To ask the Solicitor-General what estimate he has made of the number of cases where the Crown Prosecution Service have not had the relevant file with them at court in the latest period for which...

To ask the Solicitor-General what guidance he has provided to the Crown Prosecution Service on the prosecution of the perpetrators of false rape claims.

To ask the Solicitor-General if he will implement a pilot scheme to assess the merits of more formal plea bargaining.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of his Department's budget was allocated to railway transportation in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many value for money exercises on the use of (a) management consultants and (b) professional advisers were conducted by his Department in each of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what work his Department undertakes with the Department for Education and Skills to ensure that further education establishments teach road safety and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with his counterparts in EU member states on exchanging information on (a) non-UK driving licence holders who have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many non-UK driving licence holders received driving endorsements in the UK in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the (a) cost of providing and (b) price of sitting a driving theory test was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will require further testing of first aid skills as part of the hazard perception section of the driving theory test.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress his Department is making towards the introduction of smart card technology outside London.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many UK fishermen have died while on fishing vessels since December 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many UK fishing vessels have been lost since December 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will ensure that his forthcoming economic assessment of the costs and benefits of the proposed widening of the M6 motorway between junctions 11A...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) fatalities and (b) serious injuries were caused by accidents involving a minibus driven by a volunteer in each year from 1995 to 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with (i) the Mayor of London and (ii) Transport for London on (A) the relationship between the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions the Strategic Rail Authority has had with bidders for the (a) Integrated Kent franchise and (b) South Western franchise on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Office of Rail Regulation's policy on track access rights and open access on the franchise...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) consulted (a) freight and passenger operators and (b) current or potential holders of track access rights...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many railway stations (a) obtained secure station status, (b) had secure status withdrawn and (c) did not seek secure station status...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many railway stations (a) have obtained secure station status, (b) had secure status withdrawn and (c) did not seek secure station...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what funds were (a) allocated and (b) spent by National Rail on enhancing the general cleanliness, facilities and services of small and medium-sized...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Telford of 21 November 2006, Official Report, column 35W, on railways, what plans his Department has to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of light railway are projected for completion in the next five years; and how many projects are involved.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent passenger counts First Great Western have undertaken to south Wales services; and with what results.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to promote the use of vehicle-activated signs in place of speed cameras (a) as temporary measures at road works and (b) as...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents have been caused by drivers between the ages of 17 and 21 years since November 2002; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the outcome was of the 1998 two-year testing period of low noise, crumb rubber aggregate asphalt by the Highways Agency and the Road Transport...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will assess the practicability of a common maximum speed limit in EU member states.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many responses her Department received to the consultation on the new guidance on the Cultural Test for Films.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether her Department sought to publicise the extension to the deadline for the consultation on the Tourism Strategy for the 2012 games...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her strategy is for the long-term sustainability of seaside piers; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people are employed as county sport partnership directors; and what the (a) minimum, (b) median and (c) maximum salary is of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many of his Department's civil servants work full-time to support departmental special advisers; and what the salary is of each such civil servant.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much was spent by his Office on furniture made by British firms in each year since 2000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what plans he has to carry out gender impact assessments of his Department's major policy developments and new legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) funded into the (i) safety and (ii) ethics of electric shock collars for dogs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) who will be responsible for the treatment of contaminated areas in the event that no specific polluter can be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many businesses have registered for the Environment Agency's NetRegs email alert service; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will provide more on-farm inspections to oversee the breeding and husbandry of animals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many British sea fishermen there were in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the total EU subsidy for each national fishing fleet was in each year since 1985.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many British sea fishing vessels (a) under and (b) over 10 metres in length were in use in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) total allowable catches and (b) levels of discards were within British territorial waters for each fish...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the (a) number, (b) total tonnage and (c) total allowable catch of vessels in each national...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of fish stocks of the main North Sea species in each year since 1985.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps are being taken to combat the bile fluke Pseudamphistomum truncatum; what information he has received from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what inquiries are being made into the implications of the spread of the bile fluke Pseudamphistomum truncatum; what warnings...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps have been taken by the Marine Climate Change Partnership to highlight knowledge of climate change impacts on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the limit on the liability incurred by a nuclear operator is in the case of accident; whether that limit is subject to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will take steps to support the UK prawn industry; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what contingency plans the Government has for a sustained period of reduced rainfall.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to set recycling targets for waste from (a) small businesses and (b) municipal buildings, including schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance his Department has given to local authorities participating in a recycling scheme on the frequency of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of waste was recycled in each region in each of the last four years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the status is of the licence application under the Food and Environmental Protection Act 1985 for Scarweather Sands wind...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect of the Common Fisheries Policies on seabird populations; and what mitigation...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce emissions of (a) sulphur and (b) nitrogen oxide from shipping.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the capital expenditure cost of achieving a 10 per cent. increase in recycling performance was for the private finance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what private finance initiative schemes his Department is involved in relating to local authority waste collection and disposal.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the estimated average cost per bulb is of the disposal of (a) an incandescent light bulb and (b) an energy efficient...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of changes in total water use since 1997; and what proportion of this change has resulted from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library copies of the National Audit Office's management letters for the 2005-06 annual accounts of (a) the Armed Forces...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armed forces personnel are based in (a) Germany and (b) Cyprus; and if his Department will estimate the annual cost of keeping the force in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which vehicles were purchased to replace the 14 Mamba vehicles referred to in his answer of 8 November 2006 to the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr....

