Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Friday 4 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 Thursday 3 March 2011
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Friday 4 March 2011

For Written Questions for answer on the day of issue of this paper, see Part 1 of this paper and the Order Paper.

Questions in this paper are arranged in the following way: date for answer; Oral before Written under each date; date of tabling under each answering date; unstarred and transferred questions followed by answering departments in alphabetical order.

FRIDAY 4 MARCH Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 8 February

1 N	Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the Marine Management Organisation did not appoint a representative of the cockle industry to the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authorities; and if she will make a statement.
	(40451)

Notices given on Wednesday 16 February

1 N	Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2011, Official Report, columns 530-1W, what assessment she has made of the extent of decentralisation to which regional management plans can be subject.
	(42108)

Notices given between Friday 18 February and Friday 25 February

1 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department have met officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran since 2009.
	(43279)

2 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the rebuilding of West Cumberland Hospital to commence; and what services he expects will be provided at the hospital following its rebuilding.
	(43278)

3 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prosecutions have been brought against individuals subject to control orders to date; and for which offences.
	(43276)

4 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish draft legislation and guidance on terrorist protection and investigation measures prior to seeking Parliamentary approval for the extension of arrangements for control orders.
	(43277)

Notices given on Monday 28 February

1 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to progress with a case of assault by an offender whilst in custody due to it not being in the public interest in each of the last 10 years.
	(43809)

2 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received from the National Museum of the Royal Navy on the future management of the wreck of HMS Victory 1744.
	(43740)

3 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to retain sovereign immunity for the wreck of HMS Victory 1744.
	(43741)

4
N

Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on the provision of (a) the contraceptive pill, (b) emergency hormonal contraception, (c) condoms and (d) long-acting reversible contraception on the NHS in each of the last five years; what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of each method in reducing the rate of (i) teenage pregnancy and (ii) sexually transmitted diseases in each year; and if he will make a statement.

(43742)

5 N	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding has been allocated to provision of (a) the contraceptive pill, (b) emergency hormonal contraception, (c) condoms and (d) long-acting reversible contraception for people aged under 16 years in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(43743)

6 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisons are required to maintain up-to-date risk assessments of safe systems of work in respect of the safety of (a) staff, (b) prisoners and (c) visitors.
	(43810)

7 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which prisons have been found not to have up-to-date risk assessments of safe systems of work in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	(43811)

Notices given on Tuesday 1 March

1 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effects of the replacement of the May Day Bank Holiday by a bank holiday in October on the (a) horticultural and (b) do-it-yourself retail sectors.
	(44149)

2 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the replacement of the May Day bank holiday by a bank holiday in October.
	(44170)

3 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to address the finance gap for small and medium-sized enterprises; and whether the Venture Capital Trusts scheme is included in these plans.
	(44437)

4 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's estimate is of the change to the size of the finance gap facing small and medium-sized enterprises since the start of the economic downturn; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the finance gap on the UK economy.
	(44438)

5 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of funds provided for assistance with childcare costs through the tax credit system in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.
	(44399)

7 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when HM Revenue and Customs plans to reply to the letters from John Brace, a constituent of the hon. Member for Birkenhead.
	(44147)

8 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Sir John Vickers was consulted during negotiations on Project Merlin; and whether any correspondence was exchanged between him and HM Treasury.
	(44339)

9 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects negotiations on EU banking liquidity rules under Basel III provisions to be concluded; and if he will make a statement.
	(44340)

10 N	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information he holds on the level of provision made by local authorities from the transitional grants for redundancy payments.
	(44232)

11 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements his Department has for passing on to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the costs to the public purse of military transport commissioned by that Department
	(44401)

12 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 170 trainee pilots to be made redundant in the programme announced on 1 March 2011 fly (a) fast jets, (b) multi-engine aircraft and (c) helicopters.
	(44392)

13 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 1 March 2011, Official Report, columns 21-22WS, on the armed forces redundancy process, what definition of personnel (a) recently returned from operations and (b) preparing to deploy on operations he uses.
	(44393)

14 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures he has put in place to assist those who are to be made redundant from the RAF as part of the redundancy programme announced on 1 March 2011 in their transition to civilian life.
	(44394)

15 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 1 March 2011, Official Report, columns 21-22WS, on the armed forces redundancy process, how many service personnel he expects to be made redundant from the Royal Air Force (a) in each region, (b) on each base and (c) at each rank.
	(44439)

16 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the 344 trainee pilots who are to continue their training fly (a) fast jets, (b) multi-engine aircraft and (c) helicopters.
	(44440)

17 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many VC10 aircraft 101 Squadron has; how many are in service at present; and what their commitments are.
	(44336)

19 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households in each (a) property type and (b) region which will not qualify for Green Deal finance because they do not meet the golden rule.
	(44146)

20 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the role of healthcare services in West Cumbria in the delivery of national nuclear policy.
	(44173)

21 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria she plans to use to monitor the sustainability of Government policies on growth.
	(44169)

22 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of (a) commercial and (b) heritage woodland in each local authority area is owned (i) by the Forestry Commission and (ii) privately.
	(44338)

23 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the terms of reference are for his Department's review of aircraft evacuation procedures; how it will report; and by what date he expects it to report.
	(44402)

24 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what date and at what time his Department first placed the order for the charter aircraft to evacuate British nationals from Libya which was subsequently delayed at Gatwick Airport.
	(44403)

25 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps (a) the Government and (b) the Serious Organised Crime Agency have taken in respect of the assets of Hosni Mubarak and his associates.
	(44404)

26 N	Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many British nationals were evacuated from (a) Tunisia, (b) Egypt and (c) Libya by other EU member states during the recent political events in those countries; and if he will make a statement.
	(44174)

27 N	Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many non-British European citizens have been evacuated from (a) Tunisia, (b) Egypt and (c) Libya using his Department's resources during the recent events in those countries; and if he will make a statement.
	(44175)

28 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his most recent estimate is of the number of British citizens remaining in Libya.
	(44141)

29 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the political situation in Libya; and if he will make a statement.
	(44143)

30 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take to prevent the use of foreign mercenaries against Libyan civilians.
	(44144)

31 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on Yemen; and if he will make a statement.
	(44337)

32 N	Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which will be the accrediting body for General Practitioner of Special Interest after the abolition of the primary care trusts and deaneries; and if he will make a statement.
	(44166)

33 N	Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements will be made to accredit (a) nurses, (b) pharmacists and (c) podiatrists working independently as practitioners with a special interest under the any willing providers arrangements to be rolled-out following the abolition of primary care trusts.
	(44167)

34 N	Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take in respect of the draft recommendation from the national Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that sun protection factor 15 is adequate protection against skin cancer; and if he will make a statement.
	(44168)

35 N	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce the Government's strategy on human trafficking; and if she will make a statement.
	(44274)

36 N	Vernon Coaker (Gedling): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on the Intercept Modernisation Programme; and if she will make a statement.
	(44418)

37
N

Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2011, Official Report, columns 94-95W, on the Passport Office: Liverpool, if she will publish (a) the results of the review undertaken by the Identity and Passport Service into its estate and staff capacity and (b) the consultation document being discussed with staff, trade unions and interested parties.

(44335)

38 N	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter sent by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on 14 Janaury 2011 with regard to Mr Y Ashraf.
	(44172)

39 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation of refugees from Libya.
	(44142)

40 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian assistance he plans to provide to Libya in response to the recent unrest in that country.
	(44145)

41 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has undertaken on the potential effect of his proposed arrangements for civil litigation costs on each socio-economic group.
	(44176)

42 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has evaluated on the effect on litigation of excessive or disproportionate costs; and what assessment he has made of the requirement for further research into reasons for recent trends in the cost of civil litigation.
	(44177)

43 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what research his Department has undertaken on the effect of his proposed arrangements for civil litigation costs on the likelihood of (a) individuals and (b) families on low incomes making a legitimate claim for compensation in personal injury cases.
	(44178)

45 N	Mr Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South): To ask the Prime Minister, which Ministers are entitled to convene a meeting of the COBR crisis response committee.
	(44400)

46 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the likely cost of the annual grant from the Cabinet Office (a) towards the maintenance of and (b) to cover civilian staff employed at Chequers for 2011-12.
	(44273)

47 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which public service announcements are required at railway stations.
	(44460)

48 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in each region to be affected by the limit on housing benefit for under-occupants in the social sector are under-occupying a property by (a) one and (b) two or more bedrooms.
	(44229)

49 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the consistency between the definition of under-occupancy to be applied by his Department when determining housing benefit entitlement and the occupancy provisions of local authority and registered social landlord lettings policies.
	(44231)

50 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the monetary value in 2010-11 prices of support for childcare costs provided to those claiming universal credit at the point at which universal credit is introduced.
	(44397)

51 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the maximum marginal rate of withdrawal under universal credit will be for parents in receipt of assistance with childcare costs for (a) all claimants, (b) those previously in receipt of tax credits and (c) those claimants who also pay income tax.
	(44398)

52
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, columns 681-82W, on disability living allowance: Scotland, if he will introduce systems to estimate (a) the number of recipients of disability living allowance in (i) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency and (ii) Scotland who will be reassessed in each of the next five years, and (b) the cost to the public purse.

