Session 2010-12
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The Questions Book

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 12 October 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.
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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Wednesday 12 October 2011
(the 'Questions Book')

Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Wednesday 12 October 2011

This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 12 October of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department.

For other Written Questions for answer on Wednesday 12 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper.

For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Wednesday 12 October see Part 2 of this paper.

Questions to the Attorney General

1 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Attorney General, how many cases the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reviewed for trial in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and in how many of those cases the CPS concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to proceed to court.
	(73552)

2	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of polygamy have been (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service in each of the last three years.
	(73966)

3	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on (a) the visit to the UK in October 2011 of the Leader of the opposition in Israel and (b) the potential issue of an arrest warrant on his arrival; and if he will make a statement.
	(74146)

4	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes since his appointment.
	(74299)

5	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Attorney General, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within the Law Officers' Departments' area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73995)

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

6 N	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had discussions with the US Justice Department on its lawsuit concerning for-profit higher education providers.
	(73548)

7 N	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reason Warburg Pincus attended a meeting of for-profit and private higher education providers in (a) December 2010 and (b) January 2011; and if there have been any subsequent meetings between Warburn Pincus and (i) Ministers and (ii) officials of his Department.
	(73555)

8 N	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have sought on the for-profit higher education system in (i) the US and (ii) Europe.
	(73556)

9
N

Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) discussions and (b) meetings (i) he, (ii) ministers and (iii) officials in his Department have had with (A) providers of for-profit higher education who have businesses based in the US, (B) the US Government Accountability Office, (C) the US Department of Education, (D) the US Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, (E) US elected representatives and (F) higher education lecturers and practitioners from the for-profit higher education sector in the US.

(73563)

10 N	Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates officials of his Department have had meetings with private higher education providers since May 2010.
	(73614)

11	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates UK Trade and Investment had discussions with the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Technology in the Welsh Assembly Government, in the last 12 months; and what the subject was of such discussions.
	(73957)

12	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times (a) he and (b) his officials have met the Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science in the Welsh Government to discuss enterprise zones since his appointment.
	(73960)

13	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been paid to trade unions from the public purse in each of the last 10 financial years.
	(74126)

14	Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of reports of the use of UK-supplied military equipment for the repression of protestors in Bahrain; and if he will make a statement.
	(74302)

15	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency started (a) science, (b) technology, (c) engineering and (d) mathematics degrees in each of the last five years.
	(74304)

16 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to encourage and support community-run post offices.
	(73472)

17 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many community-run post offices there are in (a) the UK and (b) Kent.
	(73473)

18	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department is providing to small and medium-sized enterprises developing trade links with Nigeria.
	(73930)

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74212)

20	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of property transactions in each price band in (a) London and (b) England that were not recorded by the Land Registry or subject to a property tax.
	(74309)

21 N	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department expects to charge for each approval process for licensing the export of arms and weapons.
	(72405)

22 N	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department contributed towards the cost of supporting the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition at the ExCel Centre between 13 and 16 September 2011.
	(72406)

23 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to announce his decision on bids made by organisations in the Bristol area for funding from the Regional Growth Fund.
	(73628)

24 N	Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to announce the first allocation of funds under the Regional Growth Fund.
	(73629)

25	Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students were enrolled in further education in Birmingham, Ladywood constituency (a) on 1 September 2011 and (b) in each of the last five years.
	(74046)

26	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on the introduction of country-by-country annual reporting by all multinational companies listed in the UK on profits made and taxes paid in each country where they operate; and if he will make a statement.
	(74034)

27	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on measures to protect (a) consumers and (b) businesses from unsolicited, unwanted marketing approaches.
	(74035)

28	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in (a) Livingston constituency, (b) West Lothian local authority area and (c) Scotland paid no more than the national minimum wage have benefitted from the most recent increase in the national minimum wage.
	(74108)

29	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has held recent discussions with the Advertising Protection Agency; and what was discussed.
	(74150)

30 N	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the average cost of (a) training and (b) employing a teacher for English for Speakers of Other Languages courses.
	(73872)

31 N	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the length of waiting lists for English for Speakers of Other Languages courses for (a) all those seeking to participate and (b) people granted refugee status.
	(73873)

32	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department retains powers to refer the newspaper distributor sector to the Competition Commission under the Enterprise Act.
	(74085)

33 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the contribution to the economy of exports from the construction industry.
	(73615)

34
N

Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement of 18 July 2011, Official Report, columns 78-9WS, on export control policy (review), what offensive naval, air and land-based military platforms have been supplied from the UK to (a) Bahrain, (b) Egypt, (c) Libya, (d) Syria, (e) Tunisia and (f) Yemen; and in which years.

(73544)

35	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73987)

Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding the Higher Education Funding Council has allocated for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11, (d) 2011-12, (e) 2012-13, (f) 2013-14 and (g) 2014-15 for capital investment at (i) Oxford University, (ii) Cambridge University, (iii) Imperial College, London, (iv) University College, London and (v) the University of Manchester; and if he will make a statement.

(74009)

Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding the Higher Education Funding Council allocated for (a) widening participation in higher education, (b) the costs of being based in London, (c) the teaching of foreign languages and (d) capital investment; how much it plans to allocate for each purpose in each of the next three years in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.

(74010)

38	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) postgraduate research masters, (b) postgraduate taught masters and (c) PhDs the Higher Education Funding Council funded in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12; how many it will fund in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement.
	(74011)

39	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans to carry out in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74354)

40	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74355)

41	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74356)

42	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many transport-related fines his Department and its predecessors have settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74357)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

43 N	Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) live births and (b) stillbirths there were in each region of England in 2010.
	(73595)

44 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress has been made on the mutualisation of MyCSP; and if he will make a statement.
	(73616)

45 N	Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects to being forward legislative proposals to set the framework for charitable incorporated organisations.
	(73583)

46	Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the burden of administration associated with volunteering.
	(73936)

47	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million and (c) over £1 million his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.
	(74217)

48 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) discussions he has had and (b) representations he has received on (i) existing and (ii) future guidance on the use of social media by civil servants and public sector workers.
	(73787)

49	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost to the public purse of full-time trade union officials employed by public bodies.
	(74178)

50 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will introduce measures to make the use of facility time by trade union representatives more transparent; and if he will require that details must be recorded in respect of all facility time used by trade union representatives in the Civil Service.
	(73626)

51 N	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects to (a) begin and (b) complete his consultation on reforming facility time arrangements for trade union representatives; and when he expects to implement new measures to regulate facility time.
	(73627)

52	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes since his appointment.
	(74297)

53	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward proposals to prevent former ministers from accepting gifts, donations, or offers of consultancy or employment from any company associated with healthcare provision for a period of five years after they have ceased to hold ministerial office.
	(74274)

54 N	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many claimants flowed off jobseeker's allowance in each month from August 2010 to August 2011.
	(73591)

55	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects in respect of (i) the Cabinet Office, (ii) 10 Downing Street and (iii) the office of the Deputy Prime Minister his Department plans in (A) 2011-12 and (B) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74394)

56	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of invoices from suppliers to (a) his Department and (b) 10 Downing Street his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74395)

57	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many external training courses staff of (a) his Department, (b) 10 Downing Street and (c) the office of the Deputy Prime Minister attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74396)

58	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74397)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

59 N	Jonathan Ashworth (Leicester South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what items worth more than £100 were stolen from his Department in 2010-11.
	(73639)

60	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the costs and benefits of allowing childcare costs to be tax deductable.
	(73938)

61	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) monetary value of his Department's maintenance backlog and (b) time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74196)

62	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to introduce credit easing for small businesses.
	(73956)

63	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the likely combined revenue to the Exchequer from the carbon price floor and the EU Emissions Trading System up to 2015-16.
	(74160)

64	Robert Halfon (Harlow): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the administrative cost to businesses of charging and claiming back VAT between VAT-registered firms.
	(73961)

Mr David Hanson (Delyn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which year's figures for the potential number of flights from UK airports his Department used as a basis for the Air Passenger Duty revenue forecasts announced in the 2011 Budget; and whether his Department plans to update the revenue projections for each financial year up to 2015-16 to take account of the latest forecasts from the Department of Transport.

