Monday, 16 April 2007
To ask the Leader of the House what process is used to decide which statutory instruments are to be debated on the Floor of the House.
To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners what recent discussions the Church Commissioners have held with the Department of Trade and Industry on the work of...
To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners what guidelines the Commissioners have issued on the question of discrimination against employees on the grounds of...
To ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission what recent discussions the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission has had on the...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister which postal companies handle mail dispatched by his Department.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) how many people in his Department and its predecessor participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since 1997-98; and...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether civil servants in his Office have been given permission to attend the Labour party conference to carry out official business.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the national access criteria for post offices.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether there are plans to review the present safeguards of civil servants' impartiality.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 20 March 2007, Official Report, column 823W, on the Policy Review, what the cost has been of the IPSOS-MORI contract.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the administrative cost has been of (a) valuations, (b) appeals and (c) other costs of the council tax revaluation in Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether the 2005 council tax revaluation in Wales was revenue-neutral.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many and what proportion of properties in Wales moved from bands (a) A, (b) B, (c) C, (d) D, (e) E, (f) F, (g) G and (h) H to each other band...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what guidance the Department has issued to local authorities in relation to their certification of bailiffs on debt enforcement...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what estimate she has made of the number of (a) certificated bailiffs, (b) uncertificated bailiffs and (c) bailiffs doing...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the procedure is for complaining about the activity of (a) an uncertificated and (b) a certificated bailiff.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what fees are charged by bailiffs for debt enforcement; and by whom they are payable.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what new arrangements she plans to make to fund HM Coroners following her decision to transfer responsibility for coroners...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many inquests into deaths of service personnel killed in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan are still outstanding; and when she...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many cases there were of defendants absconding from courts in each year since 2002.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs when she expects to lay the Orders relevant to section 178 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to enable the community justice...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what steps she plans to take to tackle local court staff application shortages in areas with the lowest band pay under the...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what discussions Ministers in her Department have had with their counterparts at HM Treasury on the proposed new pay system.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs on what basis the pay bands were allocated to different regions in the proposed new pay system for local court staff.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what pilot schemes have been carried out to test the proposed new pay scheme for local court staff.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what steps she is taking to ensure that parents are treated equitably in terms of access to their children following separation...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs if she will publish the minutes of the Enforcement Law Reform Group meeting held on 16 January 2007.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what percentage of (a) fixed penalties and (b) fines imposed by the courts in England and Wales were collected in full in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what (a) financial and (b) other support her Department gave to the John Smith Memorial Trust in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many solicitors have given notice of their intention to cease to offer (a) criminal and (b) family legal aid services if...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what recent representations she has received on the new system of legal aid provision.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what effect she expects her reforms of the legal aid system to have on legal aid provision in Northamptonshire.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how much was spent on legal aid in Wales in each year since 1992; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many firms provide legal aid services in Wellingborough; and what the average number of such firms is per constituency.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many and what percentage of prisoners (a) began and (b) completed a course resulting in a (i) educational and (ii)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many liability orders for unpaid (a) council tax, (b) business rates, (c) parking charge notices and (d) child support...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to encourage museums to share their collections and take them into schools in West Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations she has received on the allocation of sufficient spectrum to Freeview to ensure its ability to offer higher...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department provides towards campaigns to prevent racism in sport; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department has provided for cultural activity in Huddersfield in the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she last met the football authorities to discuss governance of football.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a statement on Government support for competitive sport in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Government funding local artists in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much public money was spent on arts projects in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region in each of the last 10...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what criteria she applies when deciding the information to be included in response to (a) written parliamentary questions and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by her Department,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many people in her Department participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2006, Official Report, column 501W, on digital switchover, what progress has been made on ensuring...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions her Department has had with the British Museum on the future of the Elgin Marbles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions her Department has had with the Government of Greece on the Elgin Marbles; what her policy is on (a) ownership...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what requirement there is for the inclusion of energy saving and energy producing features in the Government's Better Public Building...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the likely benefits which will result from bidding to host the 2018 Football World cup.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many licensed premises there are in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex; and how many of these are (i) public houses, (ii) clubs,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what total amount was paid in Lottery grants in each Hampshire local and unitary authority for (a) community, (b) leisure, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to her Oral Statement of 15 March 2007, Official Report, columns 450-52, on the 2012 Olympics, if she will list the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions she has had with colleagues in other Departments on the impact on their budgets of the increased cost of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how the £738 million of private sector funding itemised as part of the public sector funding package for the 2012 Olympics will be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will break down by main budget heading the Olympic Delivery Authority's planned expenditure for each year until 2012; and if she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when construction will begin on the Olympic sites at (a) Horseguards' Parade for volleyball, (b) the Royal Artillery Barracks for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assumptions were made of the total level of private investment in the Olympic Village in the (a) Arup report, (b) Olympic bid...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will break down the £1.275 billion of contingency funding for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games reported in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) whether her revised Olympic budget of 15 March contains an estimate for the potential amount of planning gain supplement tax that...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 324W, on the Olympic Games: Greater London, what (a) discussions she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the likely impact on the production of live and recorded entertainment of proposals to sell the radio...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what support her Department provides for sports at the grass-roots level.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the outcomes of the recent British Tourism Week; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the likely effect of the ban on smoking in public places in the Health Act 2006 on tourism to the UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which areas alternative livelihood projects have been set up in Afghanistan; and what estimate has been made of the numbers...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps her Department is taking to meet the Government's commitment to strengthen the work of the UK-led Provincial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Chevening Scholarships have been awarded to Afghan students since 2001; and what plans there are to widen access to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance and support is available to British citizens living and working abroad in countries other than EU countries, and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 11W, on Burma, whether the UK is advocating a strengthening...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will take steps to strengthen the EU Common Position on Burma when it comes up for renewal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what reports she has received of the recent military activity by the Burmese Army in Karen state; and if she will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what assessment she has made of the implications of reports she has received in the treatment of women of ethnic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what legal steps the Government has taken to enforce the Geneva Convention following the statement in the report of the United...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the total cost of the United Kingdom Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg was in 2005-06; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) diplomatic service staff and (b) locally recruited staff are employed at the United Kingdom Permanent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the floor area is of rented accommodation occupied by the UK Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many officials from Government Departments and agencies attended meetings at the Council of Europe (a) in Strasbourg and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people in her Department participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people in her Department who participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions she has had with EU partners on sharing embassies; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many foreign language speakers were employed in the diplomatic service in each year between 1997 and 2006, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for what reason the practice by retiring ambassadors of sending valedictory telegrams has ceased.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will place in the Library a copy of the valedictory telegram sent by Ambassador Roberts on the conclusion of his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures (a) have taken place and (b) are planned in the UK by the EU Gender Institute; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs following the statement in the Berlin Declaration, whether it is the Government's policy to support a treaty to give effect to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the UK is taking under the Europe for Citizens programme (EU budget code 15 01 04 66); and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate she has made of the number of Iraqi civilian fatalities since the 2003 invasion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the Government's policy is on disputes which might be considered by international courts or tribunals relating to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what types of oil contracts her Department has considered for recommendation to the Iraqi Government; what representations her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what definition she uses of (a) 'production-sharing agreements' for oil extraction and (b) 'exploration and production...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment she has made of the restrictions on political liberty in Kazakhstan imposed by the Kazakh Government...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations she has made to the Government of Nigeria on the recent murder of a school teacher in Gombe City; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment she has made of religious freedom in Northern Nigeria; and what steps she has taken to work with the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the UK position is on the legality of (a) marketing in the UK and (b) purchasing from the UK property for sale in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what the UK position is on the purchasing in the UK of property in settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations her Department has (a) made to the Government of the Philippines and (b) received on extra-judicial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which UK diplomatic missions (a) hosted and (b) did not host parties to celebrate HM The Queen's birthday in 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports she has received on the recent Russia-Latvia treaty signed to formalise their mutual border.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2007, Official Report, column 2017W, on Somalia, what discussions she has had with her (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports she has received on the recent violence in Somalia; what assessment she has made of the likely impact of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the humanitarian impact of the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia; what discussions she has had with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2007, Official Report, column 2017W, on Somalia: official visits, when she expects Ethiopian...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2007, Official Report, column 2017W, on Somalia: official visits, what recent discussions she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2007, Official Report, column 2017W, on Somalia: official visits, which African Union...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to her Answer of 7 March 2007, Of ficial Report, column 2017W, on Somalia: official visits, what financial and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment she has made of the extent of the presence of al-Qaeda in Somalia; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government are taking to raise with the Government of Sri Lanka the disappearance of Pastor Victor Yogarajan and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment she has made of the political situation in Sri Lanka.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent progress has been made in the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2007, Official Report, column 1202W, on the Syrian Arab Republic: Kamal al-Labwani, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2007, Official Report, column 1202W, on the Syrian Arab Republic: Kamal al-Labwani, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions she has had with her Turkish counterpart on the steps Turkey is taking to comply with EU rules to allow it to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what costs of visits to the US by the Prince of Wales were met from the public purse over the last 12 months, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations she plans to make to her European Union counterparts on the extension of existing EU sanctions against...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when she last discussed Zimbabwe with her South African counterpart; and what the outcome was of the discussion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much has been frozen under measures applied in accordance with the EU Common Position on Zimbabwe.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will make representations encouraging the Government of Zimbabwe to provide medical assistance to pro-democracy activists...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what the (a) total number of accidents, (b) average daily traffic flow and (c) accident rate per million vehicle kilometres was for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will visit Higham Ferriers to discuss proposed improvements to the Chown Mills A6/A45 interchange with the hon. Member for Wellingborough and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department has taken to promote alternative fuels in the north-west in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people are employed by the British Railways Board (Residuary); what that body's budget was in 2006-07; and what the functions of the residuary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pensioners in Hartlepool constituency (a) are eligible for and (b) have used the free local bus travel scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what joint assessment the Highways Agency has made with the local highways authority of the case for a new eastern bypass around Kettering.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the number of motor vehicle accidents in England involving drivers without adequate insurance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent estimate he has made of the number of regular drivers without adequate insurance in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress he has made on the emissions cost assessment initiative announced in December 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many of the additional 1,000 train carriages that he proposes to introduce he expects to be used on the First Great Western network.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 1245W, on HGV drivers, what steps he is taking to ensure that foreign-licensed HGV...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what consultation his Department has held with (a) the Fire and Rescue Service and (b) the Fire Brigades Union on the part-privatisation of HM...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to require users of electric wheelchairs and scooters to (a) undertake training before using the equipment and (b) take out...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to reply to the letter of 21 February 2007 from the hon. Member for Billericay, on the concessionary fare scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has undertaken into the enforcement of civil traffic penalties against foreign registered vehicles in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his estimate is of the cost of implementing the final provisions of the second European driving licence directive for motorcycles; and how much of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the expected spending in future years is on the non-motorised user crossings programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2007, Official Report, column 1382W, on public transport: Greater London, whether any legislative change is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the timetable is for decisions on rail franchises under consideration; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to improve the collection of rubbish off the trackside of the rail network.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2007, Official Report, column 1384W, on Railways: Portsmouth, what estimate he has made of the end date for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of local authorities' rights of way improvement plans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fixed speed cameras are located in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex, broken down by site and district council area.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fixed speed cameras there are in East Yorkshire, broken down by site; when each camera was installed; what assessment he has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been spent on improving safety for taxi drivers in (a) Gravesham and (b) Kent in the latest period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the reasons are for the retention of the Agricultural Wages Board; and what assessment he has made of the implications...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the risk of making public applications for compliance with the Integrated Pollution Prevention...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will take steps to cap payments to farmers and farm businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is considering to reduce the amount of carbon emissions that Government buildings produce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what strategies his Department has in place to combat (a) avian influenza and (b) foot and mouth disease in the North West.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of set aside is being cultivated for biofuel and biomass crops.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department has commissioned on the effects on biodiversity of biomass and biofuel crops.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the potential to grow hemp as a biofuel crop in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when the national plan for tackling bluetongue disease will be published.