(44179)

54 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women aged (i) 60, (ii) 61, (iii) 62, (iv) 63, (v) 64 and (vi) 65 years are in receipt of (A) guarantee credit, (B) housing benefit and (C) council tax benefit.
	(44272)

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the economy of the replacement of the May Day Bank Holiday by a bank holiday in October.
	[Transferred] (44148)

2 N	Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to reply to the letter sent by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on 21 December 2010 with regard to Mr P Walsh, transferred from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
	[Transferred] (44171)

3 N	Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider including high quality granite aggregate as an exempt product in respect of the aggregates levy.
	[Transferred] (44395)

4 N	Dr Phillip Lee (Bracknell): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure equality of access of parents to their children in divorce cases.
	[Transferred] (44396)

5	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how much the Crown Prosecution Service has spent in 2010-11 to date on redundancy costs.
	(44543)

6	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to make redundant in each Crown Prosecution area in 2010-11; and from what roles he expects staff to be made redundant.
	(44607)

7	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to make (a) voluntarily and (b) compulsorily redundant in 2010-11.
	(44608)

8	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how much funding the Crown Prosecution Service allocated to meet redundancy costs in 2010-11.
	(44609)

9	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to make redundant in each Crown Prosecution area in each financial year from 2011-12 to 2014-15; and from what roles staff are expected to be made redundant.
	(44610)

10	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to make (a) voluntarily and (b) compulsorily redundant in each financial year from 2011-12 to 2014-15.
	(44611)

11	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how much funding has been allocated by the Crown Prosecution Service to meet redundancy costs in each financial year from 2011-12 to 2014-15.
	(44612)

12	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, what recent progress has been made by the Crown Prosecution Service in developing a full electronic case file; and when he expects full electronic case files to be fully operational.
	(44613)

13	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (b) the Secretary of State for Justice and (c) the Law Society on the development of a full electronic case file by the Crown Prosecution Service; and if he will make a statement.
	(44614)

14	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, in respect of which offences are cases being returned by the Crown Prosecution Service to the police for charging as part of revised charging arrangements being rolled-out for completion by June 2011.
	(44615)

15	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to employ (a) at the end of March 2011 and (b) at the end of each subsequent financial year in the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44763)

16	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service expects to employ as (a) prosecutors and (b) caseworkers and administrators supporting frontline prosecutions at (i) the end of March 2011 and (ii) the end of each subsequent financial year in the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44764)

17	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutors the Crown Prosecution Service expects to employ who are (a) able to appear in the Crown Court and higher courts and (b) able to present cases in magistrates' court at (i) at the end of March 2011 and (ii) the end of each subsequent financial year in the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44765)

18	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, how many people the Crown Prosecution Service has made redundant in each Crown Prosecution Service area in 2010-11 to date; and from what roles staff have been made redundant.
	(44766)

19	Catherine McKinnell (Newcastle Upon Tyne North): To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2011, Official Report, column 805W on public expenditure, by how much the Crown Prosecution Service plans to reduce expenditure on (a) staff,(b) accommodation, (c) IT, (d) prosecution and (e) general administrative costs in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44825)

20	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when his Department plans to review the Technology Strategy Board rules on research contracts with start-up businesses and micro-businesses.
	(44571)

21	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will assess the effects of reductions in funding for ESOL courses on community cohesion in Liverpool.
	(44583)

22	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many bids to the Regional Growth Fund have been made from (a) the Sheffield City region and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber; and what the total monetary value of such bids is.
	(44531)

23	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the budget is for the Regional Growth Fund for Yorkshire for (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13.
	(44532)

24	Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has assessed the likely effect on faith communities of proposed changes to daylight saving hours.
	(44645)

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential role for the arts and creative industries within local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) (a) nationally and (b) in the Brighton and Hove area; what arrangements will be made for industries to be represented within LEP's; and if he will make a statement.

(44639)

26	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to the Charity Research Support Fund in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how much such funding he plans to allocate in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44606)

27	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria will be used to determine whether successful employment has been secured as a result of education or training under the job outcome payment scheme.
	(44544)

28	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his estimate is of the number of learners who will participate in the job outcome scheme pilots in academic year 2011-12.
	(44545)

29	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether learners referred to further education colleges as part of the skills conditionality scheme will be included in the assessment of the job outcome payment scheme pilots in academic year 2011-12.
	(44546)

30	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what circumstances will be considered reasonable for failing to take part in training or education mandated by the work programme.
	(44672)

31	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether individuals who participate in mandatory training or education as part of the work programme or skills conditionality programme will have a maximum course length.
	(44673)

Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether claimants of jobseeker's allowance or employment and support allowance undertaking mandatory training as part of the work programme or skills conditionality programme will continue to receive their benefit during the course; whether such people will be required to attend job interviews which are timetabled during course commitments; and whether their benefit entitlements will be dependent on the length of their course.

(44674)

33	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) citizens advice bureaux and (b) law centres likely to close in (a) Bolton, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) England as a result of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
	(44845)

34	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the effects of planned changes to the student finance regime on those undertaking medical degrees.
	(44549)

35	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Biological Sciences Research Council gave to neuroscience research in each of the last five years; and how much it plans to give in each of the next five years.
	(44596)

36	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the relative position of the UK in international comparator tables on the number of patents granted per million of population.
	(44604)

37	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many community interest companies were registered in each region in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
	(44767)

38	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will discuss with his EU counterparts provisional measures to prevent the dumping of imports of vinyl acetate originating from the US.
	(44533)

39	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department plans to request to be heard by the European Commission investigation services as part of the investigation into imports of vinyl acetate originating from the US.
	(44534)

40	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to contribute to the European Commission's investigation into the alleged dumping of vinyl acetate from the US.
	(44564)

41	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the alleged dumping of vinyl acetate from the US into the European market; and if he will make a statement.
	(44565)

42	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has plans to provide support for British manufacturers of vinyl acetate.
	(44567)

43	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made an assessment of the effects on British industry of the alleged dumping of vinyl acetate from the US in Europe; and if he will make a statement.
	(44568)

44	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of skilled workers employed in the production of vinyl acetate in the UK.
	(44662)

45	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has plans to regulate the number of part-time students; and if he will make a statement.
	(44577)

46	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects the Advocate for Access to Education to publish his report on Access to Higher Education; and if he will make a statement.
	(44578)

47	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been allocated to the Access to Learning Fund in (a) each of the last five years and (b) each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement.
	(44579)

48	John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many children have died where child (a) abuse and (b) neglect was recorded as a contributory factor in each year since 1990.
	(44779)

49	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what practice the Civil Service has adopted on the accrual of holiday days during maternity leave.
	(44523)

50	Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what was the average number of hours worked by (a) adults aged 18 to 65 and (b) employed adults aged 18 to 65 in each year since 1981.
	(44521)

51	Esther McVey (Wirral West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2011, Official Report, column 370W, on voluntary organisations, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made in establishing Business Connectors; and if he will make a statement.
	(44463)

52	Esther McVey (Wirral West): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2011, Official Report, column 370W, on voluntary organisations, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made on the Every Business Counts initiative; and if he will make a statement.
	(44464)

53	Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of workless households in Airdrie and Shotts constituency.
	(44804)

54	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many small and medium-sized businesses in Halifax have closed since May 2010.
	(44550)

55	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate has been made of the proportion of people in Halifax employed in the banking and finance sector.
	(44551)

56	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of income inequality on social mobility.
	(44524)

57	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to monitor reductions in provision to the voluntary sector by (a) local authorities and (b) each Government department.
	(44598)

58	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department takes to measure social mobility.
	(44602)

59	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of suicide rates in each socio-economic group.
	(44807)

60	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the degree of losses (a) offset and (b) not offset by businesses trading in the UK in reducing their liabilities to corporation tax in each of the last four financial years.
	(44808)

61	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the proportion of profits paid in corporation tax after losses offset have been taken into account by (a) large companies and (b) small and medium-sized enterprises trading in the UK in the last three financial years.
	(44847)

62	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the effect of the projected revenue accruing from corporation tax in the next financial year of losses not yet offset by businesses trading in the UK.
	(44848)

63	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the proportion of businesses trading in the UK which paid no corporation tax in each of the last four financial years.
	(44849)

64	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effects on small and medium-sized enterprises of the time taken by HM Revenue and Customs to process value added tax registration applications.
	(44785)

65	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assistance HM Revenue and Customs provides to owners of small and medium sized businesses who have experienced delays in the processing of applications for VAT registration.
	(44812)

66	Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review proposed increases in air passenger duty.
	(44465)

67	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the European Commission since 15 December 2010 on state aid approval for the aggregates levy credit scheme in Northern Ireland.
	(44772)

68	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential role of the arts and creative industries in the Government's strategy for economic recovery (a) nationally and (b) in the Brighton and Hove area; and if he will make a statement.
	(44641)

69	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take to introduce (a) a fuel stabiliser and (b) a rebate for remote rural areas in (i) North Yorkshire and (ii) other parts of the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	(44591)

70	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the economic effects of differences in fuel duty between the UK and other EU states; and if he will make a statement.
	(44592)

71	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will reverse his decision to increase fuel duty on 1 April 2011.
	(44593)

72	Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the regulation of credit default swaps and similar instruments.
	(44678)

73	Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons he has not implemented the recommendations of the Parliamentary Ombudsman on compensation levels for Equitable Life policyholders.
	(44761)

74	Sammy Wilson (East Antrim): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the evidential basis was for his calculation of the funding to be made available to Equitable Life policyholders.
	(44762)

75	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish new guidance for local councils on Gypsy and Traveller sites.
	(44789)

76	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much is to be paid to each local authority in New Homes Bonus in the financial year 2011-12.
	(44511)

77	Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the funding formula for fire authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	(44525)

78	Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the funding formula for local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
	(44527)

79	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) home energy efficiency and (b) micro-generation schemes have been undertaken by registered social housing landlords in each of the last five years.
	(44659)

80	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects of reductions in expenditure on (a) home energy efficiency and (b) micro-generation schemes on social housing projects.
	(44660)

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he intends to commence work on the strategic environmental assessment required prior to the revocation of regional spatial strategies following the judgment of 22 October 2010 in the case of Cala Homes (South) Limited, and whether he plans to make provision for stakeholders and the wider public to engage in the process consistent with the Government's obligations under the Aarhus Convention.

