Wednesday, 24 March 2010
To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission with reference to the Electoral Commission's press release of 7 May 2009, on the...
To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles)...
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission whether Mr. Charlie Whelan holds a House of Commons security pass.
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands) of 2 March 2010, Official...
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the oral answer of 11 March 2010, Official Report, column 428, on the day nursery, what items of...
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the oral answer to the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Peter Luff) of 11 March 2010, Official...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many smoking shelters have been built for his Department's staff in the last five years; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much his Department has spent on rooms for staff leisure in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will place in the Library a copy of the benchmark results of the Civil Service People Survey for his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what methodology his Department used to determine whether answers to questions in the formulation "if he will set out with statistical information...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel of each sex were injured in Afghanistan (a) between the deployment of special forces in 2001 and the deployment of the armed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he takes to ensure the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures as a result of a decision by his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his policy is on funding standard operational requirements for kit and equipment for the armed forces.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many officers at each rank at or above the rank of colonel there were in the British Army, including the Territorial Army and Reserve, in (a) 1990,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department has sought legal advice on the status of the Minute of Separation under Scottish Law as the equivalent of the Decree for Judicial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what differences there are between the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 1975 and the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 2005 in respect of pension payments following...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence at what locations his Department's officials are based together with (a) Army, (b) Navy and (c) Royal Air Force staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the dates of publication of any regular statistics or reports by his Department have been affected by planning for the forthcoming general election.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the number of displaced people who have fled from Burma to Thailand since January 2010; whether...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how often he receives reports from the EU Special Envoy on Burma on his activities; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will discuss with the Israeli ambassador the matter of adherence to diplomatic protocol in commenting on proceedings in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the consideration by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development of Israel's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has made a recent assessment of the security situation in the Nuba mountain region of Sudan; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when his Department will make the Single Payment Scheme payment to Mrs. Mary Wilkinson of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average cost was of processing a single payment in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 9 February 2009, Official Report,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to reply to correspondence from Richard D. Hall dated (a) 4 December 2009, (b) 6 December 2009, (c) 15...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) disciplinary and (b) capability procedures have been (i) initiated and (ii) completed in his Department in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people his Department employs to maintain its social media and social networking sites; and at what cost in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has spent on maintaining its (a) Flickr channel, (b) YouTube channel and (c) Twitter feed in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the dates of publication of any regular statistics or reports by his Department have been affected by planning for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the benchmark results of the Civil Service People Survey for his Department and its...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies spent on first class travel...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will take steps to remove the regulatory provisions which restrict councils collecting recyclable and residual waste...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the extent to which urban foxes cause (a) hygiene and (b) litter problems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each meeting of the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the extent to which the recycling industry can contribute towards meeting Courtauld II...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which local authorities did not meet their targets for recycling waste in the most recent year for which figures are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many reptiles were seized by HM Revenue and Customs under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he expects the most recent survey on rodents derived from data from the English House Condition Survey to be published.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many days staff of his Department and its agencies spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of each response to his Department's consultation on household waste incentive scheme...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs who the respondents were to his Department's consultation on (a) incentives for recycling by households of May 2007, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2010, Official Report, column 322W, on waste disposal: fees and charges, if he will place...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research has been commissioned by (a) his Department, (b) the Environment Agency and (c) the Waste and Resources...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department and its agencies have spent on rooms for staff leisure in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will take steps to ensure that the meat and dairy products procured by his Department and its non-departmental bodies are free range...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether the dates of publication of any regular statistics or reports by his Department have been affected by planning for the forthcoming...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department is taking to deter theft from within the Department.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what assessment he has made of the effects of an electromagnetic pulse strike caused (a) deliberately and (b) through solar activity on...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what recent representations he has received on the route for the High Speed Two rail link; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what costs his Department has incurred in the preparation of High Speed Two proposals for a new rail line linking London with the West Midlands.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the likely number of construction jobs that will be created by High Speed Two.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) employees and (b) contractors of Network Rail have been (i) killed and (ii) injured at work in each year since its inception;...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many staff were employed at Network Rail in each year since its inception.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many signals passed at danger incidents have occurred in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many signals passed at danger incidents were attributable to (a) driver error, (b) defective signals, (c) obscured signals or (d)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) fatalities, (b) injuries and (c) incidents of damage to property have been caused by signals passed at danger incidents in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many ( a) drivers, (b) conductors or other train staff and (c) passengers have been (i) killed and (ii) injured in railway accidents...