of Newham and (c) West Ham constituency are participating in the home ownership for people with long-term disabilities scheme.
	(43790)

54	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the capacity of registered social landlords to provide appropriately-sized accommodation for working age tenants in properties of a size not warranted by their household size who wish to move.
	(43835)

Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the proportion of properties in the central London broad rental market area that will be charging rents equal to or less than the relevant maximum level of local housing allowance following introduction of the new limits on that allowance for houses with each number of bedrooms.

(43836)

Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his estimate is of the number of socially-rented properties of each number of bedrooms in each local authority area to be allocated by local authorities and registered social landlords to meet demand arising from social tenants of working age moving to properties warranted by their household size.

(43837)

57 N	Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) powers are available to and (b) procedures are followed by local authorities to make properties at risk structurally sound.
	(43258)

58 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the extent to which provision of allotments meets demand (a) nationally and (b) in each region.
	(43457)

59	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on newspaper (a) supplements and (b) advertorials in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10; and (A) in which publication and (B) for what purpose in each case.
	(43776)

60	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Ministers in his Department spent on meals in restaurants in the course of their official duties in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and in which restaurants.
	(43778)

61	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities participate in the Government Procurement Card scheme.
	(43780)

62	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on film production and associated costs for video messages from each Secretary of State in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
	(43781)

63	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what gifts valued below £140 (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department received in 2009-10.
	(43782)

64	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Government Offices for the Regions spent on calls to speaking clock services in each of the last three financial years.
	(43783)

65	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) data of purchase, (b) amount and (c) supplier was in respect of each transaction undertaken by the Audit Commission using the Government Procurement Card in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10.
	(43840)

66	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on the Government Procurement Card in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and how many transactions each made in each such year.
	(43841)

67	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Government Offices for the Regions spent on office chairs in the last 24 months for which figures are available; and what the (a) make and model and (b) cost of each type of chair was.
	(43842)

68	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidelines his Department issues to local authorities on payments to trade unions (a) in cash and (b) in kind.
	(43843)

69	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which 10 local authorities collected the lowest proportion of council tax due in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the estimated monetary value of the uncollected tax was in each case.
	(43844)

70	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department issued to local authorities on the work of remuneration committees in local authorities in determining pay packages for authority employees prior to May 2010.
	(43845)

71	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding his Department and its agencies have provided to (a) Global Action Plan, (b) Forum for the Future, (c) the Green Alliance and (d) the New Economics Foundation in the last three years; and for what purpose in each case.
	(43846)

72	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate the Audit Commission has made of changes in the average salary of local authority chief executives in the last 10 years.
	(43847)

73	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) the Community Development Foundation and (b) other non-departmental public bodies on participation in initiatives which favour a particular outcome from the referendum on the alternative vote; and if he will make a statement.
	(43848)

74	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission has spent on translation and interpretation costs in each of the last three years; and in respect of which languages.
	(43849)

75	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what payments and grants the Community Development Foundation made in relation to the prevention of extremism since its inception.
	(43850)

76	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what individual payments his Department made to (a) the Muslim Council for Britain and (b) its associated bodies in each of the last three years; and for what purpose in each case.
	(43851)

77	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the list of payments to charities and voluntary groups published in his Department's resource accounts for 2009-10, whether the list included payments to bodies which were not registered charities.
	(43852)

78	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the list of payments to charities and voluntary groups published in his Department's resource accounts for 2009-10, if he will publish a similar list of payments for 2010-11 to date, based on the unaudited records held by his Department.
	(43853)

79	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding his Department gave to (a) Traveller groups and (b) associated representative bodies providing support or assistance to Traveller groups in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and how much and for what purpose in each case.
	(43854)

80	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have not yet published online details of expenditure of sums over £500.
	(43855)

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what records (a) his Department and (b) Government Offices the Regions hold on the expenditure by local authorities of Preventing Violent Extremism programme funding allocated to them; and what requirements there were on recipient local authorities to inform his Department of the (i) planned and (ii) actual use of the funds.

(43856)

82	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission has spent on promotional merchandise since 2006; how many of each item of promotional merchandise were ordered; and how each item was branded.
	(43857)

83	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on promotional merchandise between 2006 to May 2010; how many of each item of promotional merchandise were ordered; and how each such item was branded.
	(43858)

84	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much special advisers in his Department claimed in expenses in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
	(43859)

85	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many occasions the right hon. Member for Don Valley met representatives of the Local Government Association during the periods he was a Minister in his Department.
	(43860)

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Don Valley of 26 January 2011, Official Report, column 302W, on departmental official hospitality, what the (a) cost and (b) venue was of each meal taken outside the Department at events involving its Ministers in the final two years of the previous administration.