(44637)

82	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to bring forward proposals to remove anti-social tenants causing problems for other residents more quickly.
	(44802)

83	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the number of people who are rough sleeping.
	(44803)

84	Dr Daniel Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on measures to protect grade 2 listed agricultural land from residential development.
	(44595)

85	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has provided to Bolton local authority for community cohesion projects in each of the last three years.
	(44827)

86	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of planning applications in Halifax have been refused in the last 12 months.
	(44552)

87	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent representations he has received on the potential effects of changes to funding for concessionary fares on shire county councils.
	(44697)

88	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what proportion of the affordable homes to be provided through the transformation of the Olympic Athletes' Village will be (a) accessible and (b) affordable accessible homes.
	(44786)

89	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether developers undertaking work for the London 2012 Olympics will be obliged to provide a certain proportion of accessible housing in new developments in the area.
	(44787)

90	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many of the 1,379 affordable homes to be provided through the Olympic Athletes' Village will be accessible.
	(44791)

91	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will ensure no accommodation in the Olympic Athletes' Village which has been modified for paralympians will be demolished or have the modifications removed following the London 2012 Olympics.
	(44792)

92	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what proportion of short-term housing in the Olympic Athletes' Village will be designated as accessible housing as part of the Olympics Legacy strategy.
	(44793)

93	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the contribution to UK gross domestic product by the arts and creative industries (a) nationally and (b) in the Brighton and Hove area; and if he will make a statement.
	(44640)

94	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what progress he has made on meeting his Department's responsibilities regarding Scottish Gaelic for (a) language maintenance and development under the European Charter for Minority or Indigenous Languages and (b) broadcasting services in UK languages.
	(44709)

95	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the proposed takeover of BskyB by News International.
	(44548)

96	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the economic prospects for the local newspaper industry.
	(44695)

97	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with the BBC Trust on the potential effects of BBC online local news content on private sector providers of such news services.
	(44696)

Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much funding Arts Council England allocated spend per head of population in (a) Wolverhampton North East constituency, (b) Wolverhampton South East constituency, (c) Wolverhampton South West constituency, (d) Dudley North constituency, (e) Dudley South constituency, (f) Stourbridge constituency, (g) Halesowen constituency and (h) Rowley Regis constituency in the latest period for which figures are available.

(44653)

99	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which company had been awarded the contract to refit Puma helicopters; and what the monetary value of the contract is.
	(44833)

100	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the contract to refit Puma helicopters is included in his Department's review of contracts underway; and if he will make a statement.
	(44834)

101	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department considered purchasing new helicopters as an alternative to refitting the Puma helicopters before awarding the refit contract.
	(44835)

102	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has considered purchasing new helicopters in place of proceeding with the refit of Puma helicopters since letting the refit contract.
	(44836)

103	Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of refitting a Puma helicopter under the refit contract let in 2009.
	(44837)

104	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date his Department reached agreement with the US administration on freehold arrangements affecting (a) buildings, (b) fixed assets and infrastructure and (c) the site at Menwith Hill.
	(44650)

105	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2011, Official Report, column 990W, on USA: military bases, what the location is of each area on United States Visiting Forces bases which is held on a leasehold basis.
	(44651)

106	Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the information his Department holds on the increase in costs (a) of the Eurofighter typhoon project and (b) for each such aircraft delivered since 1988; and if he will make a statement.
	(44780)

107	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which types of Royal Air Force aircraft are authorised to carry special nuclear materials over UK territory; and which section in his Department is responsible for granting such authority.
	(44632)

108	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which types of Royal Air Force aircraft are authorised to carry special nuclear materials over US territory by the US administration; and which department of the US administration is responsible for granting such authority.
	(44633)

109	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the factors determining the withdrawal of MR2 Nimrod are taken into account in his decision to cancel the MRA4 Nimrod.
	(44515)

110

Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2011, Official Report, column 728W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what discussions he has had with representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross in Afghanistan on the recording of civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan as a result of (a) ISAF and (b) Taliban operations; and if he will make a statement.

(44516)

111	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the operating cost per flight hour is of the (a) Tornado GR4, (b) Tornado F3 and (c) Typhoon FGR4 aircraft.
	(44688)

112	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many submarines are currently available for operations.
	(44689)

113	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which courses RAF pilots in training and served with a (a) redundancy and (b) transfer notice were undertaking; and what the (i) mean and (ii) median number of weeks they were from course completion.
	(44838)

114	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria were used to determine which pilots in training were to be made redundant and transferred in the last six months.
	(44839)

115	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether armed forces personnel on maternity leave are exempt from redundancy.
	(44840)

116	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the independent review of the excessive commercialisation and premature sexualisation of children will include an assessment of the role of (a) schools, (b) the retail sector and (c) the advertising sector; and if he will make a statement.
	(44813)

117	John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children's deaths were recorded in an Ofsted significant incident report as resulting from suspected (a) abuse and (b) neglect in (i) 2008, (ii) 2009 and (iii) 2010.
	(44778)

118

Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that provision for people aged 16 to 19 in (a) school six forms, (b) sixth form colleges and (c) further education colleges is inspected and graded by Ofsted using the same criteria in accordance with the proposal in paragraph 6.9 of the Education White Paper, The Importance of Teaching; and if he will make a statement.

(44553)

119	Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times has Ofsted used powers under Schedule 5 of the Education Act 2005 to highlight where a school sixth form is failing or underperforming; and if he will make a statement.
	(44554)

120	Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to require Ofsted to take into account pupil success rates when assessing the education provided by school sixth forms.
	(44555)

121	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings (a) he and (b) each other Minister in his Department has had on pay and conditions for staff in academies; and who was present at each such meeting.
	(44753)

122	Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children taking GCSEs achieved (a) an A-C grade in both English and mathematics, (b) five or more A-C GCSE grades including English and mathematics in (i) 2000-01, (ii) 2007-08 and (iii) 2008-09.
	(44775)

123	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students will have their education maintenance allowance payments terminated before their programme of study is complete in (a) Bolton South East constituency, (b) Bolton and (c) England.
	(44755)

124	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department allocated to school sport in (a) Bolton South East constituency and (b) Bolton in each of the last two financial years; and how much such funding he plans to allocate in each of the next two financial years.
	(44788)

125	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average administration costs were of Sure Start children's centres in Bolton in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44828)

126	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has withdrawn any previously allocated Sure Start funding in (a) Bolton South East constituency, (b) Bolton and (c) England for (i) 2010-11 and (ii) the next four financial years.
	(44829)

127	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the future provision of funding through the Aiming High for Disabled Children grant in (a) Bolton South East constituency, (b) Bolton.
	(44830)

128	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start places were provided in Bolton South East constituency in 2009-10; and how many such places he expects to be provided in 2010-11.
	(44844)

129	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the level of entitlement funding was in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 for (i) Bolton South East constituency, (ii) Bolton and (iii) Greater Manchester.
	(44850)

130	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when schools and further education colleges in Wolverhampton will be informed of their allocation of discretionary learner support for 2011-12.
	(44669)

131	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of children in each (a) local authority area and (b) Parliamentary constituency in England were on the Child Protection Register in each year since 2006.
	(44597)

132	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the relative position of the UK in international comparator tables on the well-being of children.
	(44601)

133	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of funding for primary and secondary education in England derived from (a) public and (b) private sources in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44603)

134	Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding he(a) has allocated and (b) plans to allocate to (i) acquisition, (ii) equipment and (iii) running costs of the (A) West London free school and (b) Ark Conway primary school.
	(44790)

135	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has assessed the average cost per pupil of educating children aged 16 to 18 years in (a) school sixth forms and (b) further education colleges.
	(44692)

136	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress his Department has made on developing the future Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 curriculum.
	(44693)

137	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the status of any pension fund liabilities for non-teaching staff employed in schools that become academies.
	(44708)

138	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pre-school facilities closed due to a lack of available trustees in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(44522)

139	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2011, Official Report, column 264W, on free schools, what the name is of each of the 60 unsuccessful applicants to establish a free school.
	(44618)

140	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2011, Official Report, columns 288-9W, on vocational guidance, if he will make available additional funding to prevent redundancies in local authority and Connexions services (a) before 31 March 2011 and (b) to the establishment of the All-Age Careers Service.
	(44619)

141	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on the establishment of schools for pupils aged between 14 and 19.
	(44621)

142	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has assessed any relationship between levels of student educational attainment and class sizes (a) below 30 and (b) of 30 and above in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools.
	(44622)

143	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of remanufacturing in achieving a low carbon economy.
	(44569)

144	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department receives any revenue from electricity feed-in tariffs.
	(44581)

145	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(44582)

146	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the average time taken to pay grants under the Warm Front scheme.
	(44754)

147	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the Single Key Low Carbon Investment Fund will be spent on activity that was previously funded by the Marine Renewables Deployment Fund.
	(44771)

148	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive on electricity market reform.
	(44773)

149	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 911W, on energy: housing, what consideration he has given to measures to increase the level of takeup of cost effective abatement measures in the private rented market; and if he will make a statement.
	(44625)

150	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he gave to the merits of including in the Energy Bill a requirement that (a) energy performance certificates (EPC) are produced when a property is marketed and (b) for the EPC to be prominently displayed in property sales literature.
	(44626)

151	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he gave to the merits of (a) producing a timetable introducing minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector above F or G levels from 2016 and (b) the introduction of a more stringent enforcement regime with higher financial penalties.
	(44627)

152	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he gave to the inclusion in the Energy Bill of provision for a power to make regulations to improve emissions performance standards for coal and gas-fired power stations.
	(44628)

153	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will consider the merits of introducing legislative proposals to repeal all existing enabling legislation promoting further oil exploration in hard to reach areas in UK waters.
	(44629)

154	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what consideration he gave to the merits of including in the Energy Bill provisions for the introduction of local carbon budgets.
	(44630)

155	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how he expects energy efficiency improvements to be measures following the repeal of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 by the Energy Bill.
	(44631)

156

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the (a) proportion and (b) total amount of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK generated through the treatment and pumping of drinking water and waste water; and if he will bring forward proposals to amend the Energy Bill to include measures aimed at increasing water efficiency.

