To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department spent on external consultancy in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department has spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c) stereo equipment in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland for which Government websites his Department is responsible; how many visitors each received in the last period for which figures are available; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much surplus land his Department owns; and what the (a) area and (b) estimated monetary value of each site is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department spent on (a) publicity and (b) advertising in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland pursuant to the answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, columns 251-2W, on departmental written questions, what the cost of providing the answer was.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the last 12...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) cautions and (b) arrests for alcohol-related offences there were in (i) Ashford constituency and (ii) Kent in the last eight...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the costs of alcohol-related crime in (a) Ribble Valley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK since the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much of her Department's funding will be allocated to alcohol arrest referral pilots in (a) 2008-09 and (b) each of the next three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many breaches of anti-social behaviour orders have been recorded in (a) Tamworth constituency, (b) Staffordshire and (c) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to reduce alcohol misuse and anti-social behaviour in London, with specific reference to south- west London.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many and what proportion of asylum seekers who were detained during 2007 were subsequently released on temporary admission and then...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of Special Branch SO12 transferred to Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) (a) at the time SO15 was set up and (b) since that time.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will assess the adequacy of the procedures in place to investigate cases involving alleged criminality by holders of diplomatic...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies at official premises is subsidised from public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many documents there were on laptops stolen from her Department in each year since 2001.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department and its agencies have spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c) stereo equipment in each of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost to her Department was of employing a press and media officer in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by her Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which pilot projects initiated by her Department in the last two years have not proceeded to further roll-out.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 259W, on Departmental procurement, what payments her Department made to...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department from which companies her Department has purchased goods and services of a total value above £1 million in each of the last three years;...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations have been made to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission on cases of deportation on the grounds of threat to...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many minors have been held in detention centres for the purposes of immigration control in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions (a) she and (b) departmental officials have had with Ministerial colleagues and officials in the Ministry of Justice on...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty notices for speeding were issued to drivers in each year since 1997 for which records are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what work her Department has carried out since December 2005 on a detailed specification for a device to facilitate roadside testing for the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she plans to take to increase awareness in local communities of seizures of assets from drug dealers.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funds her Department has allocated to the Street Level Up initiative for tackling drug dealers (a) in each of the last two years and...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criminal asset sharing agreements are in place between the UK and other countries under the Drugs Action Plan 2008 to 2011.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance has been issued to police on the powers and sanctions available to them to tackle the supply of illegal drugs on streets in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces (a) are participating and (b) are planned to participate in the Street Level Up initiative for tackling drug dealers.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the national drug intervention programme regional representative group proposed in the Drugs Action Plan 2008 to 2011 was established;...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when pilots to extend integrated offender management models for drug misusing offenders will be introduced; in which areas they will be...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) extradited from the UK under European arrest warrant, (b) extradited to the UK under European arrest warrant,...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason the annual Football Arrest Statistics document was not published in October 2008; and when she expects it to be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate she has made of the incidence of forced marriage in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 8 October 2007, Official Report, column 165W, on genetics: databases; if she will place in the Library a...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her most recent estimate is of the percentage of people trafficked into the United Kingdom who entered via or who pass through London.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason 10 fingerprints will be collected from foreign nationals applying for identity cards instead of the two fingerprints required...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which of the separate pieces of information set out in Schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006 will be retained from foreign nationals...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which database will store the personal data from foreign nationals applying for identity cards from November 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of time is that each immigration offender detained in the immigration estate has been detained.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have been detained in the immigration estate in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what timescale she has set for actions and decisions concerning children subject to immigration control to be taken in compliance with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) companies and (b) individuals have been investigated by the Security Industry Authority for an alleged breach of licensing...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she will answer the letter of 4 August 2008 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mrs Anila Zaidi.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the review of all Home Office contracts with PA Consulting has been concluded; and when she will make public the outcome of the review.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Identity Card Scheme Cost Report of May 2008, how the estimates of the volume of passports and identity cards to be issued...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports have been issued in each of the last eight years; and what estimate has been made of the number of passports that will be...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the fee revenue from passports has been in each of the last eight years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many temporary advances issued to police officers in England and Wales (a) attending courses outside their area is and (b) performing...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of members of the police pension scheme joined on or after 6 April 2006; and what projections she has made of changes to this...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there are in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the size of the prison population was at the latest date for which figures are available, broken down by ethnic group.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces in England and Wales are providing police protection for individuals who have converted from Islam to other faiths.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the capability of computer systems used by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to share data with...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what definition she uses of crime against business.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library copies of the information which was presented to internet service providers on 3 November 2008 by her...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests and (b) convictions there were for criminal activity connected to (i) eco-terrorism and (ii) environmental activism in...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officials of the UK Border Agency were stationed outside the UK in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency and its predecessors spent on hotel and other accommodation for its staff (a) in the UK and (b) abroad in...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what guidelines her Department has issued for those undertaking Criminal Records Bureau checks; (2) what reviews her Department plans...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Criminal Records Bureau checks were found to have been incorrect in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007; how many individuals were...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to answer question 214526, tabled by the hon. Member for Lewes on 24 June 2008, on US personnel.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much the Government has allocated in national aid for nut growers in each of the last five years, broken down by type of nut.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he expects the provisions of the EU Air Quality Directive to be implemented; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people employed in the recreational sea angling sector and (b) businesses...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many meetings he has had with (a) representatives of the commercial fishing sector and (b) representatives of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will hold discussions with his EU counterparts with a view to minimising the number of tests on animals within the EU.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost has been to his Department of producing the new draft codes of practice for (a) cats, (b) dogs and (c) equines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to introduce a comprehensive surveillance of infection in imported pet animals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the number of robins living in England in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what systems exist to monitor the prevalence of blue tongue disease throughout the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what systems are in place to establish (a) how many doses of BtV8 vaccine have been purchased by farmers from vets and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what payments British Waterways (a) has made in the last 12 months and (b) is contracted to make to Cavendish Public...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many staff were employed in his Department's climate change group on 1 October 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many external consultants are undertaking work for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which organisations provided goods and services for his Department in relation to (a) hospitality and entertainment, (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what his Department's expenditure was on (a) hospitality and entertainment, (b) advertising and promotion, (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent on maintaining his Departmental website in the latest year for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what (a) equipment and (b) data was lost by his Department in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent by his Department on office removal contracts in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people recruited by his Department in 2007-08 were aged over (a) 55 years and (b) 60 years; and what percentage...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Devizes of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 162W, on departmental...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 17 September 2008, Official Report, column 2231W,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the cost was of (a) entertainment, (b) advertising and promotion and (c) public relations consultancy to his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent inspection report of his Department by the Office of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the television licence fee in his official Ministerial residence is paid for from public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which companies were used by his Department for providing temporary staff in each of the last five years; and what the value...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which local authorities have introduced weekly organic waste collections for households (a) across their locality and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the average cost per household to local waste collection authorities of domestic waste...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6 November 2008, Official Report, columns 654-56W,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 9 October 2008, Official Report, columns 743-45, on the Waste and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 1 September 2008, Official Report, column 1487W, on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19 June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood:...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of the fish catch in EU waters was discarded in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many miles of flood defences will be abandoned if the proposed catchment management plans proceed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations he has received on the proposed catchment flood management plans.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding has been provided by his Department for the protection of native species of wild flowering vegetation in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many incidents of fly-tipping in (a) Ashford constituency and (b) Kent were reported in the last five years; and how...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to reduce fly-tipping in rural areas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the merits of the Competition Commission's proposed establishment of a new grocery supply code...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he has assessed the merits of the proposal in chapter 11 of the Competition Commission's supply of groceries in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much the Forestry Commission has spent on maintaining its domestic properties in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the Competition Commission's Growing Sector Investigation report published in April.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of Chapter 11 of the Competition Commission's Growing Sector Inquiry report in respect of primary...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the potential risk to (a) human health and (b) the environment from hydrogen sulphide gases...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he will publish new guidance on the acceptance of waste gypsum to landfill; and when he expects the new guidance to come...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how new guidance on the acceptance of waste gypsum to landfill will be disseminated to private sector operators within the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1293W, on horses: conservation, for what reason the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what methodology his Department uses to assess the environmental impacts of proposed incineration facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department and its predecessor has spent on inspections in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance provided by (a) his Department and (b) the Environment Agency on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the National Farmers Retail and Markets Association.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) if he will assess the effect on the landscape, with particular reference to (a) railway embankments, (b) waterway...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he has a target for a reduction in the use of disposable bags.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many local authorities do not carry out doorstep collections of mixed plastics for recycling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the average number of types of plastic recycled by local authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to apply for a derogation from the EU Air Quality directive.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he proposes to respond to the letter to him dated 23 October 2008 from solicitors Harrison Grant, acting on behalf of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what records (a) his Department and (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme keeps on which waste collection...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the amount of recycled waste of (a) paper and (b) plastics in the last period for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will meet representatives of the UK Youth Parliament to discuss charges to schools for recycling.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much waste was recycled by each local authority in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what volume and proportion of household recycling was deposited in landfill in the latest year for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1013W, on shellfish: Colchester, what the membership of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will discuss with Tesco the outcome of its recent negotiations with its supply chain companies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much and what percentage of (a) retail and (b) wholesale waste in the UK was re-used or recycled in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Beckenham of 9 October 2008, Official Report, columns 747-8W, on waste...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) whether the new schemes for charging for the collection of household waste will allow local authorities to charge...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) which local authorities responded to consultation on technical guidance on the pilots of charges for the collection of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what records (a) his Department and (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme keeps of which waste collection...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Waste and Resources Action Programme has produced on the provision of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether private waste contractors will have voting rights on joint waste authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect of the economic downturn on the recycling and waste industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the household recycling rate was in the City of York Council area in 1996-97 and each year since then; what percentage...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which sewerage companies charge for surface water drainage; and which of these exempt churches from these charges.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations he has received on the proposed new water charges on places of worship and premises operated by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans he has to encourage the introduction of smart water meters.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) if he will review the decision not to increase the minimum landing size of bass; and if he will make a statement; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in relation to Article 17 of Council Regulation 2371/2002, if he will institute measures governing pair-trawling for bass...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many seizures of illegal timber imports have been made in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many child sex offenders are currently managed in one of the 101 probation approved premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many classified dangerous or very dangerous offenders are currently managed in one of the 101 probation approved premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many child sex offenders have been managed in one of the 101 probation-approved premises in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many child sex offenders living in approved premises committed further sex offences whilst a resident in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the minimum level of training is that a probation area requires of staff working in approved premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many deaths of residents in approved premises have been recorded in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many approved premises have not introduced double working night levels.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether a national record is kept of violent incidents against staff working in approved premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of the recommendations made by the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee in its Eighth Report of Session 2000-01, HC 91, on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (a) cards, (b) parties and (c) decorations in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the likely cost to local authorities resulting from (a) the increase in public law family fees and (b) making those...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many external consultants work for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his Department's total IT budget was in the last year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what IT projects (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies is undertaking; and what the most recent estimate of (i) the cost and (ii) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on entertainment by his Department in 2007-08; and how much of that sum is accounted for by (a) food, (b) alcohol, (c) staff and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many civil servants working in his Department and its agencies have pensions with a cash equivalent transfer value of over £1 million.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people imprisoned on conviction for a drink-driving offence have been released because the blood taken to assess the blood-alcohol level was...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on what date the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal notified the Home Department of the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in the case of Mrs...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made (1) of the likely effect of reductions in the budget of Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS) on (a) the number of courts,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead of 23 October 2008, Official Report, column 562W, on matrimonial proceedings:...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his estimate is of the change to the budget of the National Offenders Management Service headquarters under the Ministry of Justice Financial Plan...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans there are to review the operation of Operation Safeguard.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how inappropriate prisoners as identified by Prison Service Instruction (PSI 30/2006) and Integrated Drug Treatment Systems Continuity of Care guidance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many inappropriate prisoners as identified by Prison Service Instruction (PSI 30/2006) and the Integrated Drug Treatment Systems Continuity of Care...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff in his Department did not achieve an acceptable assessment grade in their annual report in the latest reporting year for which figures are...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many documents produced by his Department have been submitted to the Plain English Campaign for approval for Crystal Mark status in each year since...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1240W, on police custody, how many prisoners have been held in police cells overnight in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with which businesses HMP Coldingley has contracts for work for prisoners; and what the (a) value of, (b) nature of work specified under and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many ex-service personnel there were in prison who had (a) post-combat stress, (b) alcoholism and (c) substance abuse problems in (i) 2001, (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what offences for women from Wales who were held in prison on 1 April (a) 2008, (b) 2007, (c) 2006, (d) 2005 and (e) 2004 were imprisoned.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many of the women from Wales who were held in prison on 1 April (a) 2008, (b) 2007, (c) 2006, (d) 2005 and (e) 2004 were held on remand.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign prisoners were held at (a) HMP Peterborough, (b) HMP Whitemoor and (c) HMP Littlehey on 31 October (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent estimate he has made of the number of prisoners with severe psychiatric disorders.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many mothers held in prison had their babies with them on 1 April (a) 2008, (b) 2007, (c) 2006, (d) 2005 and (e) 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what steps he plans to take to give effect in UK law to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Kirit v. the UK; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to provide for a universal franchise.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints by prison officers have been made against fellow officers on the grounds of (a) sexual discrimination, (b) sexual harassment, (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on the prescribing of methadone in prisons in England and Wales.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps the Government is taking to reduce prison overcrowding; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many job reductions there will be from natural wastage in the Probation Service under his Department's Financial Plan for the Comprehensive Spending...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the last 12...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average sentence handed down by courts in England and Wales for convictions for rape was in each of the last three years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the effectiveness as a deterrent of sentences handed down by courts in England and Wales for convictions relating to rape.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information his Department holds on the reconviction rates of prisoners released from each prison in England and Wales in the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what response he plans to make to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief's report of her mission to the UK (A/HRC/7/10/Add.3).