(43861)

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many meals at venues outside the Department were provided from the public purse for (a) the right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen and his guests, (b) the right hon. Member for Don Valley and her guests and (c) the right hon. Member for Wentworth and his guests and at what cost, during the time each was a Minister in his Department.

(43862)

88	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the date was of each official visit to each local authority area undertaken by the right hon. Member for Don Valley during the period when she was a Minister in his Department.
	(43863)

89	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Audit Commission provides health care or health care insurance funded from the public purse to any of its staff.
	(43864)

90	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding Faithwise Ltd has received from his Department's Prevent funding allocation to local authorities since the programme's inception.
	(43865)

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which external bodies received funding from his Department and its agencies from the (a) community resilience and (b) Preventing Violent Extremism funding streams in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11; and (A) how much each received and (B) what the purpose of the payment was in each case, listing the value of the payments and purpose of the payment to each individual or body.

(43866)

92	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what grant spending data for items over £500 has been published by (a) his Department, (b) its executive agencies, (c) its non-departmental public bodies, (d) its public corporations and (e) the Government Offices for the Regions since May 2010.
	(43867)

93	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the job title is of each civil servant employed by the Government Offices for the Regions who had all or part of their (a) living and (b) accommodation costs met from the public purse in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43868)

94	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the job title is of each civil servant employed by the Audit Commission who had all or part of their (a) living and (b) accommodation costs met from the public purse in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43869)

95	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which bodies and individuals received funding from Government Offices for the Regions under his Department's (a) community resilience and (b) Preventing Violent Extremism funding streams in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2010-11; and what the (A) purpose and (B) monetary value of the payment was in each case.
	(43878)

96	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission has paid to Cigna Healthcare and Group Life in each of the last three years; and for what purposes.
	(43927)

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse of employer contributions to the Local Government Pension Scheme for local authority staff, including staff with pension arrangements covered under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, was in the latest year for which figures are available.

(43937)

98	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the formula grant to each local authority in absolute cash terms has been in each year since 2006-07.
	(44023)

99	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which public authority holds the archived records of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and at what location the records are held.
	(44024)

100	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Audit Commission spent on foreign travel in each of the last three years; and in respect of which countries the expenditure was incurred.
	(44025)

101	Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people aged 16 and 17 years were accepted as owed a main homelessness duty by local authorities in England in each quarter since Q1 of 2009.
	(43709)

102	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43962)

103 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what level of New Homes Bonus will be payable for purpose-built student accommodation.
	(43574)

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

104	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43759)

105

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 909W, on spectrum licensing, when he expects the process of appointing a band manager with responsibilities for the programme-making and special events sector to (a) begin, (b) be completed and (c) come into effect; and if he will make a statement.

(43659)

106

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 909W, on spectrum licensing, which companies or organisations took part in the tender process undertaken by Ofcom for licensing and spectrum management services to the programme-making and special events sector; and if he will make a statement.

(43660)

107

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 909W, on spectrum licensing, whether the current arrangements to provide licensing and spectrum management services to the programme-making and special events (PMSE) sector are interim arrangements prior to the appointment of a PMSE band manager; and if he will make a statement.

(43706)

108

Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 909W, on spectrum licensing, how many companies or organisations took part in the tender process undertaken by Ofcom for licensing and spectrum management services to the programme-making and special events sector; and if he will make a statement.

(43708)

109	Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 909W, on licensing, whether he expects the programme-making and special events band manager award to take place prior to 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	(43725)

110	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) the (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43961)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

111	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on (a) the Royal Navy and (b) his Department's policy on the deployment of a private anti-piracy fleet in the Gulf of Aden by the shipping industry.
	(43665)

112	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43760)

113	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of meteorological differences between RAF bases located in the UK on their operational sustainability.
	(43931)

114	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how many days each RAF base located in the UK was closed as a result of (a) adverse weather conditions and (b) other factors in each of the last five years.
	(43932)

115	Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria were used to determine that RAF Leuchars should undertake Quick Reaction Alert North duties.
	(43933)

116	Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans and serving members of the armed forced by GPs in Scotland.
	(43719)

117	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made on the development of the cyber operations memorandum of understanding; and if he will make a statement.
	(43939)

118	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for spending by his Department to enhance the UK's ability to tackle civil emergencies.
	(43940)

119	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for spending by his Department in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15 on (a) sensors and (b) nanotechnology.
	(43941)

120	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has put in place to respond to (a) terrorist attacks using unconventional materials, (b) major tidal or coastal flooding and (c) a severe influenza pandemic since May 2010.
	(43942)

121	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has put in place to meet its commitment in the Strategic Defence and Security Review to (a) strengthen international commitments to non-proliferation treaties and (b) refocus critical programmes for building security overseas.
	(43967)

122	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) purpose and (b) remit of the Critical Capabilities Pool is.
	(43968)

123	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the monetary value is of the Critical Capabilities Pool introduced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review; and which departments have contributed to it.
	(43969)

