Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Written answers
- Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Flood Control: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to amend the Environment Agency's powers to influence planning decisions relating to sites at risk of flooding.
- Sustainable Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on the effectiveness of the Government's waste minimisation efforts in light of the recent...
- Waste Disposal: Hazardous Substances
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much hazardous waste was produced in the latest period for which figures are available, broken down by primary source;...
- Wales
- Aviation
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what (a) first-class and (b) other flights he has taken since 28 June 2007; and on each occasion (i) how many staff travelled with him and (ii) what the...
- Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether his Department has adopted the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management Programme.
- Departmental Information Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) press and (b) communications officers his Department employed in each of the last 10 years.
- Departmental Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether his Department is on course to meet the commitment in the Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate targets to increase recycling figures to...
- Official Engagements
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) how many days he spent in Wales on official business in each of the last 12 months; (2) what his official engagements were in December 2007.
- Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether his Department is on course to meet the commitment in the Sustainable Operations on the Government estate targets to source at least 10 per cent....
- Olympics
- Olympic Games 2012: Aldershot
To ask the Minister for the Olympics what the estimated cost of security is at (a) Olympic Village and (b) Army Training Camp for the GB team at Aldershot (i) prior to the 2012 Games and (ii)...
- Olympic Games 2012: Consultants
To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much has been spent on consultants in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.
- Olympic Games 2012: Pay (1 annotation)
To ask the Minister for the Olympics what the 10 highest salaries are of staff working on preparations for the 2012 Olympics whose salaries are paid from the public purse.
- Olympics 2012
To ask the Minister for the Olympics what the timetable is for a decision on whether the Lee Valley Regional Parking Authority will take over as the legacy vehicle for the Olympics.
- Northern Ireland
- Crimes of Violence: Belfast
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons have been arrested in connection with the incident in which two young men were publicly paraded with placards on the Shankill...
- Police Service of Northern Ireland: Emergency Calls
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average time taken by the Police Service of Northern Ireland in each district command unit was to respond to (a) emergency and (b)...
- Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the fiscal deficit in Northern Ireland was in each of the last three years for which figures are available; what it is projected to be for...
- Rape
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will provide a break-down by age of persons convicted of rape or attempted rape in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years.
- Culture Media and Sport
- Departmental ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) male and (b) female members of staff in his Department were issued with personal digital assistants in each year since...
- Departmental Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on travel (a) within and (b) outside the UK for officials in each of the last 10 years; and what...
- Departmental Visits Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many overseas visits by officials in his Department took place in each of the last 10 years; which countries were visited; and how...
- Intimidation
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many cases of bullying have been reported in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last 12 months.
- Licensed Premises
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate his Department has made of the number of licensed premises in England and Wales that have a terminal hour, on at least one...
- Olympic Games 2012: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what payment is being made to Fast Track for the contract to help raise £100 million from the private sector to help fund athletes...
- Planning Permission: Playing Fields
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1167, on planning permission: playing fields, what the reasons were...
- House of Commons Commission
- Departmental Travel
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission (1) many overseas visits were made by House of Commons staff in each of the last 10 years; which countries...
- Scotland
- Departmental ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and (e) current estimated...
- Power Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of output Hunterston B Power Station was producing at the end of December 2007.
- Defence
- Afghanistan: Military Decorations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the criteria are for award of the (a) ISAF medal and (b) Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan; for what reasons the ISAF medal may not be...
- Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he plans to send the six Merlin helicopters recently procured from Denmark to Afghanistan.
- Armed Forces: Asthma
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will review the medical criteria for acceptance into the armed forces of people with asthma; (2) if he will take steps to ensure that people...
- Armed Forces: Inquests
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on legal representation for military inquests in each year since 2003.
- Armed Forces: Manpower
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the peace establishment was of the (a) 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, (b) 1st Battalion Irish Guards, (c) 4th Battalion The Rifles and (d) 1st...
- Armed Forces: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the Department's budget is for the longer separation allowance.
- Armed Forces: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of members of each service enrolled for courses leading to additional (a) military-related and (b) non-military-related...
- Armed Forces: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has established a cross-UK forum of devolved administrations, the Department for Children, Schools and Families and his Department as part of...
- Armed Forces: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the recommendations contained in the Defence Committee report, Educating Service Children (HC (2005-06) 1054), have been implemented; and if...
- Armed Forces: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 878W, on Armed Forces: Training, if he will list each type of aeroplane and...
- Departmental Official Hospitality
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 14 November 2007, Official Report, column 897W, on departmental official hospitality, what records were kept of entertainment...
- Departmental Property
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department's properties in Scotland have been declared unfit for habitation.
- Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to ensure that blood transfusions given to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are screened effectively before use.
