Session 2010-11
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The Questions Book

Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Thursday 31 March 2011

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

Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 30 March 2011
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 2: Oral and Written Questions from
Thursday 31 March 2011

From Monday 4 April 2011, the Questions Book will not be circulated in printed form. It will continue to be available on the Parliamentary Website in both HTML and PDF format at http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/question-book/, alongside a new document giving separate notice of questions for oral answer on a future day.

Paper copies will be available to parliamentary users from the Vote Office on request.

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.

THURSDAY 31 MARCH
Questions for Oral Answer

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

*1	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): What plans he has to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to take on apprentices.
	(49964)

*2	Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central): What steps he is taking to promote expenditure on the manufacture of low carbon technologies in each region.
	(49965)

*3	Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock): What steps he is taking to increase the UK's share of world trade.
	(49966)

*4	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Washington and Sunderland West): What discussions he has had with the North East of England Local Enterprise Partnership on the location of proposed enterprise zones; and if he will make a statement.
	(49967)

*5	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): What plans he has to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to take on apprentices.
	(49968)

*6	Priti Patel (Witham): What steps he is taking to reduce the level of regulation of businesses.
	(49969)

*7	Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South): What recent discussions he has had with Ministerial colleagues on the future levels of Government funding to Citizens Advice; and if he will make a statement.
	(49970)

*9	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): What recent assessment he has made of the attitudes of employers to taking on apprentices.
	(49972)

*10	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): What steps he is taking to increase the status and prestige of adult vocational learning.
	(49973)

*11	George Freeman (Mid Norfolk): What steps he is taking to support the commercial development of life sciences through industry partnerships.
	(49974)

*12	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on the effects on businesses of trends in the cost of fuel.
	(49975)

*13	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): What steps he is taking to reduce the level of regulation of businesses.
	(49976)

*14	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): What discussions he has had with his international counterparts on steps to increase transparency in the reporting of company profits.
	(49977)

*16	Anna Soubry (Broxtowe): What recent assessment he has made of the administrative efficiency of the student loans system.
	(49979)

*17	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): What recent representations he has received on the future funding of science and research.
	(49980)

*18	Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): How many universities he expects to charge less than £7,500 in tuition fees from 2012.
	(49981)

*19	Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): What steps he is taking to reduce the level of regulation of businesses.
	(49982)

*20	David Rutley (Macclesfield): What plans he has to increase levels of employment in small and medium-sized enterprises.
	(49983)

*21	Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): What steps he is taking to promote the manufacturing of alternative energy technology in the UK.
	(49984)

*22	Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South): What recent discussions he has had with his G20 counterparts on corporate social responsibility.
	(49985)

*23	Liz Kendall (Leicester West): When he plans to publish a business plan for the Green Investment Bank.
	(49989)

*24	Neil Carmichael (Stroud): What progress he has made on the implementation of his proposals for a groceries code adjudicator.
	(49986)

*25	Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): What plans he has to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to take on apprentices.
	(49987)

At 11.15 am

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

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

*1	Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
	(49988)

*2	Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East):
	(49990)

*3	David Rutley (Macclesfield):
	(49991)

*4	Yvonne Fovargue (Makerfield):
	(49992)

*5	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire):
	(49993)

*6	Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk):
	(49994)

*7	Alex Cunningham (Stockton North):
	(49995)

*8	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East):
	(49996)

*9	Bob Blackman (Harrow East):
	(49997)

*10	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley):
	(49998)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Thursday 17 March

1 N	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to the recommendation of the Pitt Report that flood defences should be allocated an above-inflation funding settlement.
	(48323)

2 N	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to establish a mechanism to measure the Government's commitment to be the greenest administration ever.
	(48324)

3 N	Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to assist the farming industry in preparing for the ban on battery cages for laying hens.
	(48349)

Notices given on Wednesday 23 March

1
N

Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his Answer of 9 March 2011, Official Report, column 1173W, on arms trade: exports, 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 since 15.00 on 3 March 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.

(49524)

Notices given on Thursday 24 March

2 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Health on monitoring the quality of independent social care providers.
	(49786)

3 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the future of the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England.
	(49889)

4 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse of the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England was in each of the last three years.
	(49890)

5 N	Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2011, Official Report, column 452W, on tattoos, whether it is his Department's policy to fund the removal of tattoos on the NHS.
	(49784)

6 N	Caroline Dinenage (Gosport): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with South West Trains on improving the provision of rolling stock on Portsmouth to London passenger rail services.
	(49716)

7 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives of (i) the Association of Train Operating Companies and (ii) rail trade unions since 8 May 2010.
	(49892)

8 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Financial Statement of 23 March 2011, Official Report, columns 958-9, whether the £200 million additional investment in regional railways is for the financial year 2011-12; when he expects to allocate this funding to individual projects; and if he will make a statement.
	(49893)

9 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will assess the effects on the ability of care home residents to participate in community activities of removing the mobility component of disability living allowance; and if he will make a statement.
	(49891)

Notices given on Friday 25 March

1 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that the findings of the review of work capability assessment will be considered in the development of a new assessment for the personal independence payment.
	(49928)

2 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a face-to-face assessment for the personal independence payment will be necessary for all people with autism, including those with significant paper evidence such as a comprehensive diagnostic report.
	(49929)

Notices given on Monday 28 March

1 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the effect of the reduction in funding for local authorities on the cost to patients of placements with independent social care providers; and if he will make a statement.
	(49785)

2 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department has had with the Arts and Humanities Research Council on funding research into the Big Society; what assessment he has made of the compatibility of his proposals with the Haldane Principle; and if he will make a statement.
	(50063)

3 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for the future of the role of Chief Scientific Adviser to his Department.
	(50150)

4 N	Ian Lucas (Wrexham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has for ownership of the land on which the SPark Bristol and Bath Science Park is located other than the National Corporate Centre Site following the closure of the South West Regional Development Agency.
	(50149)

5 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether (a) he or (b) Ministers in his Department met representatives of Novartis in the period 12 May 2010 to 16 March 2011.
	(50288)

6 N	John Robertson (Glasgow North West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding will be allocated to (a) Scotland, (b) Glasgow North West constituency and (c) Glasgow city under the StartUp Britain initiative.
	(50052)

7 N	Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2011, Official Report, column 838W, if he will publish the departmental estimates that were collated to arrive at the stated estimates of savings.
	(50289)

8 N	Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income will accrue to the Exchequer from the auction of permits under the Aviation EU Emissions Trading Scheme in each of the next five years.
	(50060)

9 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a oral statement to the House after the Easter Recess on the interim findings of the Independent Commission on Banking.
	(50131)

10 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 16 of Project Merlin-Banks' Statement, whether the chief executive of each banking institution will forfeit their right to (a) a bonus and (b) an annual increase in base salary if the relevant lending targets are not met.
	(50161)

11 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department had with the Department of Energy and Climate Change prior to the announcement that new homes will not be required to be zero carbon.
	(50283)

12 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on amending the provisions of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to allow local authorities to determine whether to host motor sports events on public roads in a local authority area.
	(50061)

13 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to promote its Home on the Farm scheme.
	(50053)

14
N

Andrew Griffiths (Burton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2011, Official Report, column 910W, on departmental official hospitality, and with reference to paragraph 74 of the Third Report of the Procedure Committee, Session 2008-09, on Written Parliamentary Questions, HC 952, if he will make it his policy to disclose in answers to parliamentary questions the information on expenditure by his Department on Ministerial meals and restaurants between 2008 and 2010 that would have been disclosed had a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for this information been submitted to his Department.

(50148)

15 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2011, Official Report, column 1227W, on departmental theft, whether he has taken steps to ensure that equipment with a military use stolen from his Department does not fall into enemy hands.
	(50154)

16 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2011, Official Report, column 1227W, on departmental theft, from which of his Department's sites items of a monetary value of £100 or more have been taken without authorisation since his appointment.
	(50155)

17 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2011, Official Report, column 1227W, on departmental theft, from which site or sites the money intended as compensation was taken; what sums were to be disbursed from this money; and who the intended recipients of such compensation were.
	(50156)

18
N

Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of A-level students in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective schools, (c) independent schools and (d) sixth form colleges in each local education authority area were entered for at least three A-levels from (i) mathematics, (ii) English literature, (iii) further mathematics, (iv) biological sciences, (v) physics, (vi) chemistry, (vii) geography and (viii) a modern foreign language in the latest period for which figures are available.