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what effect he expects the purchase of Vector and Cougar armoured vehicles to have on procurement of the Future Rapid Effect System project; and if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how much the purchase of 14 Mamba Troop vehicles cost; and when the purchase was made; (2) if he will make a statement on the sale of the 14 Mamba...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Panther armoured vehicles are planned to be delivered to the British Army; what role they will play; and how many are expected to be sent to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will assess the merits of leasing Black Hawk helicopters from the United States administration.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the deployments of three or more Challenger 2 tanks normally based in (a) Germany and (b) the UK in each of the last five years; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the process to select a successor to Alan Garwood as Head of the Defence Export Services has begun; and what the process will involve.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) why he intends to increase expenditure within Departmental Expenditure Limits for subheads (a) Request for Resources 1-F and (b) Request for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) marketing officers, (b) communications officers and (c) press officers are employed in his Department; and what the total expenditure on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total management fee recovered from the Saudi Arabian Government was to cover the costs incurred in promoting the sale of Eurofighter aircraft...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to publish his Department's gender equality scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if his Department will estimate the financial cost to the UK of (a) procuring, deploying and operating Ground-Based Interceptors from the US missile...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of personnel serving with (a) Harrier squadrons, (b) Nimrod aircraft and (c) Royal Air Force Regiment Field Squadrons exceed the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) Army Aircorps and (b) RAF helicopters are deployed in (i) Iraq, (ii) Afghanistan and (iii) Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the time scale is for the programme to fit explosion suppressant foam to Hercules aircraft; how many aircraft will be fitted with the foam; and if...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost was of the refit of HMS Vanguard; and over what periods the costs were included in the expenditure accounts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any of the staff in his Department who are not serving members of the armed forces are classed as key workers for the purposes of the (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many airbridge flights for forces personnel serving in Iraq were (a) cancelled, (b) delayed and (c) diverted with less than a days notice in 2005;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which operations outside Iraq and Afghanistan are included in the expenditure within subhead Request for Resources 2-C.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what his Department's estimate is for Direct Resource Expenditure in Request for Resources 2 in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2006-07 calculated on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which data protection regulations prevent him from naming media recipients of the Iraq campaign medal.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the expected running costs per mile are of the BvS10 Viking all-terrain vehicle, including routine maintenance; (2) what the cost is of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the price is of a BAe Land Systems RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicle.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors were taken into account in deciding to fit a remote weapon station to the Panther Future Command Liaison vehicle.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what (a) data on running costs and (b) other economic data were obtained in relation to the vehicles evaluated during the Future Command Liaison...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors were taken into account when the decision was made not to fit remote environmental monitoring units to all Royal Navy minehunters; and which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence why he intends to increase non-operating appropriations in aid for subhead Request for Resources 1-J.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which equipment orders are outstanding for UK forces in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan; and when the orders will be delivered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Phoenix unmanned aerial vehicles are in service; what the cost to purchase was; and what assessment he has made of their performance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total capital value is of each private finance initiative scheme overseen by his Department which has reached financial close; over what period...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the estimated research and development costs are for the (a) Type-45 destroyer and (b) Astute submarine programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which Royal Navy ships are (a) at sea, (b) ready for deployment, (c) at reduced readiness and (d) mothballed; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost to his Department has been of the loss of spare parts while being delivered to their intended destination in each of the last two years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what level of funding has been provided for the (a) Air Training Corps and (b) Army Cadet force in each of the last eight years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) aircraft and (b) RAF personnel are involved in the transportation of UK forces to and from deployments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicles his Department expects to purchase in the next 12 months; what the cost will be; and what assessment he has...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what items of weapon-related equipment for which his Department was responsible were stolen in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the capacity of the national electricity transmission grid to meet the UK's energy needs over the next 15...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many (a) complaints and (b) items of correspondence have been received from (i) businesses, (ii) representative bodies of businesses and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average household energy bill was in (a) England and Wales, (b) England and (c) Wales in the most recent period for which figures...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) whether (a) incandescent light bulbs and (b) energy efficient light bulbs are subject to the provisions of the Waste Electrical and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many meetings he and his Ministers have had in the last 12 months with (a) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent discussions he has had with British Energy on the future of energy in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the contribution of residual municipal solid waste for the production of energy to the security of energy...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the membership is of the Franco-British Nuclear Forum; what the (a) structure and (b) objectives are of the forum; and if he will make...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to introduce smart meters for (a) gas and (b) electricity provision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment his Department (a) has made and (b) has commissioned the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate to make of the problems with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether all nuclear material produced in the UK is traceable to a specific reactor.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to announce the award of licences under the 24th licensing round for oil and gas exploration; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many sub-post offices there were in each constituency in (a) 1999 and (b) 2005, listed in descending order of the change in the number...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much funding his Department gave to the (a) Central Arbitration Committee, (b) Competition Appeal Tribunal, (c) Copyright Tribunal,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to his answer of 27 November 2006, Official Report, column 386W, on the retirement age, what the aims were which the Government were...

