Oral Answers
Monday 20 February 2012

Defence 587
      Aircraft Carrier Programme 601
      Contracts (Small Businesses) 588
      Defence Exports 591
      Defence Munitions Beith 595
      Defence Science and Technology 599
      Departmental Budget 587
      Falkland Islands 596
      Falkland Islands (Argentine Forces) 598
      Medals 599
      Medical Emergency Response Team (Helmand) 590
      Olympics (Security) 592
      Pakistan and Afghanistan 600
      Redundancies (Armed Forces) 594
      Topical Questions 602

Written Ministerial Statements
Monday 20 February 2012

Business, Innovation and Skills 57WS
      EU Competitiveness Council 57WS
Communities and Local Government 61WS
      Work of the Department (Half-term Recess) 61WS
Defence 64WS
      Reservists (London Olympic and Paralympic Games) 64WS
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 65WS
      UK/France Summit 65WS
      Zimbabwe (EU Restrictive Measures) 67WS
Justice 68WS
      Transforming Bailiff Action 68WS
Treasury 58WS
      Criminal Sanctions Directive on Market Abuse 58WS
      ECOFIN 59WS
      Red Diesel (Private Pleasure Craft) 61WS
Work and Pensions 69WS
      Workplace Pension Reform 69WS

Petitions
Monday 20 February 2012

Transport 3P
      Dartford Crossing 3P
      Keynsham Railway Station Access 4P

Written Answers
Monday 20 February 2012

Attorney-General 543W
      Crown Prosecution Service 543W
      Freedom of Information 543W
      Police: Ports 544W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 543W
Business, Innovation and Skills 544W
      Apprentices: Greater London 544W
      Business 545W
      Business: Closures 545W
      Business: Regulation 546W
      Copyright: Economic Growth 547W
      Copyright: Higher Education 547W
      Credit: Insurance 547W
      Departmental Air Travel 548W
      EU External Trade: Peru 549W
      European Fighter Aircraft: India 549W
      Flexible Working 549W
      Further Education: Higher Education 550W
      Google 550W
      Graduates: Cumbria 550W
      Green Investment Bank 551W
      Higher Education 551W
      Higher Education: Admissions 552W
      Higher Education: Applications 553W
      Higher Education: Finance 554W
      Higher Education: Part-time Education 553W
      Higher Education: Portsmouth 555W
      Higher Education: Private Sector 555W
      Higher Education: Research 556W
      Higher Education: Scholarships 556W
      Higher Education: Yorkshire and the Humber 558W
      Influenza: International Co-operation 557W
      Innovation 558W
      Nuclear Power 559W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 548W
      Regional Assistance: Northern Ireland 559W
      Student Loan Company 560W
      Student Loan Company: Finance 560W
      Student Loan Company: Manpower 561W
      Student Loan Company: Pay 561W
      Students: Fees and Charges 561W
      Taxation: Senior Civil Servants 562W
      Technology and Innovation Centres 562W
      UK Trade & Investment: Visits Abroad 563W
      Unemployment 563W
      Venture Capital 564W
      Work Experience 548W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 564W
Cabinet Office 595W
      10 Downing Street: Catering 595W
      Advisory Services: Finance 595W
      Childbirth 596W
      Communities First Fund 597W
      Community Development Fund 597W
      Company Finance 598W
      Departmental Training 600W
      E-mail: Department for Education 599W
      Exports: EU Countries 599W
      Government Departments: Procurement 601W
      Identity Cards: Photography 601W
      Job Vacancies 604W
      New Businesses: South East 602W
      Private Sector: Employment 602W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 599W
      Public Sector: Industrial Disputes 602W
      Public Sector: Volunteering 603W
      Senior Civil Servants: Pay 603W
      Student Loans Company: Pay 603W