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many women from Wales were held in prison for non-payment of fines on 1 April (a) 2008, (b) 2007, (c) 2006, (d) 2005 and (e) 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officer staff have contested dismissal through tribunal from HMP Whitemoor in each of the last 10 years; and what the outcome was in each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison officer staff have been dismissed from the service from HMP Whitemoor in each of the last 10 years, broken down by grounds for dismissal.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether education or training is compulsory for young offenders aged (a) between 15 and 17 and (b) between 18 and 21 years in young offender institutions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many supported accommodation beds are available for juveniles on remand, broken down by youth offending team area; (2) how many remand foster...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what proportion of juveniles who have been remanded in custody or under court ordered secure remand pending trial were (a) acquitted and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many and what proportion of arrests in Northern Ireland were for drunken and disorderly behaviour in each council area in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 85-86W, on departmental...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many external consultants work for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department has spent on (a) hosting events and (b) bottled water in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many full-time equivalent press officers (a) work and (b) provide assistance for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many page hits from and visitors his departmental website received for the 2007-08 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of maintaining his departmental website (a) was in 2007-08 and (b) are expected to be in 2008-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people who are not civil servants his Department employs; and how many civil servants it employs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of pension contributions incurred by his Department was in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how much was spent on his Department's staff's travel within the UK in the last 12 months; (2) how much was spent on his Department's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department (a) has spent on maintaining vehicles in the last five financial years and (b) expects to spend on maintaining...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, column 537W, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Euro...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many firefighters in Northern Ireland have lost their lives in the course of their duties in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent on hotel bills by his Department in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost has been of (a) each public inquiry under way and (b) each historic inquiries team investigation under way in Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of each (a) public inquiry, apart from the Saville Inquiry, and (b) historic inquires team investigation under way in Northern...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many temporary advances issued to police officers in Northern Ireland (a) attending courses outside Northern Ireland and (b) performing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much of the cost of the Saville Inquiry has been spent on legal fees to date.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department has spent on (a) televisions and (b) receiving digital television in the last 12 months.

To ask the Prime Minister what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Office has been in the last 12 months.

To ask the Prime Minister when the annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee for the year 2007-08 will be published.

To ask the Prime Minister (1) what meetings at which the Competition Commission market investigation into the supply of groceries in the UK was discussed he has had since 1 May 2008; (2) what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many contacts there have been between British forces and the Taliban in Helmand province in each of the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how UK armed forces plan to contribute to NATO's anti-narcotics strategy in Helmand province.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many of the 13 personnel who were seriously injured in Afghanistan in 2006 (a) have received no compensation, (b) are awaiting a decision on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans there are to change overall UK troop numbers in Afghanistan in the next 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to counteract piracy off the coast of Africa.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what UK forces are stationed off the east African coast to deal with piracy in the area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether (a) the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and (b) another organisation maintains a list of the names of fallen service personnel recorded on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy to support the establishment of a national memorial to Bomber Command.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reason his Department has not established a memorial to Bomber Command in London.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of the (a) armed forces, (b) Army, (c) Navy and (d) Air Force are currently engaged in (i) operations and (ii) other military tasks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many UK military personnel are based in Pakistan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent discussions he has had with Help for Heroes on funding for rehabilitation for military casualties from (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many episodes of (a) suicide, (b) attempted suicide and (c) self-harm have been recorded and subject to significant event analysis in primary care...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the wastage rates from (a) phase 1 and (b) phase 2 training were in (i) each year since 2001 and (ii) each month since January 2008; and how many...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the technical specifications and photographs of the Alvis Vickers Scarab vehicle as evaluated by his Department...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of the technical specifications and photographs of the Glover Webb armoured patrol vehicle; (2) how many...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many equipment failure reports there have been for Snatch Land Rovers in each year since 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what effect the procurement of new utility vehicles announced on 29 October 2008 will have on the Future Rapid Effect System programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what regulations there are on the compatibility of membership of the British National Party and service in the Army Intelligence Corps.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what percentage of the Army failed to meet (a) harmony guidelines for tour intervals and (b) separated service guidelines in the latest period...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what budget was allocated to the Defence Nuclear Safety (DNS) Regulator in the latest period for which figures are available; how many staff are employed...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which United Kingdom military airframes (a) have been used and (b) are planned to be used in connection with operations in the Democratic Republic of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what countries have contributed to the UN force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and how many troops each has provided.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies at official premises is subsidised from public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) memory sticks, (b) laptop computers, (c) desktop computers, (d) hard drives and (e) mobile telephones were (i) lost by and (ii) stolen...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the evidence provided by the Permanent Secretary to the Public Accounts Committee on 22 October 2008, on the Defence Information...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much surplus land (a) his Department and (b) its agencies own; and what the (i) area and (ii) estimated monetary value of each site is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for each of the sites owned by his Department and registered on the Register of Surplus Public Sector Land; what construction projects...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many press releases have been issued by his Department in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects Paveway IV bombs to enter service on Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department has taken to inform service veterans of services available to them, with particular reference to mental health counselling services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the implications for the health of British nuclear test veterans of the research conducted by the Medical Research Council...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the basic A400M airframe will be configured to deliver an air-to-air refuelling capability; and what his policy is on whether the RAF fleet will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what financial penalty clauses apply to his Department should it decide to (a) reduce orders under and (b) withdraw from the A400M Programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the cost of fitting a fuel inerting gas system to a A400M.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what force size of Harrier pilots is required to achieve harmony for 11 pilots in theatre.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) pursuant to the answer of 17 November 2008, Official Report, column 147W, on Iraq: peacekeeping operations, how many Jaish-al-Mahdi prisoners have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of (a) Merlin HM MK1 and (b) Nimrod MR2 are (i) in service, (ii) in the forward fleet and (iii) fit for purpose.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what assessment he has made of the merits of extending the life of the C-130K fleet; (2) what assessment he has made of the merits of purchasing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the levels of noise pollution from helicopters in the areas around (a) RAF Benson and (b) RAF Odiham.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many new referrals to each Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit there have been in each year since 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) departmental officials and (b) members of the armed services are available for mobilisation in the event of a nuclear accident emergency;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any of the UK's nuclear bombs exploded during (a) the major trials of the 1950s and 1960s in Australia and the Pacific Islands and (b) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many UK military personnel are based in Sudan; and how many work with (a) NATO forces, (b) EU forces and (c) other forces.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Tornado GR4 aircraft are available; how many were available in (a) October 2007 and (b) each month of 2008 to date; and how many aircraft were...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many and what percentage of Tornado GR4s are (a) in service, (b) in the forward fleet and (c) fit for purpose by squadron.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made, with reference to the Trident submarine replacement programme, of (a) the adequacy of the contingency set aside, (b) the...