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what compensation packages are in place for farmers whose stock (a) become infected with bluetongue disease and (b) need to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the maximum distance a midge infected with bluetongue can travel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what the size is of the restricted area needed to isolate a farm from bluetongue; (2) what plans he has made to combat...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the reliability of the use of tuberculin manufactured in Holland to identify cattle with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many false positive results were obtained from tests for bovine tuberculosis undertaken in Eddisbury constituency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures are in place to ensure that compensation for the slaughter of cattle with actual or presumed bovine...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what evidence his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) assessed on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis amongst dogs;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely impact on British Waterways' ability to meet its deadline for 2012 for the full...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to seek to end the support available under the Common Agricultural Policy to farms that breed and supply...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his most recent estimate is of the amount of UK chlorofluorocarbon emissions from each source; what steps his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent by the Government on actions to combat climate change; whether he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues in other departments on the contribution that providing access to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he has taken to ensure that long-term regional strategies are in place to improve coastal flood management to take...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much in financial penalties was incurred by farmers in the UK for breaches under the Common Agricultural Policy in (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs against how many holdings in the UK financial penalties were applied for breaches under the Common Agricultural Policy in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps have been taken to implement in the UK the programme for Enhancing Public Awareness of the Common Agricultural...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps have been taken to implement in the UK the Programme for Closer Dialogue with the Fishing Industry and Those...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which consultancy services his Department has employed over the past 12 months; what projects each has worked on; and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to encourage fair and sustainable trading for dairy farmers in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department provided in grants for projects in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex in 2005-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many expert European negotiators he has in his Department; what tasks they are engaged in; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the policy is of (a) his Department, (b) non-departmental public bodies reporting to his Department and (c) executive...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many complaints to an employment tribunal were lodged against (a) his Department and (b) its associated (i) agencies...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which non-departmental public bodies under his Department have changed their (a) name and (b) branding since 1997; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of his letter sent to employees at age 65 informing them of the opportunity to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department has taken to raise awareness of the dangers of identity fraud among employees at his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the reasons are for the proposed changes in the budget for the (a) Veterinary Laboratories Agency, (b) State...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent on (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in (i) his Department and (ii) each agency of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what criteria he adopts to decide what means of transport he uses to travel between his Department's offices and the Palace...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many work permits were applied for by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which (a) public and (b) private research establishments have received permission to carry out contained experiments...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 30 January 2007, Official Report, column...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what guidance his Department and its agencies have issued to local authorities advocating a move to alternate weekly...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he expects Joint Waste Authorities to be able to impose alternate weekly collection of domestic rubbish on individual...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which Ministers have represented the UK at each meeting of the (a) International Whaling Commission and (b) Convention on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many pensioner households in Tamworth constituency are eligible for (a) warm front grants to install energy efficient...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) if he will make a statement on the withdrawal of Energy Efficiency Commitment funding to Eaga discussions; (2) what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of houses built since the introduction of energy efficiency regulations in 1985 met the required standards;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what alternative he recommends for use with (a) domestic and (b) commercial dimmer switches when incandescent light bulbs...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has for changes in the Environment Agency budget.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people are qualified to (a) lead farm inspections and (b) be part of farm inspection teams which are employed by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what steps were taken to ensure that the River Don was stocked with fish appropriate to the local area in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures he is taking to ensure sustainable fisheries management; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely economic impact on fishermen of the quota swap of UK prawns for German sole; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that there is sufficient quota for the under 10 metre fishing fleet for 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he has plans to swap fish quota with other countries; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to introduce a floodplain development charge following the findings of the Flood and Coastal Defence Funding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the implications for the UK field trials of BASF genetically-modified...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what studies his Department has (a) carried out and (b) supported on the possible effects on human health of pollen...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) whether his Department has supported further research on the same topics covered by the earlier research which was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many complaints he has received about the operation of the Warm Front scheme; and how many have concerned the company...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many households (a) connected and (b) not connected to the gas mains were helped to improve their energy efficiency by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many consumer complaints were made about the quality of service provided by independently contracted firms in the Warm...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect of effective maintenance of the UK's canals on (a) regeneration and (b) tourism.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the reduction in British Waterways' grant on the planned...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what representations he has received about roadside litter in England; what steps the Highways Agency takes against roadside...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the potential of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe directive to harmonise...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what estimate he has made of the total cost of the re-naming of the Marine Fisheries Agency; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the sources of funding are for the costs of renaming the Marine Fisheries Agency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what support he is making available to farmers who wish to convert to organic milk production.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department has taken to introduce mandatory targets for the reduction of excess packaging by retailers and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of biofuels used in the UK is made from palm oil; and what assessment he has made of the carbon dioxide...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what advice his Department has issued to local authorities on whether shredded paper is suitable for collection as part of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in what form and in which publications and other media he plans to make available the spray records of individual farmers in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps have been taken to encourage the use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in manufacturing food and drink...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment has been made of the extent of the problem of rats at the London Olympics site at Stratford; and what plans...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made towards meeting his Department's Waste Strategy 2000 targets on recycling and recovery.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 16 January 2007, Official Report, columns 982-83W, on reservoirs, what the latest information is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment he has made of international evidence on risks associated with Monsanto's Round Up Ready Alfalfa; if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Canadian Government about seal hunting; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs why the State Veterinary Service is being rebranded as Animal Health; and what form the new organisation will take.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to improve 24 hour veterinary cover in rural areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to introduce legislation to amend the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 through Orders in Council.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many homes in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex used the Warm Front scheme in each year since 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what regulation of the manufacture and consumption of lumpwood charcoal is undertaken under the terms of the Waste...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate has been made of the amount of municipal waste produced by schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance (a) his Department and (b) WRAP has issued to local authorities on the use of spy cameras for the purpose of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the (a) one-off and (b) recurring cost of implementing the Water Supply (Water Quality)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average domestic water and sewerage bill was in England in each year from 1996-97 to 2006-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the average (a) water and (b) sewerage bill in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 8 February 2007, Official Report, column 1070W, on Afghanistan: overseas aid, how many of the 16,000...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many schools have been built by the (a) Afghanistan government and (b) international community since the London Compact of...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to address the shortage of health workers in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent discussions he has had with the International Monetary Fund on support to health services in developing countries in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to improve access to healthcare in developing countries in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to prevent mother-to-child transmission of AIDS in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to secure generic versions of (a) Kaletra and (b) Viread for the treatment of people with AIDS in Africa.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the United Nations on additional measures to arrest the recent rise in the number...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will take steps to increase financial support provided for projects promoting (a) human rights and (b) democracy in Burma.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development why his Department has ended funding for the Burma projects of the BBC World Service Trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will meet (a) UK chocolate manufacturers and (b) others in the cocoa industry to urge them to provide a Traffik Free Guarantee...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development by which aid modality the Environmental Transportation Fund for the Congo Basin announced in the Budget will be delivered; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, columns 69-70W, on Departments: advertising, if he will place in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department spent on (a) sponsoring newspaper or publication supplements and (b) funding advertorials in newspapers and...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what meetings took place between Ministers in his Department and outside interest groups between 1 January and 31 March; and what the...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health education programmes in post-conflict states;...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent work has been undertaken by his Department to find ways of improving maternal health in countries suffering from (a) high...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of the UK's aid to the developing world was handled by EU institutions in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to reduce pesticide poisoning of those working in cotton fields in developing countries, with particular...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will promote measures to phase out the use of pesticides classified by the World Health Organisation as highly hazardous, with...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the objectives are of the European Civil Peace Corps; and what the UK's role is in the programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 479W, on the European Development Fund (EDF), how many countries have...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what reports his Department has made of the recent sewage flooding in the Gaza strip.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the objectives are of his Department's projects in India; and what recent assessment he has made of the extent to which they have...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding and resources his Department provided to India in each of the last three financial years; what plans there are in respect...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on the relief operation for the victims of the earthquake in Kashmir and Northern Pakistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment has been made of the impact of the first two years' expenditure of the funding allocated for orphans and vulnerable...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the cost to his Department was of the Aid Works DVD campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department contributed to the funding of the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility on water in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility budget has been spent on (a) private and (b) public schemes...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 287W, on Serbia: overseas, how much funding the Government...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support his Department is providing to Somalia; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid was allocated for Sudan in 2007, broken down by main budget heading.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of bilateral assistance to Tanzania was delivered by direct budget support in 2005-06; and what projections he has made...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much financial aid his Department provided to Uganda (a) to combat HIV and AIDS and (b) to help develop the agriculture industry...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when he will reply to question number 121637, on overseas aid, to Afghanistan, tabled by the hon. Member for North East Milton Keynes...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid has been received by Zambia since 1997; what Zambia's economic debt is; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment his Department has made of access to healthcare for children in Zambia; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 8 February 2007, Official Report, columns 1070-71W, on Afghanistan, what the Government's response has been to each urgent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 5 March 2007, Official Report, column 1646W on Afghanistan, how many people died in the incident at Panjwayi.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his oral statement of 26 February 2007, Official Report, column 625, on Afghanistan (force levels), what his definition is of the long term;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will take steps to bring the standard of base protection in Iraqi bases occupied by British troops up to the level of that maintained at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will bring the standard of base protection at Camp Bastion to the level of that maintained at Kandahar air base.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many personnel of HM Forces have (a) lost their lives and (b) been wounded as a result of land mines in Afghanistan since the beginning of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he considers HM Forces in Afghanistan to be on a non-warfighting operation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the number of land mines in Afghanistan; and what plans there are for their removal.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the reasons were for the decision to take the 51 mm mortar out of service in Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent (a) representations he has had on and (b) assessment he has made of the availability of Viper thermal imaging sets for British troops in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Tristars are available to serve the supply link between the UK and Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the reliability of the Tristar fleet in making flights between the UK and Afghanistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of Tristar flights (a) to and (b) from Afghanistan were delayed for (i) aircraft maintenance and (ii) other reasons in the last period...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the UK deployment of Apache helicopters to Afghanistan has been affected by technical problems; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what percentage of the UK's Apache helicopter fleet is available to UK forces in Afghanistan; (2) whether UK Apache helicopters in Afghanistan are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers from Welsh regiments are (a) serving in and (b) soon to leave for Afghanistan; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the Board of Inquiry into the loss of Hercules XV206 in Afghanistan to complete its investigation; when he plans to publish the findings;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18-year-olds have served in Afghanistan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by what date the distribution of the 2007 Royal Air Force desktop calendar was complete.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he expects any naval bases other than Portsmouth to be able to accommodate the Royal Navy's future carriers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to commission new naval aircraft carriers; when he expects the carriers to be in service; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2007, Official Report, column 1979W, on animal experiments, what the qualifications are of those who will decide...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the document "Provision of Childcare" provided to HM armed forces recruits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what guidance is issued to potential HM armed forces recruits with dependent children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (b) the Scottish Executive on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers are serving on S-type engagements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what definition is used to determine whether British service personnel are absent without leave.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers were subject to a manning control review and were discharged at manning control point in each of the last five years, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers who were subject to a manning control review and were subsequently transferred to the S-type engagements were discharged at the end of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which facilities are currently treating service personnel who have been injured in action and have subsequently returned to the UK; and what specialisms...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by what process the support of military, Government, charitable and civilian efforts to assist wounded servicemen and women is integrated.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the adequacy of medical care for injured service personnel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many complaints Modern Housing Solutions received in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many accidents have been reported due to faulty Modern Housing Solutions property in the last 12 months, broken down by type of property.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service quarters were adapted for special needs dependants in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the cost was of such...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British troops are training in Israel; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will take steps to reduce troop levels in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the number of pay errors the Army expects to encounter when the joint personnel administration goes live.