(44638)

157	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has had discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the effects of demand for rare earth metals on British firms developing green technologies.
	(44514)

158	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment has been made of the potential costs to firms developing green technologies of sourcing rare earth metals from (a) China, (b) the US, (c) Canada and (d) South Africa; and if he will make a statement.
	(44518)

159	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment has been made of the environmental cost of importing rare earth metals from (a) China, (b) the US, (c) Canada and (d) South Africa for use in the green technologies industry; and if he will make a statement.
	(44519)

160	Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether his Department has made an assessment of the relative effect on the environment of importing vinyl acetate produced from shale gas in the US and using vinyl acetate made in Europe through other means; and if he will make a statement.
	(44566)

161	Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for the future of renewable energy feed-in tariffs for wind turbines.
	(44540)

162	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many veterinary surgeons of each grade her Department expects to directly employ in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44805)

163	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many qualified veterinary surgeons of each grade were directly employed by her Department in each of the last 10 financial years.
	(44806)

164	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's funding allocation for animal health is for each of the next four financial years.
	(44831)

165

Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the quantity of (a) milk and (b) other dairy produce Government bodies purchased in the last 12 months for which figures are available; by whom such produce is supplied; what the farms of origin are; and what average price was paid per litre of milk in that period.

(44682)

166	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance she has issued to public bodies in England on purchasing milk produced in the UK; and how much of the milk procured for the public sector is labelled with the (a) country of origin and (b) name of the supplying farm.
	(44683)

167	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the (a) cost of production for dairy farmers supplying (i) cheese and (ii) milk to the public sector and (b) the price that they received in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44684)

168	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward proposals to encourage supermarkets to increase the number of refrigerated display cabinets that they remanufacture.
	(44570)

169	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what meetings she has had with representatives of the Northern Ireland fishing industry since her appointment.
	(44562)

170	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the proportion of sewers that are properly maintained.
	(44461)

171	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to reduce the number of unadopted sewers.
	(44462)

172	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2010, Official Report, column 689W, on circuses: animal welfare, what the reason is for the time taken to announce the outcome of the consultation on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.
	(44635)

173

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Newport West of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 925W, on circuses: animal welfare, for what reason Lord Henley has undertaken additional meetings with representatives of animal welfare groups and the circus industry following the end of theconsultation on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.

(44636)

174	Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to promote the greater use of wheat based bioethanol; and if she will make a statement.
	(44661)

175	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to reply to the letter of 14 January 2011 from the hon. Member for Bridgend, reference MM/JH/14/01/2011.
	(44654)

176	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees and other invertebrates.
	(44712)

177	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the regulatory framework governing country of origin labelling.
	(44694)

178	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many acres of forest land the Forestry Commission owns in (a) West Sussex and (b) Mid Sussex constituency; and what the location is of each such landholding.
	(44690)

179	Julian Sturdy (York Outer): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on legislation governing the production of genetically modified foods.
	(44541)

180	Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to ensure that the Forestry Commission retains and develops its reserved research capability.
	(44542)

181	Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2010, Official Report, column 337W, when she plans to publish the main report of the study into the long-term sustainable role for the public forest estate.
	(44675)

182

Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2011, Official Report, column 219W, on European Parliament: location, with which members of the (a) European Parliament, (b) European Commission and (c) Council of Ministers he has discussed the location of the European Parliament; and what was discussed at each meeting.

(44665)

183

David Cairns (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2011, Official Report, column 1001W, on Palestinians: security forces, what proportion of the Middle East and North Africa Conflict Pool was used to assist the US Security Co-ordinator for Israel and the Palestinian territories in the training of Palestinian security forces in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010.

(44616)

184	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to support the holding of elections in the Palestinian territories; and if he will make a statement.
	(44563)

185	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the expected saving to the public purse is of ending BBC World Service transmission of Hindi-language radio over the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44703)

186	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of regular weekly listeners of BBC World Service Hindi-language radio in each year since 2006.
	(44704)

187	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the likely trends in audiences for short-wave radio in India over the next four years.
	(44705)

188	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of influence of the BBC World Service Hindi-language radio service in the last five years.
	(44706)

189	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what cost benefit analysis his Department conducted prior to the decision to end BBC World Service transmission of Hindi-language radio from 1 April 2011.
	(44707)

190	Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the blockade in Gaza.
	(44466)

191	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to encourage other countries to sign the Hague Convention on Child Abduction.
	(44757)

192	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on legislation in Italy on the legal rights of foreign workers.
	(44769)

193	Naomi Long (Belfast East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has held on the right of UK citizens teaching in universities in Italy.
	(44770)

194	David Miliband (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the composition is of the Afghan High Peace Council.
	(44512)

195	David Miliband (South Shields): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of retaining (a) short wave radio transmissions of the BBC World Service in the Great Lakes region of Africa and (b) BBC World Service transmissions in (i) Hindi and (ii) Swahili.
	(44513)

196	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to provide assistance to areas of Libya no longer under the control of the Libyan government.
	(44676)

197	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contingency plans the Government has proposed in the event that escalation of violence in Libya merits international intervention.
	(44677)

198	Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of progress on the accession of Turkey to the EU.
	(44679)

199	Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of progress on the accession of Croatia to the EU.
	(44680)

200	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the safety of UK nationals in Bahrain.
	(44826)

201	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of using block contracts in the NHS on the Any Willing Provider model of commissioning.
	(44794)

202	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS block contracts were awarded to independent providers (a) nationally and (b) in each region in each of the last five years.
	(44795)

203	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of block contracts were awarded by the NHS to independent providers of (a) mental health services and (b) secure services for mentally ill offenders in each of the last five years.
	(44796)

204	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the monetary value was of block contracts awarded by the NHS (a) nationally and (b) in each region in each of the last five years.
	(44797)

205	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS commissioned block contracts were awarded (a) nationally and (b) in each region in each of the last five years.
	(44798)

206	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS commissioned services were delivered through block contracts (a) nationally and (b) in each region in each of the last five years.
	(44799)

207	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of using block contracts in NHS commissioning on the diversity of providers of health services.
	(44800)

208	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made on the value for money of block contracts in NHS commissioning; and if he will make a statement.
	(44801)

209	Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken in response to the recommendations of the Co-operation and Competition Panel in its report of 16 December 2010 on the Commissioning and Procurement of Secure Mental Health Services by the North West Specialised Commissioning Group.
	(44810)

210	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effects of a vaccination for Human Papilloma Virus 6 and 11 on the incidence of false positive smear tests.
	(44782)

211	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) conducted into the effectiveness of introducing a dual purpose quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus vaccine against genital warts and cervical cancer.
	(44783)

212	David Cairns (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to consult on the draft of his Department's forthcoming sexual health strategy.
	(44584)

213	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will undertake a consultation on stroke care prior to taking any decision on where the functions currently undertaken by stroke networks will be carried out after 2011-12.
	(44642)

214	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has plans to make functional electrical stimulation for stroke victims available on the NHS.
	(44758)

215	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on weekend staffing levels in hospitals; and what response he has made to such representations.
	(44759)

216	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many operations funded by the NHS have been performed in private hospitals in each primary care trust area in each of the last three years.
	(44781)

217	Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of primary care trusts in making patients aware of their entitlement to be treated within 18 weeks or to access private treatment; and if he will make a statement.
	(44776)

218	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what roles and responsibilities were carried out by the Food Standards Agency prior to 20 July 2010; and which are now carried out by (a) his Department, (b) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (c) the Food Standards Agency.
	(44687)

219	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what penalties are applied to local authorities for failing to follow the required procedures for tendering domiciliary care contracts.
	(44585)

220	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria apply to the award of domiciliary care contracts by local authorities under the EU Directive on public procurement.
	(44586)

221	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedure is in place for advertising of domiciliary care contracts by local authorities under the EU public procurement directive; and where such advertisements must be placed.
	(44587)

222	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedure is in place in respect of tendering domiciliary care contracts under the EU public procurement directive.
	(44588)

223	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements are in place for the tendering of domiciliary care contracts in (a) County Durham, (b) Northumbria, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the North East.
	(44589)

224	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce health inequalities.
	(44590)

225	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of the proposed restructuring of NHS commissioning in (a) Bolton and (b) Greater Manchester.
	(44832)

226	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals for GP consortia he has received to date from organisations in (a) Wolverhampton, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England; and what criteria he plans to use to assess such proposals.
	(44667)

227	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the relative ranking of the UK in international comparator tables on levels of obesity.
	(44599)

228	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the review of health services in North Yorkshire.
	(44698)

229	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure GP consortia are involved in the review of health services in North Yorkshire.
	(44699)

230	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on the funding of GP consortia which cross existing primary care trust boundaries.
	(44700)

231	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the future status of primary care trust debt accrued after 1 April 2011.
	(44701)

232	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the provision of children's services at the Leeds General Infirmary.
	(44702)

233	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2010, Official Report, columns 458-9W on epilepsy, what information his Department holds on World Health Organization age-standardised death rates for epilepsy per 100,000 for each of the states in the EU-15.
	(44768)

234	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward plans to abolish prescription charges in England.
	(44820)

235	Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to revise the funding formula for grants to police authorities; and if she will make a statement.
	(44526)

236	Conor Burns (Bournemouth West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the UK Border Agency has to fully deploy smart zones to improve travellers' experiences of immigration controls; and if she will make a statement.
	(44529)

237

Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has held concerning the grant of intracompany transfer visas or other visas to (a) Indian and (b) other non-EU workers; what proposals she has received from the (i) EU and (ii) Indian Government concerning such visas; what representations she has received on this subject; what proposals have been made for the EU to grant the right of entry to EU member states for such workers from outside the EU and what proposals have otherwise been made in respect of the EU on this subject; what discussions she has held with other Ministers regarding such matters; and if she will make a statement.