124	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to meet its commitment in the Strategic Defence and Security Review to give energy a higher priority in UK foreign policy.
	(43970)

125	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on measures to develop community resilience to civil emergencies since May 2010; and how much he has allocated for such purposes over the Cromprehensive Spending Review period.
	(43971)

126	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who sits on the Infrastructure Security and Resilience Advisory Council; how many times it has met since its inception; what the agenda items were for each such meeting; and what powers the Council has.
	(43972)

127	Mr Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has put in place to develop community resilience to civil emergencies since May 2010.
	(43973)

128 N	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel in each service are due to renew their contracts in the next 12 months.
	(43405)

129 N	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel have been issued with notifications of termination of contract in the last 12 months.
	(43406)

130 N	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2011, Official Report, columns 383-4W, on departmental information officers, what the estimated cost to his Department was of the employment of press and communcations officers in 2009-10.
	(43411)

131 N	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the savings to accrue to (a) his Department's budget and (b) the budgets of each of the armed forces atrributable to (i) current and (ii) planned redundancies.
	(43461)

132	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43960)

133	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what resources his Department provides for soldiers in the Bermuda Regiment.
	(43891)

134	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is any mechanism for soldiers in the Bermuda Regiment to obtain uniforms directly from his Department.
	(43892)

135	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements there are for soldiers in the Bermuda Regiment to procure their uniforms; and if he will make a statement.
	(43893)

136	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements there are to make British Army training manuals available to soldiers of the Bermuda Regiment; and if he will make a statement.
	(43894)

137	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many places on British Army training courses have been allocated to soldiers of the Bermuda Regiment in each of the last 10 years.
	(43895)

138	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to his Department from the decommissioning of aircraft carriers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(43901)

139	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the potential savings resulting from a reduction in the initial order of Joint Stroke Fighters from 138 to 40 in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(43902)

140	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the potential savings resulting from the cancellation of Nimrod in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(43978)

141	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the potential savings resulting from reductions in personnel numbers at the Defence Vetting Agency in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(43979)

142	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the potential savings resulting from the changes to allowances and bonuses announced on 20 January 2011 in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(43983)

143	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the condition was of each of the five BAe 125 aircraft sold by his Department in 2007; and how many hours had been flown in the aircraft in total at the date of sale.
	(43986)

144 N	Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions the Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology had on the Arms Trade Treaty with ministers and officials of the Indian government on his recent visit to that country.
	(43257)

145	Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason there is a difference between the 6,000 recorded exposures to radiation in the UK atomic tests reported to the House on 19 December 1984, Official Report, columns 389-98, and the number of recorded exposures admitted to by his Department in recent High Court proceedings.
	(43771)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

146	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has held with the Electoral Commission on guidance for the counting by hand of ballot papers cast in elections conducted under the alternative vote system.
	(44016)

147 N	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many amendments were tabled to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill in each House; and how many amendments proposed by hon. Members who are not members of the Government were accepted.
	(42472)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

148	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43757)

149 N	Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of 17 December 2010, concerning Mr Larrett.
	(43568)

150 N	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether school caretakers will be subject to vetting under the Government's proposed new arrangements for child protection.
	(43271)

151	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide replacement arrangements for services no longer provided by the Training and Development Agency.
	(43779)

152 N	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent on training and support for the (a) Every Child Counts and (b) Every Child a Reader programmes in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and how much it plans to spend in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12 and (C) 2012-13.
	(43365)

153 N	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many posts for trainers for the (a) Every Child Counts and (b) Every Child a Reader programmes will be funded in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	(43366)

154 N	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils to participate in the (a) Every Child Counts and (b) Every Child a Reader programmes in the academic year (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
	(43367)

155 N	Andy Burnham (Leigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families have received assistance from family intervention projects in 2010-11 to date; and what estimate he has made of the number to receive such assistance in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
	(43368)

156 N	Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish the report of the James Review into the allocation of capital for schools.
	(43372)

157	Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the inclusions and recommendations of the Becta report on school management information systems and value for money in 2010.
	(43817)

158	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the weighted average Key Stage 2 to 4 contextual value-added results were in maintained schools (a) with and (b) without a sixth form (i) nationally and (ii) in each local authority area in each of the last five years.
	(43671)

159	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many maintained schools there were (a) with and (b) without a sixth form there were (i) nationally and (ii) in each local authority area in academic year 2009-10.
	(43672)

160	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were enrolled in maintained schools (a) with and (b) without a sixth form (i) nationally and (ii) in each local authority area in academic year 2009-10.
	(43673)

161	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the weighted average Key Stage 2 results were of pupils starting Year 7 in (a) Church of England, (b) Catholic, (c) other denominational or faith and (d) other maintained schools (i) in each local authority area and (ii) nationally in each of the last five years.
	(43674)