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what contingency plans his Department has put in place to deal with any errors made when the Army has its first pay run under the new joint personnel...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions his Department has had with the Treasury regarding the long service advance of pay.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made in the roll-out of joint personnel administration to the Army; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department takes to assess public perception of the armed forces; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment his Department has made of armed forces personnel's perceptions of (a) the calibre, capability and quality of military equipment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence who is responsible for (a) drawing up and (b) agreeing rules of engagement under which British armed forces serve; and whether the rules of engagement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether the rules of engagement have changed in respect of contact with Iranian forces following the recent abduction by Iran of 15 Royal Navy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what surveys have been carried out among injured service personnel treated at Selly Oak hospital to ascertain their views on the quality of the care and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the level of recovery of injured service personnel treated at Selly Oak hospital compared with other previous arrangements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what clothing contracts let by his Department have been (a) awarded to overseas companies and (b) subcontracted from UK companies to overseas companies...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on which occasions the (a) Assistant Chief of the General Staff, (b) Chief of the General Staff, (c) Adjutant General and (d) non-ministerial members...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) make and (b) model is of each car provided to non-ministerial members of the Army Board.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 20 March 2007, Official Report, columns 749-50W, on army costs, if he will make an assessment of the market value of the house...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many discharges there were of (a) Nepalese and (b) other soldiers from the Army in each of the last five years for which figures are available;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answers of 20 March 2007, Official Report, column 750W, on army manpower, what the (a) ranks and (b) regiments are of those members of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) which sites in County Armagh have been requisitioned by his Department for use by the British Army under emergency powers legislation since 1977;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the reasons are for time taken to agree a contract price for the second and third Astute class SSNs; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Iraqi (a) civilians, (b) police and (c) military personnel are expected to work in Basra Air Base.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the acquisition costs were at 2006 prices of the Bell 412 helicopter as operated by the Army Air Corps; and what the average total operating cost is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence in which theatres the armed forces have engaged in conflict prevention operations in 2006-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what area of office space his Department and its agencies used in central London in (a) 2004 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place on his Department's website a report of compensation payments made by his Department in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by his Department, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will break down the financial year 2005-06 outturn for resources 1, 2 and 3 provision for each subhead by (a) near cash departmental expenditure...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what methodology is used to calculate the figures for Votes A maxima.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on (a) sponsoring newspaper or publication supplements and (b) funding advertorials in newspapers or publications in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost to public funds was of the recent refurbishment of his Department's building.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many meetings (a) he and (b) his Department's Ministers held with trade union representatives in 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2007, Official Report, column 604W, on Diego Garcia: USA, on how many occasions since (a) the exchange of notes and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the outcome of the EU Defence Ministers' meeting on 1 March.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether any of the Eurofighters being sold to Saudi Arabia under the agreement announced in August 2006 are already in production; (2) when he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will list the public meetings on the White Paper, "The Future of the United Kingdom's Nuclear Deterrent" (Cm 6994) which (a) he and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what (a) funds from his Department and (b) Regimental funds are available for spouses of retired Gurkha soldiers resident in the UK to learn English;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which versions of the Harrier are operated by the Royal Air Force in Afghanistan; what the acquisition cost was of each aircraft; and what the average...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the fitting of kevlar matting to the cargo bays of Hercules aircraft.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much financial support each NATO member supplied to the International Security Assistance Force in each year since 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2007, Official Report, column 963W, on urgent operational requirements, how many urgent statements of user...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what complaints he has received from (a) serving soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and (b) their families; (2) how many complaints he has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many servicemen injured whilst serving in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan who contracted MRSA whilst receiving treatment for their injuries in UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the extent of militia infiltration of the Iraqi police service; what assessment he has made of the risk this poses to UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what was involved in the practice of conditioning of Iraqi prisoners; and if he will make a statement; (2) who authorised the practice of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which units will be operating outside harmony guidelines as a result of the deployment to Iraq of Telic 10; and what the average tour gap number is for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors have caused the changes in the costs of operations in Iraq between 2006-07 and 2005-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether his Department plans to include in its estimates memorandum its planning assumptions for the cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of the Territorial Army (a) received commendations and (b) were decorated for their bravery in action in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the remit is of the provincial reconstruction teams in Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Royal Navy and marine patrol boats are operating in Iraqi waters.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what helicopter support is available to support British Marines operating in Iraqi waters as part of operations conducted in pursuance of UN Security...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which other NATO countries are contributing to the patrolling of Iraqi waters in addition to British forces; and who has overall command.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what global positioning system and satellite tracking systems are on board Royal Navy rigid inflatable patrol boats.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what versions of the Lynx helicopter are operated in Iraq; what the acquisition cost was of each aircraft; and what the average total operating cost is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence from what budget funding for the cross-service use of helicopters is taken; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which helicopters are being used by each of the services in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan; on what operations they have been deployed; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the terms of reference are for the review of the Ministry of Defence Police; when the review is expected to be completed; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 1359W, on Navy: deployment, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital spending was made on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many recruits the Royal Navy seeks to attract to the (a) full-time regular service and (b) reserve service in (i) officer and (ii) non-officer capacity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether there are plans to enlarge the capability of the Royal Navy's fleet of assault ships; and if he will make a statement on the future of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Royal Air Force personnel are based at RAF Feltwell.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) when he was informed that the US planned to use its Space Based Infra Red System at Menwith Hill to provide critical data for national missile...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what records are held on the number of employees (a) killed and (b) injured while working at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Chorley since the beginning...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2007, Official Report, column 109W, on service personnel, what the five major issues on the Service Families Task...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many absent without leave cases there were in the Territorial Army in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department has made a feasibility study of (a) replacing and (b) updating the intelligence gathering capabilities provided by the four...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what date the most recent decision was taken to deploy additional Royal Navy vessels to the Gulf.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the number of unexploded devices from World War II remaining in (a) Wales and (b) Pembrokeshire; and what assessment he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on what date in January 2007 the payments ceiling for grant allocations for domestic renewable energy installations for that month was reached.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to extend the ban on the use of animal experimentation for the development of cosmetics to include the marketing of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many anti-dumping investigations the EU carried out in each year since 1977; and how many investigations are in progress.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what anti-dumping duties were applied by the EU in each year since 1977; to which countries they were applied; what duties are being applied;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether the Government are legally bound to enact a recommendation made by the Competition Commission.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many successful prosecutions there were of companies in breach of the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what meetings took place between Ministers in his Department and outside interest groups between 1 January and 31 March; and what the date was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people in his Department participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since 1997-98; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people in his Department who participated in (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in each year since 1997-98 were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to reorganise the structure of his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the digital switchover on energy use.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the trend has been in the UK's trade balance with the rest of the EU in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he plans the Government's trials of smart meters to commence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many recent representations he has received about age discrimination in the insurance industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average domestic (a) gas and (b) electricity bill in England was in each year from 1996-97 to 2006-07; and what estimate his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the annual cost was of action by the Insolvency Service to investigate and pursue cases of director disqualification under the Insolvency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the decision by the Insolvency Service not to prosecute certain cases of potential director disqualification...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many jobs in the IT industry have moved from the UK to other countries in the last 10 years; and what assessment he has made of the impact...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry at what point in February 2007 the allocations ceiling for that month was reached for household installations under the Low Carbon Buildings...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact of monthly grant capping under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme on household demand for micro...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many and what value of household grants were applied for under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme in each month from May 2006 to February 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much has been paid through the Low Carbon Buildings Programme in each month (a) for domestic household conversions, (b) for schools and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many households received Low Carbon Buildings Programme grants under the new capping system in (a) January 2007, (b) February 2007 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many households received grants under the Low Carbon Buildings Programme in each month since its launch; and how many and what value of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much funding will be allocated to the Low Carbon Buildings Programme domestic grants in (a) April and (b) May 2007; and if he will make...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how people will be able to apply for the Low Carbon Buildings Programme following the scheme's restructuring.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for what reason the Low Carbon Buildings Programme grants regime has been suspended; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assistance will be made available for households installing small scale renewable technologies during the restructuring of the Low Carbon...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will allow sub-postmasters to offer Paypoint facilities with a view to increasing foot traffic.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to lift restrictions on sub-postmasters offering competing services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the successor to Postwatch will work effectively at a regional level.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment his Department has made of the potential locations for the headquarters of the merged Postwatch, Energywatch and National...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what undertakings were made by the Government to bidders in the Third Generation mobile telecommunications licence auction on the refarming of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many and what value of grants were made to domestic households in England for renewable energy in (a) 2002, (b) 2003, (c) 2004, (d)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry at what date in (a) January and (b) February the allocation for grants in each month for renewable energy installations was exhausted; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has held discussions with the East of England Development Agency on its proposal to spend £12 million on a space satellite.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make it his policy to ban the importation of (a) harp seal, (b) hooded seal and (c) other seal products into the UK; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what consideration he has given to commissioning an appraisal of the possible benefits and environmental risks associated with the building of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many workers are excluded from the provisions of statutory recognition procedures as a result of (a) the 21-worker threshold and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on demand for household solar photo voltaics (PV) of the decision to reduce...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to prevent (a) BT and (b) other telecommunication companies levying additional charges on customers who pay other than...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will discuss the implications of the Thomas Cook-My Travel merger for competition in the UK package holiday market with the European...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will discuss the implications of the competition issues arising from the TUI-First Choice merger in the UK package holiday market with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will hold discussions with (a) the Office of Fair Trading and (b) the Competition Commissioner on the state of the UK market in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what representations he has received from consumer groups on the competition implications for the UK package holiday market of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the annual per capita expenditure was on arts funding in the Province in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will take steps to ensure that per capita funding for the arts in Northern Ireland is at the same level as in the United Kingdom as a whole.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety spent on service provision for children with autism in each health and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how much the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has earmarked for service provision for children with autism for each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what investigation has been carried out by his Department to ascertain why the former Head of Infrastructure at Translink removed and destroyed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to introduce a central document registry within Translink following the recommendations of the Northern Ireland Audit...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the recommendations of the Northern Ireland Audit Office report on the upgrade of the Belfast to Bangor railway...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many offenders were enrolled in community service programmes in Northern Ireland in each of the last six years; how many offenders breached...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many hours of community service were carried out by offenders in Northern Ireland in each of the last six years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which organisations and individuals are involved in developing the pilot scheme on complementary and alternative therapies in Northern Ireland;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to extend the pilot scheme in which patients can receive complementary and alternative therapies across Northern Ireland; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the outturn effective tax rate (ETR) being charged in each council will be in Northern Ireland from April 2007; and what the average...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many children took part in the Creative Youth Partnerships programme; what plans are in place to resource the programme in the future; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department spent on (a) sponsoring newspaper or publication supplements and (b) funding "advertorials" in newspapers or...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which external consultants were used by each Northern Ireland Government Department and its associated agencies in each of the past six years;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what meetings took place between Ministers in his Department and outside interest groups between 1 January and 31 March; and what the date was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many work permits were applied for by his Department and its agencies in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland why his Department gave prior approval to the Northern Ireland Police Fund to make a severance payment to Mr. Desmond Clayton.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department approved for payment by the Northern Ireland Police Fund by way of severance payment for Mr. Desmond Clayton.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what reason the Northern Ireland Police Fund gave to his Department for its request to approve a severance payment for Mr. Desmond Clayton.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps have been taken to develop a diabetes services framework for the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average annual earnings are of a full-time (a) general practitioner and (b) consultant psychiatrist in the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps have been taken to improve the work-life balance of senior house officers seeking training posts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of junior doctors in the Province who will be unable to obtain training posts in August 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps are being taken to assist experienced senior house officers in the Province in obtaining specialist training.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the timetable is for (a) local authorities to finalise their district rate for 2007-08, (b) finalising the level of the regional rate for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the capital value of a domestic property which is part of another property and has a dependent relative living in it is added to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what co-efficient value was given to the property attribute for adjoining a golf course in each of the 25 market areas in the Valuation and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what fine may be imposed on residents who do not fill in a questionnaire sent by the Valuation and Lands Agency asking for information on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate has been made of the amount of household waste illegally dumped in Northern Ireland originating from the Republic of Ireland in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average length of time a child will wait to see an educational psychologist is in each health and social services board area in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many children are waiting to see an educational psychologist in each health and social services board area in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many tax discs were issued in Northern Ireland in each of the last six years, broken down by vehicle category.