(50158)

19 N	Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of A-level students in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective schools, (c) independent schools and (d) sixth form colleges in each local education authority area were entered for A-level mathematics examinations in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(50159)

20
N

Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of A-level students at (a) comprehensive schools, (b) selective schools, (c) independent schools and (d) sixth form colleges in each local education authority area were entered for one or more A-level examination in a foreign language in the latest period for which figures are available.

(50160)

21 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what methods his Department is using to deliver classroom-based drug prevention programmes in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and if he will make a statement.
	(50057)

22 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on introducing pilot voluntary drug testing programmes in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement.
	(50058)

23 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effects of the use of skunk cannabis on the academic performance of adolescents; and if he will make a statement.
	(50069)

24 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on any potential link between academic underperformance and the use of drugs; and if he will make a statement.
	(50070)

25
N

Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2011, Official Report, columns 1295-6W, on energy: housing, what research he has commissioned to assess the effects of pricing on consumer demand; which companies or organisations have been commissioned to undertake the work; what the overall cost to the public purse of the research is; what deadline has been set for completion of the research; and what the terms of reference and payments level for the research are.

(50157)

26 N	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what responsibility he has for issuing policy guidance and directions on shale gas mining in Wales.
	(50153)

27 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2011, Official Report, column 111W, on devolution: Northern Ireland, for what reason no meetings have taken place.
	(50249)

28 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for the future of the role of Chief Scientific Adviser to his Department.
	(50151)

29
N

Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on meeting any shortfall which may arise as a result of (a) failure of renewable heat technologies to deliver adequate carbon savings and (b) premature product failure of renewable heat technologies by securing additional resources from (i) consumers, (ii) the public purse, (iii) manufacturers and (iv) Green Deal providers.

(50116)

30 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the safety of radiation levels of seawater in which the UK fishing fleet fish; and if she will make a statement.
	(50254)

31 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which ministers attended each of the last three Green Breakfast meetings.
	(50115)

32 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential effects of a badger cull on tourism revenues in each region.
	(50327)

33 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish her consultation document on proposals to address water affordability in the South West.
	(50255)

34 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional funds will be made available to address water affordability in the South West.
	(50286)

35 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the likely change in level of water charges for the average household in the South West as a result of implementation of the Government's Budget proposals on water bills.
	(50287)

36 N	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the evidence presented by the European Commission on whether the Saharawi people were consulted on their wishes in relation to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement.
	(50326)

37 N	Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide support to the work of (a) Malalai Joya and (b) other Afghan human rights activists in publicising the situation of women in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
	(50068)

38 N	Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many internal operations were carried out on NHS patients in each year since 1996-97.
	(50114)

39 N	Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has a target for the treatment of cataract patients within three months of referral.
	(50250)

40 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what allocations were included in the estimate for NHS (a) Resource and (b) Capital Departmental Expenditure limits for 2010-11 in the June 2010 Budget but not in the limits in the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review; and what the monetary value is of each such allocation.
	(50055)

41 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the outturn expenditure of the NHS in England in each of the last five financial years on a basis directly comparable with the estimate he has made for its outturn expenditure in 2010-11.
	(50056)

42 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made on amendments to the NHS Summary Care Record System that will enable the addition of living wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney to a record; and whether such amendments will enable supporting information concerning a patient's wishes to be included on their records.
	(50062)

43 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the retention of the UK's role of hosting a WHO collaborating centre as part of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network.
	(50256)

44 N	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of regulating health competition in each category of expenditure in each of the next five years.
	(50284)

45 N	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his estimate is of (a) levels of expenditure by Monitor on staff and (b) the number of staff to be employed by Monitor in each of the next five years.
	(50285)

46 N	Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the number of allergy specialists in the NHS.
	(50042)

47 N	Valerie Vaz (Walsall South): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the change in the number of staff employed by Walsall primary care trust or its successor as a result of implementation of proposed changes to the NHS.
	(50111)

48 N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who gave the instruction to terminate the employment of those employees of Liverpool Passport Office whose employment was terminated on 21 March 2011.
	(50064)

49 N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives of the Public and Commercial Services Union on the termination of employment of employees at Liverpool Passport Office on 21 March 2011.
	(50065)

50 N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she was informed of the decision to terminate the employment of those employees of Liverpool Passport Office whose employment ended on 21 March 2011.
	(50066)

51 N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken in the light of the termination of employment of employees at Liverpool Passport Office to determine whether contract errors have been made by the Identity and Passport Service in relation to other offices.
	(50067)

52 N	Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the error in relation to the recruitment of those employees of Liverpool Passport Office whose employment was terminated on 21 March 2011 was discovered.
	(50112)

53 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to the letter form the right hon. Member for Birkenhead of 17 February 2011 on her constituent Rasam Aliaziz.
	(50054)

54 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many out-of-country applications for intra-company transfer work permits her Department approved in each year since 2007.
	(50290)

55 N	Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average THC content of seized skunk cannabis was in the latest period for which figures are available; what the average THC content of cannabis seizures was (a) five, (b) 10 and (c) 20 years ago; and if she will make a statement.
	(50071)

56
N

Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many passes to enter the Palace of Westminster have been issued in each category since May 2010; how many of these were issued to hon. Members' staff acting (a) as secretaries, (b) as research assistants and (c) in other capacities; and what estimate the Commission has made of the number of research assistants in possession of a valid pass at the latest date for which figures are available.

(50113)

57 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will provide advice to UK charities operating in Botswana on the use of terminology in publications that does not cause offence to sections of the local population.
	(50253)

58 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that the work of the family courts is not affected by the closure of family court venues.
	(50251)

59 N	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (Dwyfor Meirionnydd): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether family court proceedings will be kept separate from proceedings on criminal cases following the completion of planned court closures in Wales and England.
	(50252)

60 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Leader of the House, if he will take steps to ensure a debate on the interim findings of the Independent Commission on Banking after 11 April 2011.
	(50132)

61 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration he has given to the merits of amending Section 12 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to permit a local authority to close roads for the purpose of holding a motor racing event; and if he will make a statement.
	(50059)

62 N	Mr Tom Harris (Glasgow South): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the East Coast Trains timetable due to be introduced in May 2011 to be published.
	(50002)

63 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has for the future of the role of Chief Scientific Adviser to his Department.
	(50152)

64 N	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) performance and (b) level of customer service under the franchise agreement provided by First Capital Connect on the Thameslink rail route.
	(50019)

65 N	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, at what rate he expects the winter fuel allowance to be paid to people aged (a) over 60 and (b) over 80 years in each of the next five financial years.
	(50325)

Notices given on Tuesday 29 March

1 N	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on the operation of the national minimum wage in the hospitality industry.
	[Question Unstarred] (49978)

2 N	John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on requirements for oil, gas and mining companies based in the UK to disclose payments made in other countries in which they operate.
	[Question Unstarred][Transferred] (49971)

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Belfast East of 14 February 2011, Official Report, column 566W, on animal welfare, by what date he expects to be able to determine his policy on the implementation of the 7th amendment to Council Directive 76/768/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 1223/200 on the testing of cosmetics on animals in 2013.

(50684)

4	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has made at EU level on the need for a European Code of Conduct to be adopted by (a) car manufacturers and (b) franchised dealers under the Block Exemption Regulation; and if he will make a statement.
	(50376)

5	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work his Department has undertaken on the equality impact assessment on the changes to the funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages learning announced in November 2010 to date.
	(50710)

6	Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the cost to the pubic purse of transferring regional development agency assets to local authorities and local enterprise partnerships.
	(50715)

7	Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of each regional development agency's assets to be transferred to local authorities and local enterprise partnerships.
	(50716)

8	Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which assets of each regional development agency he proposes to transfer to local authorities and local enterprise partnerships.
	(50717)

9	Mr John Denham (Southampton, Itchen): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish the proposals made by each regional development agency for the disposal of its assets.
	(50718)

10	Alison McGovern (Wirral South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take (a) through the proposed EU-India Free Trade Agreement and (b) at the G20 to reduce agriculture subsidies in developed countries.
	(50731)

11	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50691)

12	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of investment in green infrastructure that the Green Investment Bank will be generating in the spending review period.
	(50554)

13	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to amend the rules governing the validation of higher education qualifications in order to allow more organisations to validate such qualifications; and if he will make a statement.
	(50436)

14	Henry Smith (Crawley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of higher education courses delivered in further education colleges.
	(50437)

