Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department of the study, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment", published by the United Nations and the World Bank on 30 March; what plans he has to liaise with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impact of the report on the implementation of climate change...
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Prime Minister when he received a letter from Sakve Shimohira on behalf of the Association for the Bereaved Families of the Atomic Bomb Dead in Nagasaki; and what response he has made.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school kitchens have been (a) closed and (b) converted to other uses since May 1997; and whether the new resources announced on 30 March for improving school meals includes funding available to re-open closed kitchens.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what applications were made to her Department during January under the Freedom of Information Act 2000; what the cost was of discovery and distribution of the information requested; how many requests were answered within the statutory 20 days; and what reasons were given to those whose requests were rejected.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when she established the Future for Nuclear group in her Department; what resources have been allocated to the group; which (a) officials and (b) contributors from outside her Department have participated in the group; in what format she expects the group to report; and when.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the future structure of Nirex.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate she has made of the future costs of ensuring the secure status of (a) nuclear installations to the end of their decommissioning and (b) nuclear materials until they are no longer useable in a malevolent fashion; and what measures have been put in place to ensure such future security.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many potential threats as defined by the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003 have occurred at each licensed nuclear installation since 1 January 2004.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what calculation his Department has made of the (a) physical, (b) environmental and (c) health impacts of the detonation of a single trident nuclear warhead on an urban area.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how the operations of Nirex will be (a) overseen and (b) funded under the new management arrangements.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of the current book value of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) was purchased from (a) foreign companies and (b) US companies; and what proportion of planned new expenditure at AWE sites is expected to be paid to (i) foreign companies and (ii) US companies.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what expenditure the Atomic Weapons Establishment has been authorised to make in the United States in each year since 1997.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which installations and bases operated by or on behalf of his Department are subject to Euratom regulation; and which nuclear materials are subject to such regulation at each such establishment.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will ask his United States counterpart to investigate claims made by former US Marine Jimmy Massey that US Coalition Forces in Iraq shot dead unarmed Iraqi civilians at roadblocks in Iraq.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department played a part in the preparation of the Iraqi casualty figures released on 29 October 2004 by the interim Iraqi health minister; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the original Iraqi statement.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to alter the alert status of British nuclear weapons.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what requests he has received from the parliamentary ombudsman to release details of when Ministers first sought advice on the legality of military action to invade Iraq; what response was made; and if he will make a statement.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what response he (a) has made and (b) plans to make to the request by his Indian counterpart on 28 March that the nuclear weapons states party to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty agree to irreversible and verifiable cuts in their nuclear arsenals as a condition of India signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date he, or officials in his Department, started to review the case of prisoner C", then being held in Woodhill Prison; what new information led him to decide to release prisoner C"; and on what dates reviews of the cases of other prisoners being detained under anti-terrorist legislation in Belmarsh Prison, began.
Mr Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget is for the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre in 2004–05; and whether he plans to increase the budget in future years.