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what co-operation there has been with the Irish Government on tackling the problem of cross-border illegal dumping.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many reports of fly-tipping were received by the Environment and Heritage Service in (a) 2004, (b) 2005 and (c) 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent on removing graffiti in each local authority area in Northern Ireland in each of the last six years for which figures are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the merits of separating the Health and Social Services Authority functions from the Department of Health, Social...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) target and (b) actual average waiting time is for people requiring a new digital hearing aid from the point of referral from GP...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 562W, what his Department's estimate is of the cost of implementing an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of people (a) diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration and (b) who develop blindness each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of vehicles registered in the Republic of Ireland which used roads in Northern Ireland in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who is responsible for decisions on (a) applicability and (b) implementation of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what total amount of business start-up assistance was provided to (a) male applicants, (b) female applicants and (c) ethnic minority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Government signed off the financial memorandum relating to each cross-border body established in consequence of the Belfast Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the Government are satisfied with the financial and equality provisions in place in respect of cross-border bodies established in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether employees from Northern Ireland working within the cross-border bodies, established in consequence of the Belfast Agreement are subject...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what sub-groups operate (a) under and (b) within the cross-border bodies established in consequence of the Belfast Agreement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent by his Department on (a) the North/South Language Body and (b) the Ulster-Scots Agency in each year since its formation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people are employed by the (a) North/South Language Body and (b) Ulster- Scots Agency; and what the source of the funding for these...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the budget of the (a) North/South Language Body and (b) Ulster-Scots Agency was in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06 and (iii) 2006-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the extent of data sharing across Northern Ireland's Government Departments and agencies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding he plans to provide for the Ulster Orchestra in 2007-08; and how much funding was provided in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will take steps to introduce measures in Northern Ireland of equivalent effect to the Town and Country Planning (Control of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many enforcement officers (a) are employed by the planning division in Northern Ireland and (b) were employed in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the budget (a) is for the planning division for enforcement officers for the 2006-07 financial year and (b) was in the 2005-06 financial year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what action is being taken to deal with the backlog of cases at the Planning Appeals Commission.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what details were passed to his Department by the Northern Ireland Police Fund regarding the dismissal of Mr. Desmond Clayton; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions were held with the Northern Ireland Pharmaceutical Contractors Committee before reducing the negotiated fee for multiple...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people from (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) the Republic of Ireland and (e) overseas were held in each Northern Ireland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will take steps to ensure that education and library boards in Northern Ireland collect statistics on the incidences of bullying recorded...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 1 March 2006 to the hon. Member for Foyle, Official Report, column 781W, on racial hostility offences, what progress...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to increase the amount of freight transported by rail in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the eligibility criteria are for the new Northern Ireland special rate relief; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the expected completion date is for the Department for Social Development's appraisal of the proposal for redevelopment of the Greater...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many accidents were recorded on the A2 Bangor to Belfast road in each of the last three years; and how long the road closed as a result in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment has been carried out by his Department of the adequacy of (a) road safety (i) signage and (ii) measures and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment he has made of the surface quality of the High Bangor-Donaghadee Road; and if he will make funding available to upgrade...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether a dedicated infant surgical unit will be maintained at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community sentencing as a means of cutting crime in Northern Ireland; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) highest, (b) lowest and (c) average amount paid per patient by each health trust in the Province to (i) independent social care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Sperrin Lakeland HSS Trust had their social care needs assessed incorrectly in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will break down by declared religious affiliation and area of responsibility the number of staff employed at the Headquarters of the South...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much has been spent on sending commissioners at the South Eastern education and library board on training courses since they were appointed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much each education and library board spent on legal advice in relation to special educational needs cases in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on which roads in Northern Ireland a 20 mile per hour speed limit is imposed; and what assessment he has made of the effect on road safety at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the procedures are for returning body parts to families following stillbirths and miscarriages; and where body parts are stored following...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much money was spent on combating suicide in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many suicides were committed in each constituency in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in each health trust in the Province are waiting for an MRI scan; what the average waiting time is for an MRI scan in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 564W, on translation services, which languages were involved; how much was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what Gateway Reviews have (a) been produced and (b) are under way of projects by the Valuation and Lands Agency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding was provided to each victims group in the Province in each year since 1994.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps have been taken to ensure that voluntary organisations providing services for publicly funded health bodies in Northern Ireland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Ballyhalbert waste and water treatment works contract will start; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recommendation the District Commander of Armagh District Command Unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland made to the Northern...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the outcome of the inquiry into the escape from Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre on 22 February 2007; and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he expects to answer question 108009, tabled on 5 December 2006 by the hon. Member for Portsmouth South.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he will answer question 113811, on public sector pensions, tabled on 5 January 2007 by the hon. Member for Yeovil.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 625W, on advertising, if he will place in the Library a copy of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of calls made to the benefit fraud hotline led to (a) investigation and (b) conviction of individuals named by callers in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what progress has been made in meeting the targets for the Child Support Agency set out in the Child Support Agency Business Plan 2006-07;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) old scheme and (b) new scheme Child Support Agency cases were cleared in each month of the last two years for which figures are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what date he expects all old cases of the Child Support Agency to have been brought under the new system; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate how many children would be lifted out of poverty if a 70 per cent. employment rate for lone parents whose youngest child is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners living in the Carlisle City Council area are in receipt of council tax benefit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which fixed assets his Department sold for more than £10,000 in (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06; and what the (i) sale value, (ii) purchaser...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what area of office space his Department and its agencies used in central London in (a) 2004 and (b) 2006; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the percentage change in (a) staff and (b) staff with disabilities in his Department has been since 1 April 2002; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what databases are controlled by his Department and its agencies; and what percentage of the data in each database he estimates is inaccurate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how often his Department's databases are updated with the revised details of individuals who have moved house.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what mechanisms are in place to ensure his Department's economical use of paper.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of income support entitled lone parent households receive disability living allowance for a child.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of looked-after children are entitled to disability living allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average age is of first award for under 18-year-olds entitled to disability living allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in receipt of income support receive disability living allowance for a child in each of the last five years, broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average length is of entitlement to disability living allowance awarded for a child.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of his Department's jobs are located in Tamworth constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what steps his Department has taken to ensure that claimants of the employment support allowance will be (a) made aware of the benefits...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many participants in Employment Zone programmes found work and maintained their job with help for over 13 weeks in each month since April 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cumulative cost to his Department has been of the Restart Programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many individuals who attended the mandatory jobseeker's challenge were placed in employment within (a) one month, (b) three months...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the planned expenditure is for the Jobcentre Plus Change Programme; what the aims of the Programme are; what the targets are for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what efficiency savings have been made in his Department and agencies as a result of the Gershon review; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been spent by his Department and agencies on achieving Gershon efficiency savings; whether these costs are accounted for and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of housing benefit recipients (a) have children and (b) receive a premium for a disabled child.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many young housing benefit recipients were subject to the shared room rate restriction in each region in each year since its introduction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) below and (b) above national retirement age were claiming income support in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many branches of Jobcentre Plus there are in England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) which stakeholders his Department has invited to comment on the proposals to close Jobcentre Plus branches in Norfolk; (2) what recent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many national insurance numbers were (a) issued, (b) deleted and (c) current in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer given to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead on 19 March 2007, Official Report, column 643W, how he determines whether...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse of an unemployed person returning to work under (a) the new deal self-employment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the extent to which Pertemps People Development Group Ltd. are meeting the terms of the contract by which they...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many benefit claimants under the (a) New Deal for Lone Parents, (b) New Deal for Young People, (c) New Deal 25 Plus, (d) New Deal for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions his Department has had on the Freud Report proposal of the introduction of a star system by Jobcentre Plus to measure provider...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his policy is on the export to developing countries of pesticides banned for use in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much money from the public purse (a) his Department and (b) its agencies gave to (i) the Smith Institute and (ii) its subsidiary SI...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many applications to the Social Fund were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what measures (a) have been and (b) are planned to be put in place to assist (i) pensioners and (ii) claimants for whom English is a second...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) race impact assessments, (b) gender impact assessments and (c) disability impact...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total current unrecovered Social Fund debt is; and what the figure is for (a) London and (b) each office in London.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much Social Fund debt was written off in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the figure was for London in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were claiming (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) incapacity benefits and (c) disability allowance in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what criteria are used to decide the levels of payments made for (a) income support, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) the carer's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who claim disability living allowance are also claiming (a) industrial injuries disablement benefit, (b) war disablement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what benefits are available for people with disabilities who are below the retirement age but receive private pensions; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases were referred to the National Identity Fraud Unit in each year since 1997; how many of these cases were investigated in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department plans to continue to fund two posts in the benefit maximisation team at Highland Council after the end of March.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the bodies responsible for awarding (a) pension credit, (b) housing benefit, (c) income support, (d) jobseeker's allowance, (e)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made of the effect of benefit sanctions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many calls were made to the 08456 088564 Jobcentre Plus number of the Department for Work and Pensions in each of the last six months; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals related to suspected terrorists have had their welfare payments (a) suspended and (b) terminated in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be entitled to a state pension in 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will bring forward amendments to legislation to ensure that carers who claim state pension are also able to claim carer's allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what methodology his Department uses to assess the contribution of faith-based groups to the delivery of welfare and the preparation for work...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with (i) the Department of Health, (ii) the Department for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the changes to legislation necessary to implement the recommendations of the Freud Review on Welfare to Work;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was paid in winter fuel payments to pensioners living outside the UK in 2006-07, broken down by country of recipients' residence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of young people between 16 and 25 years were not in work, training or education in each local authority area in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what investigations take place into applicants for grants from the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund (FCCBF) on (a) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will publish the results of each local authority housing stock transfer ballot that has taken place in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what provision is made when setting council tax banding for dwellings located within estates where services are funded directly...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance she has given to local authorities on the eligibility of part-time students to pay council tax; and if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the level of the fine is that may be deployed against local residents who do not fill in a questionnaire sent by the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the probity of payments from councillors' allowances to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how often her Department's databases are updated with the details of individuals who have moved house.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff in her Department are based in or allocated to regional activities; and what the salary costs of those staff were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what mechanisms are in place to ensure her Department's economical use of paper.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the salary band is of her Department's new Director of Communications; (2) what the name is of her Department's new...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many press, information and marketing staff are employed by her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what public funding her Department has provided to the Media Planet Group for (a) advertorials and (b) supplements in the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) press, (b) information, (c) communications and (d) marketing staff are employed by her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made with the Discrimination Law Review; and when she expects to publish the Review.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what consultation her Department has undertaken on the regionalisation of fire control centres with (a) the police and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what advice her Department has issued to fire authorities on co-responding following the decision by the Court of Appeal in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance has been issued to fire (a) authorities and (b) services relating to the installation of CCTV in fire engines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and which staff working in fire control centres are on short-term contracts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects (a) each regional fire control centre to open and (b) staff to migrate to each centre; and what the rental...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether local planning authorities may take the potential for an increase in problem gambling into account when considering the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homeowners in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex pay rentcharge.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many rentcharge payers the Government Office for East Sussex has arranged to receive redemption in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was awarded to Hartlepool Borough Council in government grants in each year since 1996.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the potential for the use of currently unused waste heat from power plants in heat grids to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a full copy of the Central Office for Information Strategic Consultancy report on the impact of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date (a) energy performance certificates and (b) home condition reports will become mandatory before a property can be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which organisations, agencies and Departments will have access to the Home Condition Report database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether (a) a home information pack and (b) an energy performance certificate will be required to purchase an equity stake...