- Transport
- Birmingham New Street Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the works to be completed at Birmingham New Street railway station are estimated to cost; and how much of this is expected to be met from...
- Birmingham New Street Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much extra capacity for train movements will be created by the works to be completed at Birmingham New Street railway station; what plans there are...
- Departmental Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what processes are in place to ensure that staff of her Department and its agencies have only the security access to data required to do their job.
- Departmental ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) male and (b) female members of staff in her Department were issued with personal digital assistants in each year since 2001; and if she...
- Driving Standards Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for variations in pass rates between driving test centres; and if she will make a statement.
- Driving Under Influence
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what work is being undertaken in her Department to assess the appropriate minimum blood alcohol concentration level for drivers.
- Durham Green Developments Ltd.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations her Department has received from Durham Green Developments Ltd., in relation to planning and transport, in the last 36 months.
- Eurostar: Waterloo Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will ensure that platforms 21 to 25 at Waterloo International continue to be available for trains after they are handed back by Eurostar.
- First Great Western: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many complaints she has received on the operation of the First Great Western franchise.
- Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many vehicles over 25 years of age pay vehicle excise duty for all or part of the year; (2) how many vehicles have free historic vehicle tax...
- Network Rail
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what the terms are of the binding commitment between her and Network Rail referred to in paragraph 1.4.10 of the White Paper The Future of Rail,...
- Network Rail
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what powers of binding determination and enforcement are exercised by the West Coast Project Board.
- Railway Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when the stations code will be brought into effect in each region.
- Railways: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents have occurred involving a motor vehicle striking (a) rail infrastructure and (b) railway bridges; and if she will consider...
- Railways: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent discussions she has had with Network Rail on the major engineering works scheduled for the Birmingham area between 29 February and 2 March...
- Railways: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what subsidy has been provided from the public purse per passenger for rail travel in each of the regions in England in each of the last five years.
- Railways: Theft
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people have been successfully prosecuted in the latest 12 month period for which figures are available for stealing copper and other metal...
- Road Works
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the statutory Network Management Duty introduced in the Traffic Management Act 2004 on the...
- Roads: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will draw up a road safety strategy for 2010 and beyond.
- Shipping: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps the Maritime and Coastguard Agency is taking to improve maritime safety standards following the sinking of the Flying Phantom.
- Home Department
- Animal Experiments: Cosmetics
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason her Department prohibits the granting of licences to test the safety of cosmetics and their ingredients using animals.
- Antisocial Behaviour Orders
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many post-conviction antisocial behaviour orders were issued in each constabulary area in the last period for which figures are...
- Bail (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrests for breach of bail conditions were made in each police area in the last year for which data is available.
- Cocaine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crack houses have been closed down in each of the last 12 months; and under what powers they were closed down.
- Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft and handling of stolen...
- Crime: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether each individual instance of money stolen through the cloning of debit and credit cards is counted as a distinct crime in local police...
- Crime: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance is given to police forces on the requirement to record the ethnic origin of victims of crime before crime numbers are issued.
- Crimes of Violence: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research the Respect Task Force has conducted on violence against women.
- Criminal Records Bureau
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken was by the Criminal Records Bureau to process a records check in 2007, broken down by police force area.
- Domestic Violence: Asians
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate she has made of numbers of Asian women subject to domestic violence in the (a) UK, (b) North East and (c) Tees Valley...
- Forced Marriage
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the number of forced marriages which took place in the (a) UK, (b) North East and (c) Tees Valley in the...
- Identity Cards
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans her Department has to publish the Gateway review on identity cards carried out by the Office of Government Commerce; and if she...
- National Identity Register
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she expects that data on the National Identity Register will be required for audit purposes by the National Audit Office.
- Passports: Lost Property
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 90W, on passports: lost property, how many such passports were reported...
- Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 28 November 2007, Official Report, column 468W, on police, how many police constables left the service in each age...
- Police
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers in each police force are aged (a) under 25, (b) between 25 and 34, (c) between 35 and 44, (d) between 45 and 54,...
- Police Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 November 2007, Official Report, column 680W, on police stations, what information her Department holds on the...
- Police Stations
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police stations there were in each parliamentary constituency in (i) 1997, (ii) 2001, (iii) 2005 and...
- Police: Firearms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers have received injuries from firearms while on duty (a) in England and Wales and (b) broken down by police force...
- Police: Industrial Action
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what contingency plans are in place for security in circumstances in which industrial action is taken by the police; and if she will make a...
- Police: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance is issued to police forces on the provision of (a) sign language interpreters and (b) lipspeakers for hearing-impaired people...
- Police: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the maximum number of new police officers is that can be trained by each English police force in 2007-08.
- Security Industry Authority (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what procedures the Security Industry Authority uses to validate previous addresses of licence applications who have lived abroad in...