To ask the Minister for the Olympics whether the terms of reference set for KPMG in relation to its report on venue options for the 2012 Olympics included an instruction to hold discussions with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what he plans to include within the new standardised codes for alcohol-related activity under NHS Connecting for Health; and when the codes will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) the quantity and (b) quality of data on alcohol screening.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what support his Department makes available to adults who have Asperger's syndrome.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people over the age of 60 were registered as carers in Tamworth constituency in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (a) cards, (b) parties and (c) decorations in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the effect on NHS costs of achieving full compliance by primary care trusts with the National Institute for Health and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many treatments of (a) Beating the Blues and (b) Fear Fighter primary care trusts have commissioned through the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people with (a) Alzheimer's disease and (b) other forms of dementia in each (i) strategic health authority...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average length of time was between the issue of invitations to tender and the initiation of work for NHS dental contracts in the last period for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists there are per 1,000 people in Tamworth borough.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) memory sticks, (b) laptop computers, (c) desktop computers, (d) hard drives and (e) mobile telephones were (i) lost by and (ii) stolen...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent press officers (a) work and (b) provide assistance for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much surplus land (a) his Department and (b) its agencies own; and what the (i) area and (ii) estimated monetary value of each site is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children under the age of 16 years have type 1 diabetes in (a) Winchester and the Meon Valley, (b) Hampshire and (c) England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment his Department has made of the use of the anti-opiate drug buprenorphine/naloxone; whether any assessments has been undertaken of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what rules his Department applies to the labelling of food and food products imported from (a) Israel, (b) Israeli settlements in the Palestinian...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many copies of his Department's guidance and competencies for the provision of services using GPs with Special Interests: dermatology and skin...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department plans to take steps to minimise variations in service specifications across primary care trust areas in implementing proposals set...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 83W, on health centres, for what reasons he has not asked primary care trusts to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health trainers there are in each primary care trust (PCT); and how many people have been helped by health trainers in each PCT in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much was spent on providing assistance with health care costs to (a) foreign nationals and (b) higher education students through the HC2 form...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken to ensure that the HC1 claim form can be downloaded from the internet.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the (a) change in cost to callers and (b) revenue generated for his Department as a result of changing the telephone number...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost of administering the concessionary scheme for patients when the Greater Manchester congestion charge scheme is...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether his Department plans to review the provision of health care to non-EU students in higher education; (2) whether his Department plans to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to publish the outcomes of his review of access to the NHS by foreign nationals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health for which statistics relating to (a) hospitals, (b) maternity units and (c) other health services in England, about which information has been sought...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the standard of health care for prisoners in England and Wales in comparison to that received outside prisons...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the Hearing Aid Council to be disbanded.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health care-acquired infections there were in each primary care trust area in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many girls in each local authority area have opted out of receiving the human papilloma virus vaccination.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost to the NHS in each of the next 10 years of mandatory guidance on in-vitro fertilisation produced by the National Institute...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the most recent local maternity workforce plans submitted to his Department by strategic health authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 919-20W, on multiple sclerosis: drugs, what factors his Department considered when...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has considered changing its 084 telephone numbers to 03 numbers in the National Health Service; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what parties were consulted prior to the decision being taken that NHS Direct will not be granted foundation trust status; (2) what plans his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations have been cancelled in the Leeds Health Authority area due to surgical equipment being inadequately sterilised in each of the last two...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the value is of the contract awarded to the private sector company to carry out surgical equipment sterilisation in the Leeds Health Authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to paragraph 3.18 of the report to him by the National Cancer Director, Improving access to medicines for NHS patients; which NHS...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library copies of all submissions made to Professor Mike Richards' review reported on in "Improving access to medicines for NHS...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library copies of the evidence referred to in paragraph 2.17 of "Improving access to medicines for NHS patients"; if he will list...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to implement recommendation 1 of "Improving access to medicines for NHS patients"; with regard to what specific steps he will take to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the average number of treatments involving the off-label usage of a drug (a) provided and (b) denied to patients in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what timetable he has set for implementing Recommendation 11 of "Improving access to medicines for NHS patients"; which organisations his Department plans...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to Appendix 1 of "Improving access to medicines for NHS patients"; for what reasons his Department did not request that all primary care...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to Appendix 1 of Improving access to medicines for NHS patients; which (a) cancer and (b) non-cancer treatments were applied for through...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) hardware and (b) software has been deployed to trusts under the National Programme for IT, broken down by trust; and how much the equipment in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the unitary cost for each (a) small, (b) medium and (c) large trust under the National Programme for IT is; and what payments local service...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what deployment (a) in total and (b) of Cerner BT has made at (i) the Homerton Hospital NHS Trust and (ii) the Newham University Hospital NHS Trust; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Connecting for Health paid for the deployment of PACS, broken down by trust.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what mechanism (a) Connecting for Health and (b) the London Programme for IT use for (i) price deployments and (ii) transfer payment to the local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of the funds for each of Connecting for Health's contracts is allocated to (a) design, development and testing and (b) final deployment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health to what extent the payments to suppliers under Connecting for Health contracts are tied to completion of work commissioned.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which (a) Ministers and (b) heads of NHS IT have been responsible for the Cerner systems; over what periods each such person was responsible for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) nurses and (b) doctors were employed by the South Staffordshire primary care trust in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses per 100 beds there were in (a) England and (b) the North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust in each year since 1967.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which hospitals are not connected to the choose and book system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many full-time equivalent staff are employed by the Patient Information Advisory Group; (2) what (a) capital, (b) revenue and (c) other...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of exemption prescription items were dispensed to people aged 60 years or over in (a) Vale of York constituency and (b) England in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of whether there are enough prospective psychiatrists in training to meet future recruitment needs; and if he will make a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of raising the legal age at which tobacco can be purchased on rates of smoking among young people.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government are taking to prevent the purchase of tobacco on behalf of those under 18 years old.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the police are able to take to prevent the purchase of tobacco on behalf of those under 18 years of age.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what statistical items are centrally collected from local authorities on social care in their area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what inspections the Commission for Social Care Inspection and its predecessor inspectorates have undertaken of Haringey Council's social services...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he announced his Department's intention to consult on adding further categories of social care workers to the General Social Care Council...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of tuberculosis were recorded in each primary care trust area in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the capital expenditure on York Hospital was in each year since 1992.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on the use of post offices to provide banking...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to protect the funds of registered charities held by Icelandic banks.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on action which might be taken at EU level to discourage nationals of EU countries from using offshore...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 930W, on bank services, on which dates his...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of public bodies which use offshore banking facilities.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he was first informed of concerns about Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank; when these concerns were first discussed by the tripartite authorities;...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what level of debt the banks to which public money is committed have in connection with their involvement in the leveraged buyout of professional football clubs.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what consideration he has given to opening to public subscription the 12 per cent. preference shares in (a) Lloyds TSB/HBOS and (b) the Royal Bank of...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of (a) the number of UK nationals who hold deposits with offshore Icelandic banks and (b) the value of such deposits.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will assess the effects of rising prices in Chipping Barnet constituency.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, whether...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on television advertising in each of the last five years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many external consultants work for his Department.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the policy of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies is on whether leave taken by staff in the period between Christmas and new year must be taken...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 27 October 2008, Official Report, columns 778-80W, on departmental ICT, what IT projects (a) HM...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what external speakers his Department and its agencies have paid since January 2005; how much each was paid; and on what date each spoke.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what criteria are used to assess candidates for non-executive directorships at his Department.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many secondees have worked in his Department since 1 January 2005; from which organisation each was seconded; in which section of his Department each...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were seconded from the private sector to (a) HM Revenue and Customs, (b) the Office of Government Commerce and (c) OGC Buying Solutions...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how fines incurred by businesses for minor driving offences are treated for tax purposes.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) for what reason light goods vehicles with lower emissions ratings do not fall into a lower vehicle excise duty band than similar vehicles with higher...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the implications for UK financial institutions of the decision by the United States Administration to ban Iran from...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Department has ministerial responsibility for the Financial Services Authority.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment the Treasury has made of the contribution which industries dependent on intellectual property make to the UK economy.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment his Department has made of the effect of intellectual property crime on revenues received by the Exchequer.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects funds to be released from the Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Isle of Man authorities and (b) Kaupthing, Singer and Friedlander Bank (Isle of Man) on the bank...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the timetable is for the Valuation Office Agency's review of the effects of the increases in empty property business rates.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the budget for (a) the Office of Government Commerce and (b) OGC Buying Solutions is for each of the next three financial years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the merits of using British Standards Institution standard PAS 2050 in public procurement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what guidance he has given the Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Procurement regarding the use of whole-life costing in public sector procurement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much was overpaid in research and development tax credits in each year since 2000; how many companies were overpaid research and development tax...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what meetings at which the Competition Commission market investigation into the supply of groceries in the UK was discussed he has had since 1 May...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what date John Connors, the Director of HM Revenue and Customs' Large Business and Employers' Customer Unit, submitted an application under the business...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what date the Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs received the letter from the right hon. Member for Birkenhead of 31 October 2008 on his...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff at (a) HM Revenue and Customs and (b) the Valuation Office Agency have been investigated for alleged fraud in 2008.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff of each grade were employed at the Inland Revenue and HM Revenue and Customs offices at (a) Concord House, Paignton and (b) Tor Hill House,...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much tax revenue has been recovered as a result of the work of compliance staff in the Penzance HM Revenue and Customs office in each of the last...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) when he will announce the results of the remaining decisions in the (a) workforce change and (b) transformation programmes; (2) what factors...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment he has made of the impact which the closure of HM Revenue and Customs offices have upon the economy of the areas in which they were...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the merits of the proposal submitted by staff in the Penzance HM Revenue and Customs office in response to his Department's...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many secondees have worked in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) since 1 January 2005; from which organisation each was seconded; in which section of HMRC...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what national processing performance targets were set for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offices in 2007-08; and what the performance of HMRC offices in...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tax credit cases are awaiting a decision by the Adjudicator's Office; what the target time for a decision to be made is; what the (a) length of...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) limited liability companies, (b) partnerships and (c) self-employed individuals that...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many pensioners not eligible for pension credit have experienced a net reduction in their income following the removal of the 10 per cent. tax band and...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Prison Service ruling that prisoners may not be employed and pay tax applies to prisoners in open prisons.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the tax revenue received from taxation of rehabilitation services provided by employers to employees where the injury was...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on which dates since September 2008 the HM Revenue and Customs online self-assessment tax pages have not had a full service available; for how long on each...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many upgrades of the HM Revenue and Customs online self-assessment tax form have been made to the system since September 2008; when such upgrades were...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 684W, on Valuation Office: databases, if...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, what the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 314W, on the Valuation Office, if he will...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer of 18 October 2007, Official Report, column 1279W, on the Valuation Office: manuals, if he will publish an updated list of the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 7 July 2008, Official Report, column 1266W, on the Valuation Office: Northern...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Valuation Office Agency, or HM Revenue and Customs on its behalf, will pay to rightmove.co.uk plc in respect of 2008-09.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what national targets have been set for the Valuation Office Agency (VOA); and what the performance of VOA offices in the South West Region against these...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2008, Official Report, column 1625W, on valuation: licensed premises, if he will place in the Library a copy of the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) on what grounds HM Revenue and Customs is contesting the recent ruling relating to overpaid VAT on interval games of bingo; and if he will make a...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the implications of the European Court of Justice ruling on Linneweber for the tax treatment of licensed bingo.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2008, Official Report, column 1267W, on VAT: lighting, what progress he has made at EU level on his proposals for wider...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much was recovered by his Department in overpaid tax credits following court cases in each (a) month of 2008-09 to date and (b) year from...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09,...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Selby of 6 February 2007, Official Report, column 767W, on public relations, what...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid was given to Djibouti in (a) 1997, (b) 2001 and (c) 2005.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the UK contribution to the EU international aid budget was in (a) 2004, (b) 2005, (c) 2006 and (d) 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what plans he has for the future level of UK aid to India.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions he has had with the European Commission on plans to increase EU aid to (a) Morocco, (b) Algeria, (c) Libya and (d)...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many seats on British Airways' flights have been purchased under the Platform2 programme; at what cost; and how many and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will increase the number of water wells which receive funding from his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent steps the Government has taken to protect aid workers in Palestine.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent steps the Government has taken to promote economic development in Palestine.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions he has had with the government of Congo-Brazzaville on reports of corruption in that country.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid was given to Russia in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate has been made of the proportion of the Somali population which does not have access to aid due to the withdrawal of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of poverty levels among married pensioners.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects personal accounts to commence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the cost of establishing the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority and other costs associated with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will assess the effect on benefit claimants of private companies operating premium rate telephone lines claiming to offer benefits advice.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions What estimate he has made of the monetary value of benefits paid by his Department to citizens of other EU countries not resident in the UK in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his estimate is of the monetary value of benefits paid by his Department to citizens of other EU countries not resident in the UK in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to assist people with a mental illness or recovering from a mental illness to enter employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions he has had on policy to enable people to move from incapacity benefit to employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make an assessment of the effects of (a) low wages and (b) migrant workers on the number of incapacity benefit claimants in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to increase staffing levels at Jobcentres in response to recent projections of rising unemployment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans his Department has to extend the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance to people with severe sight loss.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are claiming jobseeker's allowance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many jobseeker's allowance claimants there were in (a) the UK and (b) Clwyd West constituency on the latest date for which figures are...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average period was for which jobseeker's allowance was claimed in each month in each of the last three years, broken down by the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assistance his Department provides in respect of mortgage repayments to people who become unemployed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the budget for Access to Work will be in each of the next six years; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what national targets there are for the Benefit Fraud Inspectorate; and what the performance of its activities in Devon has been against these...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which computer system the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission will use to calculate maintenance payments for their customers; what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency cases were unresolved three months after initiation at the latest date for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of new Child Support Agency cases were resolved within six weeks of receipt in the latest period for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (a) cards, (b) parties and (c) decorations in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of buying out the Connecting for Health contracts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies at official premises is subsidised from public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department and its agencies have spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c) stereo equipment in each of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of data cleansing of his Department's customer information system was in each year since 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of maintaining his Department's website was in 2007-08; and what the forecast costs of maintaining it are in 2008-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) page hits and (b) visitors his Department's website received in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what (a) equipment and (b) data was lost by his Department in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on advertising in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department and its agencies are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on entertainment by his Department at Caxton House in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people recruited by his Department in 2007-08 were aged over (a) 55 years and (b) 60 years; and what percentage this represented of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many posts will be discontinued in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to achieve the planned 12,000 headcount reduction; and if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which (a) external and (b) internal programmes of his Department and its agencies cost between £1 million and £50 million; and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what statistical releases and reports (a) his Department and (b) its agencies intend to publish in the next calendar year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many overseas visits he has made in his official capacity since his appointment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what indicators his Department uses to monitor levels of child poverty; and if he will make a statement on trends in these indicators since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people with a visual impairment have received (a) the lower rate and (b) the higher rate of the mobility component of the disability...