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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Drinking Water: Fluoride (9 Nov 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average level of fluoride ions in parts per million was in water supplied to households by each water company in the latest period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Drinking Water: Fluoride (9 Nov 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many of the sources of water used by water companies contain fluoride ions at a level above one part per million.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Why have countries like ours with good relations with Israel allowed the blockade on Gaza to continue for so long? It is denying Gazans the essentials for life, including reconstruction materials, and denying them a good living throughout this very cold winter.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (2 Nov 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Does this saga not indicate that what we need in this country is a straightforward and honest debate about whether the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, now almost 40 years old, and the A, B and C classification that is wrapped up in it are fit for purpose in this century? Please can we have a debate on drugs policy? It is a long time since we did so in the House.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Street Trading (2 Nov 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he expects to consult on street trading by pedlars with a view to the reform of the Pedlars Acts 1871 and 1881.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (29 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: The announcement about what the Scout Association called the rain tax was very welcome, especially in the north-west. However, in applying discretionary relief, will my hon. Friend take note of the plight of all political clubs? If the scheme is applied to such clubs, as originally intended, it might result in further closures. I do, of course, declare an interest in this question.

Written Answers — Health: Sedation (29 Oct 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidelines the NHS issues on the use of continuous deep sedation until death; (2) what assessment he has made of the rate of prevalence of continuous deep sedation until death in England; what information he holds for benchmarking purposes on the rates in other EU member states; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Asylum Applications (26 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: My hon. Friend will know from his own casework that many of the people in the legacy stream have been waiting for a considerable number of years, and their lives are on hold because there is nothing they can do to progress their current status. Is the July 2011 date a firm one, and can he bring forward some of the cases?

Written Answers — Transport: Lorries: Accidents (26 Oct 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many fatalities occurred as a result of collisions with the side or rear of a heavy goods vehicle in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Transport: Roads: Accidents (26 Oct 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the average annual cost to the economy of (a) road traffic accidents, (b) road traffic accidents resulting in a casualty and (c) road traffic accidents resulting in a fatality in the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Road Deaths (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: What percentage of road deaths involved collisions with heavy goods vehicles in the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Road Deaths (22 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: Of those 40 to 50 lives lost per annum, 15 could be saved if the European Community directive on fitting retro-reflective conspicuity tape to HGVs were immediately implemented. Why, therefore, has my hon. Friend decided to postpone the implementation of that directive until the very last minute, in 2011? The Freight Transport Association said in Commercial Motor last month that the impact on...

Written Answers — Transport: Motor Vehicles: Lighting (19 Oct 2009)

Brian Iddon: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) when his Department plans to publish its response to the consultation on proposed amendments to the vehicle lighting and construction regulations, which closed on 9 October 2008; (2) what estimate he has made of the cost of making retro-reflective markings mandatory on all newly-registered heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes; and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Small Pharmacies (13 Oct 2009) has video

Brian Iddon: First, I thank the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for publishing its new guidelines on the sale of codeine-containing products recently. However, will my right hon. and learned Friend admit that the person paying for codeine-containing products at the checkout would not get the same advice in a supermarket containing a pharmacy as they would in the sort of small pharmacy...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Israeli Settlements (21 Jul 2009)

Brian Iddon: Does the hon. Lady not think that the Prime Minister of Israel is in a very difficult position when his own Foreign Minister is an illegal settler on the west bank?