15	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people in Poole constituency (a) started and (b) completed an apprenticeship in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
	(50499)

16	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of students from (a) sixth form and (b) further education colleges entered university in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
	(50500)

17	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to encourage small businesses to employ staff.
	(50538)

18	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to increase British exports and reduce the UK's trade in goods deficit.
	(50539)

19	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications to the Regional Growth Fund have been received from organisations based in Poole constituency to date.
	(50540)

20	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of England was covered by a local enterprise partnership in the most recent date for which figures are available; and what steps he is taking to support such partnerships in boosting economic growth and job creation in their areas.
	(50566)

21	David T. C. Davies (Monmouth): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) production and (b) dispatch of forms for the 2011 Census printed in both English and Welsh; and what the cost to the public purse was of postage for such forms sent to addresses in Wales.
	(50431)

22	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many expressions of interest in the National Citizen Service pilot he has received from (a) individuals and (b) organisations.
	(50522)

23	Stephen Mosley (City of Chester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what mechanisms have been put in place to enable members of the public to make suggestions to the Government in support of its Big Society agenda.
	(50460)

24	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50690)

25	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what definition of open standards in information technology his Department uses; and if he will make a statement.
	(50706)

26	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many patients died from cancer in (a) Bolton South East constituency and (b) Bolton borough in the last five years.
	(50550)

27	Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many patients were (a) screened for, (b) diagnosed with and (c) treated for cancer in (i) Bolton South East constituency and (ii) Bolton borough in each of the last five years.
	(50551)

28	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons Lockheed Martin were contracted to gather UK Census data.
	(50578)

29	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what arrangements the Office for National Statistics has to include in the 2011 Census returns in respect of members of HM armed forces normally resident in the UK who were serving in Afghanistan on 27 March 2011.
	(50507)

30	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the total population of Colchester reckoned in the 2011 Census will include those members of HM armed forces normally based at Merville Barracks, Colchester, who are serving in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
	(50508)

31	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many places on the National Citizen Service pilot schemes will be available in (a) Poole and (b) Dorset in the summer of 2001.
	(50495)

32	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any charities or voluntary groups in (a) Poole and (b) Dorset have received support from the Transition Fund to date.
	(50496)

33	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has received any expression of interest in forming a mutual from any public sector workers in (a) Poole and (b) Dorset.
	(50497)

34	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what opportunities his Department plans to make available for training community organisers in (a) Poole and (b) Dorset.
	(50498)

35	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Poole constituency are employed in (a) the public sector and (b) the private sector.
	(50545)

36	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider the merits of extending the criteria for gift aid eligibility to include junior subscriptions to community amateur sports clubs.
	(50596)

37	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on extending the eligibility criteria for gift aid to include junior subscriptions to community amateur sports clubs.
	(50597)

38	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will assess the effects on economic growth of adoption of the recommendation of the Committee on Climate Change that the UK should aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent. of 1990 levels by 2030.
	(50605)

39	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements he has made for the reduction in the supplementary charge on the oil and gas industry should the oil price fall below the level of $75 per barrel specified in his Budget Statement.
	(50606)

40	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what meetings on what dates he had with representatives of the oil and gas industry in the six months prior to 23 March 2011; and who attended each such meeting.
	(50607)

41	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the likely effects on future trends in production and investment in the oil and gas industry of the supplementary charge on the industry as specified in his Budget Statement.
	(50608)

Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions, on what dates, he had with representatives of the oil and gas industry on the supplementary charge on the industry prior to making his Budget Statement on 23 March 2011; who attended each such meeting; and at which of these meetings the effects of the price of oil falling below $75 a barrel was discussed.

(50609)

43	Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his proposals concerning new domestic regulation affecting small businesses apply to rules introduced by the Financial Services Authority.
	(50388)

44	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what factors he took into account when making the decision to reduce the level of winter fuel allowance paid to those over 75 years.
	(50440)

45	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the annual winter fuel payment for people over 80 is to be reduced from £400 to £300; and if he will make a statement.
	(50685)

46	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Bexley and (c) London have received demands for unpaid tax from HM Revenue and Customs in the last 12 months.
	(50399)

47	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50702)

48	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on the application of HM Revenue and Customs rules on value added tax bartering transactions in respect of the gifting energy provided from photovoltaic installations; and if he will make a statement.
	(50711)

49	Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, over what period he plans the funds he provided in the 2011 Budget to apply to reduce water charges in the South West to provide relief to South West Water bill payers.
	(50463)

50	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of EU proposals for a financial transaction tax.
	(50487)

51	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of taxpayers on low incomes in (a) the UK and (b) Poole constituency who will no longer pay income tax following implementation of his decision to increase the personal income tax allowance.
	(50512)

52	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to support savers.
	(50513)

53	Mr Roger Godsiff (Birmingham, Hall Green): To ask the honourable Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, how many and what proportion of employees of the Church Commissioners are entitled to travel by first class rail services at the expense of the Church Commissioners within the UK.
	(50567)

54	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in what ways Neighbourhood Plans will confer extra protection on sport and recreation facilities.
	(50601)

55	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effects of charging VAT on construction costs incurred by schools which open sports facilities out of hours.
	(50602)

56	Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department expects local authorities to take to prevent homelessness.
	(50417)

57	Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to increase the level of compliance by local authorities with their duty to offer advice and assistance to those who are homeless in respect of single people.
	(50449)

58	Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will consider the merits of requiring local authorities to discharge their homelessness duty through a landlord accreditation scheme when using the private rented sector.
	(50670)

59	Bob Blackman (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will consider the merits of introducing (a) a two-stage discharge of the homelessness duty into the private rented sector and (b) an interim tenancy in order to allow local authorities to determine whether accommodation is sustainable.
	(50671)

60	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding (a) his Department and (b) the public bodies for which he is responsible provided to (i) Solace and (ii) Solace's associated companies in (A) 2008-09 and (B) 2009-10.
	(50373)

61	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on cut flowers through its integrated facilities management contract with MITIE between the date of initiation of the contract and 30 April 2010.
	(50667)

62	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what reports he has received on the conduct of the recent election of the mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
	(50668)

63	Mr Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on (a) silver service and (b) other waiting services through its integrated facilities management contract with MITIE between the date of initiation of the contract and 5 May 2010.
	(50669)

64	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities to develop local development frameworks following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50365)

65	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he is taking steps to ensure the production of research and data collection on housing and energy matters for local authorities following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50366)

66	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department is providing to local authorities on consideration of renewable energy proposals following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50367)

67	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effects on the level of house building of the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50369)

68	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department is providing to help private sector organisations adapt following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50370)

69	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what transitional arrangements and guidance will be available to help local authorities adapt following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50371)

70	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that data collection undertaken for the preparation of regional spatial strategies is retained in the new planning framework.
	(50374)

71	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance and information he plans to provide to (a) private house developers and (b) landowners on changes to the planning system.
	(50392)

72	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance he is providing to local authorities on ensuring an adequate supply of housing.
	(50393)

73	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of any effects on the production of local development frameworks of the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50394)

74	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms exist to resolve disagreements in and between communities in the making of planning decisions.
	(50465)

75	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to ensure communication and coordination between communities on house-building strategies.
	(50467)

76	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to coordinate environmental planning between communities in cases where protected woodland covers more than one county and district area.
	(50468)

77	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to assist local authorities in determining the appropriate level of site provision for Gypsies and Travellers which was formerly provided by regional spatial strategies.
	(50572)

78	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers he plans to transfer to the Major Infrastructure Planning Unit.
	(50577)

79	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that all areas formerly covered by regional spatial strategies are included in local development frameworks.
	(50664)

80	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of areas formerly covered by regional spatial strategies which are not covered by proposals for local development frameworks.
	(50665)

81	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the provision of guidance and information on changes to the planning system to non-governmental organisations.
	(50666)

82	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to ensure environmental concerns are taken into account in the development of local enterprise partnerships.
	(50719)

83	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to ensure social issues are taken into account in the development of local enterprise partnerships.
	(50720)

84	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms are in place to evaluate local authorities' adaption to the new planning system
	(50721)

85	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to ensure that local authorities are equipped with the relevant resources to collect and collate data relevant to planning.
	(50722)

86	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to establish and promulgate guidance on the planning status of land acquired under compulsory purchase orders in order to assess land value for compensation purposes.
	(50723)

