David Lepper: I welcome what my hon. Friend has said about consultation and I am sure that he will be consulting local authorities and local councils. Will he also give a commitment to consulting business improvement district boards, where they exist, across the country? They take a particular view about the areas that they represent in relation to this issue.
David Lepper: Will my hon. Friend acknowledge that a huge problem faced by many carers is that they are often the elderly husbands, wives, partners or friends of equally elderly people, and that their age, and sometimes physical infirmity as well, can put additional strain on them in their caring duties? However, they want to care for their loved one.
David Lepper: Does my hon. Friend share my concern that where diagnosis is being well done, increasingly, numbers of younger people—some in their late 30s or early 40s—are being diagnosed with dementia and that that is a patchy picture across the country, but one to which the Department of Health perhaps needs to pay attention?
David Lepper: I, too, congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. I am sure that, like me, he will agree that funding is vital to taking forward all aspects of the dementia strategy and, indeed, of the carers strategy, which is related to it. I welcome the additional funding that the Government are providing, but does he share my concern that that funding and the money for the carers strategy...
David Lepper: May I place on the record the fact that I am a trustee of a local dementia charity in Brighton and Hove supporting those with dementia and their carers? I am sure that the Minister will recognise the vital role of those caring for people with dementia in their own homes and know how welcome has been the additional funding for breaks for carers. What steps will he take to ensure that primary...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many postcards supporting the designation of the South Downs as a National Park have been received by his Department since December 2008.
David Lepper: My hon. Friend has mentioned London and the south-east and the extra capacity coming there, including, for instance, on the London to Brighton line. Does she agree that the train operating companies have a responsibility to ensure that, where they have that extra capacity and are able to make timetable changes, they take into account the needs of the travellers? I have had complaints from...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department is planning to issue to NHS organisations and local authorities on the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy for England.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many postcards his Department has received since 1 December 2008 in support of a South Downs National Park as proposed by the Countryside Agency in 2002.
David Lepper: My right hon. Friend referred to community land trusts in the context of a co-operative and mutual approach to housing. She will know of the Commission on Mutual and Co-operative Housing, which was launched at last year's Co-operative Congress. Will she examine the findings of the commission's report when it is published, with a view to establishing what further support the Government can...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely outcome of negotiations in Cyprus on the future governance of the island.
David Lepper: My hon. Friend will be aware that Brighton and Hove city has one of the highest proportions of private rented housing in England outside London, and that it is also a successful university city. It has two successful universities, whose students not only contribute to the economy and the vitality of the city, but put pressure on the private rented housing sector. When will guidance be issued...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what account was taken of the undertaking given on 14 January 1998, Official Report, columns 357-8, in relation to the proportion of members of the board of the Food Standards Agency with relevant interests in the appointment of the current board members; and if he will make a statement; (2) how many and what proportion of the members of the...
David Lepper: Will my hon. Friend give way?
David Lepper: I join my hon. Friend in welcoming the report by the hon. Member for Buckingham (John Bercow). Carden school in my constituency was one of those that he visited, and he has acknowledged the excellent work done there. The Minister has emphasised the work being done and support being given in our schools. Does he agree that children's centres have a unique role to play in bringing together the...
David Lepper: As an officer of the all-party friends of the Baha'i faith group, may I thank the Minister for the representations that he and others have made to the Government of Iran about the situation of individual Baha'is whose cases we have drawn to his attention? Will he also make representations to the Government of Iran about the denial of access to higher education of young Baha'is in that...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the Government of Iran on the arrest on 14 May and the detention in Evin prison of Fabriba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afifi Naeimi, Saied Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakki and Vahid Tifzah, all of whom co-ordinate the activities of the Baha'i community in Iran; and if he will make a statement.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the Government of Iran on the detention since 5 March of Mrs Mahuash Sabet, an Iranian Baha'i first held in Mashud and subsequently in Evin prison; and if he will make a statement.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of GP consultations with children were asthma-related in each of the last five years.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the 10 most common causes of childhood emergency (a) admissions to and (b) attendances at hospital were in each of the last five years.