- Violent Crime Action Plan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to publish the violent crime action plan.
- Violent Crime Action Plan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the violent crime action plan will include proposed primary legislation.
- Duchy of Lancaster
- Tony Blair
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether Tony Blair has sought access to Government papers for work on his memoirs; and if he will make a statement.
- Innovation, Universities and Skills
- Education: Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills which academic courses undertaken by prisoners had the 10 (a) highest and (b) lowest pass rates in the latest period for...
- Specialised Diplomas
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what mechanisms he plans to employ to train teachers to prepare pupils studying for the new school diplomas; where he expects...
- Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Afghanistan: Capital Punishment
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the government of Afghanistan to stay the execution of the death sentence imposed on the...
- Afghanistan: Civil Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what funds are available to facilitate the training of the next generation of Afghan civil servants in the UK or the US; and how...
- Afghanistan: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Canadian Government on Omar Khadr's detention at Guantanamo Bay and his forthcoming hearing...
- British Overseas Territories: Wildlife
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which wildlife species in Her Majesty's Overseas Territories exist solely in captivity.
- Christmas
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department's agencies spent on (a) Christmas cards and (b) postage of Christmas cards in each year since 1997.
- Departmental ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and...
- Foreign Relations
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what bilateral summits the Government intends to participate in 2008.
- Iran: Bahai Sect
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what diplomatic steps are being taken towards the government of Iran on the human rights of the Baha'i community in Iran.
- Iran: Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the safety of members of the Baha'i faith in Iran; and if he will make a statement.
- Iraq: Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) with reference to his Department's email, dated 25 January 2008, copied to the hon. Member for Billericay, on Coalition...
- USA: Iraq
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans there are for the UK to be associated with 26 November 2007 US/Iraq Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term...
- Uzbekistan: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Uzbekistan; and if he will make a statement.
- Visas: Entry Clearances
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the average length of time was for the processing of visa applications at each issuing post in the last five years for...
- Leader of the House
- Departmental Information Officers
To ask the Leader of the House (1) how many (a) press and (b) communications officers her Office employed in each of the last 10 years; (2) how much her Office paid in bonuses to press and...
- Members: Pay
To ask the Leader of the House what the cost was of publishing the report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries on its review of parliamentary pay, pensions and allowances in 2007.
- Treasury
- Child Benefit: Easington
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many single mothers were in receipt of child benefit in Easington constituency in the last period for which figures are available.
- Child Benefit: Personal Records
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse arising from the loss of the two child benefit discs containing confidential personal data.
- Departmental Records
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what test of what constitutes reasonably required information under section 8 of the National Audit Act 1983 is carried out on data transferred from...
- Excise Duties: Fuels
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2007, Official Report, column 1026W, on fuel: excise duties, how much and what percentage of the increase in fuel duty...
- Inflation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his Department issues advice to other Government departments on which inflation measure to use to uprate their items of revenue and expenditure.
- Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the annual cost to the Exchequer would be of restoring the exemption from vehicle excise duty for 25 year old vehicles.
- Northern Rock: Fixed Costs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether all the monies lent by the Bank of England to Northern Rock plc and underwritten by HM Treasury are secured by a fixed charge over specific assets.
- Taxation: Married People
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what benchmarking he has undertaken in relation to UK tax policy on one earner married couples with children amongst OECD member states; (2) what...
- Work and Pensions
- Age: Discrimination (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on providing information to businesses on age discrimination in each of the last 10 years; and by what means this...
- Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what meetings of the cross-departmental ministerial group on child poverty have taken place since 1 January 2006; and who attended each meeting.
- Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Office for National Statistics plans to release the next set of statistics on child poverty in the UK.
- Departmental Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance his Department issues on recruitment, diversity and employee rights when awarding contracts to external providers for work for...
- Departmental Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what monitoring systems are in place on diversity, equality and employee rights standards for departmental work awarded by contract to external...
- Departmental Manpower
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people work in his Department's customer insight team; and what the (a) remit and (b) objectives of the team are.
- Departmental Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what weight of paper his Department recycled in each of the last five years.
- Health and Safety Executive: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the office space is of the new Health and Safety Executive headquarters in Bootle; (2) what the original office space of the new...
- Incapacity Benefit: East of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals under 35 years of age were in receipt of incapacity benefit in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) each constituency...
- Industrial Health and Safety: Music
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether an employer's duty of care includes taking account of the volume of music broadcast in the workplace; and if he will make a statement.
- Jobcentre Plus: Dismissal
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the Jobcentre Plus staff dismissed between October 2006 and September 2007 for unsatisfactory attendance receive incapacity...
- Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many children were living in households in poverty in Peterborough constituency in each year since 2001; and if he will make a...
- Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
- Aerials: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many planning applications have been refused as a result of mobile telephone operators not being able to...
