Written Ministerial Statements
Tuesday 1 May 2012

Cabinet Office 57WS
      Ministerial Pensions 57WS
Culture, Media and Sport 57WS
      London Olympics 2012 (Suppliers' Marketing Protocol) 57WS
Defence 59WS
      Afghanistan 59WS
International Development 59WS
      Sale of Actis 59WS

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Written Answers
Tuesday 1 May 2012

Attorney-General 1363W
      Legal Costs 1363W
Business, Innovation and Skills 1396W
      Business: Radio 1396W
      Construction: Industry 1396W
      Consumers: Scotland 1397W
      Departmental Billing 1397W
      EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Manufacturing Industries 1398W
      Exports: Pigs 1398W
      Higher Education: Devolution 1398W
      Higher Education: Insolvency 1398W
      Manufacturing Industries: EU Action 1399W
      Mature Students: Finance 1399W
      Ministerial Meetings 1399W
      Money Lenders: Teesside 1399W
      Overseas Trade 1400W
      Post Office 1400W
      Post Office: Credit Unions 1401W
      Procurement 1401W
      Railways: Freight 1401W
      Railways: Radlett 1402W
      Regional Growth Fund 1402W
      Sunday Trading 1403W
      Sunday Trading: Olympic Games 2012 1403W
      Sunday Trading: Redditch 1404W
      Sunday Trading: Wrexham 1404W
      Supermarkets: Competition 1405W
      Taxis: Minimum Wage 1405W
      Teachers: Training 1405W
      Travel: Fees and Charges 1405W
      UK National Contact Point 1406W
      UK-Israel Life Sciences Council 1406W
      Vodafone Group 1407W
Communities and Local Government 1424W
      Affordable Housing 1424W
      Bed and Breakfast Accommodation 1424W
      Council Tax Benefits 1424W
      Councillors: Allowances 1425W
      Councillors: Training 1425W
      Diamond Jubilee 2012: Religion 1425W
      E-mail 1426W
      Homelessness 1426W
      Housing: Coventry 1427W
      Housing: Vulnerable Adults 1427W
      Mayor of London: Taxation 1428W
      Meden Valley Partnership 1429W
      Planning Permission 1431W
      Regulation 1431W
      Staff: Interim Posts 1427W
      Travellers Sites: Coventry 1435W
      Wind Power 1436W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 1437W
Culture, Media and Sport 1371W
      Data Protection 1373W
      Gambling: Licensing 1373W
      Media Ownership 1371W
      Public Appointments 1374W
Deputy Prime Minister 1394W
      Bill of Rights 1394W
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 1379W
      Animal Welfare: Circuses 1379W
      British Waterways 1380W
      Dairy Farming 1380W
      Dangerous Dogs 1381W
      Dangerous Dogs 1382W
      Departmental Responsibilities 1381W
      Diesel Fuel 1381W
      Droughts 1383W
      Elephants: Conservation 1384W
      E-mail 1384W
      Fisheries 1384W
      Floods 1384W
      Food: Charitable Donations 1385W
      Forestry 1385W
      Game: Gun Sports 1386W
      Halal Meat: Labelling 1386W
      Horse Racing: Animal Welfare 1387W
      Intellectual Property 1387W
      Job Vacancies: Senior Civil Servants 1393W
      Legal Costs 1387W
      Meat: Prices 1387W
      Members: Correspondence 1388W
      Ministerial Meetings 1388W
      Natural Gas: Exploration 1389W
      Official Secrets Act 1389W
      Pesticides 1390W
      Poultry: Animal Welfare 1390W
      Procurement 1391W
      Retirement 1391W
      Set-aside Schemes 1391W
      Supermarkets 1392W
      Swine Flu 1392W
      Travel 1392W
      Water Companies 1393W

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1 May 2012 : Column 1364

Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1445W
      Human Rights 1445W
Health 1363W
      Cancer 1363W
      Hospices 1364W
      Hospitals 1370W
      Occupational Health 1370W
      Prescription Drugs: Shortages 1371W
International Development 1394W
      Africa 1394W
      Overseas Aid 1395W
      West Africa 1395W
Northern Ireland 1371W
      HMS Caroline 1371W
Prime Minister 1371W
      Ministers: Code of Practice 1371W
      Official Visits: Japan 1371W
Transport 1374W
      Catering 1374W
      Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 1374W
      High Speed 2 Railway Line 1374W
      Job Vacancies 1379W
      Official Visits 1378W
      Railways: Fares 1376W
      Railways: Franchises 1376W
      Railways: Tickets 1377W
      Road Traffic 1377W
      Roads: Lighting 1377W
      Transport: Dorset 1378W
      Transport for London: Finance 1377W
Treasury 1437W
      Addison Lee 1437W
      EU Budget 1437W
      EU Internal Trade 1439W
      Financial Services: Complaints 1439W
      Income Tax 1439W
      Inheritance Tax 1440W
      Interest Rate Swap Transactions 1440W
      Legal Costs 1441W
      Media Ownership 1437W
      Official Hospitality 1441W
      Ofgem 1441W
      PAYE 1442W
      Procurement 1442W
      Public Sector Debt 1442W
      Revenue and Customs 1443W
      Sick Leave 1443W
      Telephone Services 1444W
      VAT 1444W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 1445W
Work and Pensions 1407W
      Atos 1407W
      Attendance Allowance 1407W
      Child Maintenance 1408W
      Disability Living Allowance 1412W
      Employment and Support Allowance 1413W
      Employment Schemes 1413W
      Employment Schemes: Contracts 1414W
      Employment Schemes: Young People 1414W
      Housing Benefit 1415W
      Industrial Health and Safety: Police 1416W
      Job Vacancies 1423W
      Jobcentre Plus 1416W
      Jobseeker's Allowance: Fraud 1416W
      Legal Costs 1416W
      Members: Correspondence 1417W
      Official Secrets Act 1417W
      Remploy: Wales 1417W
      Revenue and Customs 1418W
      Social Security Benefits 1418W
      Social Security Benefits: Disability 1420W
      Stress 1420W
      Travel 1421W
      Unemployment: North-east 1421W
      Universal Credit 1421W
      Work Capability Assessment 1423W