(74008)

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74201)

67	Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Equitable Life policyholders qualified to receive re-imbursement under the scheme introduced in June 2011 have received (a) full, (b) partial and (c) no payment to date; and if he will make a statement.
	(74147)

68	Glenda Jackson (Hampstead and Kilburn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether payments to Equitable Life policyholders under the 9 June 2011 scheme are being prioritised by (a) age, (b) years of investment or (c) any other criteria; and how many payments have been made to date.
	(74282)

69	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking in respect of property transactions that are not recorded by the Land Registry or subject to a property tax.
	(74310)

70	Joseph Johnson (Orpington): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of homes in each price band in (a) London, (b) England and (c) the UK that were sold in the last (i) 12, (ii) 24, (iii) 36 and (iv) 48 months were bought or sold by or traded between offshore companies.
	(74311)

71 N	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the (a) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (b) Home Office on the effects of the fuel duty derogation for amateur biofuel producers who manufacture less than 2,500 litres of biodiesel a year.
	(73608)

72 N	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Transport regarding the future of the fuel duty differential for sustainable biodiesel.
	(73609)

73 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2011, Official Report, column 1268W, on child benefit, by what means a higher rate taxpayer who is not currently obliged to complete a tax return will be required to inform HM Revenue and Customs of their household child benefit status.
	(73602)

74 N	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the cost of telephone calls made by the public to HM Revenue and Customs; and whether he plans to reduce the cost to individuals of such calls.
	(72977)

75	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on steps to increase global tax transparency.
	(74031)

76	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) employers and (b) employees have access to accurate and up-to-date information on types of tax relief available.
	(74032)

77	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential use of incentives in the tax system to encourage employees to use more environmentally friendly means of transport to travel to and from their place of work.
	(74033)

78	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal measures his Department is taking to assist families adversely affected by trends in energy prices.
	(74177)

79 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has been made of the number of pensioners who paid income tax at the (a) 50 per cent., (b) 40 per cent. and (c) basic rate in each year since 2008-09; and what proportion of (i) all pensioner taxpayers and (ii) all pensioners these figures represented in each year.
	(73785)

80 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of recipients of tax relief on pension contributions were women in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(73786)

81	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received on the effect of machine games duty on British seaside (a) businesses, (b) employment and (c) tourism; and if he will make a statement.
	(74133)

82	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73993)

83	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the tax payable on the average pump price of a litre of unleaded petrol was on 30 September 2011.
	(74038)

84	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration he has given to extending exemptions from VAT.
	(74039)

85	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) individuals and (b) organisations have been (i) investigated by HM Revenue and Customs for tax evasion and (ii) prosecuted for such offences since May 2010.
	(74040)

86	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many incorrect PAYE codes have been issued by HM Revenue and Customs to taxpayers in the last 12 months, and what estimate he has made on the amount of tax (a) overcharged and (b) undercharged as a result of tax code errors in that period.
	(74041)

87	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in the (i) current and (ii) next financial year; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74374)

88	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74375)

89	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74376)

90	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74377)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

91	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the New Homes Bonus on formula grant for Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council; and if he will take steps to ensure that the formula grant allocated to Gateshead is not reduced as a result of the introduction of the bonus.
	(74194)

92	Mr David Anderson (Blaydon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy not to reduce Formula Grant to local authorities as a result of the introduction of the New Homes Bonus.
	(74200)

93 N	Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to allow local authorities to transfer unspent funding provided by central Government to the subsequent financial year.
	(73588)

94	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the maintenance backlog on his Department's estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74198)

95 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of Gypsy and Traveller caravans located on sites granted retrospective planning permission in (a) each local authority area and (b) England (i) in each of the last five years and (ii) since May 2010.
	(73625)

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74209)

97 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the average saving to a household in each council tax band of the council tax freeze in 2012-13.
	(73743)

98	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what measures are in place to assist the economies of local authority areas not selected as enterprise zones.
	(74183)

99	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of small and medium-sized businesses in (i) in Witham constituency, (ii) Essex and (iii) England that qualify for business rate relief on empty properties.
	(74045)

100	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the number of empty properties owned by businesses of each size in (a) Witham constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England.
	(74156)

101	Priti Patel (Witham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many businesses are paying business rates on empty properties in each planning control class of use categorisation in (a) Witham constituency, (b) Essex and (c) England; and what estimate he has made of the sums collected in such rates in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(74199)

102	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of properties in Halifax town centre are vacant; and what proportion were vacant in 2010.
	(74001)

103	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73980)

104	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74342)

105	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74343)

106	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74344)

107	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74345)

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

108

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74207)

109	Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, when he plans to respond to the Report from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Football Governance, HC 792.
	(74052)

110

Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much money his Department allocated to support the British film industry through (a) the National Lottery, (b) grant-in-aid to the UK Film Council, British Film Institute, the National Film and Television School, (c) national and regional development schemes, (d) BBC and Channel 4 Films and (e) EU funding for each year from 2008 to 2013; and how much of the allocated funding was spent in each year from 2008 to 2011.

(73934)

111	Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent under the Film Tax Credit scheme in each year since 2008.
	(74036)

112	Jim McGovern (Dundee West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how much his Department has allocated to the Film Tax Credit scheme in each year from 2008 to 2013.
	(74189)

113	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to ensure sufficient locally-generated television content in programming in England.
	(74180)

114	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to remove barriers to market entry experienced by local television producers.
	(74221)

115	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent representations he has received on the advertisement of abortion services on television channels.
	(74222)

116	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister since his appointment on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes.
	(74298)

117	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73986)

118	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what recent assessment the Government has made of the effect on levels of inbound tourism of the cost of a visa to visit the UK compared to the cost of a visa to visit a country in the Schengen zone.
	(74037)

119	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74366)

120	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74367)

121	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74368)

122	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, how many transport-related fines his Department and its predecessors have settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74369)

123	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect on S4C's independence of having BBC employees on its management team.
	(74006)

124	Mr Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, whether he intends to hold a public consultation on any future proposals to change the governance arrangements for S4C.
	(74007)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence

125	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to announce the results of his Department's review of continuity of education allowance.
	(73999)

126	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will allow families of members of the armed forces facing redundancy to remain in their current location until the decisions on such redundancies have been made.
	(74000)

127 N	Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost of (a) Ministers and (b) Royal Air Force personnel promoting defence exports has been in the last 12 months.
	(73596)

128 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the conditions faced by service personnel on active service in Afghanistan.
	(73594)

129 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel have applied to be considered for redundancy since May 2010; and what assessment he has made of the effect of redundancy notices issued to service personnel on active duty.
	(73637)

130 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assurances he sought regarding future planning use prior to the disposal of Chelsfied Ammunition Depot at Badgers Mount, Sevenoaks.
	(73547)

131	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the maintenance backlog on his Department's estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74260)

132

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74204)

133	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of charities supporting the armed forces since 2003.
	(74028)

134 N	Iain McKenzie (Inverclyde): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of changes to the Ministry of Defence Police budget on its ability to police and secure his Department's estates; and if he will make a statement.
	(73601)

135	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what services and facilities are available for injured armed forces personnel at MoD St Athan; and if he will make a statement.
	(74116)

136	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding provided by his Department to the third sector has been spent in Wales to provide services and facilities to injured and sick (a) serving armed forces personnel and (b) veterans in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.
	(74287)

137	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Paveway II bombs, (b) Paveway IV bombs, (c) Dual Mode Brimstone missiles, (d) Hellfire missiles, (e) 30mm cannon rounds, (f) CRV7 rockets and (h) Tomahawk land attack missiles have been used in Operation Ellamy to date.
	(74109)

138

Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) sorties and (b) hours have been flown by UK (i) Typhoon, (ii) Tornado GR4, (iii) E-3D, (iv) VC10, (v) BAe 146, (vi) HS125, (vii) C-130 Hercules, (viii) Chinook HC2, (ix) C-17, (x) Tristar, (xi) Apache AH1, (xii) Sea King ASAC.7, (xiii) Lynx HMA.8, (xiv) Merlin HMA.1 and (xv) Sea King HC.4 aircraft during Operation Ellamy to date.

