David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what meetings officials of his Department have had with representatives from (a) the disposable nappy industry and (b) the Absorbent Hygiene Products Manufacture Association on diverting nappy waste from landfill.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans his Department has to extend existing producer responsibility schemes to producers of single use products.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what target was set by the Waste Resources Action Programme for diverting nappy waste from landfill (a) through the 25 local authorities schemes taking part in the Real Nappy Programme and (b) the Real Nappy Programme as a whole including the awareness-raising initiatives; (2) what volume of nappy waste was...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made by the Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) in setting up a stand-alone organisation which will take over the management of the Real Nappy Programme when WRAP funding ends in April 2007.
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David Lepper: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one issue that has been reported in a confused way in this country is the outcome in the High Court of the Orams case? In so far as it was reported, many of the reports suggested that the High Court judge had found in favour of the Orams, when in fact, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) said, he substantiated their case, but the ruling...
David Lepper: I place on record an interest that is in the Register of Members' Interests. One issue that my hon. Friend has not mentioned is that of public opinion in the Republic about the bases that the UK has in the Republic of Cyprus. Have his visits to Cyprus and his discussions on the subject enabled him to form any view of that public opinion and whether it has changed over the years?
David Lepper: From my experience of the pathfinder area in Brighton and Hove, I do not believe that the local housing allowance will have the beneficial effect on young people that my hon. Friend believes that it will have when it is rolled out across the whole country. Will she undertake to continue to review the working of the single room rent and the shared room rent as they are rolled out nationally?
David Lepper: On the point that my hon. Friend has just made about tenants shopping around and the experience of the pathfinders, it might help him to learn that I spoke this afternoon to Julia Harrison, the housing manager for Hove YMCA, which manages housing for young people in the city of Brighton and Hove. She tells me that one of the consequences of the single room rent is that young people are forced...
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the Government's plan to implement the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's guidelines on dementia.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what drug treatments are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for the treatment of dementia with Lewy body disease.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what monitoring is carried out by his Department to ensure the reliability of the tagging system operated by Group 4.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent steps have been taken by (a) his Department and (b) Ofgem to promote an effective competitive energy market for small business consumers.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the Government's plan to implement the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's guidelines on dementia.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what drug treatments are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for the treatment of dementia with Lewy body disease.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what monitoring is carried out by his Department to ensure the reliability of the tagging system operated by Group 4.
David Lepper: To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee if he will make a further statement on the changes recommended by the Committee to the rules on broadcasting proceedings of the house and on filming and photography within the precincts.
David Lepper: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations she has made to the government of Israel on the resumption of the transfer of Palestinian tax and customs revenues.
David Lepper: Does the Home Secretary agree that the kind of work that he has just outlined to deal with offenders is best based at a very local level? Has he heard from the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Sutcliffe), about the success of the prolific offender management scheme, which he helped to launch some two years ago in Brighton...
David Lepper: In presenting this petition I need to place on the record the fact that I am a member of the Alzheimer's Society and a trustee of a Brighton and Hove-based charity, ARDIS, which works on behalf of those with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, and their carers. The petition is in the name of Mr. Neil McArthur and 981 other signatories whose signatures were collected by volunteers of the...