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) fatalities, (b) injuries and (c) incidents of damage to property on the railways have been recorded in each of the last five...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the last 100 railway incidents reported to the Office of Rail Regulation, Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate and the Health and Safety...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) individuals, (b) firms, (c) companies and (d) other organisations have been prosecuted for breaches of (i) health and...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what recent progress has been made on the provision of through tickets; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport when his Department last assessed the traffic flows across the Severn crossings.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what information his Department holds on the volume of traffic moving across the Severn crossings at different times of the day.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the average number of vehicles using the Severn crossings at each time of day; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many vehicles in each charging category travel across the Severn crossings on average each day at each time of day.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what funding his Department has received for (a) the road pricing demonstration projects and (b) other funds associated with national road...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what progress his Department has made on the development of a digital road map containing speed limit data; and when he expects such a map...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what correspondence his Department has had with Reading borough council on its bid for funds from the Transport Innovation Fund in each...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what (a) facilities and (b) staff time (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies provide to trade union staff representatives of Unite; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much her Department has spent under each budget heading on the recruitment of additional staff in response to the recession in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 3 November 2009, Official Report, column 816W, on departmental telephone services, whether her Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what methodology her Department used to determine whether answers to Questions in the formulation "if she will set out with statistical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what payment from (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies to the Newspaper Licensing Agency was made in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many and what proportion of those employed in the (a) public and (b) private sector were contributing to a pension plan in each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many new claims there were for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what representations she has received on the introduction of a local student, local provider approach to residential training centres; and what...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what methodology his Department used to determine whether answers to questions in the formulation "if he will set out with statistical...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to seek to ensure adequate levels of funding for research and development of new drugs, diagnostics...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) if he will place in the Library (a) a copy of the letter from the Minister of State of 3 September 2009 on depleted uranium and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many smoking shelters have been built for his Department's staff in the last five years; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what methodology his Department used to determine whether answers to Questions in the formulation if he will set out with statistical...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take steps to ensure that the meat and dairy products procured by his Department and its non-departmental bodies are free...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the levies on fossil fuels necessary to fund the Renewable Heat Incentive in each of the next five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 929W, on the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority: public...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what quantity of high activity radioactive waste has been returned to each port in each country of origin in 2010; and whether all of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many wind farms there are in each county in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many retailers have been prosecuted for selling (a) alcohol and (b) cigarettes to minors in England in each year since 2005; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Bolton, West (Ruth Kelly) of 17 March 2010, Official Report, column 853W, on children in care: Child...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of prisoners in England and Wales are serving sentences following conviction for offences related to (a) fraud, (b) other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether employees of the National Offender Management Service are remunerated through his Department's Pay and Pensions Service.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what methodology his Department used to determine whether answers to questions in the formulation "if he will set out with statistical information related...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Government procurement cards are in circulation; and how much was spent on such cards in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of (a) unauthorised and (b) fraudulent transactions using Government procurement cards there have been to date; and who is responsible for...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Government procurement card transactions there were in the last year for which figures are available.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many of his Departments' officials have a Government procurement card; and what the approval mechanisms to authorise expenditure on such cards are.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent estimate he has made of the average cost of processing a transaction on a Government procurement card.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which public bodies participate in the Government procurement card scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will discuss with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions the alignment of the (a) criteria and (b) guidance used to determine hardship when...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward proposals for a pilot scheme to implement an earnings disregard of £50 a week to assist people who are on benefits to take...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans the Government has to reduce the frequency of inspections carried out under the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects his Department's response to its consultation on EU proposals for a new Directive on the protection of animals used for...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) of 25 January 2010, Official Report, column 630W, on asylum: housing,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for British nationality through naturalisation were made in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which British nationality application forms may be requested over the telephone.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications by children for British nationality were made in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people requested nationality application forms by telephone in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the decision was taken not to supply hard copies of British nationality application forms AN and MN1 and related guidance notes to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 July 2009, Official Report, column 895W, on empty property, what (a) residential and (b) business...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) disciplinary and (b) capability procedures have been (i) initiated and (ii) completed in his Department in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to ensure that the meat and dairy products procured by his Department and its non-departmental bodies are free range or...