- Certification Officer: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether the Certification Officer's office has a recognition agreement with a trade union.
- Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what Government support is being provided to the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation in 2007-08.
- Energy Technologies Institute: Manpower
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many staff are employed by the Energy Technologies Institute.
- Energy: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what measure is used to calculate the annual uprating of the buyout price under the renewables obligation; and when...
- Fuel Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many (a) people and (b) households in each parliamentary constituency were in fuel poverty in the latest period...
- Fuels: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what steps he is taking to encourage a competitive energy market in the bottled gas and oil sector for households that...
- Gas and Electricity Markets Authority: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform who the members are of the panel which considers challenges to the Ofgem industry codes.
- Gas and Electricity Markets Authority: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the dates have been of challenges to the Ofgem industry codes in the last five years; and what the outcome was of...
- Gas and Electricity Markets Authority: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when the Ofgem industry codes were last reviewed or updated.
- Gas and Electricity Markets Authority: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what changes to the Ofgem industry codes have been implemented in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
- Heating: Liquefied Petroleum Gas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what recent discussions he has had with suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas for domestic heating on the fairness to...
- Metals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will bring forward proposals to set minimum volumes of copper and other specified metals which scrap metal...
- Microgeneration: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much funding his Department has allocated for research into microgeneration technologies between September 2007...
- Natural Gas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the United Kingdom's total storage capacity for liquefied natural gas is; and what recent proposals he has...
- Personation (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what steps his Department is taking to protect the public from identity fraud.
- Post Offices: Closures (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what provision has been made to protect vulnerable post office users who will lose access to post office counter...
- Post Offices: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many post office branches earmarked for closure as part of the Network Change programme were profitable.
- Post Offices: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many post office branches earmarked for closure as part of the Network Change programme have had that decision...
- Post Offices: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the total subsidy was to post offices in Lancashire in the latest year for which figures are available.
- Post Offices: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the minimum number of post office branches is that would allow Post Office Ltd to fulfil the minimum access...
- Post Offices: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many post office branches classified as urban there were at the end of the financial year 2006-07.
- Regional Development Agencies: Consultants
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) how much each regional development agency spent on consultants in (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07;...
- Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what proportion of renewable energy in England came from landfill and bio-sewage gas in 2006-07.
- South East England Development Agency
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what (a) turnover and (b) profit the South East England Development Agency realised from its (i) Enterprise Gateway...
- South East England Development Agency: Shoreham Harbour
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what discussions the South East England Development Agency has held with stakeholders in the last year about (a) the...
- Sustainable Communities Act 2007
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of whether the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 has any implications for policy making in...
- Children, Schools and Families
- Building Schools for the Future Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the impact of the Building Schools for the Future project on the future budgets of (a) schools and...
- Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 16 January 2008, Official Report, columns 1269-70W, on education, what the names are of the four...
- General Certificate of Secondary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what were the 10 subjects most frequently studied to GCSE level in each category of school in the last period for which figures...
- General Certificate of Secondary Education: Newcastle Upon Tyne
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of children at local education authority maintained schools gained GCSEs at grades A* to C, including...
- Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 6 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1898-1902W, on languages, (1) at which maintained mainstream...
- Modern Languages
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to his answer of 21 January 2008 to question 177817, on modern languages, if he will list the mainstream secondary...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of referred children received a provisional assessment of special educational needs statement within 18 weeks in...
- Teenage Pregnancies: Barnet
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the rate of teenage pregnancy in Barnet was (a) in 1997 and (b) in each of the last two years; what steps his Department is...
- Communities and Local Government
- Aerials: Health Hazards (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her most recent assessment is of the health implications of siting mobile telephone masts in the vicinity of schools; on...
- Building Regulations: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what discussions her Department has had with colleagues in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform...
- Census
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make a statement on progress toward a national address register.
- East of England Regional Assembly: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) capital and (b) revenue costs were of the East of England Regional Assembly in each of the last three years.
- Fire Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made on the proposed regional emergency control rooms for the fire service.
- Fire Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the estimated budgets for the regional emergency control centres for the fire service are; what the original estimated...
- Green Belt: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's definition of green space is for (a) mapping and (b) planning purposes.
- Heating: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 23 January 2008, Official Report, column 2047W, on heating: standards, when she expects to publish...
- Home Information Packs
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2008, Official Report, column 1526W, on home information packs, if she will place in the...
- Home Information Packs: Greater London (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of home information packs commissioned on properties in the London borough of Bexley...
- Homelessness: Ex-servicemen
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homeless households have been accepted as being in priority need under the category of "A person who is vulnerable as a...
- Housing Statistics 2007
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she plans to publish the Housing Statistics for 2007.
- Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many houses with (a) one bedroom, (b) two bedrooms, (c) three bedrooms, (d) four bedrooms and (e) five bedrooms or more...
- Housing: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much the Government received in capital receipts from housing-related asset sales (a) in total and (b) from right-to-buy...
- Housing: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many social landlords have not signed up to the Respect Standard for Housing Management.
- Housing: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many housing association tenants there are in England; how many have the (a) full and (b) preserved right to buy; and how...
- Housing: Low Incomes
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) Brian Pomery review of shared equity and (b) evaluation of Social HomeBuy...
- Infrastructure Planning Commission
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the planned yearly cost to the public purse is of the new (a) Infrastructure Planning Commission and (b) Homes and...
- INTERREG Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what role her Department is playing in the implementation of the European Union's (a) INTERREG IVA, (b) INTERREG IVB and (c)...
- Leadership Centre for Local Government: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding was provided by the public purse to the Leadership Centre for Local Government in each year since its creation;...
- Local Authorities: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance has been given to local authorities on the processing of personal data outside the European Economic Area, either...
- Local Authorities: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 147W, on local...
- Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what changes to Government policy on local government finance will follow from the signing of the new Central-Local concordat.
- Local Government Finance: Participation
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 1152W, on local government finance: participation, (1)...
- Local Government: Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to publish the terms of reference for the boundary committee review of local government structures in Devon;...
- Local Government: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local government enforcement orders on planning issues have been successfully enforced since 1996.
- Local Government: Reorganisation (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many councillors each of the restructured local authorities will have; and how many councillors in total across both tiers...
- Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities undergoing restructuring will have elections for the new council in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; and in...
- Local Government: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the average number of (a) national priority targets and (b) local improvement targets that local...
- Local Government: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether local authorities will be set local improvement targets via the new (a) local area agreements and (b) multi-area...
- Maps: Green Belt
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 11 December 2007, Official Report, column 552W, on maps:...
- Mortgages: First Time Buyers
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of first-time buyers in England took out mortgages of 100 per cent. or more of the purchase price...
- Multiple Occupation: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps she is taking to co-ordinate best practice in the implementation of the national licensing scheme for houses in...
- Parish Councils: Cost-Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she plans to abolish grants for best-value compliance to parish councils.
- Parking: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will (a) direct or (b) encourage local planning authorities to revise local plan policies on parking standards in the...
- Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations the Sustainable Development Commission has made to her Department on (a) the Planning Bill and (b) the...
- Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the proposed national policy statements will over-ride provisions on existing planning policy (a) guidance...
- Planning: Public Participation
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 10 December 2007, Official Report, columns 148-49W, on...
- Planning: Retail Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 149W, on...
- Public Libraries: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the Public Library Service Standards will be included in the new national indicator set.
- Regeneration: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), of 11 December 2007, Official Report, columns...
- Regeneration: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) of 11 December 2007, Official Report, columns...
- Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2007, Official Report, columns 1157-8W, on regional planning and development, whether a...
- Sheltered Housing: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received from the housing department of Birmingham city council on the impact of national rules...
- Sheltered Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what funding was made available to local authorities for sheltered accommodation with a residential warden in each of the...
- Supporting People Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance has been given to local authorities on the extent of the financial assessment which should be undertaken when...
- Tenancy Deposit Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many court cases there have been since April 2007, where private tenants have been seeking to enforce their right to have...
- Unitary Councils
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's policy is on the minimum size of a new unitary council, in terms of (a) resident population and (b)...
- Unitary Councils: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the dates will be for the next set of elections for each of the new unitary councils.
- Vacant Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much land was designated as green space in new housing development plans (a) between 1996 and 2006, (b) between 1986 and...
- Wardens
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 12 December 2007, Official Report, column 685W, on wardens, what central funding has been provided to...
- Working Neighbourhoods Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities in receipt of working neighbourhood funding previously did not receive neighbourhood renewal funding.
- Health
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of assault there were against members of staff from the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust in 2007; and what the prosecution rates...
- Abortion: Freedom of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 984W, on the Abortion (Amendment) Bill of Session 1979-80, for what reasons two files...
- Ambulance Services: Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are being taken to improve emergency ambulance services in North Devon.
- Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what national targets exist for the handover times from ambulances to accident and emergency departments.
- Anaesthetics: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many anaesthetic training posts in categories (a) ST1, (b) ST2, (c) ST3 and (d) SPR will be vacant on the first Wednesday of February 2008 in (i)...
- Bournemouth and Christchurch Primary Care Trust: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 986W, on Bournemouth and Christchurch primary care trust: finance to my hon. Friend...
- Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, columns 988-89W, on breast cancer screening, which primary care trust has responsibility for...
- Cancer: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the use and development by the NHS of the tool initiated by Cancer Research UK to assess the level of patient awareness of cancer symptoms will...
- Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, columns 997-98W, on cancer: health services, if he will break down the missed diagnoses of...
- Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what public funding has been made available for extending the 31-day standard target to all cancer patients; and what the expected total cost is of such...
- Carbon Monoxide
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to raise awareness of medical practitioners of the risks to health of carbon monoxide and the symptoms, diagnosis and consequences...
- Community Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2007, Official Report, column 1003W, on community nurses, how many more community matrons the local intelligence...
- Departmental Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 5.5 of his Department's resource accounts for 2006-07, what the value of resources released for frontline activity as a result of...
- Departmental Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 6.4 of his Department's resource accounts for 2006-07, if he will break down his Department's £128 million revenue underspend...
- Departmental Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the policy of British jobs for British workers will affect his Department's recruitment policy for junior doctors.
- Dermatology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department holds on trends in prevalence of skin disease and skin-related illnesses, excluding skin cancer.
- Dermatology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken to quantify the annual productivity losses associated with members of the workforce suffering from skin-related...
- Doctors: Career Structure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government have taken to improve the Medical Training Application System in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
- Fractures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of fracture liaison services in ensuring patient compliance with measures to prevent...
- General Practitioners: Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government are taking to improve the GP to patient ratio in the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust in 2008; and if he will make a...
- General Practitioners: Yorkshire and Humberside
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many GPs were in practice in the Beverley and Holderness constituency in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
- Hospital Wards: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) by what date his Department expects to have collected data from NHS trusts on their completion of the self-assessment checklist on privacy and...
- Hospital Wards: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has taken advice on the application of the Children Act 2004 and the Human Rights Act 1998 to the use of mobile telephones with cameras in...
- Hospitals: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are in place on an (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local scale to share information on available hospital beds in circumstances of...
- Hospitals: Cleaning Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what average length of time hospital wards which have been deep cleaned have been out of use during deep cleaning.
- Hospitals: Cleaning Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health from which budget the £50 million for deep-cleaning hospitals has been allocated.
- Hospitals: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received on delays in making appointments for hospital jobs following changes made to the Criminal Records Bureau fast-track...
- In-patient Management Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what costs have been identified in the in-patient management programme for cancer services, as outlined in the impact assessment of the cancer reform strategy.
- Junior Doctors: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many newly trained junior doctors were employed in (a) Greater London, (b) Essex and (c) Queen's Hospital, Romford in the last 12 months.
- Medical Profession
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of (a) nurses, (b) midwives and (c) doctors were working in the NHS three years after they qualified in each year since 1997.
- Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to extend (a) mental illness and (b) learning difficulties training programmes for GPs and community care staff.
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects money allocated to the University hospital of North Durham to tackle MRSA to be spent.
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of job retention or an early return to employment on patients with musculoskeletal disorders.
- NHS: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be screened for (a) heart disease, (b) stroke, (c) diabetes, (d) kidney disease and (e)...
- NHS: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has to encourage high-risk groups to access screening for (a) heart disease, (b) stroke, (c) diabetes, (d) kidney disease...
- NHS: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the impact on trusts' 18-week targets and two-week cancer treatment times of service and training post vacancies.
- Nurses: Manpower
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many matrons were employed in the NHS in each year since 1997-98.
- Patients: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what incident types are used for entries in the National Reporting and Learning System in England and Wales.
- Primary Care Trusts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what data his Department collects from primary care trusts on hospital at night teams.
- Primary Care Trusts: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average annual salary is of a primary care trust (PCT) chief executive in England; what the average was in (a) 2001 and (b) 2005; how many PCT...
- Queen's Hospital Romford: Doctors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultants were working at Queen's Hospital, Romford in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what steps the Government...
- Review Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 39, page 37 of his Department's resource accounts for 2006-07, what the dates were of each meeting held by the review group led by...
- Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1194W, on screening, what estimates he has made of the cost of the screening...
- Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1194W, on screening, what preventive measures will be offered if people are found to...
- Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2008, Official Report, column 1194W, on screening, which of the tests and measurements referred to relate to (a)...
- Speech Therapy: Barnet
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many speech therapists are employed by the NHS in Barnet; how many there were in 1997; what the estimated shortfall is of numbers of speech therapists...
- Terminal Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to extend the Marie Curie Delivering Choice programme for terminally ill people to parts of the country not currently served by it.
- Treatment Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish performance information for each operational independent sector treatment centre.
- Justice
- Cambridgeshire Probation Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many individuals were accommodated in the Peterborough city council area under the auspices of the Cambridgeshire Probation Service MAPPA...
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) if he will make a statement on the action progressed against the United Kingdom by the European Union for failing to implement European Directive...
- Departmental Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if he will break down his Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate...
- House of Lords: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish a further White Paper on House of Lords reform.