(74110)

139	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many 4.5 inch shells of each munitions type have been fired from Royal Navy vessels in Operation Ellamy to date.
	(74111)

140	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what joint procurement exercises his Department has undertaken with partners in (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Norway, (d) Sweden, (e) Finland and (f) Denmark.
	(74112)

141	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the preferred bidder for the Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme will be announced.
	(74113)

142	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the Talon Laser Guided Rocket for use on the Apache helicopter.
	(74114)

143

Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what compensation has been paid to companies for the early cancellation of the (a) Nimrod MRA4 design, development and production contract, (b) Nimrod MRA4 simulator and training systems, (c) Nimrod MRA4 support solution, (d) Nimrod MR2 simulator service, (e) Harrier HPAC support contract, (f) Harrier engine support contract and (h) Harrier TIEC communications upgrade.

(74115)

144	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the (a) completion date and (b) cost to the public purse of the Valiant Jetty programme.
	(74128)

145	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans any future sale of the components of the Joint Supply Chain Services group.
	(74129)

146	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for personnel using the Maritime Composite Training System to conduct live training with service personnel from foreign nations using the Joint Multinational Interoperability Assurance Network.
	(74130)

147	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the final downselection in the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability tanker contract to occur.
	(74131)

148	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many fire missions have been undertaken by Royal Navy warships against Libya land maritime targets in Operation Ellamy to date; and how many of these targets were (a) detected and (b) fire adjusted onto target by (i) United States Navy P-3 Orion aircraft, (ii) Canadian P-140 and (iii) US Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
	(74138)

149	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to the public purse is of the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability tanker contract.
	(74275)

150	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date he expects the (a) first and (b) last Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability tankers to be delivered to the Royal Navy.
	(74276)

151

Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he expects to be saved in (a) Resource DEL, (b) Capital DEL, (c) annually-managed expenditure and (d) in total by (i) withdrawing Sentinel R.1 from service between 2015 and 2020, (ii) not taking Shadow R.1 into permanent RAR service between 2015 and 2020, (iii) not taking Reaper UAV into permanent RAF service between 2012 and 2020, (iv) delaying the entry into service of the F-35 until 2020, (v) changing the JCA variant from F-35B to F-35C and (vi) capping the number of Typhoon aircraft in service at 107 between 2015 and 2020.

(74277)

152 N	Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) service, (b) location and (c) strength is of each military band.
	(73599)

153	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many letters he has received on funding for civil societies organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73979)

154	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the production of a medal for veterans of the Arctic convoys.
	(74157)

155	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian employees, including civil servants, his Department has employed on average in each year since 2005.
	(74158)

156	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many persons were selected for each of the armed forces from each nation and region of the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	(74159)

157	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74322)

158	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74323)

159	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74324)

160	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74325)

Questions to the Deputy Prime Minister

161	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2011, Official Report, column 623W, on Recall of Members of Parliament, whether he expects to publish his proposals for recall of hon. Members by their constituents before the Christmas recess.
	(73952)

162	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which categories of prisoners he expects to be enfranchised.
	(73965)

163	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what timetable he expects to set is for the introduction of elections to the House of Lords; and if he will make a statement.
	(74294)

164	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the introduction of individual electoral registration on the number of people registered to vote.
	(74029)

165	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what estimate he has made of the change in the numbers of electors registered in the electoral register in (a) Livingston constituency and (b) Scotland following implementation of proposals for individual electoral registration.
	(74030)

166	Graeme Morrice (Livingston): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the evidential basis is for his proposals on future requirements for people to co-operate with electoral registration officers compiling a register of electors.
	(74151)

167	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister since his appointment on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes.
	(74300)

168	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which laws and regulations have been repealed since May 2010.
	(73918)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

169	Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that military families are not disadvantaged by the schools admission code.
	(74055)

170 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school playing fields have been sold in England for development in each of the last 20 years; and what acreage of fields was sold in each year.
	(73545)

171	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many former service personnel have (a) applied for and (b) been enrolled in the Troops for Teachers programme.
	(74054)

172	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the maintenance backlog on his Department's estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74261)

173

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74210)

174	Mr Matthew Offord (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will introduce measures to improve the operation of local safeguarding children boards to take account of the conclusions of the Out of Mind, Out of Sight Report from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
	(74181)

175	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to encourage more pupils to take up mathematics and science subjects.
	(74236)

176	Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will (a) place in the Library and (b) publish the funding agreement for the West London Free School.
	(74004)

177	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many letters he has received on funding for civil sector organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12 in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73988)

178	Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of small schools that will become (a) academies and (b) free schools.
	(74073)

179	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74338)

180	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74339)

181	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74340)

182	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many transport-related fines his Department and its predecessors have settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74341)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

183	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to support community-owned renewable energy schemes.
	(73951)

184	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress has been made on the Renewables Obligation Certificate banding review; and when he expects his proposed consultation as part of that review to commence.
	(73954)

185	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he expects the contract to be signed with the Scottish Power consortium for the first carbon capture and storage demonstration project.
	(73955)

186 N	Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what progress he has made on negotiations to apply a carbon price to international shipping emissions.
	(73584)

187

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since its inception.

(74214)

188	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the implications of (a) geology and (b) redundant mine-workings in the South Wales coalfields for potential shale gas exploration and hydraulic fracturing.
	(74023)

189	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the maximum depth of drilling operations for shale gas is in the UK; and at what depths he expects hydraulic fracturing to take place.
	(74027)

190 N	Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his most recent estimate is of the annual average (a) proportion and (b) cash amount by which the energy bills of domestic consumers are increased in order to finance and subsidise the provision of renewable energy.
	(73542)

191	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73994)

192

Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answers of 7 July 2011, Official Report, column 1371W and of 5 September 2011, Official Report, column 197W, on energy: housing, when he expects the Green Deal to be launched; and how soon after the launch of the Green Deal he proposes to publish the outstanding progress reports under the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995.

(74182)

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

193	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timetable she has set for the development of the biodiversity offsetting pilots.
	(73953)

194
N

Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to recommendation nine of the Review of research using non-human primates chaired by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS, what steps her Department takes to ensure non-human primate experiments undertaken overseas and funded by UK organisations comply with National Centre for the Replacement, Retirement and Reduction of Animals in Research guidelines.