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) blind and (b) partially sighted people living in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency received the mobility component of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people with disabilities his Department employs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much employment and support allowance was paid on average in each week of the last period for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many British born people of (a) working age and (b) 16 years old and over were in employment in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) Employment Service and (b) Benefit Agency offices, accessible to the public there were in each year for which records are...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what training his Department's employment advisers receive in the requirements of data protection legislation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what percentage of people with disabilities referred to the Shaw Trust by his Department's agencies have successfully entered (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff are employed in the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Directorate (a) on a full-time equivalent basis and (b) on a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on hotel bills by his Department in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans his Department has to reassess existing incapacity benefit claimants under the new work capability assessment; and if he will make a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff were employed by Jobcentre Plus (a) call centres and (b) to act as advisers carrying out work-focussed interviews in each of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the staffing levels at Jobcentre Plus are sufficient during the economic downturn.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when the appointment of the new Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus will be announced; and when the new chief executive will take up the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many calls were received by Jobcentre Plus call centres in each of the last 24 months; what the average waiting time was for such calls to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 6 February 2008, Official Report, column 1233W, on jobseeker's allowance, how many of those jobseekers allowance...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the letter from his Department's central Freedom of Information team to the hon. Member for Yeovil dated 8 October 2008,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many new national insurance numbers were issued to non-EU nationals in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) local authority and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many disabled people in Enfield North constituency started work following participation in the New Deal in each year since 1998.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Enfield North constituency entered work through the New Deal programme in each year since its introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the performance of (a) all designated New Deal providers and (b) the Shaw Trust against the objectives set for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of pensioners who (a) are not claiming and (b) have been refused pension credit...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many foreign nationals resident in the UK are in receipt of pension credit.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people claimed (a) carer's allowance and (b) pension credit for being a carer in each of the last five years; (2) what the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) in the City of York local authority area and (b) City of York constituency receive (i) the basic state pension and (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent steps he has taken to encourage the use of personal private pensions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the Oral Statement of 13 November 2008, Official Report, columns 965-82W, on the Post Office Card Account, what (a) legal and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many written representations he has received on the Post Office card account.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department was paid for the advertising to potential bidders of the Post Office Card Account contract.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have a Post Office card account.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many customers in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency had active Post Office card accounts in each year since their introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people formerly employed in Remploy factories which have been closed down in the last two years have found new jobs; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Remploy factories are operating; and how many people are employed in each factory.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect on demand for child care services and on the availability of child care services of the Social...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in (a) City of York constituency and (b) the City of York local authority area received (i) the winter fuel payment and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the meaning of the term SOS List is in referring to hon. Members who table Questions to him; what the purpose of the SOS List is; and if...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 868-69W, on the state retirement pension, if he will estimate the number...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when the Government plan to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Vale of York constituency and (b) the UK were classified as unemployed and actively seeking work in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many foreign (a) EU and (b) non-EU nationals have obtained (i) jobseeker's allowance, (ii) incapacity benefit and (iii) income support in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in Bolsover constituency received the winter fuel payment in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006 and (e) 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people received education maintenance allowance in the London Borough of Enfield in each year since it was introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people (a) are eligible for and (b) claim education maintenance allowance in Crosby constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children under the age of 11 live in single-parent families in the Tamworth constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what information his Department has on the number of books per pupil there were in New Manton Primary School in (a) 2007 and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many staff in his Department did not achieve an acceptable assessment grade in their annual report in the latest reporting...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools have been (a) built and (b) rebuilt in Crosby constituency in the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the average cost was of suspending (a) a head teacher, (b) a deputy head teacher and (c) a mainstream teacher for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment he has made of the effects of the implementation of the Artists Re-sale Right Regulations 2006 on the UK art...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what his policy on the Artist's Resale Right is; what account he has taken of the evidence received on the subject during the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what guidance is provided to further education colleges on (a) taking on commercial debt to fund the costs of renovating or...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what percentage of students studying at each higher education institution in the 2007-08 academic year were from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills pursuant to the answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, (1) column 1394W, on higher education: admissions, if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what recent discussions he has had with the National Union of Students on higher education funding.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how much of the funding reassigned from equivalent or lower qualification students to support additional student numbers has...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment he has made of the contribution of intellectual property to the UK economy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment his Department has made of the effect of intellectual property crime on the UK economy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what role Ministers in his Department had in shortlisting companies bidding to provide electric and low carbon vehicles to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what progress he has made towards the implementation of Lord Justice Auld's recommendation that the Government should...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has taken account of the counter-narcotics tactics used in Thailand by the government of that country in developing...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in Afghanistan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to his Afghan counterpart on the 20 year jail sentence imposed on Afghan journalist Sayed Pervez...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what organisations for which his Department is responsible (a) use and (b) are planning to use Airwave handsets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on proposals to change the Algerian constitution to allow presidents to serve for a third term.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Falkland Islands government on the Argentinian response to the new Falkland Islands...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Richmond of 4 June 2007, Official Report, column 237W, on missile...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to investigate reports of assaults against British nationals of Bangladeshi origin in Bangladesh.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many investigations his Department has conducted into assaults against British nationals of Bangladeshi origin in Bangladesh...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of assaults against British nationals of Bangladeshi origin in Bangladesh in each of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what advice his Department has issued to British nationals of Bangladeshi origin intending to travel to Bangladesh.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if his Department will hold discussions on the resumption of the exchange programme of Belarus children from the Chernobyl area...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what training in finance and fraud detection the Country Directors of the British Council have had.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have been held with UN Security Council counterparts on the UN Secretary General's visit to Burma in December...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many UK nationals took up residence in Canada in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations his Department (a) has made and (b) plans to make to other countries to seek to ensure the number of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether a date has been set for the next session of the UK-China human rights dialogue; and whether it will take place before...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what public diplomacy work on climate change is undertaken by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his (a) Czech and (b) Austrian counterpart on ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of allegations that Rwandan forces are involved in the fighting in North Kivu, Democratic Republic...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate has been made of the number of abductions and attacks against civilians by the Lord's Resistance Army along the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government has taken to encourage a peaceful resolution in Democratic Republic of Congo.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of reports that the Congolese army co-operates with the FDLR; and what discussions he has had with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations the Government have made to the Rwandan Government on the provision of arms and supplies to rebel military...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of reports that members of the armed forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have been involved in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Government supports proposals for an increase in the number of UN troops deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the French proposal for a European deployment of up to 1,500 troops in the Democratic Republic of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what shortcomings have been identified in the current troop levels and resources of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether it is UK policy that changes are needed to the mandate of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government plan to take at the United Nations to strengthen the UN peacekeeping force's mandate in the Democratic...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the involvement of (a) the Rwandan government and (b) Rwandan troops in the current crisis in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of incidents of rape and violence against women in Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which of his Department's initiatives have been advertised to the public in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost of each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many individual domestic air flights were undertaken within Great Britain by representatives of (a) his Department and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 211W, on departmental conditions of employment, whether the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many external consultants are undertaking work for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what visits he made to (a) Harrogate International Centre, (b) International Conference Centre, Birmingham, (c) Manchester...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many press and communications officers are employed by (a) his Department, (b) its non-departmental public bodies and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of maintaining his Department's website was in 2007-08; and what that cost is expected to be in 2008-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) page hits and (b) visits his Department's website had in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what dates in each of the last five years his Department informed the House of the creation of contingent liabilities...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what (a) equipment and (b) data was lost by his Department in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the (a) date, (b) location and (c) purpose was of each meeting he attended with the Prime Minister in the week...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much was spent on entertainment by his Department in 2007-08; and how much of that sum was accounted for by expenditure on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much was spent on overnight accommodation by his Department's civil servants in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people recruited by his Department in 2007-08 were aged over (a) 55 years and (b) 60 years; and what percentage this...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of overtime payments paid to staff in his Department was in each of the last 12 months, broken down by pay grade.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what bonuses are paid to staff in his Department for working in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants working in his Department and its agencies have pensions with a cash equivalent transfer value of over...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent on 30 October 2008 by the European Union to the Somali Transitional...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the 2007 intergovernmental agreement on the number of members of the European Parliament is expected to be in force for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on proposed changes to the number of MEPs for each region in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to fulfil the objectives of the 2001 Laeken Declaration to bring Europe closer to its peoples.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants work in offices representing the United Kingdom at the European Union; and what the total costs were of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Government officials are based at the European Union institutions and not subject to the UK domestic income tax regime.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last met the President of the European Council to discuss the economic situation in the European Union.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to mitigate the impact of recent exchange rate changes on the overseas activities of (a) his Department...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how often the Friends of Pakistan group of which the UK is a member meets; what its objectives are; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies (i) are classified as Government communicators and (ii) have access...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the government of (a) Kenya, (b) Sudan and (c) Somalia on the destination of the cargo...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the mandate will be for the EU counter-piracy naval operation in the Gulf of Aden; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the capacity of the government of Yemen to assist with or otherwise facilitate international...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which EU member states have committed to providing naval vessels and personnel for the EU counter-piracy operation in the Gulf...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Government is taking steps to promote tourism between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the United Kingdom.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) British citizens and (b) British overseas citizens are registered as living in Hong Kong.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the outcome was of the election of five judges to the International Criminal Court by the UN General Assembly on 6 November...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the (a) allowance and (b) bonus entitlements of UK civil servants working in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan are.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether locally-engaged staff at the British Embassy in Baghdad are subject to UK employment laws.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines on the procedures to follow in the case of a formal complaint by a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many official complaints have been submitted to London headquarters by (a) departmental and (b) locally-engaged staff...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the draft of the Iraq dossier by Mr. John Williams dated 9 September 2002, whether (a) Mr. Williams and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what the Government's policy is on the labelling of produce from Israel and the Palestinian territories; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what basis in international law the Government recognised the independence of Kosovo.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what (a) discussions he has held and (b) correspondence he has received relating to the failure of the Kyrgyzstan Ambassador...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of each of the five bilateral agreements signed with Libya on 17 November 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the involvement of the Arab League in the Middle East peace process; and if...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what recent steps the Government has taken to promote peace in the Middle East; (2) what plans he has to discuss the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the official duties of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in his Department are; how many overseas territories he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has held with NATO counterparts on the possible accession of (a) Georgia and (b) Ukraine to NATO.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on proposals for a tracking system for oil similar to the Kimberley process.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff in his Department did not achieve an acceptable assessment grade in their annual report in the latest reporting...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of Russian redeployment of ballistic missiles to sites close to NATO member countries' borders; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Rwandan Government on the activities of CNDP forces.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the government of Rwanda on the control of cross-border trade between Rwanda and North Kivu;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the impact of the continuing presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia on the security situation in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what support his Department is providing to peace negotiations between the transitional federal government and opposition groups...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made in increasing the number of African Union troops in Somalia over the last 12 months; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the UN on the situation in Somalia.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his policy is on the proposed extension of the European Union's Generalised System of Preference Plus agreement with Sri...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the report of the seminar on stem cell research organised by the British Embassy in Israel on 26 and 27 March...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the final report of the Ceasefire Joint Monitoring Commission into the events of May 2008 in Abyei to be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the level of compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1556 on the provision of arms to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he had during his recent visit to Syria about Syrian support for (a) Hamas and (b) Hezbollah; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what meetings he had with trades union officials since 1 July 2007; on what dates; and with which trades unions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Turkish authorities on the imprisonment of Abdullah Ocalan in the last two years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of reports of the ill-treatment of Abdullah Ocalan in Turkey.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department is taking to encourage greater investment in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of former UK residents who have taken up residence in the Turks and Caicos Islands in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people from the Turks and Caicos Islands visited the UK in 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department plans to take to encourage tourism between the UK and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the final peace agreement between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda to be signed; and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he took to mark United Nations Day on 24 October 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what dates have been set for further UN talks intended to bring about a negotiated solution to the dispute in Western Sahara.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of Zimbabwean refugees who have fled to Botswana since March 2008; what assessment he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department plans to take alongside the UN Security Council in monitoring and working towards a resolution of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of former employees of the Southern Rhodesian Government living in the UK and not...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many full-time equivalent press officers (a) work for and (b) provide assistance to his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) how many page hits from how many visitors his Department's website received in 2007-08; (2) what the cost of maintaining his Department's website...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much was spent on entertainment by his Department in Gwydyr House in 2007-08; and how much of that was accounted for by food.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he plans to lay before Parliament the draft Environmental Pollution and Waste Management (National Assembly for Wales) Legislative Competence Order.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) buildings and (b) other monuments were on the At Risk register in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) his Department and (b) its agency have spent on Christmas (a) cards, (b) parties and (c) decorations in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what projects have been commissioned using his Department's Joint Research Budget; and what the estimated total cost of each project is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when his Department completed its strategic analysis of the first six months of its Joint Research Budget; and if he will place a copy...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on what dates (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department received media training during the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the percentage of households in the East Midlands that will qualify for assistance under the Digital...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what projects have been undertaken in England as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last five years; and which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of the funding available under the Big Lottery Fund Children's Play initiative has been (a) committed and (b) spent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday 2008; by whom they were laid; on whose behalf they were laid;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations his Department has received from local authorities on the financial effects of the plans for free swimming for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding has been made available to local authorities to implement the Government's free swimming initiative over the next 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what proportion of local authorities have implemented the Government's free swimming initiative to date; (2) which local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what public funding his Department made available to theatre companies in the East Midlands in each year between 1999 and 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which 10 destinations in England were most frequently visited by domestic tourists in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent by the UK Film Council in the East Midlands in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what financial contribution Visit London made to Visit Britain in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the changes to aviation policy which will be necessary as a result of (a) inclusion of the aviation sector in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he plans to take to ensure that in all cases air passengers stranded abroad as a result of airline failure are able to be repatriated; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department spent on visits by its staff to Brussels in 2007-08; and how many such visits were made by (a) air and (b) rail.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what strategies his Department employs to ensure competition between local bus operators to encourage better services for passengers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received from Torbay local authority since April 2007 on funding for the national concessionary bus fares scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he plans to raise the age of eligibility for concessionary bus travel in line with changes to the pensionable age between 2010 and 2020.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents involving bus passengers were reported in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) constituency and (b) service provider;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (a) cards, (b) parties and (c) decorations in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether an agreement has been made with BAA on the exact amount of funding BAA will contribute to Crossrail.