87	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to provide transitional arrangements and guidance on the development of local development frameworks following the abolition of regional spatial strategies.
	(50724)

88	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50693)

89	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will (a) issue guidance on and (b) bring forward legislative proposals to establish the minimum (i) standard assessment procedure and (ii) energy performance ratings required of existing housing stock.
	(50712)

90	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward proposals for (a) a strategy on and (b) collection of statistics on the energy peformance of existing archetypes of existing housing stock in England in order to develop investment plans for future housing stock to meet obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008.
	(50713)

91	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to improve housing availability in the Benwell and Scotswood area of Newcastle.
	(50704)

92	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking in respect of levels of pay to senior officials in local authorities.
	(50661)

93	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authority in England collected the lowest proportion of council tax in 2009-10 according to records held by his Department.
	(50662)

94	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support home ownership and first-time buyers.
	(50663)

95	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what measures the Government is taking to reduce the administrative requirements for street parties planned to mark the Royal Wedding.
	(50541)

96	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to assist residents in paying council tax bills.
	(50542)

97	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to assist community organisations who wish to purchase assets of community value.
	(50543)

98	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of times people have been removed by police from public galleries in meetings of local authorities in England in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010.
	(50375)

Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his estimate is of the average carbon saving for (a) a new home built in 2016 according to the provisions of the code for sustainable homes and (b) a new home built in 2016 on the basis of accountability by the housebuilder only for those carbon emissions that are covered by building regulations.

(50534)

100	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on the effects of withdrawal of discretionary rate relief on sports clubs.
	(50598)

101	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effects of the National Sports Foundation on the funding available for grass-roots sports.
	(50599)

102	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what mechanisms are in place to assist community organisations with the community asset transfer process.
	(50600)

103	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward a strategic plan for water-related sport and recreation in the East Midlands.
	(50502)

104	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50694)

105	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what financial assistance his Department provided to grass-roots sporting organisations in (a) Poole constituency and (b) the South West in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(50492)

106	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what proportion of the funding allocated to the expansion of broadband provision announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review he estimates will be spent in (a) Poole constituency and (b) the South West.
	(50493)

107	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many free theatre tickets have been provided to people under 26 resident in (a) the South West and (b) England since 2008.
	(50494)

108

Sir Alan Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the risk management strategy prepared by the Environmental Science Group in relation to the proposal to close the RAF ordnance clearance operations at Goswick Sands near Berwick-upon-Tweed; and what revisions to the report took place after the first version was considered by the Royal Air Force.

(50443)

109	Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on which occasions each Minister of State in his Department was present to welcome submariners returning to port following a tour of duty of a Vanguard-class submarine in each year from 2001 to 2004.
	(50438)

110	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50695)

111	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff of his Department have been (a) seconded and (b) attached or on loan to Defence Equipment and Support Project teams in its prime contractors since 2005.
	(50446)

112	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of his Department's contracts by (a) value and (b) number were placed (i) directly and (ii) through sub-contracts with small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 2005.
	(50447)

113	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that the prime defence contractors implement Government proposals that 25 per cent. of contracts should be placed with small and medium-sized enterprises.
	(50448)

114	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether reactors on Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines in service have (a) systems for safety injection of coolant into the reactor pressure vessel head and (b) passive core cooling systems.
	(50634)

115	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advice he has received from the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator on the need for (a) systems for safety injection of coolant into the reactor pressure vessel head and (b) passive core cooling systems on submarine reactors in order to reduce risks to the level of as low as reasonably practicable.
	(50635)

116	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library an un-redacted copy of the Vote of 6 November 2009 entitled Safety Regulators' advice on the selection of the propulsion plant in support of the future deterrent review.
	(50729)

117	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reasons the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator gave for his assessment on the adequacy of benchmarked relevent good practices of UK submarine reactor designs in respect of (a) the control of submarine depth and (b) a loss of coolant accident.
	(50730)

118	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assistance his Department provides to veterans in Poole constituency.
	(50490)

119	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent in improvements to armed forces' accommodation (a) nationally and (b) in Poole constituency each year since 2005.
	(50491)

120	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress he has made in his consideration of the Ministerial Code as it relates to commercial lobbying activities.
	(50464)

121	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the difference in average annual incomes attributable to the introduction of the bursary payments for children in receipt of free school meals currently entitled to the full education maintenance allowance assuming no other changes in their personal circumstances.
	(50613)

122	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of recipients of educational maintenance allowance who are not eligible for free school meals who will receive payments under his Department's new bursary scheme.
	(50614)

123	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average change in annual income attributable to the introduction of the bursary for current recipients of educational maintenance allowance who are not eligible for free school meals between 2010-11 and 2011-12.
	(50615)

124	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effects of the new bursary scheme on the number of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds staying on in education; and if he will make a statement.
	(50616)

125	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many contracts his Department has awarded to Challenge Leadership relating to school improvement.
	(50461)

126	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effects on levels of employment at Portland and Valley schools of his decision to award academy status to Outwood Grange Academy.
	(50462)

127	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the (a) income and (b) expenditure of Outward Grange Consultancy in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(50503)

128	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the salary of the head teacher of Outward Grange School.
	(50504)

129	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how many hours consultancy his Department paid Michael Wilkins in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(50505)

130	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on education services provided by Outward Grange Consultancy in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(50506)

131	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the appropriateness of the award of public sector contracts to Outward Grange Consultancy; and if he will make a statement.
	(50533)

132	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50692)

133	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to support schools in the Benwell and Scotswood area of Newcastle.
	(50705)

134	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicantions his Department has received from schools seeking to become Academy schools since August 2010.
	(50485)

135	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school students sat GCSE examinations in (a) vocational subjects and (b) academic subjects in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
	(50486)

136	Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on international travel in the financial year 2009-10.
	(50561)

137	Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on first class train travel in financial year 2009-10.
	(50562)

138	Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on flowers in 2009-10.
	(50571)

139	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on a target for UK reductions of greenhouse gas emissions of 60 per cent. of 1990 levels by 2030.
	(50604)

140	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans he has for future support to the UK oil refining industry in the UK.
	(50426)

141	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effects of the UK's oil refining capacity on levels of fuel prices charged at the pump.
	(50427)

142	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of environmental legislation on (a) the competitiveness of and (b) levels of investment in oil refining.
	(50428)

143	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the minimum number of oil refineries in the UK necessary to ensure security of fuel supply.
	(50429)

144	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of his Department's internal studies on the future of oil refineries in the UK.
	(50430)

145	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people over the age of 65 years and resident in Clwyd South constituency who were living in fuel poverty in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(50479)

146	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average cost was of a litre of domestic fuel delivered (a) through the grid and (b) off-grid in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(50481)

147	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of people living in fuel poverty who used (a) heating oil, (b) liquid petroleum gas and (c) other off-grid fuels as the primary means of heating their homes in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(50482)

148	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions he has had with the Office of Fair Trading on its enquiry into the regulation of the heating oil market.
	(50483)

149	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many certificates an investor or generator may hold for the purposes of feed-in-tariffs in respect of a site with a unique (a) property address and (b) meter point.
	(50625)

150	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will introduce mechanisms to reduce the potential for large energy companies to benefit disproportionately from his Department's mechanism for funding energy programmes.
	(50626)

151	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to maintain potential of small and medium-sized energy suppliers to (a) participate in and (b) benefit from his strategy for ECO2012 and the Green New Deal.
	(50627)

152	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of (a) a tsunami and (b) severe flooding on the Somerset Levels in the vicinity of Hinkley Point power station; and what records his Department holds on incidents of (i) tsunamis and (b) severe flooding at the site of UK nuclear installations.
	(50628)

153	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50696)

154	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to reduce the time taken for delegated nominating officers to approve large-scale domestic energy schemes on housing estates.
	(50714)

155	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities on their role in providing access to the Green Deal and improving the energy efficiency of private rented homes.
	(50556)

156	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how the modelling assumptions underlying the Contracts of Difference proposed in the consultation on Electricity Market Reform were decided upon.
	(50617)

157	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what contingency plans his Department has made should the assumptions underpinning the scenarios modelled for the Contracts for Difference prove to be invalid.
	(50618)

158	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what (a) modelling and (b) assumptions were considered for use to determine the Contracts of Difference proposed in the consultation on Market Electricity Reform.
	(50619)

159	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment has been made of the ability of independent renewable electricity generators to secure a reasonable value for their output following removal of the requirement on suppliers to secure increasing proportions of the power they supply from renewable sources.
	(50620)

160

Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what research his Department (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effectiveness of auctions with multiple bidders in delivering sustained deployment of renewable electricity over the long-term to support the developent of the model for Contracts for Difference with auctions proposed by his Department in its consultation on Electricity Market Reform.

