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Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Business: Government Assistance (12 Oct 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many small businesses in England have received assistance from his Department in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Defence: Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (1 Sep 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate his Department has made of the number of shots fired by UK armed forces in Helmand province since 2006.

Written Answers — Defence: Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (1 Sep 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the number of shots fired by the armed forces in Helmand province in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007; and how many shots were fired in the latest period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Defence: Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (1 Sep 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many rounds of ammunition were fired by UK armed forces in Afghanistan in 2007-08.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (13 Jul 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: If we are told, as we are now, that Helmand province contains Taliban heartlands, on what basis was it said on behalf of the Government before we deployed that it was hoped that not a shot would be fired? Was this not the beginning of a really serious misreading of the situation in Helmand, which is still continuing today and for which our armed forces are paying a heavy price?

Written Answers — Justice: Prison Accommodation (6 Jul 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 23 June 2009, Official Report, columns 734-5WS, on prison accommodation, how many category (a) C and (b) D prisoners are held in prisons designated for use by category B prisoners; and what percentage of category (i) A and (ii) B prisoners are held in prisons designated for use by category A prisoners.

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: I am grateful to be called, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall be brief, as many of the points I wished to raise have already been made, as is the nature of such debates. It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright). I listened to him with great care, but he was wrong on one point, when he said that he had not heard that we had been calling for some time for a...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: I absolutely agree, except obviously for particular matters where national security might be at stake. On that issue, and with respect to my right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates), I hope that it is not left to the witnesses to decide what counts as a matter of national security, but that the committee itself makes that decision. I hope that the committee will apportion...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: There is one way of getting out of this confusion, and that is for this House to pass a one clause Bill enabling the committee to administer the oath within the proceedings.

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: The Foreign Secretary mentioned a moment ago the fact that Sir John Chilcot has been told to see whether there are ways in which he can produce evidence under oath. Mine is a genuine inquiry: can the Foreign Secretary tell me under what authority or power Sir John could do that, other than under a statutory inquiry procedure, or, indeed, by being given a power to do so by legislation passed...

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: My right hon. Friend referred to the politically cynical timing of the inquiry. Is he aware that, on 23 October 2003, on a motion that I proposed from that Dispatch Box calling for a public inquiry, one reason given for not acceding to it by the present Justice Secretary, who was then the Foreign Secretary, was that it could not report before the general election?

Written Answers — Justice: Prison Accommodation (23 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many category B prisoners are currently held in category C prisons; and how many category C prisoners are held in category D penal establishments.

Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]: Rural Communities (Recession) (15 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Ancram: Is not part of the problem the Government's perception in the past 12 years of rural areas and the countryside as a theme park rather than a living, breathing economic organism? That is why, when things get hard, they have not a single answer to give.

Written Answers — Defence: Ex-servicemen: Radiation Exposure (10 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consideration he has given to the British Nuclear Test Veterans' Association request for recognition for nuclear test veterans; and when he expects to make a decision on that request.

Written Answers — International Development: Sri Lanka: Overseas Aid (8 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what financial support his Department has given to the government of Sri Lanka for the construction and maintenance of resettlement camps for Tamil refugees in northern Sri Lanka in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries: Community Relations (4 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development for what reasons his Department's Community Linking scheme has been delayed; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (3 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of benefit claimants receiving each type of benefit are aged between 18 and 30 years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Spain (3 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applicants for asylum entered the UK via Spain and Gibraltar in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration: Somalia (3 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Somali nationals were granted entry into the UK in each of the last three years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Heroin (1 Jun 2009)

Michael Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of heroin apprehended in the UK was of (a) South American and (b) Afghanistani and Pakistani origin in each of the last three years.