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to promote the use of carbon monoxide detectors in homes.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent discussions she has had with the Secretaries of State for (a) Education, (b) Health and (c) Trade and Industry on the introduction of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the forthcoming Climate Change Planning Policy Statement reinforces PPS22...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what restrictions are in place for the sharing of information about houses obtained when assessing properties for council tax;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans the Valuation Office Agency has to publish council tax valuation schemes on the internet.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether there is a council tax exemption for homes empty due to the death of the owner.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities have introduced local council tax discounts under the Local Government Act 2003; and what the (a) level...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) average percentage rise and I cash rise was in average band D outturn council tax bills from 2005-06 to 2006-07 in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department spent on (a) external room hire and (b) conference exhibition stands in the last year for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) if she will place in the Library a copy of each edition of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's International...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what changes were made to the definition of previously-developed land in (a) 2000 and (b) 2001.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in what ways a home seller will be requested to update an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) if material changes are made to a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when her Department plans to publish (a) a regulatory impact assessment and (b) a consultation paper on the implementation of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether her Department funds the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff are to be removed from the establishment of divisions forming the Fire and Resilience Directorate of her...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance on working time regulations and firefighters.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on home information packs since her...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate has she made of the (a) highest, (b) lowest, (c) median and (d) mean fees to be charged by local authorities...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment the Government have made of the (a) merits and (b) enforceability of covenants on new homes banning cats and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent discussions she has had with Lancashire county council on the prospect of becoming a unitary authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the National Land Use Database typology of land or buildings currently in use where it is known there is a potential for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the practice by freeholders of excluding the curtilage, including associated parking and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which non-local authority employers are members of the local government pension scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what obligations local authorities have to fund a liability or shortfall from non-local authority members of the local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities (a) she, (b) her Ministers and (c) her staff have met to discuss local government restructuring since...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether a full council is required to ratify the decision of a local authority to bid for unitary status under the local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether Ordnance Survey maps published before 1936 are now out of copyright.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) dates and (b) locations have been of the meetings of the Muslim Forum Against Islamophobia and Extremism; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment her Department has made of the initiative by Bradford council of mosques to develop and test educational...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the effective date is for pay awards to her Department's staff; and what the actual implementation date was in each of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department's latest estimates are of (a) net migration and (b) household growth in each Government office region in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been paid to local authorities to fund their additional responsibilities for recycling televisions and monitors...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the timetable is for the Government's (a) amendment and (b) ratification of each Regional Spatial Strategy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with whom within the Fire and Resilience Directorate responsibility for the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 will lie.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what steps the Department has taken since the written ministerial statement of 8 June 2006 on Planning Policy Statement 22...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate her Department has made of the number of publicly funded buildings likely to be built in the next 12 months that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) whether it is the policy of the Department's inspectors to write planning policies requiring on-site renewable energy...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library copies of the research reports (a) Perceptions of Privacy and Density in Housing and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many complaints have been upheld by the Adjudication Panel after being referred by the Standards Board in each year...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the influence of Tablighi Jamaat on community cohesion in England; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of domestic properties in England with dwellinghouse data are classified by the Valuation Office Agency with a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many domestic properties in England are classified by the Valuation Office Agency with a dwellinghouse code of FC.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the contract between the Valuation Office Agency and Cole Layer Trumble.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what use the Valuation Office Agency makes of the techniques of (a) variography and (b) similarity matrices for valuation purposes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what (a) property, (b) geo-spatial and (c) geo-demographic attributes are covered by the Valuation Office Agency's dwelling...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how the Valuation Office Agency gathers data for the property attribute of number of bathrooms to use in its multiple regression...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether (a) access to on-street parking spaces and (b) the number of (i) garage spaces and (ii) off-street parking spaces are...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many domestic properties in England are classified by the Valuation Office Agency with a dwellinghouse code of (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the impact of Government policies on the availability of early-retired people to assist the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations her Department has received advocating the introduction of variable rate charging for domestic rubbish.

