Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will request utility companies providing electricity to show on their invoices the cost of their support for wind and other renewable forms of energy, including the Climate Change Levy and the Renewables Obligation.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated cost of upgrading the national grid from Scotland to London to take the surplus load from wind turbines due to be installed in Scotland as part of any undertaking to meet European Union carbon reduction targets.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the cost of transmitting electricity from Scotland to London was taken into account when the economic viability of wind turbines in Scotland was assessed.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated additional cost to households in England of upgrading the national grid to take the surplus load from wind turbines due to be installed in Scotland.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what level of standby generation will be needed to fill any gaps in supply caused by the intermittency of wind generation when the programme to build wind turbines has been completed.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government why students from other European Union member states can get student apprenticeship grants not available to students born in the United Kingdom.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the forecast increase in the number of those classified as being in fuel poverty due to electricity cost increases from increasing expenditure on renewable energy infrastructure and payments under the feed-in tariff scheme due to Government and European Union carbon reduction targets.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the value for money for the public purse of the £8.6 billion estimated cost of the feed-in tariff scheme.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Department of Energy and Climate Change continues to use the 30 per cent onshore wind load factor assumption of the wind industry for planning purposes.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in citing data provided by the British Wind Energy Association, they have assessed the methodology used to collect those data.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money each department provides to the British Wind Energy Association; and for what purposes.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government on what grounds they allow the import of electroshock guns (Tasers) by the police from the United States and other countries, in view of them and their components being banned for export from the United Kingdom and classified as instruments of torture.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many foreign nationals in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought cases in the European Court of Human Rights against Her Majesty's armed forces using legal aid paid for by the United Kingdom. To ask Her Majesty's Government how much legal aid was paid to the solicitor Phil Shiner or his associates for cases against Her Majesty's armed forces brought by foreign...
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of religiously aggravated crime against (a) Christians, (b) Jews, (c) Muslims, (d) Sikhs, (e) Buddhists, (f) Hindus, and (g) persons of no religious belief, were recorded in each year since April 2003; and how many of those crimes involved violence.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government following the report of the National Audit Office saying that £620 million spent by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Rural Payments Agency in administering European Union support to farmers was a "masterclass in mis-administration", what steps will they take to penalise those responsible and to prevent a recurrence.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the conferences and briefings given by the British Wind Energy Association to local authorities are compatible with the Nolan report recommendations that planners should be impartial and seen to be impartial.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether a regulatory impact assessment was conducted before the enforcement of the European Union directive (2005/323/EC) phasing out inefficient incandescent electric light bulbs.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make it a condition of listing on the London Stock Exchange that a company's shares may only be lent for shorting or other purposes with the permission of shareholders at the company's annual general meeting.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the forecast gross and net costs to the United Kingdom of its budget contribution to the European Union this year at the current exchange rate, taking into account all rebates, grants and fines.
Lord Vinson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the purpose of the European Regulations ((EC) 999/2001) requiring the removal of the spinal cords of sheep, in light of the estimate from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee that "the prevalence of BSE in the United Kingdom sheep flock may be zero and in the worse case no more than 10 flocks would be affected"; and what assessment they have...