162	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils attending (a) Church of England, (b) Catholic, (c) other denominational or faith and (d) other maintained (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools in (A) Greater London and (B) nationally were from each ethnic group in academic year 2009-10.
	(43675)

163	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer Questions (a) 32855, 32870, 32871, 32872, 32873, 32874, 32877, 32878, 32879, 32880 and 32881 tabled on 21 December 2010 for answer on 10 January 2011 and (b) 33292 and 33370 tabled on 10 January 2011 for answer on 12 January 2011.
	(43662)

164	Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people aged 16 and 17 years were accepted by local authorities as being owed a duty under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 in each quarter since Q1 2009.
	(43710)

165	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) non-departmental public body and (B) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43959)

166	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Torbay of 22 December 2010 on his constituent Mark Thorneywork.
	(43907)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

167	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for the future of solar feed-in tariffs; and if he will make a statement.
	(43792)

168	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the contribution of small-scale photovoltaic projects to community projects; if he will exclude such projects from the scope of his review of feed-in tariffs; and if he will make a statement.
	(43793)

169	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Government's policy on the recommendations of the UN Environment Programme report, Towards a Green Economy.
	(43692)

170	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on the future independence of the Committee on Climate Change.
	(43992)

171	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the policy of his Department is on the inclusion of biochar in its energy efficiency scheme.
	(44019)

172	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in the Wychavon District Council area did not have a mains supply for (a) electricity and (b) gas in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43775)

173	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43761)

174	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the level of each tariff for solar photovoltaics is to be considered under the fast-track review announced on 7 February 2011.
	(43727)

175	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many representations his Department has received on the fast-track review of feed-in tariffs for large scale solar photovoltaics.
	(43728)

176	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) non-departmental public body and (B) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43958)

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

177 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much was spent from the public purse on the consultation on the proposed disposal of Forestry Commission land.
	(43267)

178 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has met the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to discuss her proposals to establish a groceries code adjudicator.
	(43571)

179	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 the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Government's policy on the recommendations of the UN Environment Programme report, Towards a Green Economy.
	(43693)

180	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 the Chancellor of the Exchequer on levels of funding for agricultural research and development during the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(43695)

181	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the likely effects of establishing a single equine passport issuing organisation on income levels of breed societies.
	(43699)

182	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure public bodies sponsored by her Department incurred on redundancies in 2009-10; and what estimate has been made of equivalent expenditure in 2010-11.
	(43714)

183	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the expenditure on redundancies of public bodies sponsored by her Department in each of the next four financial years.
	(43715)

184	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from the devolved administrations on planned changes in staffing at the Forestry Commission.
	(43729)

185	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on the implications for her Department's budget of planned changes in staffing at the Forestry Commission.
	(43823)

186	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the effectiveness of (a) neutering and (b) euthanasia as a means of control of the dog and cat population.
	(43988)

187

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2011, Official Report, column 922W, what assessment she has made of potential changes in permissive access for cyclists and equestrians to forests and woodlands managed by the Forestry Commission as a result of the deliberations of her expert panel on the Forestry Commission.

(43990)

188	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on promoting consumption of (a) anchovies, (b) herring and (c) sardines.
	(43991)

189	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures her Department is taking to promote uptake of the grassland derogation to assist dairy farmers in preparing for implementation of the Nitrate Vulnerable Zone regulations.
	(43995)

190	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 compatibility of the gasification process for waste with the provisions of European directives on the incineration of waste.
	(43997)

191	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of her policy on the labelling of products to indicate whether they contain material from the offspring of cloned animals since December 2010.
	(43998)

192	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will review the health and safety guidance provided by her Department on the safe use of telehandlers.
	(44000)

193	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received on the merits of defining a measure for water poverty.
	(44002)

194	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the potential effects on the welfare of wild salmon of an increase in the levels of production of farmed salmon in Scotland.
	(44010)

195	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the effects on the red squirrel population of her recent decisions on policy on the ownership and management of Forestry Commission land in England.
	(44011)

196	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what alterations she has made to levels of funding to (a) local authorities and (b) other public bodies in each of the next four financial years as a consequence of her recent announcements on policy on the disposal of land owned and managed by the Forestry Commssion.
	(44015)

197	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received from representatives of the rallying sector on the future of land owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.
	(44017)

198	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations she has received on trends in the number of householders with homes at risk of flooding refused buildings insurance by insurers after the publication of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(44020)

199	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has held meetings with the Deputy Prime Minister to discuss her Department's policy on the future of (a) the Forestry Commission and (b) Forestry Commission land.
	(44021)

200	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what expenditure (a) her Department and (b) each public body sponsored by her Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43762)

201 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to which uses the Rural Payments Agency has put the funding allocated to it by her Department to assist with running costs in 2010-11.
	(43462)

202 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of her Department's EU dairy fund has been paid out (a) by the Rural Payments Agency and (b) through each of the devolved administrations to date.
	(43463)

203	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on noise nuisance issues.
	(43791)

204 N	Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisations Ministers in her Department have met in connection with its review of waste policy in England.
	(43255)

205 N	Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of the Prime Minister of 15 September 2010, Official Report, column 878, on bottle deposit and refund schemes, what progress she has made in considering the introduction of a bottle deposit refund scheme.
	(43369)

206	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of sewers which are not adopted by a water authority.
	(43717)

207

Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) her Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which she is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.