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with which external IT contractors his Department has contracts with a monetary value of over £1 million.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on the relocation of staff from posts in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point constituency in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) of 12 November 2009, Official Report, column 625W, on...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library a copy of the benchmark results of the Civil Service People Survey for his Department and its agencies.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the longest period is for which (a) a child and (b) an adult has been detained by the UK Border Agency at an immigration removal...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people with profiles on the National DNA Database who had no further action taken in their case have been found guilty of a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to monitor the level of drug trafficking in Colombia.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the likely level of resilience of critical infrastructure to the effects of an electromagnetic pulse.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the likelihood of a (a) natural and (b) deliberately initiated electromagnetic pulse affecting...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many biometric enrolment centres are in operation; where they are located; how many applications they are expected to process in the next...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visa applications were turned away from the Islamabad high commission under the pre-sift process before the formal application had...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had (a) applied for and (b) been issued with identity cards by the Identity and Passport Service on the latest date for...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil penalties were issued by the UK Border Agency to hand car wash operators for employing illegal workers in 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions children detained at immigration removal centres have been held separately from their parents for a period of more than...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what independent checks there are on the welfare of children detained at immigration removal centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assistance is available for individuals detained at UK Border Agency immigration removal centres who are suspected to be at risk of suicide.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements are made in respect of the (a) personal possessions, (b) vehicles and (c) bank accounts of detainees following (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what contact his Department has had with the National Bullying Helpline since 2004; and whether his Department has made any payments to (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which powers of entry have been subject to a liberty test since October 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reports his Department has received on allegations that Mr. Raja Petra Kamarudin may be in exile in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many birds in how many seizures were seized by HM Revenue and Customs under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency received in fees for applications in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the UK Border Agency expects to reply to the email from the hon. Member for Aylesbury dated 4 February 2010 on medical students applying...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of working days lost by UK Border Agency staff was attributed to stress-related conditions in the most recent year for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officials of each grade at the UK Border Agency are entitled to first-class travel; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people the UK Border Agency's War Crimes Unit has referred to the police in each year since 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people the UK Border Agency's War Crimes Unit has recommended for immigration action in each year since 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been screened by the UK Border Agency's War Crimes Unit in each year since 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the average time taken to complete Criminal Records Bureau checks; what steps he is taking to reduce the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits were issued for senior carers from each country in Africa in each of the last 15 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 October 2010, Official Report, columns 170-1W, on young offenders: sentencing, how many (a) 12, (b) 13, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children under the age of 16 years were (a) put up for compulsory adoption, (b) put in the care of foster parents and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many young people of each sex have participated in apprenticeships of each type since 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2010, Official Report, column 454W, on the Building Schools for the Future programme, how much...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many childcare places have been created in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what guidance his Department issues to schools on the care requirements of children with diabetes; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average staff to pupil ratio in primary schools in England was in the latest period for which figures are available; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will take steps to ensure that the meat and dairy products procured by his Department and its non-departmental bodies are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his Department's budget for publicity and advertising was in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department and its agencies spent on external recruitment consultants in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his most recent estimate is of the number of children who are being educated at Muslim schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2010, Official Report, column 1173W, on free school meals: Leeds, how many of the 1,180...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils from National Challenge schools who achieved at least five grades A* to C at GCSE achieved one or more...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department paid to the Government Car and Despatch Agency in each of the last five years; how much it has spent on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment has been made of the level of support and resources specialist institutions will require for administering the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many primary schools were found not to have been registered with Ofsted in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of schoolchildren who regularly wear the kirpan on school premises; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Schools Adjudicator has issued to local education authorities on the use of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools there were in the London Borough of Bexley in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the budget of Teachers TV was in the latest year for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on proposals to celebrate the Queen's Diamond...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he expects the final report from the Saville inquiry to be published; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his most recent assessment is of the security situation in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent on employing press and communications officers in his Department in the financial year 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps his Department is taking to counter the threat from dissident paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the dates of publication of any regular statistics or reports by his Department have been affected by planning for the forthcoming...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies spent on first class travel in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland have received an indeterminate sentence for public protection in each month since the introduction of such...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent representations he has received on Loyalist decommissioning; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much freight has been transported by water to the main Olympic site to date.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 9 September 2009, Official Report, column 1951W, on Government departments:...