- Law Society: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he is investigating complaints made to the Law Society's Legal Complaints Service by miners and their families relating to solicitors making...
- Law Society: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps are being taken to (a) retrain Legal Complaints Service caseworkers on the various options open to miners and (b) assess the financial...
- Law Society: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will establish an investigation the payments made between solicitors as identified in the Legal Services Complaints Commissioner's recent report on...
- Life Imprisonment: Prisoner Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners sentenced to life since 1997 have been released from custody.
- Ministry of Justice
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff in his Department are working on the central management of change programme (a) in London and (b) in each region.
- National Offender Management Information System
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how the non-roll-out of C-NOMIS to the Probation Service will affect (a) shared information in real time, (b) risk management, (c) managed sentencing...
- National Offender Management Information System
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many estimated individual offender records relating to offenders held or under supervision by the National Offender Management Service will be on the...
- National Offender Management Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what procedures are being put in place for liaison between probation and prison staff in the end-to-end management of individual offenders.
- National Offender Management Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether it is expected that the end-to-end management of offenders will be available for all persons placed on supervision.
- Offenders: Foreigners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of foreign nationals likely to serve custodial sentences in England and Wales in each year to 2014.
- Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison places at (a) Ashfield, (b) Forest Bank, (c) Dovegate, (d) Rye Hill, (e) Bronzefield and (f) Peterborough prisons were (i)...
- Prison Sentences
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what average length of sentence had been served by each of those serving life sentences who were released from prison in each year since 2000; and if he...
- Prison Service: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officers at each prison establishment are trained to use cutting gear designated for dealing with hostage situations; and if he will make...
- Prison Staff: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many knife attacks were made on prison staff by prisoners in prisons in 2007.
- Prison Staff: Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many injuries were reported as sustained by prison staff whilst they were off-duty but deemed to be related to the office they held in 2007; and if...
- Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average duration of a prisoner's stay in any one custodial location has been over the last three years.
- Prisoners Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many prisoners convicted of wounding were transferred to open prisons in 2007; (2) how many prisoners convicted for a violent offence were...
- Prisoners Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice by what means his Department ensures that transfers of prisoners to the open estate comply with Prison Service Instruction 17/2007.
- Prisoners Transfers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many transfers of high-risk offenders from a (a) category A and (b) category B prison to open prisons there were in each year since 1997; and if he...
- Prisoners: Protest
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the incidence of dirty protests at each prison establishment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
- Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what regulations there are on prison (a) construction, (b) location and (c) specifications.
- Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what specifications are applicable to (a) design, (b) lighting, (c) furniture, (d) amenities, (e) privacy, (f) ventilation and (g) space...
- Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the value of the land occupied by each prison in HM Prison Service.
- Probation Officers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will estimate what percentage of (a) probation officer and (b) probation service officer time was spent in direct contact with offenders in each...
- Probation: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much of the money budgeted for the end-to-end offender management roll-out was allocated to each probation area in 2007-08; and how that allocation...
- Probation: Northumbria
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the effect of budget reductions on the support provided for offenders as a result of budget cuts in the Northumbria...
- Probation: Northumbria
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to prevent reductions in the budget for Inventory of Offenders programmes in the Northumbria probation area.
- Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what additional responsibilities the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston has taken up since her appointment as Ministerial Champion for Women and Criminal...
- Reoffenders (1 annotation)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what proportion of those entering prisons in England and Wales to serve a custodial sentence in 2006 had served a custodial sentence previously;...
- Whitemoor Prison
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what representations have been received by (a) HM Prison Service, (b) officials at his Department and (c) Ministers on the conduct of Governor Steve...
- International Development
- Democratic Republic of Congo
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support the UK will provide for the implementation of the Kivu peace accord and the ending of conflict in the eastern Democratic...
- The Maghreb
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions he has had with EU colleagues on ways of strengthening civil society in the countries of the Maghreb.
- Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to promote free and fair elections in developing countries.
- Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what projects his Department is undertaking with local government in Pakistan.
- Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent representations he has received on the use of UK development funds in the poorest countries in Africa; and if he will make...
- Overseas Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what (a) country assistance and (b) regional assistance plans his Department expects to (i) produce and (ii) renew in the next 18 months.
- Pakistan: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what programmes he has co-financed in Pakistan to promote the education of women and girls since 2004.
- St Helena: Airports
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress has been made on the building of an airport on St Helena; and if he will make a statement.
- Zambia: Floods
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance his Department has offered to the Government of Zambia and neighbouring states to manage the consequences of recent...
- House of Lords
- Arts: Funding
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the annual subsidy per seat of each of the producing theatres funded by Arts Council England in London and the regions, for the last year for which figures...