(43950)

208 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to improve the accuracy of food labelling; and if she will make a statement.
	(43458)

209 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her EU counterparts on the reform of the common agricultural policy; and if she will make a statement.
	(43464)

210 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with representatives of supermarket retailers on prices paid to milk producers; and if she will make a statement.
	(43570)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

211 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the US administration on the case of Mohammed Junaid Babar; and if he will make a statement.
	(43373)

212	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on persons sentenced to death in Lebanon for intelligence gathering for Israel; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43818)

213	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the passage of Iranian warships through the Suez Canal; whether he has had discussions with his (a) Egyptian and (b) Israeli counterpart on this issue; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43819)

214	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the firing of an advanced rocket from Gaza into Be-er Shera, Israel on 23 February 2011; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43820)

215	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43747)

216	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to provide compensation to British nationals involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008.
	(43824)

217 N	Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will investigate reports of the use by the government of Bahrain of military equipment sold to it by UK companies; and if he will make a statement.
	(43572)

218	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of intelligence assessments by his Department relating to Libya.
	(43908)

219

Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.

(43956)

220	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what response his Department made to the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch; and what assistance it has given to the government of New Zealand since the event.
	(43822)

221	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to visit Bermuda.
	(43826)

222	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals have used flights from Libya chartered by his Department.
	(43827)

223	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals who used flights from Libya chartered by his Department have (a) paid and (b) not paid for the flight.
	(43828)

224	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the safety of British nationals resident in Cote d'Ivoire.
	(43829)

225	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the safety of British nationals resident in Yemen.
	(43830)

226	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department has given to British nationals in (a) Tunisia and (b) Egypt since 21 February 2011.
	(43831)

227	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what cost his Department has incurred on chartering aircraft to Libya to evacuate British nationals to date; and how many British nationals have been evaluated by such means.
	(43885)

228	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals have been evacuated from Libya on RAF aircraft to date.
	(43886)

229	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals have been evacuated from Libya on Royal Navy ships to date.
	(43887)

230	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals who indicated a willingness to leave Libya on flights chartered by his Department have not taken up places on such flights to date.
	(43888)

231	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British citizens resident in Libya have contacted his Department in the last three weeks.
	(43889)

232	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many applications for permanent residence certificates the Turks and Caicos Islands government has received in each of the last five years.
	(43890)

233	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on which occasions his Department has facilitated the travel of trades union officials to (a) Colombia, (b) Venezuela and (c) Cuba in the last 13 years.
	(43928)

234	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the (a) dates and (b) purposes were of each visit to Tunisia by Ministers in his Department since 1997.
	(43929)

235	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on overtime for staff working in the private office of the Secretary of State in each of the last five years.
	(43938)

236	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date he expects the embargo on new permanent residency applications in the Turks and Caicos Islands to be lifted.
	(43976)

237	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official visits Ministers from his Department have made to Libya since 1997; and for what purpose.
	(43980)

238	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official visits Ministers from his Department have made to Egypt since 1997; and for what purpose.
	(43981)

239	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official visits Ministers from his Department have made to Yemen since 1997; and for what purpose.
	(43982)

240	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what briefings his Department has given to former Ministers in the last six months; which department conducted the briefings; and what the payband was of each official involved.
	(43985)

241 N	Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on (a) the San Juan River dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua and (b) the potential effects of that dispute on biodiversity; and if he will make a statement.
	(43371)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

242	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the pilot scheme to permit children on the Isle of Wight from the age of 13 years to obtain the contraceptive pill from pharmacies; what the evidential basis is for the scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43882)

243	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department plans to provide for hippotherapy treatment for people suffering from multiple sclerosis during the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(43698)

244	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future funding of the nhs.net service from 2013.
	(43772)

245	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43748)

246	Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many foreign patients treated in hospitals who were liable for the cost of their treatment did not pay for treatment in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
	(43773)

247	Mr Brian Binley (Northampton South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department was owed in payments for treatment provided to foreign nationals in hospitals in England in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10.
	(43774)

248	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the requirement for (a) training and (b) employment of midwives in the next five years.
	(44022)

249	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the likely effect of (a) UK and (b) EU competition rules on the operation of GP consortia.
	(44028)

250	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of (a) compulsory and (b) voluntary redundancies in NHS non-clinical staff which will occur in (i) the London Borough of Newham, (ii) West Ham constituency and (iii) London in the next 12 months.
	(43784)