(73613)

195

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion her Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74208)

196	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will direct the Environment Agency to consider the implications of the (a) geology and (b) redundant mine-workings of the South Wales coalfields for shale gas exploration and hydraulic fracturing before the grant of any licence for exploitation or exploration.
	(74024)

197	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent representations she has received on the implementation of the Welfare of Laying Hens Directive in each other EU member state; and if she will make a statement.
	(74102)

198	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what requirements there are on veterinary practices to provide to the customer information on the prices of widely used veterinary medicines.
	(74153)

199	Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the level of farming regulation.
	(74293)

200	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to prevent attacks on horses and other livestock.
	(74219)

201	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help increase levels of access to the coastline.
	(74234)

202	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2011, Official Report, column 1085W, on wildlife: circuses, what estimate she has made of the cost of enforcing a licensing scheme for wild animals in circuses using Government approved vets.
	(74003)

203	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many letters she has received on funding for civil society organisations within her Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if she will make a statement.
	(73983)

204	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects her Department plans in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74350)

205	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of invoices from suppliers her Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74351)

206	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many external training courses staff of her Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74352)

207	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many transport-related fines her Department has settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74353)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

208	Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has received on the cost of obtaining a visa for travel to the US.
	(74262)

209 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help achieve a long-term peace in Kashmir.
	(73570)

210 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he received from (a) the Indian government, (b) the Pakistani government, (c) human rights organisations and (d) individuals prior to the debate on Human Rights on the Indian Subcontinent on 15 September 2011.
	(73571)

211 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on respect for human rights in Kashmir; and if he will make a statement.
	(73572)

212 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Indian government on respect for human rights in Indian-administered Kashmir; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of any such discussions.
	(73576)

213 N	Ian Austin (Dudley North): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with human rights organisations on respect for human rights in Indian-administered Kashmir.
	(73577)

214 N	Fiona Bruce (Congleton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea the case of the family of Dr Oh Kil-nam, believed to have been detained in Yodok prison camp in North Korea.
	(73541)

215 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the proposed demolition of the school in Khan al Ahmar, West Bank.
	(73585)

216 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effects on the Bedouin population in the West Bank of demolitions of homes and schools by Israel.
	(73586)

217	Mr James Clappison (Hertsmere): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt; and whether he has plans to make representations to the government of Egypt on the protection of religious minorities.
	(74303)

218 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many hon. Members requested assistance from his Department for constituents detained without trial in countries in the Middle East in each of the last 10 years.
	(73557)

219 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many hon. Members wrote to him about constituents detained and awaiting trial in Dubai in each of the last 10 years.
	(73558)

220 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many requests he received from hon. Members for assistance from his Department to bring to trial constituents detained in other countries in each of the last 10 years.
	(73559)

221	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the human rights situation in Malawi following the death of Robert Chasowa.
	(74192)

222	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the government of Malawi on its response to recent anti-government protests.
	(74193)

223	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support his Department is providing to the government of Nigeria to help resolve localised violent conflict in that country.
	(73928)

224	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contribution his Department is making to combating emerging terrorist threats in Nigeria.
	(73929)

225

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74202)

226	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what prior agreement was reached between the Government and the government of Israel on special mission status for the visit to the UK of the Leader of the Opposition in Israel; what the terms of the agreement were; and on what date it was agreed.
	(74145)

227	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what occasions special mission status has been granted to visiting politicians of opposition parties in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	(74163)

228	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on what occasions special mission status has been granted to visiting politicians of opposition parties in Israel in the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
	(74164)

229	Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions have been held with the government of Israel on the granting of special mission status to Israeli opposition politicians visiting the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	(74265)

230 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last discussed in person human rights and democracy with the Chinese Ambassador.
	(73143)

231 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last had direct discussions with the government of Belarus.
	(73617)

232 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with the government of China in 2011.
	(73618)

233 N	John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many hon. Members his Department assisted in arranging visas for or meetings in China in (a) 2010 and (b) 2011.
	(73620)

234	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the state of relations between the UK and Sierra Leone.
	(74231)

235	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials of his Department are posted to Sierra Leone.
	(74232)

236	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials of his Department are posted to Ghana.
	(74237)

237	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to visit Ghana.
	(74238)

238	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Ghanaian nationals have been deported from the UK to Ghana in each of the last 10 years.
	(74242)

239	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on the maintenance of British assets on the British Indian Ocean Territory in each of the last five years.
	(74246)

240	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the designated Marine Protected Area surrounding the Chagos archipelago.
	(74247)

241	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many infringements of the designated Marine Protected Area surrounding the Chagos Archipelago have been reported to his Department since the area's inception.
	(74248)

242	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on enforcement of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) Marine Protected Area since the area's inception.
	(74249)

243	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his officials have duties associated with enforcing the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) Marine Protected Area.
	(74250)

244	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has any plans to propose the repeal of the legislation establishing the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) Marine Protected Area.
	(74251)

245 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Algeria on religious freedom for Christians in that country.
	(73567)

246 N	Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provided to B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories in each of the last five years.
	(73543)

247	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73982)

248	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the original estimate was for the cost to the public purse of his Department's Prism IT enterprise resource planning system in current prices; what the final cost was at the time of completion in current prices; and whether additional costs have been incurred since completion.
	(73917)

249	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) 2011-12 and (ii) 2012-13; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74370)

250	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74371)

251	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74372)

252	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74373)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Health

253	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for future levels of qualifications required for students studying social work; and if he will make a statement.
	(74106)

254	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to introduce a system within the proposed new NHS structure to ensure that procurement practices achieve value for money.
	(74266)

255	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the extent to which NHS procurement practices enable the making of efficiency savings.
	(74267)

256	Mr Robert Buckland (South Swindon): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with NHS trusts on the sharing of best practice in respect of the adoption of money-saving technologies.
	(74269)

257 N	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Health and Social Care Bill to require joint working between health and education services in respect of children.
	(73634)

258 N	Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how commissioners will obtain specialist advice on speech, language and communication needs under his propoasls for NHS reform.
	(73635)

259	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many births per full-time equivalent NHS midwife there were in each region in 2010.
	(73919)

260 N	Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many psychologists employed by the NHS specialised in (a) cancer, (b) dermatology, (c) burns, (d) plastics, (e) opthalmology, (f) craniofacial conditions, (g) maxillofacial conditons and (h) neurological conditions in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(73560)

261	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what systems are being put in place to address drug-resistant tuberculosis in (a) England and (b) London.
	(74306)

262	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, who will be responsible for commissioning (a) immunisation, (b) screening, (c) treatment and (d) other tuberculosis services and programmes across London in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.
	(74307)

263 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has for the future of the debt held by Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust.
	(73578)

264 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what basis the clinical and financial performance of Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust will be assessed under its operating franchise; and what benchmarks he plans to set to assess the performance of the franchise.
	(73579)

265 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the board of Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust will continue to meet in public and publish agendas and minutes of its meetings under the terms of its operating franchise.
	(73580)

266 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the contract with Circle Heath for the franchise of Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust.
	(73581)

267 N	John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his letter to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne of 7 December 2010, what the reason is for the time taken to commence the franchise of Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust.
	(73582)

268

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74205)

269 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the safeguards in the Personal Demographics Service to prevent illegal access to personal information.
	(73738)

270 N	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of non-disclosure clauses signed by doctors in each London hospital in the last five years; and what information his Department holds on the reasons for the clause in each case.
	(73739)

271	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS hospital trusts abide by his Department's guidance on the use of confidentiality clauses in compromise agreements.
	(74257)

272 N	Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2011, Official Report, columns 1263-4W, on health services: reciprocal arrangements, what steps he is taking to ensure the timely recovery of outstanding payments; and what the level of outstanding payments is from the UK to each country listed.
	(73561)

273 N	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people waited over six months for NHS treatment in Birmingham in each year since 1997.
	(72407)