(50621)

161	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment has been undertaken to validate the assumption in the analysis supporting the Electricity Market Reform consultation proposals that a reduction in earnings at risk will lead to an equal increase in the level of debt that can be raised.
	(50622)

162	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what discussions his Department has had with industry on extending application of the principle of the Green Deal scheme to the building of new homes.
	(50535)

163	Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what mechanisms he has considered to enable the principles of the Green Deal to be applied to homes not yet built.
	(50536)

164	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has made at the EU Agriculture Council on the premarket authorisation of the entry of meat and other products derived from cloned animals.
	(50391)

165	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects to publish the terms of the Government Buying Standards for (a) transport, (b) food, (c) furniture, (d) textiles, (e) gardening services, (f) water-using products and (g) cleaning products.
	(50611)

166	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on the development of a cross-EU strategy on biodiversity.
	(50612)

167	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what representations Ministers in her Department made at the most recent meeting of the Agricultural and Fisheries Council on the mandatory labelling of food derived from the offspring of cloned animals.
	(50728)

168	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure sufficient investment in water resources in cases where local development frameworks do not have reference to water and drainage infrastructure because they were formerly covered in the regional spatial strategies.
	(50364)

169	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she has taken to ensure coordination between communities on waste management.
	(50466)

170	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to aid local authorities in deciding the location of sites suitable for sub-regionally significant hazardous waste facilities and other waste management infrastructure which was formerly provided by regional spatial strategies.
	(50573)

171	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to aid local authorities in identifying shortfalls in waste treatment capacity which was formerly provided by regional spatial strategies.
	(50574)

172	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to aid local authorities in setting recycling targets which were formerly provided by the regional spatial strategies.
	(50575)

173	Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are in place to provide apportionment figures on the tonnages of municipal, commercial and industrial wastes to be planned for annually by each local authority which were formerly specified within the regional spatial strategies.
	(50576)

174	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contracts her Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50697)

175	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department had had with energy companies on their role in informing consumers about the Green Deal.
	(50555)

176	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions her Department has had with local authorities on urban foxes.
	(50557)

177	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has her international counterparts on animal welfare strandards in countries from which the UK imports food; and if she will make a statement.
	(50395)

178	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has made of the effectiveness of supermarket codes of practice concerning the prices paid to farmers; and if she will make a statement.
	(50396)

179	Mr Laurence Robertson (Tewkesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will review the level of modulation rates paid by farmers; and if she will make a statement.
	(50397)

180	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on measures to protect the dragonfly population.
	(50591)

181	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her policy is on measures to protect the habitat of frogspawn.
	(50592)

182	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will consider the merits of measures to prohibit the long-term tethering of horses.
	(50660)

183	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effect of snares on wild animals.
	(50677)

184	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the compatibility of providing arms to the anti-government forces in Libya with UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
	(50610)

185	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on EU support for a UN commission of inquiry into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
	(50553)

186	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the British Ambassador to Burma has raised with the government of Burma the circumstances of the execution on 19 November 2010 by Border Guard Force soldiers of a 75 year old man from Dtra Greh township, Pa'an district, Karen state.
	(50631)

187	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to the government of Burma on the (a) detention of and (b) access to medical treatment of Ko Mya Aye.
	(50632)

188	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of attacks by the Burma Army on civilians in the Manorone area of Ta Naw Tha Ri township, Karen state.
	(50709)

189	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding has been allocated to the refurbishment of the British Embassy in Israel; what assessment was made of the need for such expenditure; and when he expects Embassy staff to return to the refurbished premises.
	(50418)

190	Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost to the public purse is of relocating and accommodating British Embassy staff in Israel as a result of the decision to undertake a full refurbishment of the British Embassy.
	(50419)

191	Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) reports he has received and (b) representations he has made to the government of Iraq on the treatment of human rights campaigners in Al Sulaimaniyah; and if he will make a statement.
	(50372)

192	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK humanitarian aid flights have landed in Libya since UN Security Resolution 1973 was adopted; and how much such aid has been delivered.
	(50636)

193	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the ability to deliver humanitarian assistance to Benghazi following the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya.
	(50637)

194	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has any plans to visit Somaliland on official business.
	(50406)

195	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official visits Ministers in his Department have made to Somaliland in the last five years.
	(50407)

196	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had at EU level on Somaliland.
	(50408)

197	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had at UN level on Somaliland.
	(50409)

198	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assistance his Department has given to UK nationals (a) living in and (b) visiting Somaliland in the last five years.
	(50410)

199	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate has been made of the number of UK nationals who have (a) visited and (b) worked in Somaliland in the each of the last five years.
	(50411)

200	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) letters, (b) emails and (c) other items of correspondence on the status of Somaliland his Department has received in each of the last 12 months.
	(50412)

201	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings officials in his Department have had with officials from Somaliland in the last five years.
	(50413)

202	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions has he had with representatives of the administration in Somaliland.
	(50414)

203	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff of his Department are based in Somaliland.
	(50415)

204	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to visit Somaliland on official business.
	(50416)

205	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the effects of the oil slick at Petrel Bay, Nightingale Island; and what assistance his Department is giving to mitigate the effects of the slick.
	(50594)

206	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2011, Official Report, column 819W, on former Ministers, whether his Department monitors records of the briefings given to former Ministers.
	(50674)

207	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of Ministers on the accession process for Western Balkan states to join the EU.
	(50488)

208	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the running costs of the office of the President of the European Council.
	(50489)

209	Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has hosted any meetings with representatives of Mandate Communications over the last six months; and if he will make a statement.
	(50725)

210

Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which health organisations invited to subscribe to his proposed public health responsibility deal on alcohol in England have not yet done so; what assessment he has made of the reasons why each has not subscribed to the agreement; what assessment he has made of the implications for future such agreements; and if he will make a statement.

(50726)

211	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will consider the merits of introducing a statutory right of access for unpowered craft to inland water for recreational purposes.
	(50603)

212	Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on sporting and physical activity as a means of maintaining health; and whether he is taking steps to reflect this position in health policies.
	(50423)

213	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the age profile was of NHS midwives in each year between 2002 and 2008.
	(50387)

214	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many births per full time equivalent NHS midwife there were in (a) England and (b) each region in 2010.
	(50471)

215	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure an equitable distribution of NHS contracts of greatest monetary value between the private and the public sector.
	(50678)

216	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice he has received on the effect of the implementation of the any willing provider principle on the application of EU competition rules to NHS services.
	(50679)

217	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of operating (a) primary care trusts in the last 12 months for which figures are available and (b) proposed GP consortia in the first 12 months of their operation.
	(50680)

218	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in the number of NHS targets on the quality of service to patients.
	(50681)

219	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he plans to issue to NHS trusts on the relative assessment of the merits of price and quality when determining the award of contracts under competitive tenders.
	(50682)

220	Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of real-terms expenditure on the NHS which will be accounted for by restructuring requirements over the Comprehensive Spending Review period.
	(50683)

221	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on patients waiting times to access post-stroke therapy services of the introduction of GP-led commissioning.
	(50420)

222	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely effect of introduction of GP-led commissioning on the development of stroke care networks.
	(50421)

223	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of introduction of the any willing provider model on access to post-stroke physiotherapy services.
	(50422)

224	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50698)

225	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what timetable he has set for the commencement of operations at the Health Research Regulatory Agency.
	(50707)

226	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to approve clinical trials.
	(50708)

227	Stephen Phillips (Sleaford and North Hykeham): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment has been made of the risks associated with isotretinoin and its prescription for teenagers and young adults.
	(50444)

228	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what process the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence follows in instances when the final decision on a drug appraisal process is delayed on more than one occasion.
	(50587)

229	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what reports he has received on the time taken by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to conclude its final appraisal determination announcement for the Mepact treatment for osteosarcoma; and when he expects NICE to announce the outcome of the appraisal.
	(50588)

230	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue guidance to strategic health authorities and clinical panels on steps to ensure timely access to the Cancer Drugs Fund by patients with a late diagnosis of cancer.
	(50589)

231	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the policy of the NHS is on steps to protect staff from abusive patients.
	(50590)

