Written answers

Written answers and statements

Some recent written answers

House of Lords: Security: Personal Protection (8 February 2010)

Baroness Deech:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much is spent on providing personal security protection for (a) Mr Tony Blair, (b) Sir John Major, and (c) Baroness Thatcher.

Home Department: Remand in Custody: Young People (3 February 2010)

David Burrowes:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hours young offenders on remand aged under 18 years spent on education, training and personal development in each young offenders institution serving as a remand centre in the latest period for which figures are available.

Health: Social Services: Regulation (3 February 2010)

Paul Burstow:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) improvement plans, (b) warning letters, (c) statutory requirement notices, (d) changes to conditions of registration and (e) cancellations of registration were issued by the Commission for Social Care Inspection in relation to each category of care in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Home Department: Immigrants: Somalia (5 February 2010)

Nicholas Soames:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Somali nationals are estimated to be in the UK illegally.

Transport: Departmental Correspondence (8 February 2010)

Justine Greening:

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to the answer of 20 January 2010, Official Report, columns 342-43W, on departmental correspondence, what criteria are used to decide whether a document is (a) judged to be a business critical paper, (b) marked with security classification and (c) marked with a privacy classification; and for what reasons such documents are stored on registered paper files.

House of Lords: Gurkhas (3 February 2010)

Lord Selkirk of Douglas:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what would be the forecast cost of providing pensions for Gurkhas at the same level as the Armed Forces Pension Scheme at 2010 prices.

Home Department: Passports: Interviews (8 February 2010)

Damian Green:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many interviews at passport centres resulted in the refusal of a passport in 2009.

Defence: Armed Forces: Housing (4 February 2010)

Andrew Murrison:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects his Department's pilot housing purchase scheme announced on 26 January 2010 to be (a) completed and (b) evaluated.

Justice: National Standards for Enforcement Agents (3 February 2010)

Henry Bellingham:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps he has taken to monitor the level of compliance of (a) magistrates, (b) HM Courts Service fines officers and (c) bailiff companies with the provisions on vulnerable situations of his Department's National Standards for Enforcement Agents.

Treasury: Child Trust Fund (2 February 2010)

William Bain:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families with at least one disabled child have received a child trust fund payment.

Work and Pensions: Institution of Occupational Safety and Health: Finance (1 February 2010)

Stewart Jackson:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what funding (a) her Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive has provided to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health in 2009-10.

Health: Hospitals: Parking (1 February 2010)

Anne Main:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made as part of its consultation on NHS car parking of the annual revenue raised by NHS hospital trusts from parking charges; what estimate it has made of the cost to NHS hospital trusts of providing free car parking; what consideration he is giving to the merits of providing funding to NHS hospital trusts to offset the revenue foregone through the introduction of free car parking; and over what period he expects any policy on introducing free car parking to be implemented.

House of Lords: Elections: Postal Votes (4 February 2010)

Lord Greaves:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will advise returning officers to write to voters whose postal votes have not been opened and counted as a result of not providing personal identifiers or because of defects in the personal identifiers returned; and whether a list of such electors will be supplied to the local police.

Prime Minister: Iraq Committee of Inquiry (5 February 2010)

Dai Davies:

To ask the Prime Minister if he will release for publication the documents to which Lord Goldsmith made specific reference during his appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry on 27 January 2010 and which he stated he would wish were made public.

Defence: Armed forces: Housing (5 February 2010)

Danny Alexander:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, columns 792-4W, on armed forces: housing, to whom the 370 houses in Scotland sold by his Department to persons other than registered social landlords or local authorities were sold.

House of Lords: Cyprus: Turkish Language (2 February 2010)

Lord Maginnis of Drumglass:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will discuss with the European Commission the status of Turkish as an official language of Cyprus under the constitution of Cyprus, with a view to ensuring that there should be no discrimination based on language in the employment of Turkish-speaking citizens of Cyprus by the institutions of the European Union.

Children, Schools and Families: Schools: Leeds (2 February 2010)

Fabian Hamilton:

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent on new school buildings in Leeds North East constituency since 1997.

Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Disabled (8 February 2010)

Theresa May:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which diseases are in the category of diseases of the genito-urinary system for the purpose of classifying incapacity benefit claims; and how many people claiming incapacity benefit or employment and support allowance have each such disease.

Work and Pensions: Disability Living Allowance (2 February 2010)

Meg Munn:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what research her Department has undertaken on the effect on the submission of verbal claims of the introduction of the working age disability living allowance checklist.

Health: Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse (4 February 2010)

David Ruffley:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to hospital from accident and emergency departments for an alcohol-related diagnosis there were of people (a) under the age of 18 years in (i) the former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire strategic health authority area, (ii) the East of England strategic health authority area, (iii) the West Suffolk Hospital NHS trust area and (iv) the Suffolk primary care trust area in each year since 1997.