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what payments Cycling England has (a) made in the last 12 months and (b) is contracted to make, to public affairs consultants; and for what purposes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pedestrians have been killed in accidents involving cyclists and no other vehicles in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the average delay caused by congestion at the Dartford River Crossing to users during (a) morning peak times and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies at official premises is subsidised from public funds.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many civil servants have been employed by each of his Department's agencies and non-departmental bodies in each year since 1997-98; and if he will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many external consultants work for his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in each year since 1997-98;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what contracts his Department has with external consultants; what the value of these contracts is in the current financial year, including VAT and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many full-time equivalent press officers (a) work for and (b) provide assistance to his Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost of maintaining his Department's website was in 2007-08; and what forecast has been made of the costs for maintaining websites within his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has for each of the sites owned by his Department which are registered on the Register of Surplus Public Sector Land; what construction...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) special advisers and (b) press officers have been employed by his Department in each year since 1997-98; and at what cost in each year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the last three...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many press releases have been issued by his Department in each year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on (a) focus groups and (b) opinion polls in each year since 1997-98; how much he estimates will be spent on each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's departmental travel plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many Questions for written answer were tabled to his Department in Session (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2005-06, (e) 2006-07 and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will instruct the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to offer a British-made car in its prize draw encouraging use of their online facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many requests the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has received for motorists' information in each of the last 10 years; and how many...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport on how many occasions in each of the last 10 years an employee of the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency has been issued with an (a) oral and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what databases containing details of registered drivers and vehicles the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency uses in its registration and enforcement...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the current complement of (a) managerial staff, (b) examiners and (c) other staff at the Driving Standards Agency is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the basic salary is of the Chief Executive of the Driving Standards Agency; what incentive factors apply which allow bonuses or other increments...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport on what date it was decided that the Southend-on-Sea driving test centre would close; and who took that decision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of receipts from the driving test fee, after it has been increased, will be used to fund the change to the organisation of driving test...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much public money First Great Western Trains has received in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the performance of First Great Western Trains against the objectives set for the operation of the Greater Western rail...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his policy is on the renegotiation of the payments applicable under the franchise award to First Great Western in the light of the extra...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Adding Capacity at Heathrow consultation document, what level of induced demand for air travel he anticipates will be generated by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he proposes to respond to the letter sent to him dated 23 October from solicitors Harrison Grant acting on behalf of the 2M group, on pollution...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the likely emissions of carbon dioxide which would arise from use of the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether his support for Crossrail is conditional on a third runway being constructed at Heathrow.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department spent on hotel bills in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) accidents, (b) injuries and (c) deaths have been caused by foreign drivers in the UK in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will provide incentives for people wishing to register their vehicle for statutory off-road notification status to do so at post offices.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many of the children killed or seriously injured in cars in (a) 2004, (b) 2005, (c) 2006 and (d) 2007 were wearing (i) no type of restraint,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what assessment his Department has made of levels of parental awareness of legislation on child car seats; what steps he is taking to ensure that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the proposed reduction in funding to Network Rail in respect of its engineering possessions...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the adequacy of commuter train services between Newport and London.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) whether he has visited (a) Sipson and (b) Harmondsworth on official business since his appointment as Secretary of State for Transport; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimates for the price of oil he has used in the past three years when considering wider policy issues.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a copy of the research underpinning his assumptions on future oil prices contained in the 2003 Aviation White Paper.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether there have been any national programmes aimed at checking compliance with driver and vehicle requirements since Operation V79 in 2006; and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many complaints of racial abuse relating to staff for which his Department is responsible have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment his Department has made of funding methods for new trains.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what factors he took into account before deciding to advise local authorities seeking Government funding for major transport schemes that local...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate his Department has made of road congestion levels in (a) Leeds, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Milton Keynes, (d) Buckinghamshire, (e)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to be in a position to introduce the graduated fixed penalty and deposit scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which Highways Agency Major Schemes projects are in (a) Options and (b) Development stages in the Highways Agency; and what budget is allocated to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) men and (b) women aged between 17 and 21 years were killed in a road traffic accident in each local authority area in England in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy to reduce the levy local authorities are able to charge community groups for events which they hold which require road...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what checks are put in place to ensure that objections to stopping up orders are neither fictitious nor vexatious.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of the Highways Agency's (a) administration costs and (b) staff are used on major improvements.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will bring forward proposals to include developer works within the scope of the Road Traffic Acts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the recent statement by the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee on shared surface schemes; and if he will call...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when his Department expects the number of train carriages announced in the high level output specification to be (a) tendered, (b) ordered and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the extra train carriages announced as part of the intercity express programme to be (a) tendered, (b) ordered and (c) in service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) whether the capital cost of train carriages announced in the (a) high level output specification and (b) intercity express programme will be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many of the 1,300 new carriages referred to in the 2007 Rail White Paper have been (a) ordered and (b) delivered; and of these, how many have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 10 September 2008, Official Report, column 2007W, on rolling stock, which train operating companies (a) have and (b) have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many carriages announced in the (a) high level output statement and (b) intercity express programme his Department expects to (i) have been...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many of the train carriages referred to in the high level output statement have been (a) tendered for and (b) ordered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of public carriageways are currently being monitored by speed cameras.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many of the eight road pricing demonstration schemes will include overlapping charge classes within one charge area as outlined in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the evidential basis is for his Department's decision to select (a) Leeds, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Milton Keynes, (d) Buckinghamshire, (e)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the estimated cost is of each road pricing demonstration project; and what proportion of this cost is to be paid by his Department in each case.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the estimated costs are of having the systems proposed in the Road Pricing Demonstration Project externally checked; and what proportion of this...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road pricing demonstration projects have stipulated (a) a minimum, (b) a maximum and (c) an average charge; and what each of these charges are.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment his Department has made of the effects of road pricing on different sections of society.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to announce the successful bidders for the road pricing demonstration projects.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2008, Official Report, columns 2248-9W, on roads: tolls, whether any of the road pricing demonstrations will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he is taking to encourage train operating companies to make real time information relating to connecting train services available on trains;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how much each local authority has received as part of the Walking to School initiative in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what transport information projects in West Yorkshire have been undertaken under funding schemes sponsored by his Department in each year since its...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what contribution his Department is making to cross-departmental anti-corruption initiatives.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies at official...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much surplus land (a) his Department and (b) its agencies own; and what the (i) area and (ii)...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent on overnight accommodation by his Department's civil servants in the last 12 months.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small- and medium-sized businesses were...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many security passes have been reported (a) lost and (b) stolen by staff in (i) his Department and...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what criteria will be used to select fuel-poor areas under the Home Energy Saving Programme; and what the...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what meetings he has had since 1 May 2008 at which the Competition Commission market investigation into the...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what arrangements are in place to fund measures to be introduced under the Home Energy Saving Programme.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what representations his Department has received from urban regeneration companies on the effect of changes...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many staff in his Department did not achieve an acceptable assessment grade in their annual report in...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what procedures his Department has put in place to enable people in a local community to apply for the...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of trends in the rate of closure of public houses; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent on (a) training and conferences, (b) consultancy fees, (c) general expenses and (d)...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the administrative budget is of each of the regional development agencies in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the budget of the Regional Development Agency National Secretariat is for 2008-09.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much the Regional Development Agency National Secretariat has spent on (a) external public relations...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the monetary value of trade between the UK and the Turks and Caicos Islands in...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform on what dates since 1 May 1997 his Department has re-evaluated its oil price projections for 2020; and what...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of all deaths in each region were from circulation diseases in the latest period for which figures are available.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 16 October 2008, Official Report, column 1474W, on drugs: death, if he will ask the UK Statistics Authority to break...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) whether food and drink on sale to staff of the Prime Minister's Office at official premises is subsidised from public funds; (2) whether...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many external consultants work for the Prime Minister's Office.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in each of the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what research reports the Cabinet Office has commissioned from external bodies in the last 24 months.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what his latest estimate is of the number of (a) UK nationals, (b) non-UK EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals who were in (i) full-time...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Hertsmere of 17 January 2008, Official Report, columns 1428-30W, on foreign workers: EU nationals,...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much Futurebuilders has spent in payments to the charity Catz Club; and what the (a) amount and (b) date was of each payment made.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for what reasons Futurebuilders ended its contract with the charity Catz Club.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many staff the Office of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman had in each of the last three years; and what the Office's budget was...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the productivity level per worker was in each region in the latest period for which figures are available.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Vale of York constituency and (b) the UK who were unemployed for six months or more in...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what funding his Department has provided for the charity v in the last five years; what estimate he has made of (a) the number of volunteers...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much the Standards Board for England's investigation into six councillors on the Isle of Wight has cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether food and drink on sale to staff of (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies at official premises is subsidised...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on external consultancy in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department, its predecessor and its agencies have spent on (a) flat screen televisions, (b) DVD players and (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for which Government websites her Department is responsible; how many visitors each received in the last period for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many press officers were employed in her Department in each year since 1997-98; what the total cost was in each year; and if...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many staff in her Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many full-time equivalent staff in her Department assist special advisers; and what the cost of employing such staff was in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many press releases have been issued by her Department in each year since 1997-98; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many firefighters per 100,000 residents there were in (a) Staffordshire and (b) the West Midlands in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent steps the Government have taken to assist the third sector in providing services to people who are homeless.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps the Government are taking to reduce levels of street homelessness in the west midlands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will remind local authorities of their obligations to properly consider all the circumstances when people become homeless...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many social housing tenants applying for a housing transfer did so on medical grounds in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what mechanisms are in place to assess housing demand when considering housing targets in Planning Policy Statement 3.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans she has to promote the use of whole-life costing in local government procurement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local councils operate free financial advice helplines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes in each (a) region and (b) local authority area have been brought under the National Clearing House scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many times the Valuation Office has increased the business rates in UK ports by (a) 50 per cent., (b) 75 per cent. and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what change there has been in levels of business rates in the last 12 months; and what assessment she has made of the effect of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the (a) Government grant and (b) budget for North Yorkshire fire and rescue service has been in (i) cash and (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the official engagements were from 6 October to 31 October 2008 for (a) the Minister for London, (b) the Minister for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the cost was of the public inquiry into the Radlett rail freight proposals held in December 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of rough sleepers there were estimated to be in each district in North Yorkshire in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, column 397W, on South East Plan, whether her Department circulated...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on what date the revised South East Plan will be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many authorised sites for Gypsies and Travellers are provided by local authorities in (a) Essex, (b) Suffolk, (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many cases of compulsory purchase of land there have been in England in order to build publicly-owned Gypsy and Traveller...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many authorised private Gypsy and Traveller sites there are in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on which occasions Ministers in his Department have met senior executives of (a) British Energy and (b) EDF since its establishment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the Nuclear Liabilities Fund plans to sell its British Energy bonds as part of the deal announced on 24 September 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many energy efficiency measures have been installed under the (a) Carbon Emissions Reduction Target and (b) Decent Homes...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will list the local authorities he expects to fall within the scope of the Carbon Reduction Commitment; and if he will make a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects the Carbon Reduction Commitment to apply to local authorities; what piloting of the scheme has taken place in (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many responses he has received to his consultation on carbon capture readiness; if he will list those responses and summarise their...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will place in the Library an organisational chart for the Climate Change Group.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made towards the climate change objectives included in the 2008 local area agreements.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff in his Department did not achieve an acceptable assessment grade in their annual report from the Department by which...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff in his Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff has been since his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made on the installation of microgeneration and renewable technologies on the Departmental estate.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department has been since the establishment of the Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what guidance his Department provides to energy suppliers on provision of notice periods to allow the cancellation of business or...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the expenditure by the six largest energy suppliers on social tariffs for their customers in the last 12...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what strategies his Department has in place to reduce energy consumption by high street shops; what targets are in place as part of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what evidence and analysis the final energy consumption projection for 2020 of 1,740 TWh in the Energy White Paper was based.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps are being taken to ensure energy customers are informed of proposed price increases by energy suppliers before entering into...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who he expects to conduct the street-by-street visits in fuel-poor areas under the home energy saving scheme; and what information will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will assess the effect of increasing energy prices on people living in Chipping Barnet constituency as part of his Department's...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the progress of the Global Threat Reduction Programme towards the commitments made at the G8 Summit in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many people have received a Warm Front scheme grant in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency, (b) Sunderland, (c) the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much has been paid to Eaga plc for delivery of Warm Front grants to households in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many Warm Front grant contracts have been awarded to installers (a) owned by and (b) connected to Eaga plc.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many homes in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency have received home insulation through the Warm Front scheme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the average period under the Warm Front scheme between qualification and installation of (a) a boiler, (b) draught excluders and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when the contract to supply Warm Front services is next due to be put out to tender.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what average price was quoted by Eaga contractors under the Warm Front scheme for the installation of (a) loft insulation, (b) boiler...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many and what proportion of successful applicants to the Warm Front scheme received a grant worth the full cost of the quote for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households in (a) Crosby constituency and (b) England have received Warm Front grants in each year since the establishment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many applicants for a Warm Front grant aged (a) under and (b) over 60 years were informed that they (i) would and (ii) would not...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much was paid in Warm Front grants to residents in Crosby constituency in 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many people who have qualified for energy efficiency improvements under the Warm Front scheme in each London borough were waiting...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many people have (a) applied and (b) qualified for help under the Warm Front scheme in each London borough since the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households in the Vale of York have received Warm Front grants in each of the last three years; and how many he estimates will...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which Cabinet committees and sub-committees he attends.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the total capacity is of proposed gas storage projects which are awaiting regulatory consent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff are employed by the nuclear installations inspectorate (a) on a full-time equivalent basis and (b) on a headcount...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the total budget of the nuclear installations inspectorate (a) was in each of the past five financial years, (b) is in 2008-09...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many new staff members were recruited by the nuclear installations inspectorate following the recruitment campaign that began in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the job titles are of posts filled by the nuclear installations inspectorate following the recruitment campaign that began in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his Department's most recent estimate is of the cost to (a) the nuclear installations inspectorate and (b) other bodies within...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will bring forward plans to support the installation of high voltage direct current cabling and infrastructure for the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the content of the discussion of the development of alternative energy sources that occurred at the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost likely to be incurred by the National Grid in order to meet the 2020 renewables target.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what account the Severn tidal power feasibility study has taken of the Government's carbon dioxide emission reduction targets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 231W, on applying the proposed strategic siting assessment...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the price of uranium during the whole lifetime of any new nuclear power station built in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many homes in Enfield North constituency have received home insulation through the Warm Front scheme.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord McKenzie of Luton on 12 November (WA 130—31), whether they conduct any research on the health consequences of awarding...