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of surplus homes in the North West region which remain to be demolished before...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department and its predecessor allocated for (a) major repairs allowance, (b) housing revenue account subsidy,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what basis housing associations and trusts are granted charitable status.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) projected and (b) actual expenditure by the Housing Corporation was in each English region in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many new houses were built in each of the five years, broken down by (a) Government Office Region and (b) local authority...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2007, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: disabled, whether there will be a national...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what total amount her Department allocated to Hartlepool Borough Council for disabled facilities grants in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been allocated to the Energy Performance Certificates scheme for (a) start-up costs and (b) 2007-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities (a) had a surplus on their housing revenue accounts and (b) received a subsidy for that account in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes for sale on the open market have been built in (a) the London borough of Merton, (b) South West London and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) affordable and (b) social houses were built in Hartlepool constituency in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many qualified (a) home inspectors and (b) domestic energy assessors there are on the (i) Buildings Research...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding her Department provides to government-accredited schemes to train (a) home inspectors and (b) domestic energy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps the Government are taking to provide (a) low cost housing for sale and (b) affordable rented housing over the next...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what sanctions are applicable to housing bodies which fail to take account of the needs of the Irish community under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many (a) social rented homes and (b) low cost home ownership properties have been built or acquired in each local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes for sale on the open market have been built in (a) Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and (b) the West...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding the Disability Rights Commission has provided to (a) the IPPR and (b) IPPR Trading Ltd. in each year since May...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in what form the forthcoming proposals for reform of land use planning will be published; on what date they will be published;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidelines there are on the process of land sale decisions by local authorities; what assessment she has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many local authorities in England have elected mayors, broken down by mayoral model; on what date a mayor was first elected...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the total housing debt was for each local authority in each year since 1996; how much principal debt was paid off in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the (a) elements and (b) totals of housing revenue subsidy were in each year since 1990; and what estimate she has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the total cost was to the public purse of the Lyons Report on local government finance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether Sir Michael Lyons' report will be (a) vetted and (b) amended by Government Ministers before its publication.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many lenders offer a green mortgage in preparation for the introduction of energy performance estimates; and if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will postpone relevant determination of a start date for public inquiry into motorway services until such time as all...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many town and parish councils in England have achieved quality parish council status.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will take steps to make the public aware of the right to make Public Requests Ordering Disposal under Section 98 of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department allocated to Hartlepool Borough Council for highways maintenance and repair in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much land is owned by (a) the Housing Corporation and (b) English Partnerships; and what estimate she has made of its value.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what process she expects South Bedfordshire district council and Mid Bedfordshire district council to follow during the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she will answer the questions tabled by the hon. Member for Meriden on (a) 9 January 2007 (114760) and (b) 22 November...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will remove from her Department's website reference to Paignton West (Yalberton Valley) as the preferred site in relation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average length of time for the process for an adult in the UK to adopt a child from China was in each of the last five years; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many places were available in after-school clubs for (a) primary and (b) secondary school age children in (i) Eastbourne and (ii) East...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of apprenticeship training providers funded by the Learning and Skills Council were employers in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many free part-time nursery education places there were for (a) three-year-olds and (b) four-year-olds in schools in England in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many child care places were available in England in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what evidence and analysis informed the decision to extend the target for academies from 200 to 400 by 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills with which provisions of the school admissions code academies are not required to comply; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has (a) to pilot and (b) to introduce specialised 14-19 diplomas in academies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the evidential basis was for the statement in the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's 2006 Annual Review that there is a broad...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether research has been funded by (a) his Department and (b) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on the empirical validity of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average (a) contextualised value-added scores and (b) value-added scores were in each (i) selective, (ii) partially selective and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2007, Official Report, column 943W, on education: surveys, if he will place in the Library copies of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the budget was for English for Speakers of Other Languages provision over the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total monetary contribution to the English for Speakers of Other Languages programme was from employers in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of students enrolled on English for Speakers of Other Languages programmes are on full fee remission.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people participated in English for Speakers of Other Languages courses in each London borough in each of the last five academic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many and what proportion of GCSE-age pupils attempted a full GCSE in (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) science, (d) design and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the bottom 200 schools in terms of proportions achieving five or more GCSEs A*-C including English, mathematics, science and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of pupils left school without at least five GCSEs at grade C or above including one in mathematics and one in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what percentage of pupils gained five A*-C grades at GCSE including mathematics, English, science, history and geography in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many head teacher vacancies were advertised in the 10 per cent. of schools with the (a) highest and (b) lowest levels of free school...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to improve sex education in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average cost to the public purse of a university degree in England was in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the impact of specialist sports colleges on standards in teaching and learning of PE and school sport.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) 18 and (b) 19 year olds from (i) Hartlepool constituency and (ii) Tees Valley sub-region joined university courses...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of students achieved A*-C at GCSE in a modern language in the 10 per cent. of schools with the (a) highest and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 2 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1610-1W, on the secondary education curriculum, if he will place in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of pupils left school functionally illiterate in (a) the last year for which figures are available and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether his Department keeps records (a) nationally and (b) broken down by authority of the costs to local education authorities of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills why it is proposed that there should no longer be a foundation and higher programme of study in mathematics at key stage 4 under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers who qualified between 1 May 2000 and 30 April 2001 have not passed the numeracy skills test.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many nursery places for three and four-year-olds there were in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost was of setting up and maintaining the DirectgovKids website; what its purpose is; and how many visitors it has had.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which five local education authorities have the (a) highest and (b) lowest unauthorised absence rates for secondary school pupils.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many and what percentage of half days were missed due to unauthorised absences among pupils in the 10 per cent. of (a) primary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what discussions he has had with the Department of Health on (a) the Schools Medical Service and (b) eye checks for children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his Department has spent on anti-bullying measures since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the possible introduction of formal guidelines governing religious dress in schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what appeals process is in place for parents who wish to appeal against the (a) content and (b) operation of a school's complaints procedure.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average cost was of energy usage for an (a) primary school, (b) secondary school and (c) academy in 2005-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research has been (a) funded and (b) carried out by his Department into the effects of improving the ethos of schools on the rate of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost of providing transport for pupils attending denominational schools in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex was in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what maximum daily journey time is recommended by his Department for a pupil between home and school by (a) bus, (b) car and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 1 March 2007, Official Report, column 1480W, on secondary education: curriculum, whether he expects schools to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many responses had the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority received to the secondary curriculum review consultation on (a) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which schools were used as case studies for personal development on the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority secondary curriculum review...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment is made by Ofsted during its regular inspections of state secondary schools on the provision of field visits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the costs to local education authorities, excluding the costs of preparation for cases before tribunals, of providing for special...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much funding has been made available by his Department for the promotion of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when Admiral Lord Nelson Business and Enterprise College in Portsmouth adopted the two year Key Stage 3 approach referred to in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of the participants in the Train to Gain programme working towards qualifications have received (a) between 0 and 20 hours,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his Department has spent on anti-truancy measures since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the timetable is for the introduction of specialised diplomas; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what schemes funded by his Department were instituted in Hartlepool constituency to provide young people with (a) activities and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many youth workers there were in each local authority in the Tees Valley area in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been performed by Marie Stopes International in the last three years, broken down by (a) grounds, (b) length of gestation, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2007, Official Report, columns 727-28W on accident and emergency (A and E) admissions, how many attendances there were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the start date was of the NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme; and if she will make a statement; (2) how much the NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many acute hospital beds per head of population there were in each year since 1997 in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will establish a central database or register for living wills.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether air ambulances are required to cover the cost of their own drugs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) specialist treatment and (b) follow up care is available for under-18 year olds admitted to hospital with an alcohol-related diagnosis.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of measures to reduce alcohol abuse by under 18 year olds; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment she has made of the effect of ambulance service reconfigurations on response times.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will provide a breakdown of how the £25 million allocated to help improve category A ambulance response times has been spent; and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what potential conflicts of interest were notified to the Permanent Secretary by departmental Ministers between 1997 and 1999 in connection with the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's estimate is of the average body mass index in (a) England, (b) the East of England, (c) Suffolk, (d) Bedfordshire, (e)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when she expects breast cancer screening services to be resumed at the North London Breast Screening Service; (2) what estimate she has made of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many breast screening appointments were (a) made and (b) cancelled other than by the patient in each London primary care trust in each calendar year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women aged between 50 and 70 years are required to wait more than three years between breast cancer screenings in (a) Surrey Primary Care Trust...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment the Health Care Commission has made of (a) the quality of care delivered at Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre and (b) the level...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the targeted case volume is for Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre; and what proportion of that volume was achieved in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what impact the Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre has had on (a) capacity and (b) waiting times in Staffordshire hospitals in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what role Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre has in training medical staff; (2) what staff the Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research is sponsored by her Department to assess the effectiveness of dichloroacetate in attacking cancer cells.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people diagnosed with cancer there were in (a) England and Wales and (b) Gloucestershire, broken down by type of cancer in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of the progress of cancer networks in implementing the Improving Outcomes guidance for urological cancers; (2) what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in the UK aged 75 years or over are living in (a) public sector residential care homes and (b) private sector residential care homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many approved care homes for the (a) elderly and (b) other vulnerable people there are in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health why Torbay Primary Care Trust (PCT) reimbursed care home fees to Mr. Mike Pearce; what precedent has been set by the PCT's decision; what estimate she has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what regulations determine the ratio of nursing staff to patients in (a) nursing and (b) residential homes; what those ratios are; and if she will make...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what proportion of the funding made available to local authorities for respite care for carers in the recent New Deal for Carers statement will be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for cataract operations in (a) North Yorkshire, (b) County Durham and (c) England in the latest period for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) newly trained non-medical endoscopists and (b) medical endoscopists were delivered by the national endoscopy training programme in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) further to her Department's press release on the bowel cancer screening programme of 2 August 2005, how the figure of £37.5 million of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health further to her Department's press release on the bowel cancer screening programme of 2 August 2005, what steps she will take to assess whether the target...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if her Department will extend the national bowel cancer screening programme to those aged (a) 70 and over and (b) between 50 and 60.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many rectal cancer operations were carried out by the NHS in each of the last three years; and what the cost of such operations was in each year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) local authorities and (b) primary care trusts spent on social care for people in (i) their own homes and (ii) care homes in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS dentists there were in (a) Arundel and South Downs constituency and (b) West Sussex in (i) 1997 and (ii) each of the last three years for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) adults and (b) children were registered with an NHS dentist in (i) the Arundel and South Downs constituency and (ii) West Sussex in (A)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many contracts her Department has with (a) Alliance Medical, (b) Amicus Healthcare, (c) BUPA Healthcare, (d) Capio Healthcare, (e) Clincienta,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many work permits were applied for by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many registered diabetics had access to blood testing strips for home testing in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the availability of (a) phentermine, (b) diethylpropiom, (c) reductil and (d) orlistat from internet suppliers; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to publish a technical appraisal on naltrexore as a treatment for relapse...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Yellow Card system for reporting adverse reactions to drugs; how many incidents were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency first began investigating the withholding of data from...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) hospital nurses, (b) junior hospital doctors and (c) other nurses were employed in the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust in (i) 2005-06 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many GPs in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex have opted out of working overtime; (2) how many GPs in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what targets for productivity improvement from GP practices she has set for the next three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients referred to hospital with fibroid-related dysfunctional uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) underwent (a) myomectomy and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were referred to hospital with dysfunctional uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) in each of the last five years, in each strategic health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients referred to hospital with dysfunctional uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) underwent (a) a hysterectomy and (b) ablation as an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) people aged under 25 years and (b) higher education students applied for assistance with their health costs through the HC1 form in 2005;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses recruited to the NHS from outside the European Union (i) were found guilty of malpractice in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what rules govern the purchase of health services from hospitals by primary care trusts with more than one hospital from which to commission services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2007, Official Report, column 1579W, on health services, if she will give a breakdown of her estimate that 90 per cent....