To ask the Prime Minister which 10 consultancy fees charged to his Office since May 1997 were the most expensive.

To ask the Prime Minister how many temporary employees were contracted to work in No. 10 Downing street in 2005-06; and what the total cost of such employees was in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 1997-98.

To ask the Prime Minister which studies have been commissioned by his Office from (a) external agencies, (b) companies, (c) academics and (d) individuals in 2006.

To ask the Prime Minister what the 20 largest procurement projects initiated by his Department since May 1997 were; what the (a) original budget, (b) cost to date and (c) consultancy fees...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment she has made of (a) political freedom, (b) media freedom and (c) freedom of assembly in (i) Bolivia...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports she has received on the recent execution of the three religious leaders Mr. Xu Shuangfu, Mr. Li Maoxing and Mr....

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the United Nations programme of reform Delivering as One; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports she has received on the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and whether she has seen evidence indicating...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information the Department collects on (a) extradition treaties between other nations and (b) international arrest...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will seek from her French counterpart information on the reasons for recent French troop redeployments in (a) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what programme of meetings and events was organised for General Salah Abdallah (also known as Al Ghosh) on each of the two...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the threat posed to regional stability by Hezbollah.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment her Department has made of the security situation on the Somalia and Ethiopia border; and if she will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will make a statement on Iran's referral to the Security Council.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the UK is taking to ensure Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the threat posed to regional security of Iran's nuclear programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many times the Joint Ministerial Committee on Europe has met in (a) 2006 and (b) the last five years; and what the format...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether she has received reports of (a) threats and incarceration of those who oppose the Government by peaceful means and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on nuclear disarmament were supported by the United Kingdom at its 61(st) session.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions her Department has held with the Home Office on the restrictions on migrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will take steps to bring before the next meeting of EU Foreign Ministers the matter of the issue of arrest warrants by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions she has had with (a) the UN and (b) the government of Sudan on the introduction of peace-keeping forces into...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures are being put in place to provide greater protection for refugees who have fled to Eastern Chad from Darfur; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions she has had with EU counterparts on Turkey's accession to the EU; what representations she has made to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports she has received on the withdrawal of the Lord's Resistance Army from peace talks with the Ugandan Government; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what financial and other support is given to non-government organisations which seek to assist UK prisoners abroad; and in which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what UK-Burma trade is permitted under Government rules.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the specific policy areas are of each member of his Council of Economic Advisers.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what date each of his Council of Economic Advisers took up their position.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which internal guidance documents are used in his Department.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the European Commission to raise the duty free allowance for bringing goods into the country from outside the EU to £1,000.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the (a) total expected Government contribution to (i) the Thames Gateway, (ii) the Olympics in London in 2012 and (iii) London's rail...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what date the Prime Minister gave his written approval for his trip to Iraq on 18 November.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what personal data held by his Department will be entered on to the National Identity Register; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cars run by his Department were manufactured (a) in the UK and (b) abroad.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much child pornography was seized under section 139(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many staff work in the Private Finance Unit; and at what grade; (2) what the remit is of the Private Finance Unit; and how its performance is...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what effect on the income generated to the Exchequer has resulted from the new regime for the taxation of loan relationships, derivative contracts and...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what effect on the income generated to the Exchequer since 2000 has resulted from the (a) changing of double taxation relief rules to limit the use of...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the European Commission to issue a derogation so that businesses with turnovers of £1.35 million or less will be able to take advantage...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what effect on the income generated to the Exchequer has resulted from the introduction of VAT for non-EU businesses providing electronically supplied...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the total amount paid in working tax credits to prisoners on day release in each of the last five years for which figures are...