232	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidents of violence towards NHS staff were recorded in the last six months.
	(50593)

233	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage greater co-operation between primary and secondary healthcare professionals as part of his proposals for NHS reform.
	(50472)

234	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely effect on the provision of school nursery services of the proposals in the Health and Social Care Bill.
	(50473)

235	Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate of clostridium difficile infection was among patients in each NHS organisation in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(50558)

236	Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what objectives on clostridium difficile have been set for each NHS organisation.
	(50559)

237	Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of recurrences of clostridium difficile were due to re-infection rather than relapse in the latest period for which figures are available; and how recurrences are recorded in mandatory surveillance statistics.
	(50560)

238	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made in introducing GP commissioning consortia in (a) Poole constituency and (b) England.
	(50509)

239	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for improvement of the social care system.
	(50510)

240	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on measures to prevent the mistreatment of elderly patients in hospital.
	(50511)

241	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the adequacy of provision of (a) NHS diabetes specialists and (b) diabetes care and diagnosis facilities.
	(50390)

242	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to improve diabetes diagnosis following the publication of the NHS Diabetes report, Coding, Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes.
	(50459)

243	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of NHS patients were voluntarily in receipt of medication at home at the point immediately before such provision has been made compulsory.
	(50623)

244	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many departments within NHS hospitals require patients to receive medication via a home delivery service.
	(50624)

245	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to achieve the World Health Organisation standard of eliminating avoidable blindness by 2020.
	(50652)

246	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to enable all willing providers to bid for contracts with (a) the NHS Commissioning Board and (b) GP Consortia.
	(50653)

247	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what transparency requirements in respect of the awarding of contracts under GP Commissioning arrangements will be put in place.
	(50654)

248	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to allow optometrists to refer patients with (a) cataracts, (b) diabetic retinopathy, (c) glaucoma and (b) wet age related macular degenerations for secondary care.
	(50655)

249	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2011, Official Report, column 686W, on drugs: misuse, whether her Department plans to undertake research into the effects of the criminalisation of drugs.
	(50474)

250	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she last met the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency; and what issues they discussed.
	(50633)

251	Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement of 28 March 2011, Official Report, columns 25-32, on disturbances (London), how many people have been charged in relation to the protest at Fortnum and Mason on 26 March 2011.
	(50727)

252	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contracts her Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50699)

253	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) bottled water and (b) coffee in each month of the last five years.
	(50400)

254	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on combating illegal migration.
	(50401)

255	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Executive on combating illegal migration.
	(50402)

256	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh Assembly Government on combating illegal migration.
	(50403)

257	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle sham marriages; and if she will make a statement.
	(50404)

258	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she provides to police forces on the length of time data entered by facial recognition technology should be held before being destroyed.
	(50405)

259	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to police forces on the use of facial recognition technology during incidents of civil unrest.
	(50584)

260	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on facial recognition technology for police forces in each of the last five years.
	(50585)

261	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Metropolitan Police used facial recognition technology during the civil unrest in London on 26 March 2011.
	(50586)

262	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for offences related to sham marriages in each of the last five years.
	(50676)

263	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many anti-social behaviour orders were (a) granted and (b) breached in the criminal justice area covering Poole in the latest years for which figures are available.
	(50520)

264	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many residents of Poole constituency were subject to more than one Criminal Records Bureau check in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(50521)

265	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the length of time between the arrest of a person suspected of a human trafficking offence and the court hearing; and if she will make a statement.
	(50432)

266	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals for a free multilingual national hotline for (a) victims of human trafficking and (b) individuals reporting possible instances of human trafficking.
	(50433)

267	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what definition of human trafficking her Department uses.
	(50434)

268	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to assess the performance of each police force in (a) tackling and (b) investigating offences of human trafficking; and if she will make a statement.
	(50435)

269	Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will press all airlines using UK airports to introduce measures to enable them to determine whether they are free of trafficked persons.
	(50686)

270	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) temporary workers - creative and sporting, (b) temporary workers - charity workers, (c) temporary workers - religious workers, (d) temporary workers - government authorised exchange, (e) temporary workers - international agreement and (f) Youth Mobility scheme Tier 5 visas were issued in 2010.
	(50484)

271	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the outcomes were of the meeting on 17 March 2011 in her Department which was attended by 37 Home Office suppliers, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the right hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs and Nick Gargan.
	(50629)

272	Keith Vaz (Leicester East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the statement of 22 March 2011, Official Report, columns 855-872, on student visas, what assessment she has made of the cost to the economy of reducing the number of international student visas by 80,000.
	(50630)

273	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested on suspicion of having committed electoral offences in England and Wales in each year since 2005.
	(50425)

274	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department has assessed the humanitarian needs of ethnic Kachin people forcibly relocated to Myitsone Aung Mye Thar model village in Kachin state, Burma.
	(50552)

275	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance his Department is giving to mitigate the effects of the Petrel Bay oil slick on Nightingale Island.
	(50595)

276	Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what reports he has received of the purchasing of McDonalds meals for prisoners by Prison Service staff.
	(50389)

277	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50700)

278	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for offences in relation to sham marriages in each of the last five years.
	(50675)

279	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to increase the level of fine payable on conviction of an offence of keeping a car without insurance; and if he will make a statement.
	(50568)

280	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will request the sentencing Guidelines Council to review sentencing guidelines for offences of driving without insurance to provide that the penalty imposed by the courts is greater than the average annual cost of motor insurance; and if he will make a statement.
	(50570)

281	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted prisoners had a home address in Poole constituency on the most recent date for which figures are available.
	(50514)

282	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in Poole constituency received legal aid in each of the last five years.
	(50515)

283	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people normally resident in (a) Poole constituency and (b) the criminal justice area covering Poole constituency were convicted of alcohol-related offences in each of the last five years.
	(50516)

284	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Prime Minister, what his policy is on implementation of the recommendations of the Third Report of the Home Affairs Committee, Session 2001-02, on the Government's drug policy: is it working, HC 318; and if he will make a statement.
	(50687)

285	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Driving Standards Agency (a) received in income from and (b) spent on administration of the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence in the 2009-10 financial year.
	(50537)

286	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50701)

287	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will conduct a promotional campaign aimed at young drivers to make them aware of the requirement to hold valid motor insurance; and if he will make a statement.
	(50569)

288	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on introduction of continuous insurance enforcement for motor vehicles; and if he will make a statement.
	(50688)

289	Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the scale of risks to young drivers seeking motor insurance; and if he will initiate a consultation on policy on the cost of motor insurance for young drivers.
	(50689)

290	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many residents of (a) Poole constituency and (b) England appealed against penalty charge notices and were successful in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(50517)

291	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road casualties were recorded in (a) Poole constituency and (b) the South West in the last three years for which figures are available.
	(50518)

292	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what revenue was collected through speed camera penalty charge notices in (a) Poole constituency and (b) the South West in the last three years for which figures are available.
	(50519)

293	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has for road safety campaigns on television in 2011-12.
	(50656)

294	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has for road safety campaigns in schools in 2011-12.
	(50657)

295	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to run road safety campaigns for children in conjunction with the private sector in 2011-12.
	(50658)

296	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has a ring-fenced budget for road safety for children in 2011-12.
	(50659)

297	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has for television road safety campaigns in 2011-12.
	(50672)

298	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had on the continuation of the Legislative Competence Order process in non-devolved policy areas.
	(50544)

299	Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2011, Official Report, column 43W, on disability living allowance, if he will estimate the cost of providing the mobility component of the allowance to new and existing child claimants in each of the next four financial years.
	(50445)

300	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to reduce the number of claimants in receipt of higher rate disability living allowance for (a) mobility component and (b) care component.
	(50439)

301	Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of the disability living allowance for the (a) mobility component and (b) care component at the higher rate in each of the last five years.
	(50523)

302	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to ensure pensioners are aware of the planned withdrawal of the top-up payment to the winter fuel allowance.
	(50475)

303	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was paid out in winter fuel allowances awarded to residents of Clwyd South in winter 2010-11; and what forecast he has made of the equivalent figure in 2011-12.
	(50476)

304	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people over the age of 80 years and resident in Clwyd South constituency received a winter fuel allowance in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(50477)

305	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the payment of a cold weather payment has been triggered for residents of Clwyd South constituency in the last five years.
	(50478)

306	Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners resident in Clwyd South constituency received winter fuel allowance in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	(50480)

