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Written Answers — Home Department: DNA: Databases (12 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward proposals for the reform of the National DNA Database in light of the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Local Housing Allowance (11 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average excess payment is which is made to claimants of local housing allowance.

Written Answers — Home Department: Deportation (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have taken up (a) facilitated return and (b) assisted voluntary return in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to publish the results of her Department's consultation on changes to the local housing allowance.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Local Housing Allowance (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are in receipt of local housing allowance in each local authority area.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Local Housing Allowance (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many responses she has received to the consultation document Changes to the local housing allowance: consultation on draft regulations.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Local Housing Allowance (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many local housing allowance claimants receive the maximum excess payment of £15.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Local Housing Allowance (9 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the cost to local authorities of administering the proposed withdrawal of excess payments to local housing allowance claimants.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Afghanistan: Detainees (4 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the United States administration on proposals to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Shaker Aamer (4 Nov 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the United States administration on Guantánamo detainee (a) Shaker Aamer and (b) Ahmed Belbacha.

Business of the House: Social Care Green Paper (29 Oct 2009) has video

Sarah Teather: The hon. Gentleman is making a point that I wanted to make, and the same point has been made by my local Mencap organisation. The Green Paper does not acknowledge that as well as the likely increase in the number of elderly people, the numbers of the people with learning disabilities is likely to increase because of increased survival rates. The Green Paper does not recognise that or have any...

Business of the House: Social Care Green Paper (29 Oct 2009) has video

Sarah Teather: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Business of the House: Social Care Green Paper (29 Oct 2009) has video

Sarah Teather: I am struck by the hon. Gentleman's comments and my reading of a section of the Green Paper reminds me of some important issues raised by a local Age Concern group in my constituency. It pointed out that prevention is not just about the practical issues, as it is often about emotional support. That is what allows people to live independently. Depression is often unreported in elderly people....

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Sarah Teather: Does the Secretary of State accept that if his Government go ahead and scrap the £15 excess payments of local housing allowance, all that will result is rent inflation and no savings to the public purse? Will he agree to work with his colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions to rethink the proposal?

[Mr. Clive Betts in the Chair] — Private Landlords (Local Regulation) (21 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: I want to begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) on securing this debate. I am surprised that it is not better attended, because issues relating to the management of private sector housing are important to every right hon. and hon. Member in the House. I think that it would be a struggle to find a Member of Parliament who had not discovered that a...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Wardens (Sheltered Housing) (20 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: Thank you, Mr. Olner. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time. I congratulate the hon. and learned Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Cox) on securing the debate. This issue is of extreme interest to many people up and down the country. I congratulate him on the tone with which he opened the debate. He was careful to ensure that we understood that he was...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Wardens (Sheltered Housing) (20 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: I agree. My hon. Friend makes an excellent point—I was actually going to make it myself—about the nature of consultation and the importance of good practice. I am always a little cynical when central Government lecture either local councils or housing associations on what qualifies as good-quality consultation because they are often just as poor at producing decent consultation,...

Written Answers — Treasury: Stamp Duties (16 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of only levying stamp duty on the individual dwellings in a bulk rental purchase.

Written Answers — Health: Swine Flu (14 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the availability of Tamiflu for dispensing on private prescriptions; and whether the increase in the NHS stockpile of Tamiflu affects this availability.

Written Answers — Treasury: Real Estate Investment Trust (14 Oct 2009)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of (a) halving and (b) abolishing the entry charge to become a Real Estate Investment Trust.