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the budget is for the court service in each criminal justice area in 2006-07; and what percentage change each figure...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs on what dates her Department notified the Home Office of the decisions of the immigration judge on 23 May and of the Tribunal...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many applications to sit as a magistrate in Milton Keynes were (a) received and (b) accepted from each ethnic group in...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what plans her Department has to implement the recommendations of the Law Commission on damages for non-pecuniary loss.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what her policy is on the recognition by the police of decisions reached by sharia courts held in England and Wales.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many home child carers have been approved since (a) the introduction of the Childcare Approval Scheme and (b) the beginning of 2006.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many Sure Start children's centres there are; and what progress has been made towards the 2008 target of 2,500 centres; (2) how...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children's trusts had been established by April 2006; and how many are forecast to have been established by the end of 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills by what mechanism consultancy contracts commissioned by his Department are reviewed for cost-effectiveness; who conducts these reviews; what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the early support pilot programme; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) independent and (b) maintained special schools there were in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the average salary of Sure Start workers in each of the last four years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much Government funding has been spent on Sure Start since 2 May 1997; how many children have participated in the scheme during that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent on press, public relations and communications work by (a) each (i) health and social services board and (ii) health trust in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he has taken to encourage electricity customers in Northern Ireland to use EcoEnergy; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of those pensioners eligible in each health trust area in Northern Ireland had received an influenza vaccination as of 30...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints were made to the Northern Ireland ombudsman about each Northern Ireland Government Department or agency in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans have been made to fund scanning equipment at all entrances of the Northern Ireland Parliament buildings.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of the pensioner population in Northern Ireland has been lifted out of poverty in each of the last five years; and what steps he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how long it took for the police to arrive at the entrance of the Great Hall, Stormont Parliament building following the security alert on 24...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in India.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's policy on Aid for Trade.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's Latin American regional assistance plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what progress has been made on ensuring that schools and clinics in the poorest areas in Nigeria have sufficient resources to employ...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to promote sustainable forestry in Africa.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what further discussions he has had with World Bank officials on conditionality.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the outcome was of the review conference on the convention on certain conventional weapons; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he has taken to support the Right to Sight joint aim of the World Health Organisation and International Agency for the...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the Government expenditure was on (a) international development and (b) combating AIDS in developing countries in (i) 1996-97...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have had profiles stored on the National DNA Database since 10 January 2006; how many profiles are stored on the National...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what basis the Government's decision to waive their opt out on Council Decision 2006/719/EC on the accession of the Community to the Hague...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his strategy is for ensuring that there is a smooth transition to the incoming Hampshire Probation Board in April 2007, with particular...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Identity and Passport Service spent on sending officials Christmas cards in each of the last two years for which figures are...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Identity and Passport Service spent on official entertaining in each of the last two years for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Identity and Passport Service spent on food and alcohol for its staff working out of office in each of the last two years for...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many overseas visits have been made by staff at the Identity and Passport Service in each of the last five years for which figures are...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he will take to ensure that victims of paedophiles have access to ongoing victim support services; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the conclusions were of the intermittent custody pilot scheme in Lincoln; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are to index-link pay for police officers.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Government expenditure on policing was in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North West, (c) Greater Manchester and (d) Manchester,...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how complaints about the (a) fairness and (b) legality of treatment of those having dealings with the prison service are investigated.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of (a) prisoners and (b) convicted criminals in England and Wales are recorded as (i) white and (ii) black...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have been diagnosed with mental health disorders.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will investigate the reasons for the overspend in HMP Wymott's budget.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the extent to which prison officers on paid leave are carrying out bed watch duty and receiving payment for...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) average number of cases per month handled and (b) rates of recidivism were in each probation office area in the last year for...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed by the (a) National Offender Management Service, (b) National Probation Directorate and (c) Prison Service...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the caseload is of the National Probation Service.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are supervised by the National Probation Service; and how many offenders have been allocated to each tier under the National...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the rates of recidivism are for each (a) prison, (b) young offenders' institution and (c) organisation contracted to manage community...