307	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to prevent women in employment becoming unemployed before they reach the state pension age.
	(50501)

308	Tessa Munt (Wells): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts his Department and its associated public bodies signed with Lockheed Martin in each of the last 10 years; and for what purposes each such contract was let.
	(50703)

309	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Poole constituency are in receipt of (a) incapacity benefit, (b) employment support allowance and (c) disability living allowance.
	(50548)

310	Mr Robert Syms (Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Poole constituency have been in receipt of out-of-work benefits for (a) more than one year and (b) more than five years.
	(50549)

311	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on raising the age threshold for the shared accommodation allowance.
	(50648)

312	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to give tenants in the private rented sector choice on whether to receive local housing allowance directly.
	(50649)

313	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the likely effects of housing benefit reductions on rent levels in the private sector.
	(50650)

314	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the likely effects on the availability of private rented accommodation for those under the age of 35 years of raising the age threshold for the shared accommodation allowance.
	(50651)

315	Mike Weatherley (Hove): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of landlords who will no longer let properties to those on housing benefit following the reduction on the rate of local housing allowance.
	(50673)

FRIDAY 1 APRIL Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Friday 25 March

1 N	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on its consultation on ship-to-ship oil transfers.
	(49963)

Notices given on Monday 28 March

1 N	John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) wholetime firefighter, (b) retained firefighter, (c) fire control room and (d) total posts there were in each Fire and Rescue Service in England on 1 April 2010; and how many posts in each category there were on 1 April 2011.
	[R] (50257)

2 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of inherent passive safety systems in nuclear reactor design.
	(50117)

3 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information his Department holds on the number of third generation nuclear reactors that are in operation around the world.
	(50258)

4 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether he has assessed the suitability of boiling water nuclear reactors for deployment in the UK.
	(50259)

5 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of boiling water nuclear reactor designs.
	(50260)

6
N

Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of core damage frequency for the (a) GE Hitachi (i) Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor and (ii) Advanced Boiling Water Reactor, (b) Westinghouse AP1000 and (c) Areva European Pressurised Reactor; and what assessment he has made of the implications of those figures for reactor safety.

(50261)

7 N	Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of water bill payers in the South West who will receive reduced bills as a result of implementation of the Government's proposals in the Budget; and for how many years such reductions will apply.
	(50118)

Notices given on Tuesday 29 March

1 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date his Department informed (a) local authorities and (b) local enterprise partnerships of the criteria for the establishment of enterprise zones.
	(50580)

2 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new apprenticeship places will be available as a result of announcements in the 2011 budget in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(50581)

3 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding he plans to allocate to enterprise zones in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(50582)

4 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship starts his Department plans to fund in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14 and (d) 2014-15.
	(50583)

5 N	Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the monetary value was of bids submitted to the first round of the Regional Growth Fund in each (a) Government Office region and (b) local enterprise partnership.
	(50647)

6 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department had with research councils and local authorities before taking its decision on additional capital expenditure at Daresbury, Harwell and Cambridge.
	(50733)

7 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, by what mechanisms superfast broadband will be supplied to enterprise zones.
	(50734)

8
N

Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will request the Office for National Statistics to facilitate public access to the underlying data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings provided to the Department for Communities and Local Government as the basis for the area cost adjustment calculations in West Sussex, redacting personal data where necessary to assist disclosure.

(50645)

9 N	Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by what procedure an individual may become an approved researcher to access the data underlying the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings prepared by the Office for National Statistics; and how many applications for such statistics have been (a) approved and (b) rejected in the last 24 months.
	(50646)

10
N

Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Table 2.1 on page 42 of Budget 2011, what the estimated cost to the Exchequer is of (a) the reduction of fuel duty by one pence per litre from 23 March 2011, (b) the removal of previously announced above retail prices index increases in fuel duty and (c) the delay of retail prices index increases in each year between 2011-12 and 2015-16.

(50368)

11 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent representations he has received on proposals for a (a) financial activities tax and (b) financial transactions tax.
	(50524)

12 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with his (a) French and (b) German counterpart on the prospects for a (i) financial activities tax and (ii) financial transactions tax.
	(50525)

13 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has tasked a team in his Department with investigating the feasibility of a financial activities tax.
	(50526)

14 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the opening hours are of the Debt Management Telephone Centre unit of HM Revenue and Customs on (a) Friday 22 April, (b) Sunday 24 April and (c) Monday 25 April 2011.
	(50450)

15 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether staff of the Debt Management Telephone Centre unit of HM Revenue and Customs will be (a) making outbound calls to collect debts and (b) taking incoming calls during its hours of operation on (i) Friday 22 April, (ii) Sunday 24 April and (iii) Monday 25 April 2011.
	(50451)

16 N	Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the number of children (a) in total and (b) who were returned who went missing from local government care in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	(50469)

17 N	Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on which local authorities have different levels of council tax within their areas for those in the same council tax band.
	(50383)

18 N	Mr Andrew Tyrie (Chichester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the underlying local wage data used by the last administration as the basis of calculations of the area cost adjustment for West Sussex County Council, anonymising data where necessary to facilitate disclosure.
	(50644)

19 N	Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2011, Official Report, column 1227W, on departmental theft, what the policy of his Department is on monitoring (a) (i) Ebay, (ii) Amazon and (iii) other online trading sites and (b) Loot and other classified advertising publications in order to recover stolen property.
	(50527)

20 N	Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost per hour of using the (a) Harrier, (b) GR4 Tornado and (c) Apache in close air support operations.
	(50564)

21 N	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether bullet-proof vests are available to all UK combat troops in Afghanistan.
	(50382)

22 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the outcomes of the Blueprint drug education research programme.
	(50531)

23 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children gained five or more A* to C grades at GCSE in English, mathematics, the sciences, a foreign language and a humanity in each year since GCSEs were introduced; and how many of those were (a) eligible and (b) ineligible for free school meals in each such year.
	(50736)

24 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion children gained five or more A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in each year since GCSEs were introduced; and how many of those were (a) eligible and (b) ineligible for free school meals in each such year.
	(50737)

25
N

Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 28 March 2011, Official Report, column 65, on post-16 education funding, who carried out the opinion poll cited in support of his policy; on what date it was conducted; how many people were surveyed; if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) brief for and (b) results of the poll; and if he will make a statement.

(50377)

26 N	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many written communications his Department has sent to (a) local education authorities and (b) schools since 1 June 2011.
	(50454)

27 N	Mr David Ward (Bradford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the legislative basis is for the establishment of free schools.
	(50643)

28 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on her Department's review of statutory duties placed on local government.
	(50378)

29 N	Mary Creagh (Wakefield): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the statutory and parliamentary processes required to be satisfied before any cull of badgers in England can be implemented; what assessment she has made of the minimum time within which such requirements can be completed; and if she will make a statement.
	(50528)

30
N

Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to paragraph 1.156 of Budget 2011, HC 836, how much her Department plans to spend from the public purse on reducing water bills for customers in the South West; from what date this money will be made available; how many people in each demographic group will be eligible for such payments; and from which of her Department's budgets the expenditure will be drawn.

(50380)

31 N	Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much she expects to declare to the Exchequer from landfill tax receipts arising from disposal in landfill of waste previously fly-tipped on (a) private and (b) public land in the financial year 2010-11.
	(50381)

32 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department provides national guidelines to GPs on the fees they may charge to patients for signing certificates and completing medical forms.
	(50530)

33 N	Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Upon Tyne Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what duties the National Commissioning Board has in respect of medical research.
	(50735)

34 N	Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has undertaken an audit of or research on the health of hepatitis C patients who have become natural clearers after they have been classed as natural clearers.
	(50565)

35 N	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) management and (b) consultancy costs were incurred by each (i) strategic health authority and (ii) primary care trust in (A) 2006-07, (B) 2007-08, (C) 2008-09 and (D) 2009-10.
	(50563)

36 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) measures and (b) indicators she intends to use to assess the effectiveness of the Government's drugs strategy.
	(50529)

37 N	Mr Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the decriminalisation and regulation of drugs which are currently prohibited.
	(50532)

38 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what economic impact assessment her Department undertook on the decision to implement a visa cap.
	(50385)

39 N	Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have had with Ministerial colleagues in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the decision to implement a visa cap; on what dates such meetings occurred; and who was present at each such meeting.
	(50386)

40 N	Lindsay Roy (Glenrothes): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the £140 million bilateral aid allocated for Sudan in the Bilateral Aid review will be apportioned between north and south Sudan.
	(50732)