asked Her Majesty's Government: When they expect to reply to the Question for Written Answer tabled by Lord Morris of Manchester on 29 September (HL5324) on the decision of the Foreign and...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the longer separation allowance (LSA), in force since April 2007, is subject to taxation.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether it remains their view that the Pensions Appeal Tribunal for determining war pension appeals will be part of the Social Entitlement Chamber of the new...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the advice offered by the Kuwaiti Community Association on the identification of persons claiming Bidoon status seeking political asylum...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will reconsider the terms of their bank recapitalisation scheme (a) to enable assisted banks to pay dividends on ordinary shares before the redemption...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have proposals to restrict the level of salaries and fees paid by the BBC to its staff and performers.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will ask Lord Saville of Newdigate to include in the report of the Bloody Sunday inquiry a summary of findings and recommendations.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have proposals to improve monitoring of standards of decency within which the BBC should operate.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the Cabinet Office removed its web page listing all open consultations being conducted by departments; and what plans they have to reintroduce such a web page.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answers by Lord Bach on 29 October (WA 166), what is their assessment of the impact of the savings agreed by Her Majesty's Courts Service...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What new courts are under construction in London; and in each case (a) when construction was ordered; (b) how many courtrooms are being built; (c) what will be its...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Malloch-Brown on 17 June (HL3750), whether, in the light of evidence of the treatment and poor health care of political...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of United Nations reports of Rwandan tanks firing across the border at Congolese troops and providing military support to Laurent...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the implications for the United Kingdom's Memorandum of Understanding with Rwanda of the cross-border fire from Rwanda on Congolese troops and other...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they are making to the Government of Rwanda (a) to achieve a solution to Congolese-Rwandan relations; and (b) to create models for mineral...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they will make (a) to support security sector reform in Congo and to encourage the Congolese authorities to take steps to achieve it; and (b)...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they are taking to expedite the appointment, and establishment in post, of an independent special adviser on human rights for eastern Congo.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to encourage householders to use the derogation allowing them to manufacture up to 2,500 litres of biodiesel annually for use in their own vehicles.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress they have made in discussions with the French European Union presidency to achieve a reclassification of nuclear energy as a quasi-renewable power source.