- Arts: Funding
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the annual subsidy per seat actually sold in the producing theatres funded by Arts Council England in London and the regions, for the last year for which...
- British Coal Compensation
asked Her Majesty's Government: What support they intend to give to retired miners and widows of miners in the British Coal litigation seeking to pursue complaints against their former...
- Broadcasting: Children's Television
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will continue to fund the Pygmalion programme which provides specific training for writers and producers of children's television.
- Climate Change: London Low Emissions Zone
asked Her Majesty's Government: In the light of the introduction of the London low emission zone, whether they intend to monitor improvements in air quality in the coming weeks.
- Embryology
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the question by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 3 December (Official Report, col 1548—9) in connection with the use of the hamster test in research and...
- Embryology
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 November (WA 78) and 18 December 2007 (WA 115), whether they will specify the relevant provisions of...
- Embryology
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 18 December 2007 (WA 116), whether they will specify the relevant provisions of legislation that would...
- Environmental Protection: Aarhus Convention
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 21 January (WA 13—14), when they will report on the measures they have taken to comply with Article 9(4) of...
- Euro
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will provisionally discuss with representatives of the eurozone and the European Central Bank a possible application for United Kingdom membership of...
- Fluoridation
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 21 November (WA 78) (a) what steps they will take to ensure that parents know to ask the Department of...
- Fluoridation
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 5 December 2007 (WA 192), what steps they have taken to ensure that decisions on fluoridation taken...
- Fluoridation
asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the Food Standards Agency has declined to publish details of the fluoride concentration in the water consumed by each subject in the National Diet and...
- Fluoridation
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 14 January 2008 (WA 240), whether, in following the recommendations in section 12.9.1 of the York report...
- Government: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
asked Her Majesty's Government: What appointments the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland undertook during the first week in January in Northern Ireland.
- Health: Dentistry
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many patients are served by NHS dentists in each local authority area in (a) Wales; (b) England; (c) Scotland; and (d) Northern Ireland.
- Health: Dentistry
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the ratio of dentists to population in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Health: Obesity
asked Her Majesty's Government: What comparative assessments they have made on (a) the efficacy, and (b) the costs associated with (1) obesity surgery; (2) obesity drugs; and (3) other weight...
- Identity Security
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether any projects in the Department for Work and Pensions have been suspended or delayed due to concerns about identity security; if so, which projects have...
- Japan: Contaminated Blood Products
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 17 January (WA 279), whether they will seek via the United Kingdom's diplomatic representation in Tokyo...
- Kenya: President
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they recognise Mwai Kibaki as the legitimately elected President of Kenya.
- Local Government: Efficiency Savings
asked Her Majesty's Government: What level of efficiency savings they are requiring from each government department in each year in the three-year period starting with the current year; and what...
- Local Government: Spending
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much local authorities spend per head in (a) England; (b) Scotland; (c) Wales; and (d) Northern Ireland.
- NHS: Foundation Trusts (1 annotation)
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will defer consideration of the application by the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust for foundation trust status in view of the trust's patient...
- NHS: Spending
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much the NHS spends per head in (a) England; (b) Scotland; (c) Wales; and (d) Northern Ireland.
- Olympic Games 2012: Poverty Reduction
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will scale down the Exchequer contribution to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and divert such savings to tackle poverty, deprivation and...
- Public Transport: Concessionary Fares
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 22 October 2007 (WA 73—4) and in light of the experience of some councils with the present...
- Public Transport: Disruptive Behaviour
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they will take to deal with the problem of disruptive behaviour on public transport, including school buses.
- Questions for Written Answer: Unanswered Questions (1 annotation)
asked the Leader of the House: Further to her Written Answer on 17 December 2007 (WA 107), in reply to a Question asking why 64 Written Questions were overdue for Answer on 6 December 2007, why...
- Questions for Written Answer: Unanswered Questions
asked the Leader of the House: Whether apologies or explanations have been sent to Lords who are still awaiting answers to Written Questions tabled in November 2007, which should have been...
- Regulators: Criminal Prosecutions
asked Her Majesty's Government: In respect of (a) the Food Standards Agency; (b) the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; and (c) the Human Tissue Authority, how many criminal...
- Rights of Way
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much has been paid to each highways authority in England as part of the Access Management Grant Scheme in each year that the scheme has operated.
- Waste Management Recycling
asked Her Majesty's Government: Which local authorities in England are at present collecting and recycling or processing kitchen waste (a) from all properties in their area; (b) from some...
- Young Offenders: HMP Woodhill
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many juveniles have been held at HMP Woodhill for each year in the last five years.
- Young People: Custody
asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of young people under the age of 18 in custody have been imprisoned for drugs-related offences.
- Young People: Custody
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many young people in custody were receiving mental health treatment on 1 January for each year from 2000 to 2008.