To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons the decision was taken not to continue to fund the Best Treatments website; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether any of the bidders for the (a) Integrated Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services and (b) Clinical Assessment Treatment Services centres in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate she has made of the cost of providing free NHS treatment to UK citizens who are resident abroad in each of the last five years; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are being taken to target the Irish community with culturally appropriate health promotion strategies in the areas of (a) smoking cessation,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 21 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1005-06W, on Health: Regulatory Impact Assessment, on which items of legislation for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were provided with a digital hearing aid in each month by Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust since the current programme began.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in Bolton have participated in the Coronary Disease Programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of (a) Hepatitis A, (b) Chronic Hepatitis B, (c) Hepatitis C, (d) Hepatitis D, (e) Hepatitis E, (f) Hepatitis F, (g) Hepatitis G and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of deliveries were home births in each year since 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what benchmarking her Department has undertaken of comparative lengths of hospital stay (a) between hospitals in England and (b) between hospitals in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency readmissions there were in each quarter since the quarter ending June 2002; and what percentage of patients was readmitted as an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts in (a) England and (b) each region have restricted consultant-to-consultant referrals in each of the last five years; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of patients have waited (a) under six, (b) six to 12 and (c) over 12 months for hospital inpatient treatment in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of people in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland city council area were waiting more than (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust outpatients have been discharged back to their GP for their follow-up appointment in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were carried out by private hospitals on behalf of Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were carried out by Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust for (a) heart surgery, (b) ophthalmology surgery, (c) knee surgery,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Hull and East Yorkshire NHS trust patients had their operation cancelled on the day of the operation in each of the last five years, broken down...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her policy is on the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the services and support which are available at a local level for children aged between five and 16 years affected by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much and what proportion of NHS expenditure she estimates went to the independent sector from (a) central funds and (b) primary care trust...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she has submitted a request to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to undertake a comparison of the different types of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2007, Official Report, column 546W, on insulin, (1) what adverse effects are associated with the use of (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health who is responsible for the implementation of the modernising programme for junior doctors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2007, Official Report, column 1291W, on maternity services, what information is available on the number of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment her Department has made of the impact of proposed changes to midwifery services in Leeds on (a) the number and frequency of home...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects the 2006 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services mapping data to be released.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has conducted into (a) the causes of and (b) the appropriate treatment for migraine attacks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) Milton Keynes primary care trust and (b) Milton Keynes hospital spent on taxis in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much and what proportion of the NHS budget has been paid to non-NHS providers in each financial year since 1997-98 in (a) cash and (b) real terms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether data obtained in processing NHS treatment at a private sector treatment centre may be used for marketing purposes by the company owning the centre.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent representations she has received on the NHS complaints procedure; and if she will make a statement; (2) what plans she has to reform...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) funding packages and (b) joint-funding packages were completed by each primary care trust or predecessor bodies for patients whose complex...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what purpose funds from the Centrally Funded Initiatives Services and Special Allocation (CFISSA) described in the 2006 Department of Health Annual...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which programmes have been funded by her Department's Centrally Funded Initiatives and Services and Special Allocations (CFISSA) budget so far in 2006-07...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 28 March 2007, on changes to the NHS resource accounting and budgeting (RAB) regime, why the Maidstone...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of local improvement finance trusts in the (a) commissioning, (b) financing and (c) building of local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the NHS accounts for the financial year 2006-07 will be published.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many trusts she expects to meet the Patient Administration System implementation deadline of 23 April; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what requirement her Department makes of NHS Supply Chain (a) to consider and (b) to implement the recommendations on medical devices of the Centre for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will issue guidance on best practice on the composition of specialised clinical assessment groups within NHS Supply Chain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanisms her Department has in place to assess whether NHS Supply Chain's procurement process has improved access to medical technologies for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanisms her Department has in place to assess whether NHS Supply Chain's procurement process will produce long-term savings of (a) patient bed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse was for the publication and distribution, including by Braille, audio and large print editions, of 'Days out in the NHS:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many maternity beds were provided by the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the starting pay was for nurses at today's prices in each of the last 20 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average wait for gastric bypass surgery was in each hospital trust in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of Eastbourne Downs NHS Primary Care Trust outpatients have been discharged back to their GP for their follow-up appointment in the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost was of the recent GP patient survey sent by post to 5 million patients carried out by MORI.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether she has met (a) pharmacists and (b) pharmaceutical wholesalers to discuss the supply network for British pharmaceuticals since Pfizer...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average age of primagravidas in England was in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding was received by each primary care trust per head of population in the most recent year for which figures are available listed in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which primary care trusts (PCTs) are (a) reviewing and (b) formally consulting on the future provision of hospital-based services; and by what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts have a prison facility within the geographical area they cover.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the oral answer of 6 February 2007, Official Report, column 703, on private sector treatment, what further assessment she has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health on how many occasions public health observatories have been asked to support the development of health impact assessments since 16 November 2004; and in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what communications her Department has had with Quality Health Ltd. since March 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total expenditure by (a) her Department and (b) NHS organisations was on the services provided by Quality Health Ltd. in each year since March 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2007 to the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne), Official Report, column 1586W, on Russells Hall Hospital, if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total amount of expenditure by her Department in Scotland was in each of the last two years, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidance she has issued on specifications for (a) size, (b) content and (c) colour of no smoking signage in public houses and clubs; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the likely effect on the numbers of smokers of banning the sale of tobacco in pubs and clubs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received on the health effects of the smoking of shisha pipes in public places.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on (i) the prevalence of the depiction of smoking on television and in films and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of litres of fizzy drinks that have been consumed per person in England over the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Eastbourne Downs NHS Primary Care Trust patients had their operation cancelled on the day of the operation in each of the last five years, broken...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were carried out by Hull and East Yorkshire hospitals in each of the last five years; and what the total cost was of these operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent (a) estimate she has made of waiting times for assessments for electrically-powered indoor/outdoor wheelchairs (EPIOC) and (b) assessment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what regulations govern the transplanting of pig organs into human beings; and if she will make a statement; (2) what regulations govern the use of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate her Department has made of the projected deficit of the West Sussex Primary Care Trust in the forthcoming financial year 2007-08 if the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the deficit of the West Sussex Primary Care Trust is accounted for by secondary care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the average waiting time was for provision of a powered wheelchair in each strategic health authority in each of the last five years; (2) To...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints have been received in the last two years concerning eye surgery which took place at the (a) Alexandra and Princess of Wales, (b)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the (a) average per capita and (b) total amount of alcohol consumed in the UK in each of the last five years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of how many deaths in (a) Ribble Valley and (b) Lancashire alcohol was cited as the primary cause in each of the last five years; and if he...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many deaths in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex alcohol was cited as the primary cause in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set rules for the appointment of the policyholder advocate which ensure that the person is appointed by someone independent of the company...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will take steps to ensure (a) fairness to policyholders in the treatment of orphan assets and (b) that unreasonable dividends do not accrue to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a (a) policyholder and (b) shareholder is liable for tax on his share of a reallocated orphan asset.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the regulations which govern the harbouring of assets such as those acquired by the members of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Treasury's 2007 internal guidance for staff on security procedures for the Budget.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people under the age of 25 years committed suicide due to cannabis-induced psychosis in 2006; (2) how many deaths have been attributed to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the revenue impact of charging capital gains tax on residential property owned by non-domiciled and non-resident individuals; and if he...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the additional cost beyond the standard uprating process of the policy announced on 21 March 2007 to increase child benefit for the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many temporary Construction Industry Scheme 4 cards were issued without the applicant holding a current national insurance number in (a) 2004,...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many temporary employees were contracted to work for his Department in 2005-06; and what the total cost of such employees was in (a) 2005-06 and (b)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) pursuant to the answers of 8 February 2007, Official Report, column 1134W and 1 February 2007, Official Report, column 412W, on the Smith Institute,...
To ask Chancellor of the Exchequer which websites his Department has registered in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent on newspapers and periodicals by his Department in January 2007.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what meetings took place between Ministers in his Department and outside interest groups between 1 January and 31 March; and what the date was of each such...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1441-2W, on departments: public expenditure, when his Department approved the Home...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions his wife has accompanied him on official business abroad at the expense of the public purse, and at what cost, in each year.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans to double the tax-free allowance for international travellers returning from trips outside the EU as described in the pre-Budget report in...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the statement that the euro makes us strong contained in the Berlin Declaration of 25 March 2007 forms part of the Government's European policy.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward fiscal measures to assist householders living in older housing stock to insulate their homes to reduce energy wastage and carbon...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will offer fiscal incentives to those on low incomes to encourage the use of low energy light bulbs.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he plans to use end year flexibility to provide the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council with funds for (a) postdoctoral fellowships...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a list of the attendees, with their affiliations, of public events hosted at 11 Downing street on European Community matters...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what measures were funded in the UK under the Europe for Citizens programme in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue HM Treasury raised through the duty on (a) cider, (b) sparkling cider, (c) beer, (d) wine, (e) sparkling wine and (f) spirits in each...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will introduce measures to assist rural users of four wheel drive vehicles.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will exempt Land Rovers and similar vehicles in use in rural areas which are necessary for those who work and live there from the additional excise...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to ensure the independence of the Independent Adviser to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 474W, on financial services: EC law, which other European Union member states have...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the system is for the regulation of independent financial advisers.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Government rules are on charging by departments for services to the public, with particular reference to full cost recovery.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he last met a foreign Head of State with the Prime Minister.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average wealth Gini coefficient was between (a) 1979 and 1990, (b) 1979 and 1997 and (c) 1997 and 2006; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average income Gini coefficient was between (a) 1979 and 1990, (b) 1979 and 1997 and (c) 1997 and 2006; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average inheritance tax paid was in each year since 1996-97.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will link the threshold for inheritance tax in Northern Ireland to the level of house prices there.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department is taking to ensure that older people (a) are able to obtain quotes from insurance companies and (b) are not subject to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the maximum period is during which HM Revenue and Customs may retain a student loan payment taken by pay as you earn before the amount is transferred...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether student loan payments received by HM Revenue and Customs are transferred to the Student Loan Company on an annual or monthly basis; and whether...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he plans to remove the 70 per cent. scaling factor and ceiling in the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive Scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he will answer the letters of 18 December 2006 and 19 December 2006 from the hon. Member for Northavon (our ref: denn/vct and you/lh) on the financing...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which guests have stayed overnight at the flat above number 10 Downing street in the last 12 months.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what criteria he uses in deciding what means of transport to use to travel between 11 Downing street and the Palace of Westminster.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 485W, on voluntary national insurance contributions, how many people his...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which charities have held meetings at 11 Downing street since December 2005.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many functions held at number 11 Downing street in the last two years have been attended by (a) Sir Christopher Evans and (b) Rod Aldridge.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether all the funding to be provided by central government departments towards the cost of the Olympics will be new money allocated in the Comprehensive...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the economic effects in Wales of the introduction of regional pay in the public sector.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely effect of differential regional pay for public service employees in Wales on the Welsh economy.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether public bodies are required to meet international generally accepted accounting principles for accounts published after July 2008; whether he expects...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is his Department's policy to allow savings on annually managed expenditure to fund spending through departmental expenditure limits as...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment his Department has made of the potential effects of expanding co-payment in the public services.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many home visits have been made by HM Revenue and Customs to individuals who qualify for this service each tax year since 2001-02; and what assessment...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will break down by main budget heading the costs of operating and maintaining HM Revenue and Customs' buildings and offices situated on the Castle...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to ensure the provision of accessible premises in Huddersfield for people requiring information and advice from HM Revenue and Customs.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many employees of HM Revenue and Customs were employed in Huddersfield in each of the past 10 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to improve the provision of services and information by HM Revenue and Customs in Huddersfield.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the average duration of a telephone call by a member of the public to the national helpline of HM Revenue and Customs was in the last period for...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give consideration to extending the review of road transport fuels which he has asked Professor Julia King and Sir Nicholas Stern to conduct to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people of working age were off work for a period exceeding six months through sickness or disability in (a) 1997 and (b) 2006.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many official functions held at No. 11 Downing Street in the last 12 months have been attended by Sir Ronald Cohen.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress his Department has made towards the establishment of a small business development bank.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the reduction in the yield of stamp duty land tax as a result of the sale of commercial and residential property into offshore companies;...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the effect on UK investment of the Paymaster General's announcement on 2 March limiting sideways loss relief.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many taxpayers who submitted self-assessment tax returns were charged a penalty of £100 for late submission in each of the last three years; how...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many children in (a) Hartlepool constituency, (b) the Tees Valley sub-regions, (c) the North East region and (d) the UK live in a family in which...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many economically inactive people of working age there were in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex in age groups (i) 18 to 24, (ii) 25 to 50 and (iii)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer where he stayed overnight on his official visit to Washington in December 2004; and what the cost of the stay was.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his Department's estimate is of the value of the tangible fixed asset of the Valuation and Lands Agency's automated valuation computer database.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's documents (a) CT IA 010905 (September 2005) and (b) CT IA 241005 (October 2005).