274 N	Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for (a) inpatient and (b) outpatient treatments was for patients in Birmingham on (i) May 1997 and (ii) May of each subsequent year.
	(72408)

275	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on allowing all hospital trusts in England to decide what consumables they buy.
	(74098)

276	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has assessed the possibility for greater efficiency savings in the procurement of consumables by NHS acute and foundation trusts in England.
	(74099)

277	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he has given to (a) intervening, (b) directing or (c) providing guidance to NHS acute and foundation trusts on reducing the cost of the procurement of consumables.
	(74100)

278	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve levels of organ donation.
	(74223)

279	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of stem cell treatments to human health.
	(74224)

280	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of childhood obesity.
	(74225)

281	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent childhood diabetes.
	(74226)

282	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on providing that the right of appeal for patients who are dissatisfied with the NHS service they receive can be made to a locally accountable body following the implementation of the Health and Social Care Bill.
	(74074)

283	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government plans to take to ensure that the interests of the patient remain the primary priority for doctors.
	(74075)

284	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the commissioning function remains a public function carried out by a public body following the implementation of the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill.
	(74076)

285	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will assess the efficacy of the regulatory regime that applies to pharmacy wholesalers; and whether he has any plans to alter that regulatory regime.
	(74077)

286	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the uptake of cardiac rehabilitation services in England by patients with acute myocardial infarction; and if he will make a statement.
	(74078)

287	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he has given to increasing the collection and publication of data on acute myocardial infarction and cardiac rehabilitation services in England; and if he will make a statement.
	(74079)

288	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he has given to collecting and publishing data on emergency readmissions within 28 days of discharge from hospital according to diagnosis code as part of the data collection within the NHS Outcomes Framework.
	(74080)

289	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to involve allied health professionals and the health clinicians in strategic planning through joint strategic needs assessments and joint health and wellbeing strategies.
	(74081)

290	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to place Health and Wellbeing Boards under a statutory duty to gain specialist advice from allied health professionals and other NHS clinicians.
	(74082)

291	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what consideration he has given to amending the legislative provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act 2001 in respect of mental health policy in higher education institutions.
	(74084)

292	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that Directors of Public Health retain autonomy following the implementation of the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill.
	(74086)

293	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to seek the removal of Clause 4 from the Health and Social Care Bill.
	(74137)

294	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to ensure that all hospitals adopt common standards of performing and recording laboratory and x-ray investigations.
	(74272)

295	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of implementation of the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill on vulnerable households; and if he will make a statement.
	(74273)

296 N	Chris Skidmore (Kingswood): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2011, Official Report, column 1179W, on health services: overseas visitors (a) how much was owed to the NHS in unpaid bills incurred by foreign nationals and (b) what the sum was of NHS bills incurred by foreign nationals in each year between 1997 and 2011 by primary care trust.
	(73562)

297 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the European Commission's review of the Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive 2005/36/EC, with regard to (a) midwives and (b) other healthcare professionals.
	(73597)

298	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73984)

299	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost of each such project will be.
	(74334)

300	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74335)

301	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74336)

302	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff in each year since 2007; and at what cost.
	(74337)

303	Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes): To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings officials in his Department's alcohol policy team have had with representatives of the (a) drinks industry and (b) drinks marketing industry since the team was established.
	(74053)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

304	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of victims of crime who have reported crimes to the police have been kept informed of the progress of the police investigation in each of the last two years.
	(73920)

305	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of assets (a) seized and (b) frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each of the last three years.
	(74263)

306	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers who are classified as obese.
	(74264)

307	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the expenditure incurred by police forces in connection with the recovery of assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each of the last five years.
	(74268)

308	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police civilian staff have (i) been subject to disciplinary action and (ii) had their employment terminated due to breaches of protocol relating to Police National Computer checks in each of the last five years.
	(74305)

309	Mr David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) cautioned, (b) charged and (c) given a penalty notice for disorder for selling alcohol to people under the age of 18 in each London borough in each of the last three years.
	(74308)

310	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the monetary value of the maintenance backlog (a) on her Department's estate and (b) for the non-departmental public bodies for which she is responsible in each of the last five years; and what estimate she has made of the time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74197)

311 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has amended its guidelines for immigration officers which instruct them to allow polygamous families to live in the UK even if that sets up a polygamous marriage in the UK since her appointment.
	(73632)

312 N	Martin Horwood (Cheltenham): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recommendation 14 of the Review of research using non-human primates chaired by Professor Sir Patrick Bateson FRS; when she proposes that new advice will be given to research workers on the destruction of records; and how such advice would be communicated.
	(73612)

313

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion her Department has entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74203)

314 N	Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the total cost to the public purse of policing alcohol-related anti-social behaviour in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010; and what she estimates such costs will be in (i) 2011, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2013.
	(73549)

315 N	Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of total alcohol sales in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (e) 2015.
	(73550)

316 N	Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of units and (b) monetary value of alcohol sold at a price below duty plus VAT in the last year.
	(73551)

317	Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the safety of (a) nose control and (b) other restraint techniques used by private security companies undertaking enforced removals; and what consideration she has given to phasing out the use of such techniques.
	(73937)

318	Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appeals in respect of refused student visa applications have (a) been upheld and (b) not been upheld in the last 12 months.
	(74043)

319	Shabana Mahmood (Birmingham, Ladywood): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were (a) applied for and (b) granted in each of the last five years.
	(74044)

320	Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will issue guidance to police forces and police authorities on the application of the provisions of the Fraud Act 2006 to (a) bailiff operations and (b) local authority officials who employ private bailiff companies.
	(73963)

321 N	Lisa Nandy (Wigan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who she expects to undertake the independent inspection of pre-departure accommodation centre for families and children detained for immigration purposes at Pease Pottage opened on 5 September 2011.
	(73553)

322 N	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful applicants for asylum had the ability to speak English to A1 standard in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010.
	(73622)

323 N	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what English language training her Department provides to successful applicants for asylum; what the budget for such training was in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11; and what the budget for such training will be in each financial year to 2014-15.
	(73623)

324 N	Mr Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum were granted in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010.
	(73624)

325	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance her Department provides to Sri Lankan nationals who have not been successful in a UK asylum application and have been deported to Sri Lanka.
	(74218)

326	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the damage caused to the London Borough of Havering by recent civil disorder.
	(74220)

327	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in London on the deportation from the UK of Sri Lankan nationals.
	(74227)

328	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications from Sri Lankan nationals have been (a) granted and (b) refused in each of the last 10 years.
	(74229)

329	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sri Lankan nationals have been deported from the UK to Sri Lanka in each of the last 10 years.
	(74230)

330	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the incidence of scrap metal theft.
	(74233)

331	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ghanaian nationals were refused entry to the UK in each of the last five years.
	(74240)

332	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications from Ghanaian nationals have been (a) granted and (b) refused in each of the last 10 years.
	(74243)

333	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were granted to Ghanaian nationals in each of the last 10 years.
	(74244)

334	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas have been granted to foreign nationals (a) under the age of 20 and (b) over the age of 30 in each of the last 10 years.
	(74245)

335

Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many orders under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 have been served on football supporters since its inception; how many such orders have been served in the last 12 months; whether any discussions have taken place with (a) the Association of Chief Police Officers, (b) the UK Football Policing Unit and (c) individual police forces on the appropriate use of section 27; what assessment she has made of whether section 27 is being used appropriately; and if she will make a statement.