251	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to improve outcomes for those with musculoskeletal problems.
	(43723)

252	Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on medicines for (a) primary care, (b) secondary care and (c) in total for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(43707)

253 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who were reported as successfully discharged from treatment in the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System who returned to GP methadone prescriptions in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43268)

254 N	Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2010, Official Report, column 570W, on drugs: rehabilitation, what estimate he has made of the number of people prescribed daily doses of methadone of between 12 miligrams and 32 miligrams who have been on methadone for over one year.
	(43370)

255 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) monetary value and (b) value as a proportion of all NHS services of those NHS services which are subject to a set tariff.
	(43264)

256	Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has consulted the Royal College of General Practitioners as part of its review of addiction to prescribed medicine.
	(43713)

257	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) the (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public bodies and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43955)

258 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the (a) re-building of the West Cumberland Hospital, (b) Keswick Cottage Hospital development, (c) Millom Cottage Hospital development, (d) Cockermouth Cottage Hospital development, (d) Maryport Cottage Hospital development and (e) Cleator Moor Health Centre to be complete.
	(43269)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

259	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenditure (a) her Department and (b) each public body sponsored by her Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43749)

260	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deprivation of citizenship orders have been issued in each of the last five years.
	(43724)

261	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the likely effects of reductions in her Department's budget on frontline police staffing levels at the London 2012 Olympics.
	(43786)

262	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to extend the sex worker diversion scheme pilot to London Boroughs other than Newham.
	(43787)

263 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were granted settlement in 2010 initially entered the UK on student visas.
	(43263)

264	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral Statement of 26 January 2011, Official Report, column 306, on the Counter-terrorism Review, when she expects to introduce the legislative proposals required to implement the outcome of the Counter-terrorism Review.
	(44030)

265 N	Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what legislative provisions she plans to introduce to remove the requirement on coach drivers working for a single employer and taking children to school across two or more local authority boundaries to undertake a Criminal Records Bureau check in respect of each local authority.
	[R] (43618)

266

Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of foreign national (a) postgraduate students, (b) undergraduate students and (c) students on sub-degree level courses who entered the UK on student visas and were entitled to work in the UK for a period after completion of their studies who took up this entitlement in the last five years.

(43666)

267	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) physical assaults, (b) verbal assaults, (c) injuries and (d) serious injuries have been reported by (i) Metropolitan Police Force officers, (ii) Nottinghamshire Police Force officers and (iii) all police officers in England and Wales in each year since 1997.
	(43721)

268	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to implement the recommendations of the report by Jan Berry on Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing.
	(43722)

269	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to produce standard national guidelines on policing public order events.
	(43730)

270	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions police officers in (a) the Metropolitan Police, (b) Nottinghamshire Police and (c) all police forces in England and Wales required the services of a translator in each year since 1997; and how many languages were involved in each force in each such year.
	(43769)

271	Patrick Mercer (Newark): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes identified as directly or indirectly related to gang activity were recorded in (a) London, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England and Wales in each year since 1997.
	(43825)

272	Dr Daniel Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many shotgun certificate holders there are in each parliamentary constituency.
	(43821)

273	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) her Department and (ii) the (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public body for which she is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43951)

274	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were granted to citizens of each non-EU country in each of the 12 months to January 2011.
	(43770)

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

275	Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much the House of Commons Commission expects to spend on flowers and plants in 2010-11; and what estimate has been made of the equivalent expenditure in 2011-12.
	(43712)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

276	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Government's policy on the recommendations of the UN Environment Programme report, Towards a Green Economy.
	(43694)

277	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will assess the potential use of biochar in assisting carbon and nitrogen fixation in smallholder farms in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
	(44018)

278	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43750)

279	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43954)

280	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Mini Learning Fund report of June 2006 appended to the report on the strategic grant agreement between his Department and the Trades Union Congress.
	(43896)

281	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of its funding for Woodcraft Folk Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
	(43897)

282	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding his Department has provided for the BOND organisation in each of the last five years; and what reports he has received from that organisation on the effect of its activities on levels of poverty.
	(43898)

283	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2010, Official Report, column 210W, on the Civil Society Challenge Fund, which trade unions received funding from the Civil Society Challenge Fund in 2009-10; and how much each such trade union received.
	(43930)

284	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has spent on the Music for Change World Music Matters project; what music has been produced; and if he will place in the Library a recording of the music produced to date.
	(43974)

285	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to his Department's report on Building support for Development Strategy - Impact of strategy, expenditure and activities, August 2009, page 6, which broadcast programmes receive seed funding from his Department.
	(43977)

286	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) furniture, (b) paintings and (c) other items costing over £100 were purchased for the private offices of Ministers in his Department between May 1997 and May 2010.
	(43984)