asked Her Majesty's Government: For each of the past three years and for each wind farm containing more than two turbines, what is (a) the capacity; (b) the expected annual output, maintenance...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Malloch-Brown on 8 October (WA 15), whether the provisions in the treaty of Lisbon governing the European Union's legal...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Why they decided that the relevant third-party provisions of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 should be applied (with necessary safeguards) to local...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to ensure that departments follow the practice of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in making consultation papers...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to ensure that consultation papers are published in a manner that allows them to be integrated in third-sector surfaces.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps are taken to ensure that departments comply with the code of practice on consultation.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many consultation exercises have been undertaken by government departments since October 2007; and how many of them lasted or are due to last for the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many consultation documents produced by departments since July have been published in alternative formats, in line with recommendation 4.4 of the code of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How much was spent on Eurostar rail travel in each of the past five years by (a) the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (b) the Home Office, (c) the Department of...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their response to the Valencian Government's decision to withdraw free health care for British residents who have retired there and are too young to...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many representations they have received since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords; and from...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the effect of the presence of (a) judges, and (b) Ministers in the House of Lords on the principle of the separation of powers.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the remarks by Lord McKenzie of Luton on 10 November (Official Report, col. 521), what guidance they have issued to local authorities on monitoring...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What weight they give to evidence from advice agencies such as citizens advice bureaux and Shelter in making decisions on housing and council tax benefit reform.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the budget for setting up the Homes and Communities Agency; and what proportion of this budget is assigned for publicity and branding.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What consideration they are giving to providing temporary visas and emergency accommodation for Iraq's Christian and Mandaean families expelled from their homes in...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they and the quartet have made of the legal status of Israel's restrictions on land access to Gaza and its not allowing supplies and access by sea;...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Bach on 6 November (WA 80—82), whether English courts may refuse to give effect to a consent order embodying the terms...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many discharges from medium secure forensic mental health services there have been each year in the last five years, categorised by (a) strategic health...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, following the request of 13 September 2007 (3810ICO) under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by Mr Thomas Yates to the Department of Health for the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What action is being taken to understand the reasons for, and reduce, the numbers of black and ethnic-minority staff working in the National Health Service South...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will ask the Equality and Human Rights Commission to initiate action against the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton and...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What changes have been made by NHS trusts since the Healthcare Commission's survey in 2007, which found fewer than one in 10 trusts had honoured its statutory...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of whether the National Health Service is free of racism; and what steps they will take to ensure this.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 28 October (WA 157), which Northern Ireland Office agencies acquired more...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 5 November (WA 69) concerning bonuses paid to officials of the Northern...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Which officials in the Northern Ireland Office received a bonus in the past two years; what rank they are; how much they received; and for what.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What regard is paid in calculating bonus figures for officials in the Northern Ireland Office to officials' attitude to identity, ethos, the aspirations of both...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the payment of bonuses to some officials of the Northern Ireland Office was approved by the relevant trade unions.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 18 November (WA 188), whether official motor vehicles from the government pool...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the Northern Ireland Office's pay settlements for each of the past two years.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 29 September (WA 317) concerning staffing in the Northern Ireland Office, why the number employed has risen from...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 30 October (WA 181) concerning the expenditure of the Northern Ireland Office...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 11 November (WA 123), why the cost of taxis for the Northern Ireland Office is...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 11 November (WA 123), who approves taxi journeys in the Northern Ireland...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 11 November (WA 123), who decided that the information requested could only be...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 11 November (WA 123), what instructions have been issued in the past five...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 21 July (WA 219), whether the Northern Ireland Parades Commission is covered by Section 75 of the Northern...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 21 July (WA 216) concerning equality and parity of esteem in Northern Ireland, what progress they are making...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 21 July (WA 217) concerning the promotion of the Irish language in Northern Ireland, whether the Irish...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Baroness Crawley on 21 July (WA 277) concerning political funding for Northern Ireland, whether the difference in treatment...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 21 July (WA 217) concerning the ownership of former paramilitary weapons in Northern Ireland, why ownership by...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the Olympic Delivery Authority charges £6 per tonne of spoil removed from the Stratford Olympic site by rail.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How much spoil is planned to be removed from the Stratford Olympic site (a) by rail, (b) by road, and (c) by water.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Who issued an instruction to staff in the British Passport Office in Belfast that it was forbidden to wear a poppy in the week before Remembrance Day; and what...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will review any security implications relating to first and second phase sub-contracting of administrative duties in the British Passport Office in...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What was the expenditure of the passport personal interview project to September 2008.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many full-time and part-time staff are employed to run the passport personal interview project.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many police forces in the United Kingdom operate a bonus payment scheme for officers at senior command level; and what authorisation is required in each instance.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What additional security resources have been made available in areas of Northern Ireland that are experiencing high levels of dissident republican activity; and...