(44594)

238	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances force may be used to deport an illegal immigrant; if she will consider the use of alternatives to force in such circumstances; and if she will make a statement.
	(44774)

239	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to identify victims of human trafficking.
	(44814)

240	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children were detained in immigration removal centres in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010.
	(44815)

241	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve the quality of the initial decision-making stage of asylum applications.
	(44816)

242	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to consider the welfare of children during the asylum application process.
	(44817)

243	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her most recent estimate is of the number of stateless people residing in the UK.
	(44818)

244	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers were assigned to duties in (i) South Yorkshire and (ii) Doncaster on (A) 1 May 1997, (B) 1 May 2009, (C) 1 May 2010 and (D) the most recent date for which figures are available.
	(44530)

245	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has held with the Northern Ireland Executive on the effect on Northern Ireland of changes in immigration rules.
	(44559)

246	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were subject to immigration bail conditions in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	(44561)

247	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated to Milton Keynes local authority under the Prevent scheme in each of the last three years.
	(44756)

248	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will meet representatives of the refugee charity sector in Scotland to discuss the effects of reductions in funding for the UK Border Agency on the asylum system.
	(44666)

249	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that the duties and responsibilities of police officers are taken into account in the review of public sector pensions by Lord Hutton.
	(44547)

250	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the likely effects on co-operation between police forces of the election of police commissioners from different political parties.
	(44557)

251	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate has been made of the chance of an individual becoming a victim of crime (a) nationally and (b) in North Wales in each of the last 30 years.
	(44558)

252	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the position of the UK in international comparator tables on rates of homicide.
	(44600)

253	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) number of police officers and (b) crime rate was in the North Wales police force area in each of the last 20 years.
	(44760)

254	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of homicide rates in each socio-economic group.
	(44809)

255	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the homicide rate was in each of the last 10 years.
	(44811)

256	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on returning immigration detainees to Cote d'Ivoire.
	(44822)

257

Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans his Department has to work with (a) the Afghan Ministry of Education and (b) donors to (i) reduce barriers to girls' education, (ii) increase access to secondary and higher education for girls, (iii) increase the number of trained male and female teachers in rural areas and (iv) increase the number of adequately equipped schools in rural areas in Afghanistan.

(44657)

258	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of barriers to girls' education in Afghanistan.
	(44658)

259	Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when he last discussed the World Bank energy strategy review with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
	(44556)

260	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid he plans to allocate to India in cash terms in each of the next five years.
	(44663)

261	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether he consulted the TUC prior to taking the decision to reduce his Department's level of support for the International Labour Organisation.
	(44664)

262	Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the membership is of his Department's Multilateral Aid Review.
	(44843)

263	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Brighton, Pavilion constituency the effects of his Department's policies on (a) the resettlement of young offenders and (b) youth reoffending rates since May 2010.
	(44634)

264	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) Bolton South East constituency and (b) Bolton received legal aid in each of the last five years.
	(44846)

265	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the timetable for the proposed accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights.
	(44467)

266	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the position of the UK in international comparator tables on levels of imprisonment.
	(44605)

267	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of HM Court Service on the consultation on the future of administrative provision at Skipton Magistrate's Court.
	(44691)

268	Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the Leader of the House, what plans he has to announce proposed dates of Fridays after 17 June 2011 on which Private Members' Bills may have precedence; and if he will make a statement.
	(44686)

269	Lady Hermon (North Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on (a) the cost of fuel in Northern Ireland and (b) the introduction of a fuel price stabiliser.
	(44560)

270

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, for what reasons the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority decided to (a) remove the childcare salary supplement scheme for new members' staff and replace it with a salary sacrifice scheme, (b) take the childcare salary supplement scheme payments for returning members' staff from the staffing budget rather than a central budget and (c) operate different childcare support arrangements for new members' staff and returning members' staff.

(44623)

271

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion): To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what estimate the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has made of the financial benefit per month to a member of staff with two children under five working full time for an hon. Member would receive under (a) the salary supplement scheme and (b) the salary sacrifice scheme in the latest period for which figures are available; what consultaiton IPSA undertook on the equity of the changes made to such childcare support arrangements; and if he will make a statement.

(44624)

272	Tony Baldry (Banbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the evidential basis is for his calculation that the number of homes on the route of High Speed Two that will be seriously affected by noise has fallen from 350 to 10.
	(44580)

273	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what projections he has made of the likely levels of usage of electric cars in the next 20 years.
	(44777)

274	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what effect the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review will have on the review of the Driving Standards Agency; and if he will make a statement.
	(44520)

275	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department plans to issue to free schools regarding the safety of children travelling to and from free schools.
	(44528)

276	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the full business case on which he based his decision to extend the electrification of the Great Western Line from Didcot to Cardiff, including (a) the case for extension to Swansea and (b) the case for electrification between Bath and Bristol.
	(44646)

277	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the registered tonnage of the merchant fleet under the UK flag was on the most recent date for which figures are available; and what the average tonnage per ship of the UK Flag Registry is.
	(44736)

278	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment her Department has (a) made and (b) commissioned from other Departments on trends in the level of youth unemployment in Wales.
	(44647)

279	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment her Department has (a) made and (b) commissioned from other Departments on the effect on recipients in Wales of changes to housing benefit.
	(44648)

280	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment her Department has (a) made and (b) commissioned from other Departments of the performance of the Future Jobs Fund in Wales.
	(44649)

281	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to take into account the needs of people with autism in designing the assessment procedure for the personal independence payment.
	(44821)

282	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has for the future of the Motability Scheme following introduction of the Personal Independence Payment.
	(44819)

283	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what bonuses are payable by ATOS assessors after their performance in undertaking work capability assessments; and if he will make a statement.
	(44681)

284	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether parents of children aged under 12 years who cease to be eligible for child benefit as a result of their partners being higher rate income tax payer will be eligible for carers credit.
	(44656)

285	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the distribution of shared income between couples living in the same household; and if he will make a statement.
	(44823)

286	Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with what frequency Universal Credit will be paid to claimants.
	(44824)

287	Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what transitionary arrangements (a) there are and (b) he plans to introduce for those who are moved onto jobseeker's allowance following a work capability assessment where the change results in a difference in benefit payments.
	(44617)

288	Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an individual appealing against a work capability assessment decision on their ability to work may continue claiming incapacity benefit up to the point at which the appeal is determined.
	(44652)

289	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will assess the merits of awarding a pay increase to employees of Remploy.
	(44517)

290	Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Airdrie and Shotts constituency have been in receipt of employment and support allowance payments for more than one year.
	(44784)

291	Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the working age population of Airdrie and Shotts constituency are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance.
	(44841)

292	Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the working age population of Airdrie and Shotts constituency are in receipt of disability living allowance.
	(44842)

293	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with Transport for London on the promotion of discounted public transport fares for people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance.
	(44670)

294	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the availability of discounts for bus, train or tram fares provided to recipients of jobseeker's allowance for the purposes of encouraging them to apply for jobs outside their immediate locality.
	(44671)

295	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) women and (b) men aged 56 years who have no pension savings.
	(44655)

296	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the Wolverhampton North East constituency receive the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance.
	(44668)

297	Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people not in work who are ineligible for jobseekers' allowance owing to insufficient national insurance contributions.
	(44644)

298	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure that officials assessing enetitlement to benefits are appropriately trained in (a) understanding and (b) communicating with people with autism.
	(44620)

MONDAY 7 MARCH
Questions for Oral Answer

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

*1	Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal): What steps she plans to take to decouple temporary residence from permanent settlement in the immigration system.
	(44040)

*2	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): What assessment she has made of trends in the levels of crime recorded by the British Crime Survey since 1997.
	(44041)

*3	Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport): What representations she has received from members of the public on the local crime and policing website.
	(44042)

*4	Mrs Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald): What plans she has to assist police forces to tackle anti-social behaviour.
	(44043)

*5	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): When she plans to publish the outcome of the Government's review of anti-social behaviour powers.
	(44044)

*6	Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): What further steps she plans to take to control illegal immigration; and if she will make a statement.
	(44045)

*7	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): What definition of the term front line her Department uses in relation to police services.
	(44046)

*8	Claire Perry (Devizes): What steps she is taking to reduce the burden of paperwork on police forces.
	(44047)

*9	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North): What steps she is taking to reduce the burden of paperwork on police forces.
	(44048)

*10	Henry Smith (Crawley): What plans she has to consult on proposals to reduce levels of net migration through routes other than student visas.
	(44049)

*11	Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): What estimate she has made of the likely number of police officers in Greater Manchester in March 2015.
	(44050)

*12	Richard Fuller (Bedford): If she will bring forward proposals to change immigration bail conditions to make them consistent with proposed conditions for control orders.
	(44051)

*13	Mr Steve Brine (Winchester): What plans she has for the future of the student visa entry system.
	(44052)

*14	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What assessment she has made of trends in the levels of crime recorded by the British Crime Survey since 1997.
	(44053)

*15	Gavin Barwell (Croydon Central): What plans she has to assist police forces to tackle anti-social behaviour.
	(44054)

*16	Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): What assessment she has made of the trends in levels of complaints against police forces in England and Wales in the most recent period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
	(44055)

*17	Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): What research her Department has commissioned and evaluated on any relationship between numbers of police officers and levels of crime.
	(44056)

*18	Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble): What plans she has to assist police forces to tackle anti-social behaviour.
	(44057)

*19	Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): When she plans to announce the outcome of her review of human trafficking policy.
	(44058)

*20	Owen Smith (Pontypridd): What research her Department has commissioned and evaluated on any relationship between numbers of police officers and levels of crime.
	(44059)

*21	Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East): When she plans to announce the outcome of her review of human trafficking policy.
	(44060)

*22	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): What recent discussions she has had with stakeholders on the Asylum Improvement Project.
	(44061)

*23	Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge): What research her Department has commissioned and evaluated on any relationship between numbers of police officers and levels of crime.
	(44062)

*24	John Robertson (Glasgow North West): How many cases of attempted suicide by asylum seekers in Glasgow were reported to her Department in the last 12 months.
	(44063)

*25	Tony Baldry (Banbury): What plans she has for the future of student visa entry system.
	(44064)

At 3.15 pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.