41 N	Mr Gregory Campbell (East Londonderry): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many weeks he has spent more than three consecutive days on official business in Northern Ireland since May 2010.
	(50398)

42 N	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2011, Official Report, column 31W, on Members, what criteria his Department used to identify hon. Members who have intimated an issue in Scottish affairs; and which hon. Members have been so identified.
	(50384)

43 N	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he expects the provisions of the Order on ship-to-ship transfers outside harbour authority waters to enter into force (a) in general and (b) in respect of waters off the Suffolk coast on 1 April 2011; and if he will make a statement.
	(50379)

44 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to bring into force sections of primary legislation within his Department's area of responsibility which are not currently in force.
	(50452)

45 N	Derek Twigg (Halton): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to announce the funding package for the Mersey Gateway Bridge scheme.
	(50453)

46 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what accessible versions for disabled people of the Government Equalities Office consultation on the specific duties under the Equality Act 2010 she plans to produce; and if she will make a statement.
	(50441)

47 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Government Equalities Office plans to produce an easy-read accessible version of its consultation on the specific duties under the Equality Act 2010; and if she will make a statement.
	(50442)

48 N	Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of implementing a change to Winter Fuel Allowances to cease making payments to British citizens living abroad.
	(50424)

MONDAY 4 APRIL
Questions for Oral Answer

Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

*1	Mr Dave Watts (St Helens North): What recent assessment he has made of the likely change in the provision of services by local authorities as a result of reductions in the level of Government funding to such authorities.
	(50339)

*2	Jason McCartney (Colne Valley): What assessment he has made of the potential benefits to Kirklees district of the New Homes Bonus.
	(50340)

*3	Mark Pawsey (Rugby): What assessment he has made of the potential benefits to Rugby of the New Homes Bonus.
	(50341)

*4	Julie Hilling (Bolton West): What assessment he has made of the likely effect on the community and voluntary sectors of reductions in the level of Government funding for local authorities.
	(50342)

*5	Mr Chuka Umunna (Streatham): What assessment he has made of the equity of the distribution of Government funding for local authorities.
	(50343)

*6	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): What change in Band D council tax he expects (a) on average on local authorities in England and (b) in the Isle of Wight between 2010-11 and 2011-12.
	(50344)

*7	Stephen Gilbert (St Austell and Newquay): What plans his Department has to establish trusts to assist communities in providing homes for local people.
	(50345)

*8	Guto Bebb (Aberconwy): What steps his Department is taking to support home ownership and first-time buyers.
	(50346)

*9	Mr Edward Leigh (Gainsborough): If he will bring forward proposals to increase the powers of local authorities to tackle unauthorised development.
	(50347)

*10	Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington): What assessment he has made of the potential effect on levels of homelessness of the proposed changes to rules on the changes in the treatment of tenancies in under-occupied social housing.
	(50348)

*11	Richard Graham (Gloucester): What assessment he has made of the potential benefits to Gloucester of the New Homes Bonus.
	(50349)

*12	David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale): What steps his Department is taking in respect of levels of pay of senior staff in local authorities.
	(50350)

*13	Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield): What steps his Department is taking in protect green spaces from development.
	(50351)

*14	Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East): What assessment he has made of the potential effect on regions in England of the New Homes Bonus.
	(50352)

*15	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): What assessment he has made of the likely effects of reductions in Government funding on the number of people employed by local authorities in 2011-12.
	(50353)

*16	Simon Hughes (Bermondsey and Old Southwark): What steps his Department is taking to support home ownership and first-time buyers.
	(50354)

*17	Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell): What recent representations he has received on local authority funding for leisure facilities.
	(50355)

*18	Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds): What recent representations he has received on the levels of remuneration for local government executives.
	(50356)

*19	Christopher Pincher (Tamworth): What change in Band D council tax he expects (a) on average on local authorities in England and (b) in Tamworth borough between 2010-11 and 2011-12.
	(50357)

*20	Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North): What plans he has for the future of rules governing the use of section 106 monies collected by local authorities.
	(50358)

*21	Robert Halfon (Harlow): What recent estimate he has made of the average change to council tax bills for households in (a) Harlow, (b) Epping Forest and (c) Essex between 2010-11 and 2011-12.
	(50359)

*22	David Rutley (Macclesfield): What mechanisms his Department is using to achieve efficiency savings in its budget for 2011-12.
	(50360)

*23	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): What assessment he has made of the likely effect of flexible tenancies on older people and the disabled.
	(50361)

*24	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): What estimate his Department has made of the likely number of new social housing starts between May 2010 and April 2015.
	(50362)

*25	Jane Ellison (Battersea): What steps his Department is taking to increase the flexibility of access to shared ownership schemes for first-time buyers.
	(50363)

At 3.15 pm

Topical Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

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

*1	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
	(50329)

*2	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale):
	(50330)

*3	John Mann (Bassetlaw):
	(50331)

*4	Tony Baldry (Banbury):
	(50332)

*5	Duncan Hames (Chippenham):
	(50333)

*6	Damian Hinds (East Hampshire):
	(50334)

*7	Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington):
	(50335)

*8	Charlie Elphicke (Dover):
	(50336)

*9	Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North):
	(50337)

*10	Karen Lumley (Redditch):
	(50338)

Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 23 March

1 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2011, Official Report, columns 284-5W, on roads: snow and ice, whether he has informed local authorities of their allocations; and how much has been allocated to each local authority.
	(49640)

Notices given on Thursday 24 March

1 N	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much from the sum announced in the 2011 Budget for costs of road maintenance arising from adverse weather conditions is to be paid to each highway authority.
	(49894)

Notices given on Monday 28 March

1 N	Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will ask the United Kingdom Accreditation Service to accredit the leakage rates of fluorocarbons from heat pumps supplied by the heat pump industry.
	(50291)

2 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential economic effects of reductions in Royal Air Force service personnel.
	(50292)

3 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken in response to his Department's report, SDSR: Lessons Identified; and if he will make a statement.
	(50293)

4 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress he has made towards achieving the non-frontline savings identified in the Stategic Defence and Security Review; and if he will make a statement.
	(50294)

5 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the deployment of helicopters to Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
	(50295)

7 N	Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding the UK committed to spend as a result of each international conference on combatting (a) climate change and (b) poverty in the last 10 years; and how much such funding has been spent in each case.
	(50072)

Notices given on Tuesday 29 March

1
N

Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effects of implementing the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in respect of the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons on the heat pump industry; and on what date she expects hydrofluorocarbons to be phased out from the heat pump industry.

[Transferred] (50328)

2 N	Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue he expects to be raised by the VAT on pilot training.
	(50470)

3 N	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward proposals to allow venues that currently do not have a television licence to receive one at no charge solely for the purposes of showing via a television receiver the broadcast of the Royal Wedding on 29 April 2011.
	(50455)

4 N	Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail services on High Speed One will run between London and points east of (a) Ashford and (b) Faversham under the new timetable for Southeastern passenger rail services.
	(50579)

TUESDAY 5 APRIL Questions for Written Answer

Notices given on Wednesday 23 March

1 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of women who will have their state pension age increased by 18 months or more as a result of his proposed change in the state pension age for women.
	(49643)

2 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the average monetary value of pension payments which will not be paid to women born between December 1953 and October 1954 as a result of his proposed change in the state pension age for women.
	(49644)

Notices given on Thursday 24 March

1 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the deadweight cost to the public purse of operating the child benefit system in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(49726)

2 N	Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the likely annual deadweight cost to the public purse of the exemption from national insurance for new businesses setting up outside the South East.
	(49727)

Notices given on Tuesday 29 March

1 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when his Department first announced that air passenger duty would be increased by inflation each year.
	(50640)

2 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much income from (a) air passenger duty and (b) aviation's inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme he expects to accrue to the Exchequer in each year to 2015-16.
	(50641)

3 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the advice he received which indicated that a per plane duty would be illegal under international law.
	(50642)

4 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many utility companies offer concessionary schemes for surface water drainage charges for community organisations; and how many community organisations are taking advantage of such schemes.
	(50638)

5 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will encourage local authorities to offer rate relief to voluntary community organisations.
	(50639)

6 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost of closing the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency.
	(50456)

7 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost of transferring staff working at the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency on the National Curriculum Assessment into his Department.
	(50457)

8 N	Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to avoid compulsory redundancies among staff working in the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency.
	(50458)


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