asked Her Majesty's Government: By how much the national insurance fund is currently in surplus; what proportion of the social security budget is now funded by national insurance; and whether...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What percentage of the United Kingdom's total visible exports and imports and, separately, of the United Kingdom's invisible exports and imports, were accounted...

asked the Leader of the House: Whether it is in accordance with parliamentary practice not to discuss and debate individual applications for asylum when these are not currently before the courts.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their policy towards the Geneva negotiations for a verification protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention; and what is their assessment of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they endorse the agreements recently negotiated in Geneva designed to help end the use of child soldiers in armed conflict; and what is now their position...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many meetings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe there have been in the year to 31 January 2000; and how many were attended by British...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the priority they accord to relations with Russia and other former communist countries is reflected in the attendance record of British Ministers at the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What are their plans for bringing the aviation industry within the scope of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Given that on inspection the tanker Erika was rejected as unfit for carrying oil safely at sea by two major oil companies, Shell and BP Amoco, but was considered...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have for reviewing the legislation affecting common land and town and village greens.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether an extension of the powers of entry for the enforcement of Environmental Protection (Restriction on the Use of Lead Shot) (England) Regulations 1999 (S.I....

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will ensure that Parliament is notified as soon as practicable after the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions authorises...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What are their criteria for imposing consistency throughout the United Kingdom in environmental and health regulations, given that the protection of wildfowl from...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will confirm that the new rules concerning 2 metre boundary limits under Part I of the Arable Area Payments Scheme will not be retrospective.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the motto of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate "Assuring the Safety, Quality and Efficacy of Veterinary Medicines" is consistent with the performance of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many patients in National Health Service hospitals are aged (a) over 90; (b) over 80; and (c) over 70; and how these figures compare with 1990, 1980, 1970 and 1960.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many new regulations have been made by the Treasury since May 1997; and how many have been repealed.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How commercial sponsorship of government activity is treated in tax terms by the Inland Revenue.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Cumulatively, over the six year period 1993-98 inclusive, which 10 countries were the leading inward investors into the United Kingdom; and what percentage of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Cumulatively, over the six-year period 1993-98 inclusive, what proportion did total inward investment from overseas (excluding investment in real estate) bear to...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Cumulatively, over the six-year period 1993-98 inclusive, what proportion did total inward investment from overseas (excluding investment in real estate) bear to...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What meetings have been held by the Minister for Women with the Minister for Film since 7 December 1999 to discuss how conditions in the film and broadcasting...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the evidence in the report, Sightseeing in the UK 1998 (published by the English Tourism Council), that for the first time more...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will give in tabular form the values of the pound sterling against the United States dollar, the Japanese yen and the Euro since 1 January 1999.

asked the Chairman of Committees: Who are "the House authorities".

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, when homeless prisoners are given the higher rate of discharge grant, prison governors are required to fund this out of their prison's previously agreed...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What targets they are setting for the employment of women in the operational fire service.

asked Her Majesty's Government: When they will make a decision on the case of Senator Pinochet.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to review the work of the Parole Board.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What crime reduction targets police authorities will be expected to set over the next five years under the Best Value regime.