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Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the written ministerial statement of 13 October 2009, Official Report, columns 20-21WS, on asylum, on what grounds he decided that the Asylum Screening Unit in Croydon should be the only location at which initial asylum applications may be made; what assessment he has made of the likely effects on Croydon of that...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Young People (11 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the oral answer of 26 October 2009, Official Report, column 13, on asylum applications, what change there has been to the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in Croydon in the last 12 months according to records held by his Department.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: What recent steps his Department has taken to prevent drug misuse in prisons.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: Clearly, the Secretary of State will have to agree that whatever initiatives he has introduced are not working. Any reasonable person would ask how these drugs are getting in in the first place. Will he now instigate a review of how drugs are getting into prisons, and will he consider making searches of visitors and prison staff mandatory?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Drug Misuse (Prisons) (10 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: Mandatory?

Olympics: FOI Request (Immigration) (9 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: rose—

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Library Services (9 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he plans to publish his Department's report on the modernisation of library services.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Liverpool (9 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the oral answer of 26 October 2009, Official Report, column 13, on asylum applications, whether he plans to end the provision of facilities in Liverpool for face-to-face interviews in respect of applications for asylum.

Energy and Climate Change: Economic Situation (5 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Is the Minister aware that the Committee on Climate Change reported that the reductions in carbon emissions in the United Kingdom over the last four years amounted to a very modest 0.5 per cent. per annum? Does she agree that if she is to have credibility at any international summit on this issue, she will need a better track record than that?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (5 Nov 2009)

Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made in reducing the UK's carbon dioxide emissions over the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: VAT Returns (3 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Given that a survey by the Revenue showed that most businesses were totally unaware of the obligation, how did the Government get on with their target that at least half of businesses would be filing their returns electronically by March 2008?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (3 Nov 2009) has video

Richard Ottaway: Is the Chancellor aware of the remarks of Lord Myners last night, who said that 70 per cent. of all share transactions are computer-generated in trades lasting only microseconds? Does he have any plans to review the way shares are bought and sold?