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2006, Official Report, column 409W, on road safety, on what date work commenced on the detailed...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements are in place between the UK and each EU country for providing (a) criminal conviction information and (b) provision of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the maximum sentence was awarded for a crime in (a) Crown courts and (b) magistrates' courts in the last year for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many juvenile offenders from each local authority area in Wales are held in secure accommodation in (a) Oswald Unit at Cassington, (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what secure accommodation (a) young adults and (b) juvenile offenders attached to Welsh youth offending teams are held; in what secure...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people serving detention and training orders who were designated as having been vulnerable by the Youth Justice Board were...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many separate (a) bargaining units and (b) pay grade structures there were in the UK civil service in each year since 2001.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which 10 consultancy fees charged to her Department since May 1997 were the most expensive.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many temporary employees were contracted to work for her Department in 2005-06; and what the total cost of such employees was in (a) 2005-06...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which studies have been commissioned by her Department from (a) external agencies, (b) companies, (c) academics and (d) individuals in 2006.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the professional background was of each member of the Duchy Council appointed in each of the last three years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the 20 largest procurement projects initiated by her Department since May 1997 have been; what the (a) original budget, (b) cost to date and...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who was responsible for appointing the Chairman of the charity, v; and what role Ministers had in approving this appointment.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what appointments to the v charity were the responsibility of the Government.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will assess the merits of making carbon monoxide detectors compulsory for rented accommodation; (2) what penalties may be imposed...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the formula is for distributing the savings for his Department arising out of city strategy partnerships.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the processing time for crisis loan applications was in each region in each of the last 12 quarters for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which staff in his Department are seconded from organisations with charitable status; and which have (a) costs and (b) salaries met (i) in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many qualified electricians are unemployed in the north-east region.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many local areas he has worked with to draw up a local full employment plan addressing all barriers to full employment in their local area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what qualifications are required for membership of the EC Advisory Committee on the Freedom of Movement of Workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that private organisations contracted to work (a) in his Department and (b) for non-departmental public...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to carry out gender impact assessments of his Department's major policy developments and new legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of cutting the withdrawal rate of housing benefit from 65 per cent. to (a) 60, (b) 55, (c) 50, (d) 45...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the value of housing benefit fraud in England in each year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claiming industrial injuries benefit were (a) in work, (b) out of work and of working age and (c) retired in the last period...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department takes to ensure that Jobcentre Plus staff do not advise couples that they would be better off financially if they...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what targets are set for Jobcentre Plus contact centre telephone operators.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which Jobcentre Plus offices were closed in each of the last four years, indicating in each case whether prior to closure the office was open...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that more staff in job centres are trained to deal with clients suffering from mental illness.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which Ministers from (a) the Department of Health, (b) the Department for Education and Skills, (c) the Department of Trade and Industry,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the proposed timetable is for the roll-out of contracts awarded under the Pathways to Work scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are in receipt of reduced earnings allowance; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether there are measures in place to prevent Remploy factories employing able-bodied people when there are unemployed disabled people who...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what criteria are used to determine whether Social Fund budgeting loans should be awarded.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assistance his Department offers to people who require immediate financial assistance but have been on benefits for less than 36 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the ability of families with children in receipt of benefits to make loan repayments to the Social Fund.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which criteria are used to determine whether Social Fund partial cash awards are made.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how benefits staff (a) interpret and (b) apply the inability to pay criterion in cases where applications for Social Fund loans are rejected...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Social Fund was set up; and when it began offering loans.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effects on families in receipt of state benefits of (a) making loans and (b) awarding grants under the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what research his Department has commissioned on the effectiveness in meeting its objectives of the Social Fund in the last 10 years; and if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how the repayment rate for Social Fund loans is calculated.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average percentage is of weekly income of families with one or more children in receipt of a Social Fund loan which is spent on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made of the Social Fund's ability to help families on low incomes meet minimum income standards.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of (a) male and (b) female state retirement pensioners who have deferred payment beyond state...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the annual cost of statutory paternity pay in the UK was in each year since 2003-04; and what estimate he has made of the cost for each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many men in the UK received statutory paternity pay in each year since 2003-04; and what estimate he has made of the likely number in each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each constituency in Scotland were in receipt of winter fuel payments in each year since 2000; and how much was claimed in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether (a) strategic health authorities, (b) primary care trusts and (c) hospitals hold the home addresses of expectant mothers; and what account is...