(74051)

336	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she gave to undertaking a public consultation on the change in the basis for indexation of police pensions from the Retail Prices Index to the Consumer Prices Index.
	(74083)

337	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when a decision will be reached on the inclusion of legislation from the Animal Rights Act 1986 into the framework of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
	(74134)

338	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which of the measures in force under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 will be retained after the introduction into UK legislation of the provisions of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
	(74135)

339	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the outcome of the consultation on the transposition into UK law of European Directive 2010/63/EU.
	(74136)

340	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many letters she has received on funding for civil society organisations within her Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if she will make a statement.
	(73992)

341	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the number of vessels used by the UK Border Agency for coastline patrols.
	(74252)

342	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of coastline patrols by the UK Border Agency in 2010-11.
	(74253)

343	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vessels the UK Border Agency uses to patrol the Scottish coastline; and how many staff are employed to crew such vessels.
	(74254)

344	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests were made following coastline patrols by the UK Border Agency in 2010-11.
	(74255)

345	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what illegal goods were seized by the UK Border Agency as a result of coastline patrols in 2010-11; and what the monetary value was of such goods.
	(74256)

346	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the policy of the UK Border Agency is on responding to constituency cases raised by regional list members of the (a) Scottish Parliament, (b) Welsh Assembly and (c) Northern Ireland Assembly.
	(74259)

347	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects her Department plans in the (i) current and (ii) next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74378)

348	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of invoices from suppliers her Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74379)

349	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many external training courses staff of her Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74380)

350	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many transport-related fines her Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74381)

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

351 N	Mr Tom Watson (West Bromwich East): To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many (a) computers and (b) mobile telephones have been reported stolen from the parliamentary estate in the last 12 months.
	(73621)

Questions to the Secretary of State for International Development

352 N	Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports he has received of access to education for the Bedouin population in the West Bank.
	(73587)

353	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid from the EU budget has been disbursed to trade unions in each of the last 10 financial years.
	(74127)

354

Jim Dobbin (Heywood and Middleton): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Heywood and Middleton of 6 July 2011, Official Report, column 1265W, on developing countries: family planning, whether his Department has completed its negotiations with Marie Stopes International on a Programme Partnership Arrangement; and if he will make a statement.

(74292)

355	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the prevalence of (a) multidrug resistant tuberculosis and (b) extremely drug resistant tuberculosis.
	(74195)

356	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans he has to use development assistance to encourage growth and investment in Nigeria.
	(73931)

357	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress his Department has made in improving education provision in Nigeria through its programmes in that country.
	(73932)

358	Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to support anti-corruption programmes in Nigeria.
	(73933)

359	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid his Department has given to Sri Lanka in each of the last 10 years.
	(74228)

360	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many officials of his Department are posted to Ghana.
	(74239)

361	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73981)

362	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74358)

363	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74359)

364	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74360)

365	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74361)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Justice

366

Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions in respect of how many offences of (a) possession and (b) supply and possession with intent to supply a drug in each category of classification the perpetrator was not brought to court but given a police caution in each of the last three years.

(74104)

367	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, how many of those receiving custodial sentences for each category of offence were (a) first offenders and (b) repeat offenders.
	(74105)

368	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, how many cautions were given in relation to all categories of offence in each year for which figures were given.
	(74107)

369	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, how many of the other sentences handed out for all three categories on drugs offences involved fines; and what the average fine imposed was in respect of each category of offence.
	(74288)

370	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, what the average length of prison sentence was for each category of drug-related offence in each year since 2007.
	(74289)

371

Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, how many of those given maximum sentences for each of the categories of drugs offence between 2007 and 2010 received such sentences in (a) the Crown Court and (b) a magistrates court; and what the name was of each court in which such sentences were handed down.

(74290)

372	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2011, Official Report, column 839W, on drugs: convictions, what the categories of other sentences represented in the table in the Answer are; and how many of each category of offence were disposed of through each other sentence.
	(74291)

373	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous convictions for possession of a bladed article was for an individual convicted of such an offence without being sent to prison in each of the last three years; and how many offences that individual had committed in total at the point of sentence for this offence.
	(73939)

374	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2011, Official Report, column 1338W, on civil disorder, what the (a) circumstances were and (b) location was of each offence under section 1 of the Public Order Act 1986; whether each prosecution was successful; and what sentence was handed down where the offender was found guilty.
	(74005)

375	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been sentenced to prison terms of (a) less than six months , (b) between six and 12 months, (c) between one and two years and (d) over two years in each of the last five years.
	(74162)

376	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of those arrested for offences connected with the recent public disorder had previously served a sentence of imprisonment under 12 months.
	(74161)

377 N	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many staff were employed by the Tribunals Service to deal with appeals against work capability assessment decisions in each month of (a) 2010 and (b) 2011.
	(72788)

378 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many polygamous households exist in the UK; and what steps are being taken to reduce the number of such households.
	(73633)

379

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74213)

380 N	Chris Leslie (Nottingham East): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of claims and (b) total value of claims paid to residents of the City of Nottingham through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was in the latest financial year for which figures are available.
	(73640)

381	Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance he has provided to (a) local authorities and (b) magistrates' courts on assessing costs reasonably incurred under the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992; whether local authorities are permitted to accrue revenue from such costs; and if he will make a statement.
	(73962)

382	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week (a) young offenders and (b) adult prisoners at Parc Prison, Bridgend spent in their cells in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	(74117)

383	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours per week (a) young offenders and (b) adult prisoners at Parc Prison, Bridgend spent on (i) work-based activities and (ii) education-based activities in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	(74118)

384	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the ratio of prison officers to (a) young offenders and (b) adult prisoners was in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
	(74119)

385 N	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many cases on appeal dealt with by the Tribunals Service decisions were overturned in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(73564)

386 N	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was for which a person waited to have their case heard by the Tribunals Service in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many people waited longer than (a) six months and (b) 12 months.
	(73565)

387 N	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were waiting to be heard by the Tribunals Service on the most recent date for which figures are available.
	(73566)

388 N	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what resources he has allocated to the Tribunals Service to reduce the number of cases waiting to be heard in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(73568)

389 N	Grahame M. Morris (Easington): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were employed by the Tribunals Service to hear appeals in each of the last five years.
	(73569)

390	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help protect property owners from squatters.
	(74235)

391	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister since his appointment on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes.
	(74296)

392	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73996)

393	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in the (i) current and (ii) next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74382)

394	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74383)

395	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74384)

396	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74385)

Questions to the Leader of the House

397	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Leader of the House, what discussions he has had with the Prime Minister since his appointment on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough Cabinet minutes.
	(74295)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

398	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73989)

399	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74362)

400	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74363)

401	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74364)

402	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many transport-related fines his Department and its predecessors has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74365)

Questions to the Prime Minister

403	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Prime Minister, what the pay band is of the special adviser in his Office for liaison between 10 Downing Street and the Scotland Office.
	(74279)

404	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Prime Minister, what the pay band is of the civil servant in 10 Downing Street who is to manage Scottish matters at an official level.
	(74280)

405	Angus Robertson (Moray): To ask the Prime Minister, whether he has appointed any other special advisers or civil servants to advise or assist 10 Downing Street on Scottish matters since September 2011; and at what (a) salary and (b) other set up or relocation cost.
	(74281)

406	Steve Rotheram (Liverpool, Walton): To ask the Prime Minister, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues since his appointment on the unredacted release of the Hillsborough cabinet minutes.
	(74301)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Scotland

407	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million and (c) over £1 million his Department and its predecessor have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.
	(74215)

408	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73990)

409	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74386)

410	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74387)

411	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74388)

412	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74389)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport

413 N	Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent representations he has received on the future of local DVLA offices; and if he will make a statement.
	(73874)