*1	Simon Danczuk (Rochdale): If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
	(44065)

*2	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole):
	(44066)

*3	Richard Fuller (Bedford):
	(44067)

*4	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent):
	(44068)

*5	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough):
	(44069)

*6	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax):
	(44070)

*7	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central):
	(44071)

*8	Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon):
	(44072)

*9	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West):
	(44073)

*10	Ian Lavery (Wansbeck):
	(44074)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Monday 14 February

1 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all graduates of medical schools in the UK are able to gain a place on the 2012 Foundation Programme; and if he will make a statement.
	(41646)

2 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the UK Foundation Programme Office on plans for responding to any oversubscription to the 2012 Foundation Programme; and if he will make a statement.
	(41647)

3 N	Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were admitted to hospital in (a) Devon and (b) England in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(41552)

Notices given on Tuesday 15 February

1 N	Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Oral Answer of 9 February 2011, Official Report, columns 296-7 to the hon. Member for New Forest East on the nuclear deterrent, if he will rule out cancellation of the Trident replacement programme from negotiations with the Liberal Democrats in any future hung Parliament.
	(41735)

Notices given on Wednesday 16 February

1
N

Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the monetary value of payments made to other European countries for healthcare provided to British citizens under the European Health Insurance Card was in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the monetary value of payments received from other European countries under the same scheme was in the same period.

(42236)

Notices given between Friday 18 February and Friday 25 February

1 N	Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has for the future of the Heathrow Airtrack; and what timetable he has set for its implementation.
	(43280)

2 N	Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received from the aviation industry on the effects of Government policy on that sector.
	(43281)

Notices given on Monday 28 February

1 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what factors he took into account in setting the deadline for applications to the Transition Fund by voluntary organisations; and whether he discussed such factors with representatives of (a) the voluntary sector and (b) local government.
	(44037)

2 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the three most common reasons were for staff absence in each HM Revenue and Customs business stream in each of the last five years.
	(43744)

3 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the gross total was for the number of days lost due to staff sickness in each of HM Revenue and Customs business streams in each of the last five years.
	(43745)

5 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) name, (b) local authority area and (c) book value was of each (i) primary and (ii) secondary school in England that closed in the last eight years.
	(44036)

6 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) name, (b) local authority and (c) book value is of each potential school site which meets the requirements contemplated in (i) paragraph 1 and (ii) paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 of the Education Bill.
	(44039)

7 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria he plans to apply to the regulation of unlicensed herbal medicines; and if he will make a statement.
	(43816)

8 N	Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were barred from working with children and vulnerable adults by the Independent Safeguarding Authority on the grounds of (a) harm to and (b) risk of harm to 16 and 17 year olds in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
	(44038)

9 N	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what disciplinary sanctions are available to the Prison Service against prison governors who do not fulfil requirements to maintain (a) workplace risk assessments and (b) safe systems of work; and if he will make a statement.
	(43875)

10 N	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what investigations his Department has undertaken into (a) levels of violence in prisons and (b) the causes of such violence in the last three years; and what the outcome of each such investigation was.
	(43876)

11 N	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions the Health and Safety Executive has been required to investigate an incident in a prison in each of the last 10 years; which prison was involved in each case; whether an action plan was put in place following each such investigation; and if he will make a statement.
	(43877)

12 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to increase youth employment.
	(43813)

13 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 16 to 24 year olds in Coventry claimed jobseeker's allowance in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	(43814)

14 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will bring forward proposals for a successor scheme to replace the Youth Guarantee from April 2011.
	(43815)

Notices given on Tuesday 1 March

1 N	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of bids submitted by the Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership as at 21 January 2011 under the auspices of the Regional Growth Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	(44441)

2 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current location is of (a) HMS Ocean, (b) HMS Bulwark and (c) HMS Albion; and what the current duties of each are.
	(44280)

3 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effects of predation on the size of the songbird population.
	(44281)

4 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Government response to the petition to the Prime Minister which closed on 6 June 2010 on the recommendations of the Science and Technology Committee's evidence check on homeopathy, what evidence his Department has evaluated on the clinical effectiveness of any homeopathic product.
	(44230)

5 N	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places for student midwives there were in (a) England and (b) each region in academic year 2010-11.
	(44442)

6
N

Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many disputes arising from the receipt of healthcare in the European Economic Area by UK nationals for which a charge was subsequently made have been brought to the attention of his Department in the last five years; whether there are proposals at EU level to reform the European Health Insurance Card system; and if he will make a statement.

(44419)

7 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to encourage greater use of automated number plate recognition technology by police forces better to facilitate the policing of (a) offences related to driving while uninsured or untaxed and (b) other road traffic offences.
	(44282)

8 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the Prime Minister, how many times he has visited Chequers since his appointment.
	(44279)

9 N	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of suspected fraud were reported to the National Benefit Fraud hotline in 2009-10; how many such cases (a) were referred to the Fraud Investigation Service and (b) resulted in a (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction with a custodial sentence.
	(44443)

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to raise cycle parking standards for new developments.
	[Transferred] (43812)

2 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department has had with organisations in the last 12 months on the reform of intellectual property law; and if he will make a statement.
	(44874)

3 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people have been declared insolvent in each (a) region and (b) constituency since May 2010.
	(44860)

4 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many universities were awarded New University Challenge funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44879)

5 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Royal Mail post boxes there are in (a) the Borough of Kettering, (b) Northamptonshire, (c) England and (d) the UK.
	(44741)

6 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information Royal Mail holds on the (a) geographical location of and (b) Royal monogram borne by each post box in the Borough of Kettering.
	(44742)

7 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to research into neuroscience in each of the last five years; and how much such funding will be allocated in each year of the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44725)

8 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Office for Budget Responsibility on the effects of average university tuition fee levels exceeding £7,500; and if he will make a statement.
	(44714)

9 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the University Modernisation Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	(44715)

10 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been allocated to the University Modernisation Fund in (a) each of the last five years and (b) each of the next four years; and if he will make a statement.
	(44716)

11 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Access to Learning Fund; and if he will make a statement.
	(44717)

12 N	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2011, Official Report, column 600W, on overseas students: EU nationals, how many (a) penalties and (b) other actions were taken in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(44859)

13 N	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many families in the Jobcentre Plus Social Fund budget areas covering Livingston constituency received the Sure Start maternity grant in 2009-10; and what the total monetary value was of such grants.
	(44710)

14 N	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of low income families having a second or subsequent baby in the Jobcentre Plus Social Fund budget areas covering Livingston constituency who will not be eligible for the Sure Start maternity grant from 1 April 2011.
	(44711)

15 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Newcastle Upon Tyne North of 28 February 2011, Official Report, column 39W, how many single parent families in the UK he expects to have their annual income reduced as a result of the proposed changes to child benefit.
	(44574)

16 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many single income families will be affected by the removal of child benefit from households containing a higher-rate taxpayer in (a) the UK, (b) each region and (c) each constituency.
	(44861)

17 N	Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses were entered into insolvency by HM Revenue and Customs in each (a) region and (b) Parliamentary constituency since May 2010.
	(44862)

18 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.3.4 Project Merlin - Banks' Statement, what steps he plans to take to determine whether sufficient demand for lending among UK businesses has materialised.
	(44750)

19 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.3.4 of Project Merlin - Banks' Statement, who will determine whether sufficient demand for lending to businesses has materialised.
	(44857)

20 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 1.3.4 of Project Merlin - Banks' Statement, what process will be used to determine whether sufficient demand for lending to businesses materialises.
	(44858)

21 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential for an increase in (a) arrears and (b) instances of recovery action following arrears arising from (i) the replacement of council tax benefit and (ii) the 10 per cent. reduction in the budget for council tax benefit.
	(44745)

22 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what arrangements local authorities will be required to make to implement the replacement for council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement.
	(44747)

23 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has for the implementation of reductions in council tax benefit for (a) pensioner households, (b) working age households in work, (c) working age households not in work and (d) households with dependent children.
	(44748)

24 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the quantity of milk purchased by each local authority in England in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how much each local authority spent on (a) milk and (b) other dairy products in that period.
	(44730)

25 N	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what remit he has set for the Local Government Resource Review; and if he will make a statement.
	(44537)

26 N	Caroline Flint (Don Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department expects to (a) begin and (b) publish its Local Government Resource Review.
	(44538)

27 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to determine the number of houses to be built in Mid Sussex contingency.
	(44735)

28 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what organisations he has met to discuss the Silicon Roundabout development; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each such meeting.
	(44875)

29 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of (a) lending to and (b) financing of the creative industries; and if he will make a statement.
	(44876)

30 N	Mark Menzies (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what funding his Department provides for sporting organisations for people with special needs.
	(44863)

31 N	Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current rate of local overseas allowance payable to personnel based in each overseas location is.
	(44721)

32 N	Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 January 2011, Official Report, columns 45-7WS, on armed forces allowances, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the changes to local overseas allowance on the average amount payable to personnel based overseas; and if he will make a statement.
	(44722)

33 N	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the outcome of the NATO Surge in Afghanistan.
	(44868)

34 N	Mr Kevan Jones (North Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what fee he expects his Department to pay Ofcom for the use of its spectrum holdings in the financial year 2011-12.
	(44743)

35 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) name and (b) type is of each (i) frigate and (ii) destroyer to be decommissioned over the next five years.
	(44737)

36 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of ships required to counter (a) immediate and (b) long-term threats to the UK.
	(44738)