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) which foreign visits were made by representatives of the Valuation Office Agency on official business in 2006; and what the (a) purpose and (b)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what Gateway Reviews (a) have been produced and (b) are underway in relation to projects by the Valuation Office Agency.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the Valuation Office Agency's policy is on its staff travelling first class by (a) rail and (b) air.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the priority given by district valuers to conducting valuations under section 128 of the Housing Act 1985 as compared to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many valuations were made under section 128 of the Housing Act 1985 by the district valuer in (a) Ribble Valley and (b) Lancashire between 1 September...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) when he expects to complete the investigations into Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud; and if he will make a statement; (2) whether extra...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many representations he has received from companies awaiting results of Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud checks regarding the effect on their...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many notices of warning of legal proceedings if payment was not made were sent to individuals claiming tax credits who were in dispute with HM Revenue...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to ensure that widowed lone parents receive for tax credit purposes the same disregard for their widows' pension as is received by...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reasons those without children and disabilities and under the age of 25 are ineligible to claim working tax credit.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people in Dundee West are eligible for the working tax credit; (2) how many people in Dundee West (a) are eligible for and (b) claim the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when Ahmed Omar Maruf, Home Office Ref: A1043799, a constituent of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, will receive a decision on his...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many retailers were prosecuted for selling alcohol to under-age customers in each year for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's budget is for the reduction, replacement and refinement of animal experimentation.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many inspectors are employed to oversee animal experimentation; and if he will take steps to increase the number.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what requests for information have been received by (a) his Department and (b) the Serious Fraud Office from the US Justice Department on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seeker claims were not processed within eight weeks in the last year for which figures are available; and how long it took to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people seeking asylum in the UK as an unaccompanied child in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006 who were the subject of an age dispute were...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people seeking asylum are held in custody; and what the equivalent figure was for (a) March 2005 and (b) March 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people resident in Northern Ireland are receiving help from the National Asylum Support Service.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many former Gurkha soldiers (a) applied for and (b) were given British citizenship in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Nepalese citizens who had not served in the British Army (a) applied for British citizenship and (b) were granted British...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many convicted prisoners who served (a) all and (b) the final part of their sentence at HMP Bronzefield have continued to be...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested, (b) charged, (c) prosecuted, (d) found guilty and (e) given a custodial sentence in cases involving...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) the total number of criminal offences, (b) the total number of criminal offences abolished and (c) the total number of criminal...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) burglaries, (b) acts of violence against the person, (c) sexual offences, (d) instances of vehicle crime, (e) instances of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions his Department had with the police departments of (a) Chicago, (b) New York and (c) Los Angeles on methods of countering...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions for (a) vehicle theft (b) theft and handling, (c) sexual offences, (d) robbery, (e) racially aggravated offences,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what definition of common assault the police use for the purposes of arresting people for that offence.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the violent crime rate is in Halifax; and what it was in 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) which (a) retailers, (b) shopping centres, (c) town centres and (d) local authorities have expressed an interest in having a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, column 144W, on departmental computers, how many computers (a) were stolen from...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's total spending was on advertising and promotional campaigns in each year since 1997; and what the cost of each campaign...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff worked in dedicated complaints units in his Department and its Executive agencies in (a) 1997-98, (b) 2001-02 and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments his Department has made to Intellect in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of monitoring the time spent processing requests for information under the Freedom of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many meetings the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Criminal Justice System and Offender Management) has attended with...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department has commissioned work on logos for (a) a Ministry for Justice and (b) other Home Affairs departments.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of his Department's budget was taken up by private finance initiative commitments in each of the last 10 years for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of his Department's budget will be taken up by private finance initiative commitments in each of the next 10 years assuming...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings took place between Ministers in his Department and outside interest groups between 1 January and 31 March; and what the date...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by his Department, broken...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 1505W, on Departments: surveys, if he will place in the Library the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what items valued at above £100 were reported as stolen from his Department's buildings or premises in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many meetings (a) he and (b) his Department's Ministers held with trade union representatives in 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress he has made in effecting the deportation of Mr. Aleksandr Latsinnek since the Minister's letter to the hon. Member for Banff...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department is taking to monitor the treatment of returned asylum seekers deported from the UK in the Democratic Republic of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Equatorial Guinea is deemed a safe country to which to return failed asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had in 2007 regarding a change in status for enforcement of deportation to Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dispersal orders were issued in each basic command unit covered by Cleveland police in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many domestic violence offenders have completed community rehabilitation orders without having (a) started and (b) completed the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported incidents of domestic abuse there were in (a) Hartlepool constituency, (b) Tees Valley sub-region, (c) the North East...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of domestic violence against (a) men, (b) women and (c) children were reported in each London borough in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers were found guilty of driving (a) without insurance and (b) without a valid driving licence in each police force area in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers were prosecuted for driving without insurance in each year since 1990.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) maximum, (b) minimum and (c) average penalty imposed for the offence of drink driving in each police authority was in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people were convicted of drug offences in Bridgend in each of the last five years; (2) how many people in Bridgend were...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many beds exist in drug residential rehabilitation centres; how many such places are occupied by convicted offenders; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will increase the number of beds in residential drug rehabilitation centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce (a) mandatory daily drug testing and (b) random drug testing for those defendants subject to a drug rehabilitation...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were committed in each of the last five years by offenders wearing electronic tags; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when Yousef Ahmedali HO ref: A1142900, a constituent of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, will receive notice of a decision on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessments he has (a) made and (b) published on the effectiveness of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 since the Act was passed.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many gun crimes were committed in each of the last 10 years with (a) legally registered weapons and (b) illegally held weapons.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Police Firearms Licensing Management System is (a) on time and (b) on budget.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to reduce the risk of credit card fraud.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of credit card fraud were committed in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on international medical graduates who entered the United Kingdom...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to tackle honour killings.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 5 March 2007, Official Report, columns 1751-52W, on human trafficking, how many of those charged with offences...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward proposals to establish a UK Commissioner on Human Trafficking.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many beds are provided by the Poppy Project; and what the percentage occupancy figures were for these beds in each of the last six months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Minister expects the UK to ratify the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of people trafficked into Wales in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hunts in Yorkshire have been prosecuted for breaking the law since the hunting with dogs ban was introduced.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 7 February 2007, Official Report, column 987W, on identity cards, what charges will be made for verification...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to how many local papers Ministers in his Department have written on identity cards; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were taken into police custody in England and Wales suspected of being illegal immigrants during January 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who are living in Northern Ireland illegally; how many were so living in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of female illegal immigrants being forced to work in the sex industry in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children of failed asylum applicants are held in immigration detention centres; and what the equivalent figure was for (a) March...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the Treasury on allowing immigrants the right to work while awaiting a decision on their immigration status.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people suspected of being in the United Kingdom illegally have been taken into custody by each of the police forces in Wales since...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons taken into custody by the police forces in Wales as suspected illegal immigrants have been released on Immigration Service...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when (a) he and (b) officials in his Department were first made aware of the case of the five men in North Wales whom the Immigration...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when a decision will be taken on the immigration status of Hussein Mohammed Abdillahi, reference A572376.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to introduce each tier of the points-based system for managed migration.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to determine the application of Tahsin Taha Mohammad Ali (reference A1148096) for indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people applied for compensation from the immigration and nationality directorate in each of the last five years for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department has forwarded to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the decisions of the Immigration Judge on 23 May and of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mobile telephone numbers of people given temporary leave to remain were held by his Department as of 28 February.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mobile telephone numbers of failed asylum seekers were held by his Department as of 28 February.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which organisations he consulted before setting up the Employers' Task Force on the points based system of immigration control.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) on which occasions since 2005 officials from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate have carried out checks at the ports of (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) on what date he was informed by the Irish Government of the suspension of the provisions of the Common Travel Area at Irish airports;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the reasons are for differences in the average cost of detaining individuals for one week in different immigration and removal centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Indian nationals have been detained at Oakington removal centre in the last 12 months; what the longest period of detention is of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time equivalent staff are employed by his Department and its agencies as immigration officers at (a) Bristol International...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many special constables were recruited by the Lancashire police force in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to apprehend escaped prisoners from Leyhill open prison; how many prisoners are still at large; and what offences...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter dated 7 February from the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood on the briefing on the arrests made in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many self-employed migrant workers there are in (a) Wales, (b) England, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reasons, and on what legal basis, the revised fee structure for the Independent Assessor of compensation for miscarriages of justice...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will undertake a review of the capability of the Suspicious Activity Report regime; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females were convicted of motoring offences in (i) Tamworth, (ii) Staffordshire and (iii) England and Wales in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much and what percentage of their budget each police force in England and Wales contributed to (a) the National Criminal Intelligence...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the percentage of British citizens who could pass the Life in the UK naturalisation test.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultations were carried out on the (a) content and (b) method of the Life in the UK naturalisation test.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the subject matters which are included within the Life in the UK naturalisation test.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the questions for the Life in the UK naturalisation test were tested on British citizens.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 120W, on Oakhill Secure Training Centre, how many members of staff have...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners were served with formal notice warning of liability to deportation (IM3 form) in each year since 2001;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the weekly cost of (a) a violence reduction programme and (b) a prison place.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Irish nationals have been transferred at the completion of a custodial sentence from a prison to an immigration removal facility in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many and what percentage of people convicted of having an article with a blade or point under section 139 of the Criminal Justice...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many incidents of recorded violent crime a samurai sword was used as an offensive weapon in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam, of 21 March 2007, Official Report, column 972W, on passports, what the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to section 6(7) of the Identity Cards Act 2006, whether applicants for passport renewal who apply solely for a passport prior to 1...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 22 March 2007, Official Report, column 302W, on passports: interviews, on which days of the week each office will...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 22 March 2007, Official Report, column 301W, on passport interviews, if he will assess the merits of hosting...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of gross revenue expenditure by (a) Devon and Cornwall Police Authority and (b) all police authorities was financed by (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed within the (a) Policing Policy and Operations Directorate, (b) Police Leadership and Powers Unit and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of spaces available in Wales under Operation Safeguard were used in each week since the operation came into...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to his answer of 6 March 2007, Official Report, column 1930W, if he will provide the figures by each police force.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the role is of independent advisory groups for police constabularies and authorities; how they are appointed; who the members are of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many police officers were stationed in Bolton in each year since 1997; (2) how many community support officers were provided in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department is taking to encourage police authorities to improve links with local people and businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to encourage young people to join the Police Cadets.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers were employed as of 31 December 2006, broken down by police authority area.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the current timetable is for implementation of the Police National Database; (2) what the timetable is for the implementation of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what targets are set for police authorities on the recruitment of police officers on the basis of (a) gender and (b) ethnicity.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of forms used by the police.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 550W, on police: retirement, what categories of data will be provided by forces.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many ports of entry there are in the United Kingdom.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many additional prison places were provided in each year since 1997; and how many more are planned; (2) what the average cost was...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in which prisons an increase in capacity is planned; what the current capacity is of each; what increase is planned; and by what date he...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Birkenhead of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 643W, on prison sentences,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are serving over tariff incarceration on the grounds of their refusal to confess their guilt.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of prisoners serving a sentence of (a) zero to three months, (b) six to 12 months, (c) 12 to 18 months, (d)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were transferred to another prison during their sentence in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are aged (a) 50 to 64 years and (b) 65 years and over.