414	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the one bag rule applied by certain airlines; and if he will make a statement.
	(73958)

415	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment has been made through roadside checks of levels of compliance with legal requirements relating to weights, condition of vehicles and driver's hours; and how often roadside checks are carried out.
	(73959)

416	Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the status is of his Department's proposed increase in maximum trailer size for articulated heavy goods vehicles; and what assessment he has made of the potential effects of the increase on (a) levels of cyclists' safety and (b) the environment.
	(74179)

417 N	Gloria De Piero (Ashfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review on local transport services in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England.
	(73554)

418 N	Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he made of the ability to deliver the technical requirements of the Thameslink Rolling Stock Project when awarding preferred bidder status.
	(73600)

419	Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what rules his Department applies to borrowing by major trust ports; what his policy is on authorising any proposed borrowing in cases where a port has unlimited borrowing powers and where lenders are content to provide finance without requiring any Government guarantee; and if he will make a statement.
	(74048)

420	Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has informed any major trust port classified as a public corporation that it cannot borrow for capital projects because his Department has no provision for such borrowing within its departmental expenditure limit for the period up to and including 2014.
	(74049)

421	Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether all borrowing by major trust ports classified as public corporations counts against annually-managed expenditure or departmental expenditure limits for the purposes of HM Treasury classification rules.
	(74050)

422	Charlie Elphicke (Dover): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons he no longer issues statements when he appoints trust port board members or authorises an extension in terms for such members; and if he will make it his policy to publish such appointments until such time as the trust port concerned ceases to be his responsibility.
	(74152)

423 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the proposal by staff at Liverpool Maritime and Coastguard Agency to create a Maritime Operations Centre at Liverpool.
	(73744)

424 N	Bill Esterson (Sefton Central): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what responses he has received to his Department's consultation on the future of the coastguard; and what assessment he has made of those submissions.
	(73745)

425	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration he has given to redrafting the draft ATOL regulations to exclude Flight Plus arrangements sold by airlines from the requirement to provide financial protection.
	(74087)

426	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to bring forward legislation on including holidays sold by airlines within a scheme of financial protection.
	(74088)

427	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department will publish its response to its recent consultation on test fees.
	(74089)

428	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish the (a) environmental and (b) equality impact assessment in respect of its proposals for the VOSA Testing Transformation Project.
	(74090)

429	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roadside heavy vehicle tests were administered in each of the last three years.
	(74091)

430	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he expects the Air Travel Trust Fund to return to surplus.
	(74092)

431	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish details on the information required on an ATOL certificate.
	(74093)

432	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the likely roll-out time for the proposed ATOL certificate.
	(74094)

433	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of new travel businesses which will be required to apply for an ATOL certificate under his Department's proposals.
	(74095)

434	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable he has established for the commencement of pre-legislative scrutinity of the draft Aviation Bill.
	(74096)

435	Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to exempt business travel from the reformed ATOL scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	(74097)

436	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on a high-speed rail link between Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
	(73998)

437	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the consultation on Air Travel Organisers' Licensing reform.
	(73941)

438	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses his Department received in the consultation on Air Travel Organisers' Licensing reform.
	(73942)

439	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects changes to the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing scheme to be implemented.
	(73943)

440	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many representations received during the consultation process on Air Travel Organisers' Licensing reform expressed concern about the date by which the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing certificate would be implemented.
	(73944)

441	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the likely costs to travel businesses of implementing his proposals for changes to the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing scheme.
	(73945)

442	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the level of consumer awareness of the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing scheme.
	(73946)

443	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) consumer organisations, (b) airlines and (c) representatives of travel agents in relation to proposed changes to the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing scheme.
	(73947)

444	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many package holidays were booked in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and how many and what proportion of such holidays were sold by (i) tour operators and (ii) airlines.
	(73948)

445	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he proposes to widen the scope of the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing scheme to flight and hotel holidays sold by airlines.
	(73949)

446

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74206)

447	Dr Julian Huppert (Cambridge): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure adequate maintenance and improvement of cycleways and footways in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
	(73935)

448	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will discuss with Arriva Trains the provision of new rolling-stock and additional carriages on Gloucester to Maesteg passenger rail services.
	(74025)

449	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will consider the merits of reviewing passenger overcrowding on London to Bristol sections of passenger rail services between London and South Wales.
	(74026)

450	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent measures he has considered to alleviate passenger overcrowding and passenger standing on rail services.
	(74101)

451	Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will consider the merits of introducing legislation to eradicate the incidence of passenger overcrowding and passenger standing on rail services.
	(74103)

452 N	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration he has given to allowing delegated driving examiners to provide tests for multiple bus companies where there is no conflict of interest.
	(73740)

453 N	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the costs incurred by municipal bus companies as a result of being restricted to borrowing only from local authorities.
	(73741)

454 N	Helen Jones (Warrington North): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration he has give to bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Transport Act 1985 to allow municipal bus companies to borrow on the open market; and if he will make a statement.
	(73742)

455 N	Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he proposes that his response to his recent consultation on the implementation of the transport elements of the Renewable Energy Directive will consider proposals for two separate obligation targets for biodiesel and ethanol under the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation.
	(73607)

456	Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much debt was owed on the Humber Bridge (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in 1995; what the rate of interest was in each case; whether any part of the debt was not interest-bearing in each case; and when he expects the debt to be paid off.
	(73964)

457	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many letters he has received on funding for civil society organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73985)

458	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, at what locations the coastguard has used emergency towing vessels in operations off the Scottish coast in the last five years.
	(74120)

459	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent consideration he has given to amending legislation to allow local authorities access to overseas driver and vehicle registration data to enable the enforcement of parking fines.
	(74148)

460	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the sums in outstanding parking fines owed to local authorities by drivers of foreign registered vehicles.
	(74149)

461	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74346)

462	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74347)

463	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74348)

464	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74349)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Wales

465	Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million and (c) over £1 million her Department and its predecessor have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.
	(74216)

466	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many letters she has received on funding for civil society organisations within her Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if she will make a statement.
	(73991)

467	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects her Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74390)

468	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what proportion of invoices from suppliers her Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74391)

469	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many external training courses staff of her Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74392)

470	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many transport-related fines her Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74393)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

471	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of administering universal credit (a) monthly and (b) fortnightly; and if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of offering benefit recipients the choice of how regularly they receive payments.
	(74283)

472	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what action will be taken in cases where a partner receiving universal credit on behalf of a couple are found to be (a) abusive of the other partner and (b) not supporting the other partner financially.
	(74284)

473

Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 3(d) of the revised version of Universal Credit Policy Briefing Note 2, 12 September 2011, in what situation all or part of the payment of income support, income-based jobseekers' allowance or other benefits can currrently be redirected from the main claimant to their partner in couples; and in how many cases in each such situation this has occurred in the last five years.

(74285)

474	Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether money management advice will be provided to universal credit recipients moving from fortnightly to monthly payments; what form any such advice will take; and what the means of delivery will be of such advice.
	(74286)

475 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people living in residential care homes in each local authority claim the mobility component of disability living allowance.
	(73573)

476
N

Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland that are in receipt of tax credits that will have their universal credit payment (i) capped and (ii) reduced below their existing tax credit entitlement as a result of the application of rules on the treatment of capital under the universal credit scheme.