37 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) name and (b) type is of each (i) destroyer and (ii) frigate in service with the Royal Navy and currently available for operations.
	(44739)

38 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what civilian contractors work at RAF Valley; and in what capacity.
	(44880)

39 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many pilots in training at RAF Valley were served with redundancy notices in the latest period for which figures are available; and what courses they were on.
	(44881)

40 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to answer questions (a) 34896, (b) 34897, (c) 34894, (d) 34873 and (e) 34874 tabled on 17 January 2011.
	(44869)

41 N	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 his Department received between 11 May 2010 and 28 February 2011; and how many such requests received a substantive reply within (a) the statutory deadlines laid down by the Act and (b) the internal performance management targets set by his Department.
	(44723)

42 N	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many letters from hon. Membes his Department received between 11 May 2010 and 28 February 2011; and how many such letters have received a substantive reply to date within the internal performance management targets set by his Department.
	(44724)

43 N	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many questions for written answer on a named day his Department received between 11 May 2010 and 28 February 2011; and how many such questions have received a substantive answer on the named day specified to date.
	(44728)

44 N	Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many questions for ordinary written answer his Department received between 11 May 2010 and 28 February 2011; and how many have received a substantive answer to date.
	(44729)

45 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has any plans to revise his Department's definition of fuel poverty.
	(44575)

46 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on preparations for the recruitment, training and deployment of (a) independent energy surveyors and (b) appropriately qualified installers to assess home energy use in homes participating in the Green Deal.
	(44871)

47 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the need for incentives to encourage households to take part in the Green Deal.
	(44872)

48 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he plans to take to oversee the work of energy-saving installers under the Green Deal; by what means they will be selected; and what steps he plans to take to measure their cost and performance.
	(44877)

49 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the (a) minimum and (b) maximum rate of interest that will be set on Green Deal finance loans.
	(44878)

50 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take on fish discards and bycatch following the EU high level meeting of 1 March 2011 on fisheries; and if she will make a statement.
	(44718)

51 N	Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2011, Official Report, columns 311-2W, on New Forest, what her policy is on whether drag hunting in the New Forest constitutes a public benefit.
	(44469)

52
N

Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the quantity of (a) pork and (b) pork products purchased by Government bodies in the last 12 months for which figures are available; by whom such products are supplied; what the farms of origin are; and what average price per kilogram was paid in that period.

(44732)

53 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance she has issued to public bodies in England on purchasing pork and pork products produced in England; and how much of the pork procured by the public sector in the last 12 months was labelled with the (a) country of origin and (b) name of the supplying farm.
	(44733)

54 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate she has made of the (a) cost of production for pig farmers supplying pork and pork products to the public sector and (b) price that they received in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44734)

55 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what arrangemenst are in place to ensure diversity of expertise in the membership of the independent panel of experts convened by her Department to examine forestry policy; and whether it will include experts on heritage and archaeolgy.
	(44726)

56 N	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will examine the effects on the supply of food of contracts with supermarkets which require food that is fit for human consumption to be destroyed; and if she will make a statement.
	(44475)

57 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent reports she has received on (a) the cost of milk production to farmers and (b) the profit level per litre of milk produced by farmers.
	(44470)

58 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent reports she has received on the cost of beef production to farmers.
	(44471)

59 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make urgent representations to the government of Pakistan on the killing of the Minister responsible for religious minorities in that country and treatment of those who oppose blasphemy laws in that country.
	(44472)

60 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take in conjunction with his international counterparts to deal with the security situation between North Korea and South Korea.
	(44473)

61 N	Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for which countries arms export licences have been revoked as a result of his Department's review of export licences announced on 18 February 2011; how many (a) individual and (b) open licences were revoked in respect of each country; and what the date of revocation was in each case.
	(44727)

62 N	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to reply to the letter of 1 February 2011 from the hon. Member for Walsall North on a constituent whose daughter is in Pakistan.
	(44852)

63 N	Thomas Docherty (Dunfermline and West Fife): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the volume of milk purchased by the NHS in England in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how much the NHS spent on (a) milk and (b) other dairy products in that period.
	(44731)

64 N	Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many personnel his Department has appointed to deal with combat stress; what research studies on this issue are being undertaken; and if he will make a statement.
	(44713)

65 N	Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the Standing Commission on Carers; and if he will make a statement.
	(44720)

66 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will assess the merits of the new system for bar coded wrist and ankle bands for babies recently introduced at Kettering General Hospital for the purposes of ascertaining its suitability for wider application across the NHS.
	(44576)

67 N	Teresa Pearce (Erith and Thamesmead): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to review the safety of sodium valproate.
	(44744)

68 N	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the external advice received by Ministers in his Department prior to 5 May 2010 on (a) the 2010-11 operating framework - maximum price tariff, published on 16 December 2009, (b) the achievement of efficiency savings and (c) the effects on quality of competition in the NHS.
	(44749)

69 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) purchase, (b) adaptation, (c) delivery and (d) other associated costs of the Jaguar XJ Sentinel vehicle for the use of the Prime Minister.
	(44474)

70 N	Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allow local authorities to access police data systems in order to take action to reduce housing benefit and council tax fraud.
	(44873)

71 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will announce the Government's human trafficking policy by way of an oral statement in the House.
	(44851)

72 N	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the government of Pakistan on the potential danger to Shahid Shabaz Khan should he return to that country; and if she will make a statement.
	(44535)

73 N	Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that the hon. Member for Walsall North receives the reply to his letter of 1 February 2011 regarding a constituent whose daughter is in Pakistan, UKBA CTS reference: M2320/11.
	(44853)

74 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will take steps with his EU and UN counterparts to make improvements to the lives of the people of northern Sudan.
	(44740)

75 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to answer questions (a) 24052, (b) 24053, (c) 24051 and (d) 24054 tabled on 10 November 2010.
	(44870)

76 N	Mr David Nuttall (Bury North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to reduce the costs of motor insurance premiums for drivers who are between 17 and 25 years of age.
	(44468)

77 N	Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to reply to the letter of 9 February 2011 from the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye on the Hastings to Bexhill link road.
	(44854)

78 N	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Statement of 1 March 2011, Official Report, columns 185-87, on Intercity Express and rail electrification, what plans he has for the electrification of the Cardiff to Ebbw Vale line; and if he will make a statement.
	(44536)

79 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the cost to the public purse was of her Department's St David's Day reception at Gwydyr House on 1 March 2011.
	(44572)

80 N	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, who was invited to her Department's St David's Day reception at Gwydyr House on 1 March 2011.
	(44573)

81 N	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the local delivery of council tax benefit or its replacement will not increase marginal rates of deduction above (a) 65 per cent. before tax and (b) 76 per cent. for taxpayers.
	(44746)

82 N	Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the cost of assessing and reassessing claimants' incapacity benefits through the Work Capability Assessment in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44719)

83 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men aged 65 years received (i) free bus travel, (ii) free prescriptions and (iii) winter fuel payments in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44855)

84 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made on the average monetary value of (a) free bus travel, (b) free prescriptions and (c) winter fuel payments to a (i) woman and (ii) man aged 65 years in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44856)

85 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the implementation of proposals to increase the state pension age on the average monetary value of (a) free prescriptions, (b) free bus travel and (c) winter fuel payments for a (i) woman and (ii) man currently aged 56 years over their lifetime.
	(44865)

86 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the effects on the Exchequer of bringing forward the proposed increase in the state pension age to 67 years old to (a) 2035 and (b) 2034.
	(44866)

87 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the effects on the Exchequer of bringing forward the proposed increase in the state pension age to 68 years old to (a) 2045 and (b) 2046.
	(44867)

TUESDAY 8 MARCH
Questions for Oral Answer

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

*1	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): How much funding he plans to allocate to local authorities to perform new public health duties in each of the next four years.
	(44476)

*2	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): What steps he plans to take to reduce cancer mortality rates in deprived communities.
	(44477)

*3	Mr Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow): What recent representations he has received on his proposed reforms of the NHS.
	(44478)

*4	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): What recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of MRSA and clostridium difficile in hospitals.
	(44479)

*5	Mr Marcus Jones (Nuneaton): What recent progress he has made on the introduction of GP commissioning consortia.
	(44480)

*6	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): How much funding he plans to allocate to local authorities to perform new public health duties in each of the next four years.
	(44481)

*7	Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): What steps his Department is taking to improve outcomes for cancer patients.
	(44482)

*8	Richard Graham (Gloucester): What recent representations he has received on his proposals for local accountability for NHS services.
	(44483)

*9	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of care home beds available in the North East over the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(44484)

*10	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): How much funding he plans to allocate to local authorities to perform new public health duties in each of the next four years.
	(44485)

*11	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services.
	(44486)

*12	Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): What recent representations he has received on his proposed reforms of the NHS.
	(44487)

*13	Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): What recent progress he has made on the introduction of GP commissioning in (a) Gravesham constituency and (b) West Kent.
	(44488)

*14	Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble): What progress he is making in reducing mixed-sex accommodation in the NHS.
	(44489)

*15	Jessica Lee (Erewash): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services.
	(44490)

*16	Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services.
	(44491)

*17	John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness): What recent estimate he has made of the number of local authorities which (a) have changed their eligibility criteria for social care in 2010-11 and (b) are planning to do so in 2011-12.
	(44492)

*18	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): What steps he plans to take to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis.
	(44493)

*19	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North): What estimate he has made of the average amount of time per week GPs will allocate to the administration of commissioning consortia under his proposals for NHS reform.
	(44494)

*20	Steve Baker (Wycombe): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services.
	(44495)

*21	Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham): What assessment he has made of the effect on survival rates of his Department's cancer strategy.
	(44496)

*22	Jane Ellison (Battersea): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services for women.
	(44497)

*23	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): What progress he is making in introducing local democratic accountability for NHS services.
	(44498)

*24	Nicky Morgan (Loughborough): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services for women.
	(44499)

*25	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): What steps he is taking to improve NHS cancer services for women.
	(44500)

At 3.15 pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

The Members listed below have been selected by ballot to ask a Topical Question.