287	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funds his Department has given to the National Union of Teachers in each year since his Department's formation.
	(43987)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

288	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many files held in the National Archives have been recalled by each central Government department under Section 4(6) of the Public Records Act 1958 in each of the last three years; and what the name was of each such file.
	(43879)

289	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to review Sections 2 and 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 as part of his plans to establish a British bill of rights.
	(44008)

290	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the future jurisdiction of the European Court on Human Rights in England and Wales.
	(44009)

291	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43751)

292	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on training for coroners in 2009-10; and how much was budgeted for (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.
	(44026)

293	Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been (a) spent on and (b) budgeted by his Department's Coroners and Burials Unit for (i) staff costs and (ii) office costs, including training, travel and subsistence for (A) 2009-10, (B) 2010-11 and (C) 2011-12.
	(44027)

294	Mr David Hamilton (Midlothian): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Government plans to (a) sign and (b) ratify the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
	(43718)

295	Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young people have (a) entered the youth justice system, (b) left custody and (c) been resettled after a custodial sentence in each year since 1997.
	(43832)

296	Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was paid in compensation to families of victims of murder and manslaughter in each year since 2008.
	(43833)

297	Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether provision for compensation for families of victims of murder and manslaughter is ringfenced in his Department's budget.
	(43834)

298	Sadiq Khan (Tooting): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Communities and Local Government and (b) Education on the resettlement of young offenders.
	(43903)

299	Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation governing the removal of squatters from homes.
	(43664)

300

Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department, (ii) other Departments in respect of which his Department manages those functions and (iii) each (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.

(43965)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

301	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43755)

302	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43953)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

303	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what expenditure his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43763)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

304 N	Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the benefit to the local economy of the designation of an area off the coast of East Anglia as an approved location for the ship-to-ship transfer of oil.
	(43259)

305 N	Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of potential (a) changes in the level of shipping traffic off the coast of East Anglia and (b) risks of collisions between vessels arising from implementation of its decision on permitted locations for the ship-to-ship transfer of oil off the east coast.
	(43260)

306 N	Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents involving oil spillage during ship-to-ship transfers of oil off the UK coastline have been recorded in each year since 2000.
	(43261)

307 N	Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what regulations govern the (a) conditions and (b) safety procedures for vessels undertaking ship-to-ship transfers of oil in UK waters.
	(43262)

308 N	Peter Aldous (Waveney): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the relationship between levels of shipping traffic in UK coastal waters and incidences of collisions between vessels.
	(43407)

309	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the level of seat belt usage among children travelling in (a) the front and (b) the rear of cars in (i) 1990, (ii) 1997, (iii) 2005 and (iv) the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43880)

310	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of seat belt and child restraint use in reducing the severity of injury to children involved in car accidents; and if he will make a statement.
	[R] (43881)

311	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the maximum amount of time airline pilots should be expected to fly in 24 hours.
	(43765)

312	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated on the threat to airport and airline security from air crew.
	(43766)

313	Steve Baker (Wycombe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to bring forward proposals to enable airports to determine their own security procedures for air crew.
	(43767)

314	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a map of the revised proposed route of High Speed Two marking the location of all (a) tunnels, (b) embankments, (c) deep cuttings, (d) properties that will require noise insulation and (e) properties facing extremely high levels of noise.
	(43661)

315	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43752)

316 N	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the rate of (a) punctuality and (b) cancellation of passenger rail services operated on routes on the Southeastern franchise other than over High Speed One was in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(43455)

317 N	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the rate of cancellation of passenger rail services operated by the Southeastern franchise was in each of the last five reporting periods.
	(43456)

318 N	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) capacity benchmark figures and (b) service delivery benchmark figures have been in each month of operation of the Southeastern rail franchise.
	(43565)

319 N	Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford of 14 February 2011, Official Report, columns 638-40W, on Southeastern, how many rail services operated by Southeastern have been cancelled in each month of the current franchise agreement.
	(43566)

320	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of the replacement of pelican crossings by puffin crossings (a) in total and (b) per crossing in the last 10 years.
	(43667)

321	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the relative safety records of (a) pelican, (b) puffin, (c) toucan and (d) other forms of signal-controlled pedestrian crossings.
	(43668)

322	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of new signal-controlled pedestrian crossings installed in the last three years were (a) pelican, (b) puffin, (c) toucan and (d) other forms of signal-controlled pedestrian crossings.
	(43669)

323	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many pelican crossings have been replaced by puffin crossings in the last 10 years.
	(43670)

324 N	Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on proposals for inclusion of a default value for tar sands in the Fuel Quality Directive.
	(43404)

325 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library copies of the reimbursement agreements his Department reached with Agility Trains for the Intercity Express Programme after 12 February 2009; and what the total monetary value is of reimbursement payments made to the consortium under such agreements to date.
	[R] (42721)