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) initial estimated cost was and (b) current projected cost is of Bishop Auckland hospital under the private finance initiative.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of blind people living in (a) Wirral and (b) Wirral South.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps the Government plan to take to increase the take up of breast cancer screening amongst women over 70; and if she will make a statement;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients in (a) North East Hertfordshire and (b) West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust areas have had operations cancelled at short notice in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps have been taken to encourage cancer networks to implement her Department's advice on the development of low dose rate brachytherapy services...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which registered care homes for the elderly have a religious ethos; and what the average number of residents in each such care home was in the latest year...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to extend direct payments to carers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has for the carers grant to local authorities beyond 2007-08; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effect of the Quality and Outcome framework on cholesterol level since its introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) hospital trusts and (b) independent sector treatment centres are using the choose and book system; and how many are mental health trusts,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures are in place to co-ordinate clinical training supervised by strategic health authorities to ensure consistency of (a) quantity and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of the trend in the number of community pharmacies in England receiving payments for delivering agreed additional hours...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of the (a) optimum and (b) actual level of enhanced services being commissioned by primary care trusts under the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital patients in Cornwall had their discharge delayed by (a) up to eight days, (b) between eight and 14 days, (c) between 14 and 28 days...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to ensure that NHS dental provision is available for those who are unable to travel to a dentist's surgery because of disability...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many units of dental activity in each band was recorded by the Business Service Authority in each month since the start of the system, broken down by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) adults and (b) children are registered with NHS general dental practices in York; and how many were registered at York practices in each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are on a waiting list for a dentist in (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Yorkshire and (c) England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost was of a visit to a dentist's surgery in (a) 1997, (b) 2001 and (c) 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of dentists in England (a) accept NHS patients and (b) exclusively accept NHS patients.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding for NHS dentistry is for 2006-07; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there are per head of population in each primary care trust area in the East Midlands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to underwrite any shortfall in NHS dental charges income to allow each primary care trust fully to spend its budget...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health at what point her Department expects to reclaim underspends from primary care trusts from their 2005-06 NHS dentistry budget allocations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there are in the St. Albans constituency; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether people employed (a) through employment agencies and (b) on a consultancy basis are included in the calculations for the full-time equivalent...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which statistics have been put forward by her Department for consideration to become new national statistics in each of the last five years; and how many...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many babies in the care of the NHS have required resuscitation as a result of non-therapeutic interventional research managed by Dr David Southall.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated cost was of drug counselling and drugs support services in each year since 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many drug-related deaths were recorded in each year since 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people aged 15 to 25 years were treated for drug-related mental health problems in each year since 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether it is her intention that NHS trusts should not assume GP referral as authorisation to treat a patient, as stated in the London strategic health...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are in place for thanking out-going members of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what new health service facilities have been established in (a) Gateshead primary care trust and (b) Blaydon constituency since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the running costs are for a full year's operation, including loan repayments for capital investment and PFI costs of (a) Queen's hospital, Oldchurch...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment her Department has made of NHS trusts' compliance with departmental guidance on the Hospital Travel Costs scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many products manufactured to tackle hospital-acquired infections have been referred to the Rapid Review Panel; and how many recommendations the Panel...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research she has (a) commissioned and (b) supported on the detection and control of causes of hospital-acquired infections.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department has committed to spend on tackling hospital-acquired infection in each year since the launch of the initiative to tackle such...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on the use by the NHS of identity cards as NHS entitlement cards.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the 20 week maximum wait for imaging scans from April has the status of a Government target; which imaging scans are included for the purposes of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance she has issued to NHS trusts on NHS staff members who express a wish not to be seconded to independent sector treatment centres.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the stockpile of oseltamivir for use in the event of an influenza pandemic is complete.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether her Department has any plans to stockpile the drug Relenza.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to stockpile (a) Relenza and (b) alternative antivirals for use in the event of an influenza pandemic.