      Voluntary Work: Young People 604W
Church Commissioners 462W
      Metal Theft 462W
Communities and Local Government 576W
      Aerials: Planning Permission 576W
      Affordable Housing 576W
      Affordable Housing: Worcester 577W
      Departmental Manpower 577W
      Empty Dwelling Management Orders 578W
      Ex-servicemen 578W
      Fire Services: Wirral 579W
      Housing: Water 579W
      Housing: Worcester 580W
      Incinerators: North Yorkshire 580W
      Local Government: Pensions 580W
      Mayors: Referendum 581W
      Mobile Homes 581W
      Mortgages: First-Time Buyers 582W
      Mortgages: Government Assistance 583W
      Non-domestic Rates: Uprating 583W
      Planning Permission 583W
      Race Relations 583W
      Right to Buy Scheme 585W
      Sustainable Communities Act 2007 585W
      Travellers: Caravan Sites 585W
      Urban Areas: Regeneration 586W
Culture, Media and Sport 586W
      Arts: Finance 586W
      Broadband 587W
      Broadband: Scotland 587W
      Broadcasting 587W
      Clothing: Design 588W
      Diamond Jubilee 2012 588W
      Football Clubs 588W
      Libraries 589W
      Local Broadcasting: Radio 590W
      Official Visits: Football Matches 588W
      Olympic Games 2012: Cycling 590W
      Olympic Games 2012: Interpreters 590W
      Olympic Games 2012: Tickets 590W
      Olympic Games 2012: Yorkshire and the Humber 592W
      Performing Arts: Young People 593W
      Postage Stamps 593W
      Public Libraries 593W
      Royal Family: Finance 594W
      S4C 595W
      Tickets 595W
Defence 462W
      Air Training Corps 462W
      Armed Forces: Deployment 463W
      Armed Forces: Health Professions 463W
      Armed Forces: Housing Benefit 464W
      Armed Forces: Lancashire 464W
      Armed Forces: Manpower 465W
      Armed Forces: Schools 465W
      Defence 465W
      Defence: Innovation 466W
      Defence: Technology 466W
      Departmental Billing 466W
      Food Procurement 467W
      Military Aircraft: Procurement 468W
      Military Bases: Kirknewton 469W
      Military Bases: Northern Ireland 469W
      NATO 470W
      Olympic Games 2012: Reserve Forces 471W
      Piracy 470W
      RAF Kinloss 471W
      Reserve Forces: Finance 471W
      Third Sector: Procurement 467W
      Trident Submarines 472W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 473W
Deputy Prime Minister 539W
      Returning Officers 539W
      Returning Officers: Pay 539W
      Returning Officers: Qualifications 540W
      Returning Officers: Working Hours 540W
      Titles Deprivation Act 1917 541W
Energy and Climate Change 473W
      Carbon Emissions 473W
      Carbon Sequestration 473W
      Climate Change 474W
      Departmental Recruitment 475W
      Electricity: Prices 475W
      Energy: Expenditure 476W
      Energy: Planning Permission 476W
      Fife Energy Park: Expenditure 476W
      Green Deal 476W
      Green Deal Scheme: Job Creation 478W
      Housing: Insulation 478W
      Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 478W
      Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs 479W
      Renewable Energy: Heating 479W
      Warm Front Scheme: Doncaster 480W
      Warm Home Discount Scheme 480W
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 480W
      Animal Welfare: Circuses 480W
      Apprentices 486W
      Birds: Antarctic 481W
      Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control 482W
      British Waterways: Canal and River Trust 482W
      Chinese Mitten Crabs 483W
      Coastal Areas: Access 483W
      Crayfish 484W
      Dangerous Dogs 484W
      Departmental Travel Costs 488W
      Dogs: Breeding 488W
      Dogs: Imports 488W
      Eggs: Origin Marking 489W
      Environment Protection: Fisheries 489W
      Farmers: Westmorland 490W
      Fish: Conservation 490W
      Fishing Vessels 491W
      Flood Control: Lytham St Annes 491W
      Food Manufacturing: Apprentices 493W