*1	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
	(44501)

*2	Philip Davies (Shipley):
	(44502)

*3	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North):
	(44503)

*4	Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central):
	(44504)

*5	Ian Swales (Redcar):
	(44505)

*6	John Robertson (Glasgow North West):
	(44506)

*7	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak):
	(44507)

*8	Priti Patel (Witham):
	(44508)

*9	Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North):
	(44509)

*10	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South):
	(44510)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 17 February

1 N	Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2011, Official Report, column 945W, on renewable energy: wood, what indicators he plans to use to ascertain the sustainability of woody biomass.
	(42843)

2
N

Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2011, Official Report, column 945W, on renewable energy: wood, how the information yielded from sustainability criteria reports will be used to assess sustainability; and what assessment he has made of the likely contribution of such implementation to understanding biomass use.

(42844)

3 N	Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2011, Official Report, column 945W, on renewable energy: wood, what timetable he has set for the assessment of the sustainability criteria for (a) wood and (b) other solid biomass; and if he will make a statement.
	(42845)

Notices given on Tuesday 1 March

1 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his most recent estimate is of the cost to the public purse of the 2011 Census.
	(44275)

2 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the effects on pubs and clubs of the timetable for obtaining a licence for small live music events.
	(44278)

3 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many murders have been committed in prisons in each of the last 10 years.
	(44276)

4 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Prison Service has taken to ensure the safety of those in prison from physical attack from other prisoners.
	(44277)

5 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were placed in employment in Coventry through the Future Jobs Fund, in each of the last three years.
	(44180)

6 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, into what industries in Coventry those in Coventrty who had previously been supported through the Future Jobs Fund have been placed in during 2010-11.
	(44181)

7 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support disabled people seeking work.
	(44182)

8 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of tenants (a) in the West Midlands and (b) nationally whose monthly rent payments are higher than their housing benefit payment.
	(44183)

9 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claimants in Coventry were (a) pensioners, (b) in work and (c) out of work in each of the last three years.
	(44184)

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1
N

Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Secretaries of State the Minister of State with responsibility for the coordination of policy has met to discuss (a) implementation of departmental business plans and (b) instances when actions stated in such plans as due for completion have not been completed by the due date since November 2010; and on what date each such meeting took place.

(44751)

2
N

Stella Creasy (Walthamstow): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Permanent Secretaries the Minister of State with responsibility for the coordination of policy has met to discuss (a) implementation of departmental business plans and (b) instances when actions stated in such plans as due for completion have not been completed by the due date since November 2010; and on what date each such meeting took place.

(44752)

3 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) RAF and (b) Royal Navy pilots are assigned to search and rescue duties, excluding those assigned for training purposes; and from which bases such pilots operate.
	(44885)

4 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which helicopters are deployed to carry out search and rescue tasks in the UK; and from which bases such helicopters operate.
	(44886)

5 N	Mr Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian staff are located at RAF Valley; and in what capacity.
	(44887)

6 N	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths resulting from H1N1 influenza in the winters of (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 were (i) attributed to H1N1 alone and (ii) involved other underlying symptoms.
	(44883)

7 N	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths were attributed to (a) seasonal and (b) H1N1 influenza in each year since 2001.
	(44884)

8 N	Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what payments were made to the 20 (a) firms and (b) barristers who received the highest total level of payments from the (i) criminal defence service scheme and (ii) the community legal service scheme in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(44882)

WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH
Questions for Oral Answer

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

*1	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): What recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues and Ministers in the Scottish Executive on funding for higher education institutions in Scotland.
	(44075)

*2	Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar): What recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the implementation of a fuel duty derogation for rural areas.
	(44076)

*3	John Robertson (Glasgow North West): How many small businesses in Scotland (a) applied for and (b) received research and development tax credits in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(44077)

*4	Ian Murray (Edinburgh South): What assessment he has made of recent trends in levels of employment in Scotland.
	(44078)

*5	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): When he expects next to discuss with Ministerial colleagues trends in the level of youth unemployment in Scotland.
	(44079)

*6	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): What assessment he has made of the likely effect on families in Scotland of the changes to benefits proposed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
	(44080)

*7	Mrs Anne McGuire (Stirling): What discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions prior to the publication of the Welfare Reform Bill on the likely effect on Scotland of the measures in that Bill.
	(44081)

*8	Jim McGovern (Dundee West): What assessment he has made of recent trends in levels of employment in Scotland.
	(44082)

*9	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on the operation of the Green Investment Bank in Scotland.
	(44083)

*10	Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian): When he last met anti-poverty campaigners in Scotland to discuss the potential effect in Scotland of the measures in the Welfare Reform Bill.
	(44084)

*11	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect on the economy in Scotland of the increase in the standard rate of value added tax.
	(44085)

*12	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): What discussions he has had with the Deputy Prime Minister on the establishment of a commission to examine the West Lothian Question.
	(44086)

*13	John Stevenson (Carlisle): What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister on support for private sector employment in Scotland.
	(44087)

*14	Mr David Amess (Southend West): What recent assessment he has made of levels of bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
	(44088)

*15	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): What recent discussions he has had with the First Minister on levels of cross-border human trafficking.
	(44089)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given between Friday 18 February and Friday 25 February

1 N	Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) existing small businesses and (b) to local business start-ups.
	(43283)

2 N	Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department takes to encourage companies to export manufactured products.
	(43284)

3 N	Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department offers to assist start-up companies in the manufacturing sector.
	(43412)

4 N	Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of imports of illegally-logged timber.
	(43285)

5 N	Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how parents of a disabled child will be able to acquire the aids and adaptations necessary for the well-being of that child under his proposed reforms to disability living allowance.
	(43282)

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he has made an assessment on the impact of recent events in Libya on the Israeli and Palestinian peace process; and if he will make a statement.
	(44888)

2 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals have been evacuated by his Department from Libya to date.
	(44889)

3 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reasons he decided to close the British Embassy in Tripoli.
	(44890)

4 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has any plans to visit Libya.
	(44891)

THURSDAY 10 MARCH Questions for Written Answer

Notices given between Friday 18 February and Friday 25 February

1 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the outcomes were of his Department's expenditure on problems in the musculoskeletal system in 2009-10.
	(43286)

2 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of variations in levels of expenditure by primary care trusts on problems of the musculoskeletal system; and if he will make a statement.
	(43287)

Notices given on Monday 28 February

1 N	Karen Lumley (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for UK-wide environmental policy of the introduction of a levy on single-use carrier bags in Wales.
	(42534)

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1 N	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been paid to each local authority in planning grant in financial year 2010-11.
	(44539)

TUESDAY 15 MARCH Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Tuesday 1 March

1 N	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to consult on the implementation of the transport elements of the Renewable Energy Directive.
	(44405)

2 N	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date the UK will transpose into UK law the sustainability criteria for biofuels as set out in the Renewable Energy Directive.
	(44406)

WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 2 March

1 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many of those who received treatment at the Glasgow Children's Heart Surgery Unit were normally resident in England in the last three years.
	(44864)

WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE

THURSDAY 10 MARCH

[sitting at Westminster]

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

*1	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): What recent discussions he has had on future use of tidal power in the Severn Estuary.
	(42519)

*2	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): What plans he has for the provision of nuclear power in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
	(42520)

*3	Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): What assessment he has made of the effect of the feed-in tariff on the (a) manufacturing and (b) training sector in Wales.
	(42521)

*4	Hywel Williams (Arfon): What account was taken of his Department's policy on the delivery of offshore wind farms in the decision on the applicability of the UK Ports Fund to Wales.
	(42522)

*5	Roger Williams (Brecon and Radnorshire): What consultation and collaboration on energy policy his Department has undertaken with the Welsh Assembly Government.
	(42523)

*6	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): What discussions he has had on the effects in Wales of the discontinuance of the Infrastructure Planning Commission.
	(42524)

*7	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): What steps he is taking to promote development of renewable energy projects in Wales.
	(42525)

*8	Stuart Andrew (Pudsey): What plans he has for the provision of nuclear power in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
	(42526)

*9	Paul Flynn (Newport West): What plans he has to develop marine energy in Welsh waters.
	(42527)

*10	Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth): What assessment he made of the potential energy, economic and environmental effects of construction of a Severn barrage.
	(42528)

*11	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): What discussions he has had with the First Minister on improving the energy efficiency of the least energy-efficient homes in Wales.
	(42529)

*12	Mrs Siân C. James (Swansea East): What consideration he has given to alternative methods of energy production including wave and tidal power in Wales for the purposes of tackling increasing energy costs and demand.
	(42530)

*13	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): What assessment his Department has made of the potential for development of marine energy projects in Wales.
	(42531)

*14	Jessica Morden (Newport East): What plans he has for tidal power in the Severn Estuary; and if he will make a statement.
	(42532)

*15	Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent): What recent discussions he has had with the Welsh Assembly Government on the provision of training and skills development programmes in the energy sector in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
	(42533)

*17	Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire): What steps he plans to take to support communities affected by the development of onshore wind energy projects in Wales.
	(42535)

*18	Mr Wayne David (Caerphilly): What discussions he has had on the relationship between the Infrastructure Planning Commission and the Welsh Assembly Government in relation to major energy projects; and if he will make a statement.
	(42536)

*19	Jonathan Evans (Cardiff North): What assessment he has made of the merits of reform of the electricity market.
	(42537)

*20	Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside): What recent assessment he has made of security of supply in electricity generation; and if he will make a statement.
	(42538)

*21	Mr David Hanson (Delyn): What recent representations he has received on changes to the feed-in tariff regime.
	(42539)

*22	Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley): What recent assessment he has made of the (a) size of and (b) prospects for the future of the coal industry; and if he will make a statement.
	(42540)


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