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what preparations her Department is making against the possibility of an influenza pandemic.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients the NHS has treated for lung disease in each year since 1997; and what resources the NHS has allocated for research into and treatment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of total NHS expenditure was spent on management consultants in the last period for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children in Brent with mental health problems were treated on an adult ward in the last period for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the causes of the variation in spending by primary care trusts on mental health services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by primary care trusts on treatments not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in each year for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what framework her Department has in place for the development of general practitioners and nurses with a special interest in (a) neurology and (b) epilepsy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the proposals of NHS Blood and Transplant, what steps she plans to take to ensure the (a) supervision, (b) security and (c) protection from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much land at Stoke Mandeville hospital, Aylesbury (a) she owns, (b) is owned by the Buckinghamshire hospitals NHS trust and (c) has been sold to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's total expenditure has been on managing the NHS identity, as explained on the website www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk, in each financial year...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of cap is of employer contributions to the NHS pension scheme; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacant NHS posts were frozen in (a) Surrey Primary Care Trust (PCT) and its predecessor PCT, (b) South East Coast Strategic Health Authority...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) other hospital staff employed in the NHS are from India.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to publish the NHS staff earnings survey for 2006-07; and which specific staff groups are classified as administrative and clerical in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the staff sickness absence rate has been in the NHS in each financial year since 1997-98, broken down into each major category of staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many newly qualified nurses did not find work in the NHS in the last two years for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dedicated pain clinics there are in England, broken down by (a) NHS hospital trust and (b) primary care trust.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps she is taking to encourage NHS clinicians to develop patient pathway guidance for the treatment of conditions which have not been...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether diagnostics commissioned as a direct access service, as explained on page 7 of Annex B to her Department's road-testing guidance for payment by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prescriptions have been issued using the electronic prescriptions service in each month since it became operational.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private finance initiative schemes have been approved by her Department in the last three financial years, broken down by parliamentary constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified non-medical psychotherapy and counselling practitioners were employed by the NHS in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the regulation of non-medical psychotherapy and counselling practitioners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many school nurses employed in the NHS are (a) qualified and (b) unqualified; what estimate she has made of the number of school nurses the NHS will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by her Department on television advertisements in the last year for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the national average (a) outpatient, (b) day case and (c) inpatient waiting times were for (i) gynaecology, (ii) ophthalmology, (iii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deaths occurred in England as a result of adverse reactions to medicinal drugs in each of the past seven years; and what proportion of these...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will now publish the correspondence to date between the Ministry of Defence and the president of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for England and Wales on...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will provide, in tabular form, details of the current trained strength of (a) regular, and (b) reserve personnel in (i) the Army; (ii) the Royal Navy;...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have made an assessment of the number of children whose learning is negatively affected by aircraft noise; and Whether they have made an assessment of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Which airports run voluntary noise insulation schemes.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many persons who have completed a sentence for rape have been exonerated following new evidence being accepted as to the original allegation in each of the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many persons imprisoned for rape have been released from prison following the withdrawal of accusations of rape by their accuser in each of the past five years.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they are making to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo about the country's declining hippopotamus population due to poaching.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made, or received from the appropriate international organisation, of the impact of poaching on wildlife populations in the Democratic...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Statement by Lord Drayson on 19 October (WS 87-88), when the findings of the Vaccines Interactions Research Programme into the health...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 1 November (WA 34) on Gulf War illnesses, on what date they first became aware of the research at Wright State...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What has been the cost of non-medical consultants to the National Health Service in each year since 1997.

asked Her Majesty's Government: When they intend to publish their budget for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will make representations to train operating companies providing a service into or from King's Cross station to encourage them to reinstate the level...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the carers of disabled passengers are insured should an accident occur when assisting the passenger in alighting the train using the disabled ramps...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they authorised the criticism of the President of the Russian Federation by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr Peter Hain, on the BBC's...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 27 November (WA 28), what recent studies they have carried out of the costs associated with the use of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the maximum possible penalty in cases in which (a) one tree is subject to a tree preservation order; (b) 10 such trees are destroyed; and (c) more than 10...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, when trees that are subject to a tree preservation order are unlawfully destroyed, planning permission for building development that would not have been...