(73574)

477 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to his Department of writing to all contributory employment and support allowance claimants in the support group to inform them of the entitlement changes to their benefit.
	(73575)

478 N	Margaret Curran (Glasgow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in (a) Glasgow and (b) Scotland are currently in receipt of the (i) disability premium and (ii) enhanced disability premium.
	(73598)

479	Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Child Support Agency has not provided information within the timescale requested to the (a) Independent Case Examiner and (b) Parliamentary Ombudsman in each of the last three years.
	(73940)

480 N	Nick de Bois (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to allow local authorities to transfer unspent central Government funding provided for the annual allowance for discretionary housing payments into the subsequent financial year.
	(73589)

481 N	Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many laptops were lost by staff of his Department in each of the last five years; and what penalties were imposed on those staff members as a result of the losses.
	(73636)

482	Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the maintenance backlog on his Department's estate in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the time required to complete such maintenance.
	(74258)

483	Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for UK pension schemes of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York's ruling of 19 September 2011 on Aguinda v Chevron; and what plans he has to review pension providers' management of environmental, social and governance risks.
	(73950)

484 N	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department was of appeals made to the Tribunals Service against work capability assessment decisions in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011 to date.
	(72787)

485	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department has issued to Atos-approved healthcare professionals in relation to fibromyalgia and the Work Capability Assessment.
	(74190)

486	Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department recognises fibromyalgia for the purposes of the Work Capability Assessment.
	(74191)

487	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what (a) industries and (b) occupations people have been placed on the Work Programme in Barking constituency to date.
	(74139)

488	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people on the Work Programme in Barking constituency were placed in employment in (a) June, (b) July and (c) August 2011.
	(74140)

489	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much CDG will be paid for keeping one individual in employment for 26 out of the 104 weeks while they are participating in the Work Programme.
	(74141)

490	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much SEETEC will be paid for keeping one individual in employment for 26 out of the 104 weeks they are participating in the Work Programme.
	(74142)

491	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much A4e will be paid for keeping one individual in employment for 26 out of the 104 weeks they are participating in the Work Programme.
	(74143)

492	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Barking constituency have been referred to A4e to participate in the Work Programme.
	(74144)

493	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Barking constituency have been referred to CDG to participate in the Work Programme.
	(74154)

494	Margaret Hodge (Barking): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Barking constituency have been referred to SEETEC to participate in the Work Programme.
	(74155)

495 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims were rejected due to the polygamous nature of the applicant's marriage in each of the last three years.
	(73630)

496 N	Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to what extent polygamous families are recognised in the benefits system; which benefits and credits may be claimed by such families; and if he will estimate the (a) total financial cost and (b) number of recipients of payment of such benefits in the latest period for which figures are available.
	(73631)

497

Stewart Hosie (Dundee East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts of a monetary value of (a) between £100,000 and £500,000, (b) between £500,000 and £1 million, (c) between £1 million and £5 million, (d) between £5 million and £10 million, (e) between £10 million and £50 million, (f) between £50 million and £100 million, (g) between £100 million and £500 million, (h) between £500 million and £1 billion, (i) between £1 billion and £5 billion and (j) over £5 billion his Department and its predecessors have entered into with private suppliers in each year since 1990.

(74211)

498 N	Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2011, Official Report, columns 1173-4W, on industrial health and safety: construction, in what employment sectors each of the duty-holders prosecuted for health and safety offences in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 operated.
	(73603)

499 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the changes which would be needed to the state pension age to maintain the average proportion of adult life spent in receipt of a state pension at the same proportion as in (a) 1980, (b) 2005 and (c) 2011.
	(72363)

500 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the savings to the Exchequer which would arise from bringing forward the proposed increase in the state pension age to 67 years to (a) 2026, (b) 2030 and (c) 2032.
	(72364)

501 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer which would arise from capping the increase in the state pension age for an individual to a maximum of (a) 18 months, (b) 15 months and (c) 12 months.
	(72365)

502 N	Rachel Reeves (Leeds West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the likely effect of auto-enrolment on the amount spent on pensions tax relief in each income decile in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014, (d) 2015 and (e) 2016.
	(72366)

503 N	Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to enable the automatic payment of pension credit; and if he will make a statement.
	(73593)

504 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he carried out an impact assessment of his proposal not to allow access to employment and support allowance during an appeal period; and what account such an impact assessment took of the potential effect on claimants' health and ability to improve their capacity for work of such a policy.
	(73604)

505 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants have had no access to ESA while appealing a decision to end their ESA payments due to a failure to (a) return the work capability questionnaire and (b) attend an ATOS medical assessment for whatever reason since its inception.
	(73605)

506 N	Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to provide some financial support to claimants who have no access to employment and support allowance while appealing a decision to refuse it.
	(73606)

507	Mr Gareth Thomas (Harrow West): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many letters he has received on funding for civil sector organisations within his Department's area of responsibility in each month since 1 June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	(73997)

508 N	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sanctions were issued as a result of a claimant refusing an offer made under the Young Person's Guarantee between April 2010 and March 2011.
	(73590)

509 N	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a claimant will move from universal credit to tax credits if they transfer from an employer making universal credit real time PAYE notifications to one who does not before 2017.
	(73592)

510 N	Stephen Timms (East Ham): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments of claimants previously in receipt of incapacity benefit were completed in each month of 2011 to date.
	(73638)

511	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the situation faced by individuals who have had jobseekers support withdrawn as a result of enrolling on a college course in order to improve their employability.
	(74184)

512	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to individuals in receipt of jobseekers allowance who enrol on short college courses.
	(74185)

513	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of individuals who have stopped receiving jobseekers allowance in each month of the last two years as a result of taking up a higher education course in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland.
	(74186)

514	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of benefits paid by his Department directly into (a) Post Office card accounts and (b) bank accounts in each of the last three years.
	(74187)

515	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in Scotland were (a) eligible and (b) received the winter fuel payment in 2010-11; and how many such pensioners he estimate will be eligible for the winter fuel payment in 2011-12.
	(74188)

516	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects his Department plans in (i) the current and (ii) the next financial year; and what the cost will be of each such project.
	(74326)

517	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in July and August 2010.
	(74327)

518	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many external training courses staff of his Department attended in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of each course.
	(74328)

519	Dr Eilidh Whiteford (Banff and Buchan): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many transport-related fines his Department has settled on behalf of its staff; and at what cost in each year since 2007.
	(74329)

520	Chris Williamson (Derby North): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent representations he has received on the way that Atos Healthcare carry out their assessments on behalf of his Department; and what plans he has for improvements in the way that Atos Healthcare undertake such assessments.
	(74042)

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

521	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what measures are in place to ensure that students with mental health problems in higher education institutions experiencing discrimination as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, are able to seek fair redress; and what his policy is on enforcement of such measures.
	[Transferred] (74132)

522	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what projects have been carried out by the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research on behalf of the Government since May 2010.
	[Transferred] (74270)

523	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what evaluation he has conducted of the work of the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research.
	[Transferred] (74271)

524	Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to address the difference in quality of support available to students with mental health problems at higher education institutions.
	[Transferred] (74278)

Questions to the Minister for the Cabinet Office

525	Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of people aged 18-24 years are unemployed in Halifax; and what proportion were unemployed in May 2010.
	[Transferred] (74002)

Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer

526 N	Gregg McClymont (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households are in each council tax band in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency.
	[Transferred] (73875)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Education

527 N	Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks): To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provisions govern the sale for development of school playing fields.
	[Transferred] (73546)

Questions to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

528	Andrew Rosindell (Romford): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the state of relations between the UK and Ghana.
	[Transferred] (74241)

Questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department

529 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle UK-based websites which promote (a) racism, (b) sectarianism and (c) bigotry; and if she will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (73610)

530 N	Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will discuss with the Minister for Women and Equalities action against UK-based websites which encourage (a) religious conflict, (b) racism and (c) bigotry; and if she will make a statement.
	[Transferred] (73611)

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