      Forth Bridge 498W
      Fossil Fuels: Exploration 493W
      Green Food Project 492W
      Inland Waterways: Leicester 495W
      Land: Contamination 495W
      Land: Registration 496W
      Landfill 496W
      Olympic Games 2012: Hospitality 496W
      Olympic Games 2012: Water Supply 500W
      Pets: Breeding 496W
      Pigs: EU Action 497W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 487W
      Rabies 497W
      Rights of Way: Ferndown 497W
      River Medway: Water Abstraction 498W
      Scallops 499W
      Stray Dogs 499W
      Waste Management 499W
      Water Supply: Singleton 500W
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 523W
      Abu Qatada 524W
      Atlantic Ocean: Fisheries 525W
      Bangladesh 525W
      British Indian Ocean Territory 525W
      Burma 526W
      Caribbean: EU 526W
      Departmental Official Hospitality 526W
      Economic and Monetary Union 527W
      Embassies 523W
      Hungary 528W
      Iran 529W
      Iran: Politics and Government 529W
      Israel 530W
      Journalism 530W
      Libya: Human Rights 531W
      Maldives 531W
      Middle East: Cybercrime 534W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 527W
      Serbia: Human Rights 535W
      Somalia 535W
      Somalia: Diplomatic Service 536W
      Somalia: Foreign Relations 536W
      Syria: Sanctions 537W
      Turkey: Balkans 537W
      Turkey: Serbia 538W
      USA 538W
      Whisky 539W
Home Department 501W
      Antisocial Behaviour 501W
      Antisocial Behaviour Orders 501W
      Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Rossendale 501W
      Asylum 502W
      Asylum: Appeals 503W
      Asylum: Applications 502W
      Asylum: Deportation 503W
      British Nationality: Syria 503W
      Crime Prevention: Chemicals 504W
      Crime: Scotland 504W
      Criminal Investigation: EU Action 504W
      Dangerous Dogs 505W
      Databases: Telecommunications 505W
      Deportation 507W
      Detention Centres 508W
      Detention Centres: Children 509W
      E-mail 509W
      Entry Clearances: Foreign Workers 509W
      Foreign Nationals: Childbirth 510W
      Foreign Nationals: Prisoners 511W
      Human Trafficking 511W
      Identity Cards: Shipping 511W
      Illegal Immigrants: Fines 512W
      Immigration Controls 512W
      Khalid Tantouch 513W
      Knives: Crime 513W
      Metal Theft 518W
      Ministerial Air Travel Costs 505W
      Ministerial Travel Costs 506W
      Mobile Phones 513W
      Olympic Games 2012: Policing 516W
      Organised Crime: West Midlands 514W
      Passports: Older People 514W
      Passports: Republic of Ireland 514W
      Petrol Theft 515W
      Police Community Support Officers: South Yorkshire 515W
      Police: Council Housing 515W
      Police: Court Orders 516W
      Police: Information and Communications Technology 516W
      Police: Vehicles 516W
      Prescriptions 516W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 506W
      Production Orders: North East 517W
      Production Orders: Wales 517W
      Prostitution 517W
      UK Border Agency 518W
      UK Border Agency: Correspondence 519W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 519W
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority Committee 461W
      Access Tokens 461W
International Development 519W
      Developing Countries: Disease Control 519W
      EU External Trade: Forests 520W
      Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria 520W
      India 521W
      Lesotho: Overseas Aid 521W
      Maldives 521W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 519W
      Sahel 522W
      Somalia: Health Services 523W
      Somalia: Overseas Aid 523W
      Visits Abroad 523W
Justice 606W
      Alternatives to Prison 606W
      Appeals: Disability Living Allowance 606W
      Asylum and Immigration Tribunal 607W
      British Nationals Abroad: Death 608W