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many independent members of the Northern Ireland Policing Board have experience of policing or police budgeting and accounting.

asked Her Majesty's Government: How many judgments and possession orders have been granted by each county court in England in 2008; and what the figures were for 2005, 2006 and 2007.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 4 November (WA 41) concerning Irish prisoners in prison in Northern Ireland,...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of changes in the number of community public houses; and what measures they intend to take.

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 4 November (WA 42) which said that 55 per cent of Questions for Written Answer...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of any institutional racism in United Kingdom media organisations that may prevent black and minority ethnic individuals from...

asked Her Majesty's Government: When Typhoon aircraft will be deployed to Iceland on NATO quick reaction alert duty; how many will be deployed; and for how long.

asked Her Majesty's Government: When they intend to institute closure proceedings for the railway line which from 14 December will no longer be used for passenger services in the Willesden, Acton...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have considered replacement services for the Factory Junction to Latchmere No. 1 Junction, West London Junctions (Willesden No. 1) to Acton Wells...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, given the effect on road congestion of the opening of the Westfield development, they will consider providing a rail service between the Great Western...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 12 November (WA 140) on the capacity of trains serving Bristol and the west of England, how long the process will...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 10 November (WA 110), what plans they have to regulate the performance of satellite navigation devices.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What proposals they will make at the European Union General Affairs and External Relations Council on 10 November about current and future relations with Russia.

asked Her Majesty's Government: What consideration they have given to the report Rights Not Write Off from Age Concern, Mencap and Scope; and if there is any action they will be taking in...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have received any request for help from the authorities in Somaliland in the investigation of recent terrorist offences in Somaliland; and if not,...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they and Sport England place the same weight in their consultations on swimming-related matters on the learning and teaching of swimming as on the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 4 November (WA 48) concerning the St Andrews agreement, what progress has been...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress they have made with the implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement in southern Sudan, in particular with the return of displaced...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the current estimated capital cost, including fitting out and provision of library, visitor and dining facilities, and the revenue costs, including...

asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the effect on the House of Lords of exclusion of those persons appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 who become...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the answers by Lord Davies of Oldham on 10 November (Official Report, House of Lords, cols. 431—33), what assumptions were made in calculating the...

asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 29 October (WA 178), whether they are planning to conduct a campaign to persuade the owners of the 100,000 heavy...