Written Answers
Tuesday 1 May 2012

Cabinet Office 1534W
      Behavioural Sciences Unit 1534W
      Civil Servants: Pay 1534W
      Civil Servants: Pensions 1535W
      Civil Servants: Recruitment 1535W
      Community Development 1536W
      Government Departments: Billing 1536W
      Government Departments: Databases 1536W
      Legal Costs 1536W
      Mutuals Taskforce 1537W
      National Lottery 1537W
      Public Sector: Pay 1538W
      Public Sector: Procurement 1540W
      Public Sector: Staff 1537W
      Sick Leave 1542W
      Voluntary Work: Young People 1542W
Defence 1523W
      Afghanistan 1523W
      Aircraft Carriers 1524W
      Armed Forces: Disclosure of Information 1524W
      Armed Forces: Olympic Games 2012 1525W
      Armed Forces: Pay 1525W
      Armed Forces: Pensions 1525W
      Armed Forces: Young People 1526W
      Asylum 1526W
      Depleted Uranium 1528W
      Expenses 1526W
      Falkland Islands 1528W
      Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft 1528W
      Legal Costs 1528W
      Lost Property 1529W
      Military Aid: Fuels 1530W
      Military Aircraft: Helicopters 1531W
      Military Alliances 1531W
      Ministerial Meetings 1530W
      Peter Cruddas 1532W
      Procurement 1527W
      Staff: Interim Posts 1529W
      Terrorism: Chemical and Biological Warfare 1532W
      Theft 1533W
      Veterans: Suicide 1534W

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1 May 2012 : Column 1366

Education 1506W
      Academies 1506W
      Academies: Press Releases 1507W
      Academies: Sponsorship 1508W
      Adoption: Sussex 1508W
      Building Schools for the Future Programme 1509W
      Children in Care 1509W
      Children: Speech Therapy 1511W
      Computers 1511W
      Computers 1511W
      Computers 1513W
      Departmental Responsibilities 1512W
      Disclosure of Information 1512W
      E-mail 1511W
      E-mail 1512W
      E-mail 1513W
      Grammar Schools 1513W
      Home Education 1514W
      Home Education: Standards 1514W
      Jobcentres: Training 1514W
      Legal Costs 1515W
      Literacy: Standards 1515W
      Ministers’ Private Offices 1515W
      Pupils: Disadvantaged 1516W
      Schools: Admissions 1519W
      Schools: Bullying 1519W
      Schools: Expenditure 1520W
      Sixth-form Colleges: Staff Redundancy 1520W
      Special Educational Needs Direct Payments 1521W
      Stakeholder Advocacy Group 1521W
      Stakeholder Advocacy Group: Codes of Practice 1521W
      Teachers: Complaints 1522W
      Teachers: Pay 1522W
      Teachers: Veterans 1522W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 1522W
Energy and Climate Change 1501W
      Animals 1501W
      Carbon Emissions 1501W
      Electricity Generation 1503W
      Energy: Conservation 1504W
      Environment Protection 1504W
      Gas and Electricity Markets Authority 1505W
      Heating: Radioactive Materials 1506W
      Meters 1506W
      Wind Power 1506W
Home Department 1447W
      Alcoholic Drinks: Prices 1447W
      Asylum 1447W
      Asylum: Young People 1447W
      Boston College Project 1448W
      Computers 1448W
      Criminal Records: EU Action 1449W
      Databases: Telecommunications 1450W
      Entry Clearances 1450W
      European Union 1451W
      Immigration Controls: Crimes against Humanity 1451W
      Legal Costs 1452W
      Metal Theft 1453W
      Northern Ireland Racial Equality Strategy 1452W
      Official Visits 1454W
      Public Consultation: Internet 1452W
      Suicide 1452W
      Terrorism 1453W
      Tobacco: Packaging 1453W
      Victim Support: Hove 1454W
      Youth Custody 1454W
      Youth Offending Teams: Finance 1455W
Justice 1456W
      Abu Qatada 1456W
      Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse 1456W
      Ashfield Young Offender Institution: Ethnic Groups: Discipline 1457W
      Bill of Rights 1461W
      Burglary 1461W
      Civil Servants: Codes of Practice 1462W
      Community Orders 1462W
      Coroners and Justice Act 2009 1462W
      Crime: Victims 1463W
      Criminal Injuries Compensation 1463W
      Crown Court: Prison Sentences 1464W
      Driving under Influence 1469W
      Drugs: Offences 1470W
      Duchy of Cornwall 1470W
      European Convention on Human Rights 1471W
      Female: Staff: Senior Civil Servants 1471W
      Fines: EU law 1472W
      Freedom of Information 1472W
      Immunity from Prosecution 1472W
      Legal Aid Scheme 1473W
      Legal Opinion 1473W
      Offenders 1474W
      Official Visits 1482W
      Police and Crime Commissioners 1475W
      Prisoners: Drugs 1475W
      Prisoners: Mental Health Services 1476W
      Prisoners on Remand 1476W
      Prisoners: Parole 1477W
      Prisons: Drugs 1477W
      Ranby Prison 1479W
      Reoffenders 1479W
      Retirement 1479W
      Sexual Offences 1479W
      Sick Leave 1482W
      Victim Support Schemes 1483W
      Written Questions: Government Responses 1483W
      Young Offenders 1484W
      Young Offenders: Greater London 1484W