      Civil Disorder 608W
      Coroners: Missing Persons 609W
      Departmental Data Protection 609W
      E-mail 609W
      European Social Fund 610W
      HMP Risley: Finance 610W
      Homicide: British Nationals Abroad 606W
      Homicide: Compensation 611W
      Human Trafficking 611W
      Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes 612W
      Legal Aid Scheme 613W
      Legislation 614W
      Magistrates Courts: Wales 614W
      Manoucehr Bahmanzadeh 614W
      Offenders: Mental Health Services 615W
      Offenders: Research 615W
      Prison: Employment Schemes 615W
      Prisoner Escorts 617W
      Prisoners: Detention 618W
      Prisoners: Suicide 618W
      Prisoners’ Release 617W
      Prisons: Discipline 618W
      Prisons: Manpower 619W
      Prisons: Mental Health Services 619W
      Prostitution 620W
      Protection of Children Act 1978 621W
      Public Expenditure 621W
      Tenancy Agreements 622W
      Translation Services 622W
      Trespass 623W
      Victim Support Schemes 623W
Northern Ireland 460W
      Data Protection 460W
      Departmental Hospitality 460W
      Economic Situation 460W
      Ministerial Travel Costs 460W
Prime Minister 541W
      10 Downing Street: Official Hospitality 541W
      Business Advisory Group 541W
      Departmental Training 542W
      Student Loans Company: Pay 542W
Scotland 459W
      Disclosure of Information 459W
      Iron and Steel: Investment 459W
      Procurement 459W
Transport 564W
      A3: Hampshire 564W
      Air Passenger Duty 565W
      Cycleways 565W
      Cycling 565W
      Driving Offences 568W
      Driving Tests: Bury 567W
      Driving under Influence: Rehabilitation 567W
      Fylde 569W
      High Speed 2 Railway Line 569W
      High Speed 2 Railway Line: Environment Protection 569W
      Large Goods Vehicles: Sleep Apnoea 570W
      Metal Theft 570W
      Network Rail 570W
      Network Rail: Pay 570W
      Procurement 571W
      Railways: Accidents 571W
      Railways: Construction 572W
      Railways: Franchises 572W
      Railways: Passengers 572W
      Roads: Accidents 573W
      Roadworks 573W
      Shipping: Security 574W
      Shipping: Training 574W
      South Wales Railway Line: Electrification 575W
      Transport: Finance 575W
      West Coast Railway Line 576W
Treasury 628W
      Banks: Regulation 628W
      Charitable Donations: Higher Education 628W
      Child Benefit 629W
      Child Tax Credit 629W
      Counterfeit Manufacturing: Cambridgeshire 629W
      Crown Estate Commissioners 630W
      Debts 630W
      Departmental Official Photographs 630W
      Departmental Training 631W
      EU Budget 631W
      Financial Services: EU Law 631W
      Fossil Fuels: Reserves 633W
      HM Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services 633W
      Incentives 634W
      Income Tax: Bexley 634W
      Income Tax: Overpayments 635W
      Individual Savings Accounts 635W
      Insurance 635W
      Manufacturing Industries: Loans 637W
      National Insurance Contributions 637W
      National Insurance Contributions: Young People 637W
      Network Rail: Debts 638W
      Non-Domestic Rates: East Midlands 638W
      PAYE 639W
      Pensions 639W
      Performance Related Pay 639W
      Personal Pensions 640W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 631W
      Public Sector: Manpower 640W
      Social Investment Task Force 641W
      Solar Power: Feed-in Tariffs 641W
      Stamp Duty Land Tax 641W
      Stamp Duty Land Tax: Tax Avoidance 642W
      Student Loans Company: Pay 642W
      Tax Allowances: Pensions 643W
      Tax Avoidance 644W
      Tax Credit 644W
      The Plan For Growth 644W
      UK Farm Finance Group 644W
      Welfare Tax Credits 645W
      Working Tax Credit 645W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 646W
Wales 461W
      Members: Correspondence 461W
      Procurement 461W