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) convicted prisoners and (b) offenders who had completed their sentence were kept in prison pending deportation, in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners from (a) EU countries and (b) countries outside the EU are serving sentences in England and Wales; and what the number...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent prisoners in (a) state and (b) privately-run prisons are protected by the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on reimbursing the relatives of prisoners in the Humber region for Humber Bridge tolls incurred whilst visiting...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were held in prisons over 50 miles from their homes in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost was of keeping a prisoner in each (a) prison establishment and (b) young offender institution in the latest period...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females whose home area was recorded as falling within Taunton constituency are (i) on remand and (ii) convicted...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 22 February 2007, Official Report, columns 891-2W to the hon. Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier) on prisons, for...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total (a) capital and (b) repayment value is of the new prisons to be constructed in (i) Maghull and (ii) Woolwich.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mandatory drugs tests were carried out in prisons in each of the last five years; and how many were (a) positive and (b) negative...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the DNA Prisoner Sampling Exercise in 2003 was carried out in every prison establishment in England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners were identified through the Prisoner Sampling Exercise in 2003 as not having their DNA on the National DNA Database; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in England and Wales had their DNA samples taken during the course of the DNA Prisoner Sampling Exercise carried out in 2003.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average distance in miles was between (a) females and (b) males in prison and their registered home address in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females are (i) on remand and (ii) convicted prisoners being held in a prison (A) up to 50 miles, (B) between 50...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 19 February 2007, Official Report, column 325W, on prison capacity, how many additional prison officers he expects...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget allocation for the London Probation Area (a) was for 2006-07 and (b) is for 2007-08; and what assessment he has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2007, Official Report, column 144W, on illegal fox hunts, what the names were of the defendants in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of refugees who will be eligible for integration loans.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in Hartlepool have broken the terms of their (a) bail conditions, (b) antisocial behaviour orders and (c) acceptable...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many car accidents involving a pedestrian being injured or killed (a) resulted in police successfully prosecuting a motorist and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2007, Official Report, column 1229W, on Samantha Jackson, when he expects a decision to be taken on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people were held in (a) secure children's homes, (b) secure training centres and (c) young offender institutions in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) which organisations the Security Industry Authority consulted before implementing the latest increase in licence fees for security...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what role his Department is playing in the miSense project at Heathrow Airport.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make a decision on the recommendations of the Sentencing Advisory Panel on guidelines for sentencing shoplifters.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many seizures of Class A drugs have been made by Serious Organised Crime Agency officers since 1 April 2006; and what the estimated total...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on (a) stationery for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and (b) promotional merchandise branded with SOCA's...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what system of accountability is in place to monitor the work of the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many shoplifting offences were recorded in Lancashire in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2007, Official Report, column 557W, on stop and search: terrorism, how many of those searched in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many of the people who were detained without charge on suspicion of terrorist offences between 11 September 2001 and 31 December...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 6 March 2007, Official Report, column 1945W, on terrorism, when he expects to publish Lord Carlile of Berriew's...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will break down by ethnicity the number of those (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 since its...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 since 1 January 2006; and how many were held within 24 hours of the maximum...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents have been reported to the anti-terrorism hotline since its introduction; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed to handle calls received by the anti-terrorism hotline.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those detained under the Terrorism Acts (a) were seeking asylum at the time of their detention and (b) have subsequently...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted under the Terrorism Act 2000 were from (i) Lancashire and (ii) Ribble Valley.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many telephone calls were received by the Anti-Terrorism Hotline in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions for under-age tobacco sales there were in each year since 1997; and how many convictions resulted from these prosecutions.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) arrested for trespass and (b) stopped by police on suspicion of trespassing in each of the designated areas...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet Mr. Victor Makarov, to discuss arrangements for his future security and well being in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will launch a public awareness campaign to encourage people to walk more for health reasons.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the answer of 5 March 2007, Official Report, column 1769W, on work permits, to applicants of which 10 nationalities the most work...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of work permit applications made by IT professionals were successful in the last period for which figures are available; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the population of (a) secure children's homes, (b) secure training centres and (c) young offender institutions was in each month...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) boys and (b) girls under the age of 18 years were received into young offenders institutions (i) under sentence and (ii) on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) boys and (b) girls were received into (i) secure training centres and (ii) local authority secure children's homes in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of prisoners in young offenders institutions were on remand in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of prisoners in each young offenders institution are remand prisoners; and how many remand prisoners have been...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average period spent on remand by prisoners in young offenders institutions was in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) male and (b) female prisoners aged 17 to 21 years were accommodated within the adult prison estate on (a) 1 March 2007 and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which non-governmental organisations his Department has funded in the last three years in relation to combating (a) gang culture, (b) youth...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What has been the cost to date of testing cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy infection over each of the past 10 years; and whether the Department for...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether pig and poultry producers who apply for integrated pollution prevention and control permits will have the details of their holding advertised in the public...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has had discussions with the British Veterinary Association or the horse industry concerning African...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to reduce the weight of the Bowman personal radio set to that specified by the Army for full portability by soldiers operating on foot.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps are being taken to reduce the time taken for the Bowman radio set to "drop in" for inter-crew communications in Army vehicles.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to reduce the time taken for data terminals on Bowman radio sets to become operational after switch-on.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the free channel search and the frequency-hop option on VHF on the Bowman military radio system are proving satisfactory.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to prevent the Bowman Army radio system from interfering with the electronic counter-measures carried on Army vehicles.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What has been the total cost to date of the Bowman military radio system.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment the Ministry of Defence has made of its original appointment of the Archer consortium to deliver a replacement for the Clansman radio system.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the criticisms made of the way that many of the service men and women returning in medical need from Iraq and Afghanistan are treated in...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What response the Ministry of Defence will make to representations from Gulf War veteran Mark McGreevy regarding his still unresolved pension entitlement.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What changes have been made to the scrutiny and assurance processes for defence acquisition following the Enabling Acquisition Change report.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Ministry of Defence will establish a programme office, as recommended by the Office of Government Commerce, to ensure coherent progress of procurement...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the reply by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 14 March (Official Report, col. 736), what progress they have made with their support for the position of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they support the Welsh Assembly's evaluation of the problem of bovine tuberculosis and the Assembly's assessment of future action it may take in respect of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they have made to the Government of Burma about the increased number of attacks on villages in the Papua district of the Karen state by the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What recent contacts they have had with the Government of Cameroon; and whether the issue of respect for human rights was discussed during such contacts.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Truscott on 19 February (WA 188), whether they will consider the implications of the decision by British Telecom to introduce...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have any plans to increase informal and practical support for basic tasks for children resettled in the community after a custodial sentence.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the daily amount spent on food per child in (a) young offender institutions; (b) secure training centres; and (c) local authority secure children's homes...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to enforce United Kingdom flood defences against rising water levels resulting from global warming.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the advice of the Government Chief Scientist that weather-forecasting capability in the United Kingdom is likely to be reduced over time by climate change...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the present gross cost to United Kingdom taxpayers of the common agricultural policy; how this is made up; and how much of it is returned to British farmers.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they have received on the Hallé Orchestra's concerns in relation to the risks involved for children and vulnerable adults in the Criminal...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to prevent anti-social behaviour towards local residents in Cyprus by British military personnel.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Goldsmith on 14 March (WA 126), what level or number of criminal convictions would be a barrier to appointment to the post of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: When the United Kingdom's production of (a) solar power, and (b) all renewable resources, expressed as a proportion of total energy consumption, will reach the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the remarks by Baroness O'Cathain on 21 March (Official Report col. 1299), whether, under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007,...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, following the implementation of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007, it will be an offence for schools, religious bodies, doctors or...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007, it will be acceptable for an adoption agency to give preference to a couple of both sexes...
asked Her Majesty's Government: On what grounds Baroness Scotland of Asthal stated on 15 March (Official Report, cols. 826-28) that "the provision (Article 308) can be used only within the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Triesman on 15 March (WA 151), whether Article 308 of the Treaty Establishing the European Community first appeared in the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Triesman on 15 March (WA 151), whether they will reveal which legal instruments passed since 2004 rely on Article 308 of the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 6 March (WA 33), what are the undertakings that have been provided by the Governments of Jersey and...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Goldsmith on 27 March (WA 259), whether it is the law officers or their clients within the Executive who own the advice given...
asked Her Majesty's Government: With reference to the paper published by the Porton Down Group on their marmoset study of the health effects of exposure to pyridostigmine bromide, how the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have approved the methodology proposed in the review of regional spatial strategy regarding Gypsies and Travellers by regional planning bodies; and by...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have made an assessment of potential changes to the model for dyspepsia/gastro-oesophageal management in primary care to achieve a more efficient use...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the role of independent clinical assessment treatment centres; and how they deliver effective services to the local health economy.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have any plans to collect information on the number and geographical location of primary care trusts routinely offering dual energy X-ray...
asked the Chairman of Committees: What assistance is being offered to Members and staff of the House of Lords who wish to give up smoking.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many incidents of damage to immigration centres have occurred since December 2005; and whether they have been attributable in any way to any lack of reasonable...
asked Her Majesty's Government: In what circumstances asylum seekers must wear electronic tags.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many asylum seekers are currently required to wear tags; and in which areas.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will publish a list of the members of the employers' task force that has been established to advise on the new points-based system of immigration...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What mechanism has been, or will be, put in place so that an asylum applicant who claims to have suffered torture is promptly referred to the Medical Foundation.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has received complaints from migrant workers about wages of less than the agricultural minimum, or...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Answer by Lord Drayson on 22 March (Official Report, col. 1335) about the amount of sarin released in the fallout at Khamisiyah in March 1991, how...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the impact on safety and security in Iraq of the first two months of the increase in United States military patrols.
asked Her Majesty's Government: When they expect to receive a report from the British consulate-general in Jerusalem concerning events at the Abu Dis Boys' School on 14 February.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they have made to the Government of Israel concerning the promotion for sale or rent of property in Har Homa in the Occupied Territories of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will place a duty on government agencies and non-departmental public bodies to participate in the local authority scrutiny process.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Andrews on 26 March (WA 247—8), why it is not relevant to their foreign policy decisions in relation to Muslim...
asked Her Majesty's Government: How they intend to respond to a recent Local Government Association survey which found that financial problems within the National Health Service are having an...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have evidence that hospitals are implementing the Government's recommendation, as set out in Income Generation: Car Parking Charges—Best...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether there has been an increase in the consultancy fee of £400 million for the 2012 Olympic Games announced by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will take steps to avoid spending money allocated for the 2012 London Olympic Games on legal fees arising from the decision to rescind the original...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the impact on farm businesses of the proposed planning gain supplement on development needed to meet environmental, animal...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress they have made on setting a de minimis threshold below which business development would not attract the proposed planning gain supplement.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend that the proposed planning gain supplement will apply to agricultural developments that are approved by prior notification schemes to local...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What professional advice they have sought on the valuation of farm businesses for planning gain supplement purposes.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will take action to assess young people early in their school careers, so that those with particular sporting skill can be properly nurtured; and What...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to improve the initial teacher education of prospective primary teachers in respect of their competence and confidence to teach physical...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What costs were incurred by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport's visit to Australia during the second test match of the Ashes series; and what...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are implementing personal sanctions on individuals who are impeding the peace process in Darfur or who have been responsible for violations of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they, in conjunction with the Government of the United States, the member states of the African Union and other neighbouring states, are continuing to...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are acting in concert with the Government of the United States to block receipt of money for oil exports from the Sudan in whatever currencies may be...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they intend to take to reduce the United Kingdom's trade deficit of £55.8 billion in 2006.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they are planning to increase vehicle excise duty on four-wheel drive and two-wheel drive pick-ups and vans in the near future.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 8 March (WA 75), what was the depth of Brofiscin quarry prior to the commencement of dumping in 1965; which was the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 8 March (WA 75), whether the site at Brofiscin quarry is designated a special site; whether such a designation...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 8 March (WA 75) on waste management and toxic dumping at specific locations, whether they will indicate which...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What plans they have to issue guidance to the Environment Agency as a result of the European Union Commission amendment to Directive 2000/60/EC to replace...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What ministerial guidance they will offer to Ofwat for PR09, the 2009 price review.
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