326 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report by L.E.K. Consulting, on the options for future reform to the structure of Network Rail, commissioned by the McNulty Rail Value for Money study.
	[R] (42722)

327	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency, (B) non-departmental public body and (C) non-Ministerial Department for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43952)

328	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the maximum amount of time airline pilots should be expected to fly in one day.
	(43899)

329	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to enable UK airports to determine their own security procedures for air crew.
	(43900)

330	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has any plans to introduce a crew personnel advanced screening system (CrewPASS); and if he will make a statement.
	(43934)

331	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the threat to airport and airline security from air crew.
	(43935)

332	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of (a) airlines and (b) pilots since May 2010.
	(43936)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

333	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what expenditure her Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43764)

Questions to the Minister for Women and Equalities

334	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of the Government Equalities Office was in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43966)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

335	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the number of persons who will be subject to the higher withdrawal rates of universal credit in (a) Glasgow North East constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK in each of the four years following its introduction.
	(43681)

336	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the net change in the incomes of couple households of one full-time worker and two children in (a) Glasgow North East constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK attributable to the introduction of universal credit in each of the next four financial years.
	(43683)

337	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of (a) households and (b) individuals in (i) Glasgow North East constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK who will be ineligible for universal credit because they have savings of over £16,000 in each of the four years following its introduction.
	(43684)

338

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of (a) households and (b) individuals in (i) Glasgow North East constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK with savings of between £6,000 and £16,000 who will have reduced eligibility for universal credit in each of the four years following its introduction.

(43685)

339

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the average change in income of (a) households and (b) individuals in (i) Glasgow North East constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK with savings of between £6,000 and £16,000 as a result of reduced eligibility for universal credit in each of the four years following its introduction.

(43686)

340

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effects of the introduction of universal credit on the amount retained from each additional pound earned in couple households of one full-time worker and two children with household earnings between £8,000 and £32,000 per year in the first four years of its introduction.

(43687)

341	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the effect on average income of (a) households and (b) individuals in (i) Glasgow North East constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK with savings of over £16,000 of ineligibility for universal credit in each of the four years following its introduction.
	(43688)

342	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has set an objective for the level of efficiency savings to be achieved by the JobCentre Plus network in (a) Glasgow, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK in each of the next four financial years.
	(43689)

343	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the effects of the introduction of universal credit on the income of couple households of one full-time worker and two children and household earnings between £8,000 and £32,000 per year in the first four years of its introduction.
	(43690)

344	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children with disabilities educated in special schools are in receipt of the mobility component of disability living allowance at the (a) lower and (b) higher rate.
	(43697)

345	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the likely change in the level of provision of Jobcentre Plus in (a) Glasgow, (b) Scotland and (c) the United Kingdom in each of the next four financial years.
	(43716)

346	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the protection to be given to households whose incomes will be uprated by the consumer prices index as a result of the introduction of universal credit.
	(44003)

347	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his most recent estimate is of the likely savings to the public purse of the proposed cap on the annual level of benefits payments per household over the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44007)

348	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his timetable is for changes to the mobility component of disability living allowance for those living in care homes.
	(43700)

349	Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what expenditure (a) his Department and (b) each public body sponsored by his Department incurred on engaging external audit services in each of the last three years; and to which service providers such payments were made in each year.
	(43754)

350	Lyn Brown (West Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an equality impact assessment was undertaken in respect of proposals to reduce the support for mortgage interest rate for people participating in the home ownership for people with long-term disabilities scheme.
	(43788)

351	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the monetary value of benefits claimed fraudulently since 18 October 2010.
	(43905)

352
N

Cathy Jamieson (Kilmarnock and Loudoun): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2011, Official Report, column 683W, on Social Fund: television, how many Social Fund (a) budgeting loans, (b) crisis loans and (c) community care grants over the value of (i) £500 and (ii) £1,000 were made in (A) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency and (B) Scotland in each of the last five years.

(43409)

353

Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in England aged (a) 18, (b) 19, (c) 20, (d) 21, (e) 22, (f) 23 and (g) 24 were (i) unemployed according to the International Labour Organisation definition and (ii) unemployed according to the International Labour Organisation definition and not in full-time education in the latest period for which figures are available.

(43904)

354	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) procurement and (b) outsourcing function of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) agency and (B) non-departmental public body for which he is responsible in the last financial year for which figures are available.
	(43948)

355 N	Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford district receive the state pension.
	(43254)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

356 N	Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to make Government procurement simpler for small and medium-sized enterprises.
	[Question Unstarred] (42474)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

357

Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of retired people receiving public sector pensions worth more than (a) £100,000, (b) £75,000 and (c) £50,000 per year; and what estimate has been made of the number of people working in the public sector who are expected to receive pensions after retirement worth more than (i) £100,000, (ii) £75,000 and (iii) £50,000 per year.

[Transferred] (43720)


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