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20 Feb 2012 : Column 647

Written Answers
Monday 20 February 2012

Education 719W
      16-19 Bursary Fund 719W
      Academies 719W
      Academies: Sixth Form Education 720W
      Child Protection 720W
      Children: Social Services 721W
      Dominic Cummings 722W
      Education: Pilot Schemes 722W
      Females: Violence 723W
      Food Procurement 721W
      Free Schools 723W
      Local Authorities: Children 723W
      Primary Education: Standards 724W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 722W
      Pupil Exclusions 724W
      Pupil Exclusions: Yorkshire and the Humber 724W
      Pupils: Absenteeism 727W
      School Leaving 727W
      Schools: Armed Forces 728W
      Schools: Rossendale 729W
      Science: GCSE 730W
      Sixth Form Education: Assessments 735W
      Special Educational Needs 736W
      Young People: Unemployment 736W
      Young People: Voluntary Work 737W
      Youth Services: Expenditure 737W
Health 669W
      Accidents: Cycling 669W
      Alexandra Hospital: Redditch 670W
      Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls 670W
      Antenatal Care 671W
      Aortic Aneurysm 671W
      Avian Influenza 672W
      Benzodiazepines 672W
      Cancer: Health Education 674W
      Cancer: Radiotherapy 675W
      Cancer: Republic of Ireland 675W
      Care Homes: Dartford 676W
      Care Quality Commission 676W
      Cervical Cancer: East of England 677W
      Chlamydia Infection: Screening 678W
      Contraceptives 679W
      Dance Movement Therapy 679W
      Dental Health 680W
      Dental Services 680W
      Dental Services: Cumbria 681W
      Departmental Manpower 681W
      Doctors: Pay 682W
      Eating Disorders 682W
      Food Standards Agency: Expenditure 683W
      Genito-urinary Medicine 685W
      Health 686W
      Health Services: Cumbria 686W
      Health Services: Foreign Nationals 688W
      Health Services: Greater London 688W
      Health Services: Scotland 688W
      Health Visitors: Manpower 689W
      Hospices: Finance 689W
      Hospitals: Cleaning Services 689W
      Hospitals: Food 690W
      Hospitals: Private Finance Initiative 690W
      Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Overseas Visitors 691W
      Incontinence 692W
      Information Centre for Health and Social Care 692W
      Innovation 693W
      IVF 693W
      Learning Disability: Advocacy 694W
      Malaria 694W
      Maternity Services: Expenditure 695W
      Mental Illness: Drugs 698W
      Midwives 701W
      Midwives: Manpower 701W
      Midwives: Training 702W
      Ministerial Policy Advisers 681W
      Neurology 702W
      NHS: Ancillary Staff 703W
      NHS: Crimes of Violence 703W
      NHS: Negligence 704W
      NHS: Private Sector 705W
      NHS: Reorganisation 706W
      NHS Shared Business Services 703W
      Nurses: Schools 707W
      Obesity 707W
      Organs: Donors 708W
      Osteoporosis: Surgery 709W
      Out-of-area Treatment: Scotland 710W
      Palliative Care: Costs 710W
      Palliative Care: Standards 711W
      Pharmacy 711W
      Physiotherapy: Finance 712W
      Plastic Surgery: Breasts 673W
      Pregnancy 712W
      Primary Care Trusts: Finance 712W
      Primary Care Trusts: Redundancy Pay 713W
      Private Patients: Health Insurance 713W
      Procurement: Capital Bonds 681W
      Ritalin 714W
      Social Services: Registration 714W
      Suicide 716W
      Surgery 716W
      Surgery: Medical Equipment 718W
      Tuberculosis 719W
Work and Pensions 647W
      Atos Healthcare 647W
      Carer’s Allowance 648W
      Child Support Agency 648W
      Children: Day Care 650W
      Cold Weather Payments 651W
      Council Tax 651W
      Disability Living Allowance 653W
      Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment 653W
      Employment Schemes 655W
      Employment Schemes: Down’s Syndrome 656W
      Employment Schemes: Young People 656W
      Food Procurement 652W
      Housing Benefit 657W
      Housing Benefit: Armed Forces 659W
      Housing Benefit: Scotland 659W
      Independent Living Fund 659W
      Industrial Health and Safety: Methanol 660W
      Members: Correspondence 660W
      New Deal Schemes 660W
      Olympic Games 2012: Hospitality 660W
      Pension Protection Fund: Wedgwood Museum 661W
      Social Security Benefits 661W
      Social Security Benefits: Liverpool 663W
      Social Services 663W
      Unemployment Benefits: Territorial Army 663W
      Unemployment: Young People 664W
      Universal Credit 664W
      Welfare Reform Bill 664W
      Work Capability Assessment 665W
      Work Capability Assessment: Parkinson’s Disease 667W
      Work Capability Assessments: Audio Recordings 668W
      Work Programme 668W
      Work Programme: Employment and Support Allowance 669W