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 8 February 2010, Official Report, column 792W, on the Census, (1) after what time on Census night a guest will be deemed to...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 25 February 2010, Official Report, column 698W, on civil servants: pay, what the (a)...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 25 February 2010, Official Report, column 697W, on civil servants: pay, for what reasons...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 27 January 2010, Official Report, column 966W, on civil servants: location, what her Department's policy is on the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which company was awarded the VIP air support contract for the Cabinet Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office with Prior Information Notice 2008/S...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the target waiting time is for children up to the age of 16 to be seen within when attending accident and emergency departments (a) on average in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time is for children aged up to the age of 16 years to be seen when they arrive at an accident and emergency department (a) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to provide nurses in primary care settings with training to (i) identify, (ii) diagnose and (iii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished episodes of care there were for patients with rheumatoid arthritis of each (a) sex and (b) age group resident in Southend in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to collect information on the number of newly diagnosed cases of rheumatoid arthritis; what recent representations he has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to ensure that GPs receive (a) pre-registration training and (b) continuing professional development training in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the oral evidence given to the Public Accounts Committee by the Chief Executive of the NHS on 23 November 2009, what progress his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by each primary care trust on rheumatoid arthritis services per head of population in each of the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 March 2010, Official Report, column 765WA, on cancer drugs, which of the patient access schemes considered by the National...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent steps his Department has taken to assist specialist services for (a) myalgic encephalomyelitis and encephalopathy and (b) chronic fatigue...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effectiveness of care in the community for mentally ill patients in (a) Leeds and (b) West Yorkshire.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what budget his Department has set for the Living Well campaign for dementia; and how much it has spent on (a) television, (b) radio, (c) print and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what keywords his Department is monitoring in the media; when each of those keywords began to be monitored; and what keywords have (a) been monitored and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the dates of publication of any regular statistics or reports by his Department have been affected by planning for the forthcoming general election.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to share services, functions and back offices with local authorities as part of the Total Place initiative.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of children in each age group who were diagnosed with diabetes in (a) Southend, (b) each borough in Essex, (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) males and (b) females in each age group were diagnosed with diabetes in (i) Southend, (ii) each borough in Essex, (iii) each borough in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has made an estimate of the number of people with diabetes who were hospitalised as a result of (a) eating and (b) drinking products labelled...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on (a) designating in-house bodies as preferred providers for the management of community services and (b) permitting care trusts to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the first higher education courses in healthcare science will begin; and what guidance his Department has provided to universities on the content of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the comments of the Care Services Minister of 28 March 2010 in The Times newspaper, what representations he received from care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 March 2010, Official Report, column 773W, on home care services: finances, how many people in England receive (a) free and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has paid to (a) Media Strategy and (b) Hanover Communications in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects his Department to publish guidance to primary care trusts on the use of local tenders and product formularies for products and services...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whom his Department has consulted in its recent discussions on the use of tenders and formularies for products and services covered by Part IX of the Drug...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to publish the Part IX Guidance and Assurance Framework for the Drug Tariff arrangements to enter into force on 1 April 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases there were of (a) mumps, (b) scarlet fever, (c) tuberculosis, (d) typhoid, (e) measles and (f) rubella in (i) England and (ii) each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2010, Official Report, column 641W, on medical records: children, how many parents have obtained opt-outs through...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is (a) taking and (b) plans to take during the next six months to recruit midwives to the national health service; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many training places were available for midwifery in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives left the national health service in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average salary of an NHS midwife is; and what it was in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have enrolled on the midwifery return to practice course in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the number of midwives retiring from the NHS in the next 10 years; what recent discussions he has had with (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent midwives were working in (a) Southend and (b) Essex in each of the last five years; and how many were working in each NHS...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of each piece of written advice he has received from the Co-operation and Competition Panel on the preferred...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) children up to 16 years old, and (b) elderly and (c) other patients were seen per hour in the accident and emergency department of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been allocated by (a) North Staffordshire, (b) South Staffordshire and (c) Stoke-on-Trent primary care trusts for carer's respite...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has taken steps to put in place a complaints system for (a) self-funding users of residential social care, (b) partly self-funding users of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been paid to each wave 1 independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) under its contract; and how much would have been paid to each ISTC for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure that medical treatment of prisoners with tuberculosis continues on leaving custody.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the NHS in diagnosing those with tuberculosis; and what steps he is taking to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether he has made an estimate of the number of children eligible for vaccines resident in areas in which the Child Health Interim Application is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made for the purposes of the allocation of regional funding by the Homes and Communities Agency of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to Lord Taylor of Holbeach of 23 February 2010, Official Report, House of Lords, column 290WA, on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the effects of the European Court of Justice ruling in Cases C-310/08 and C-480/08, London...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 2 March 2010, Official Report, column 1144W, on housing:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he intends to announce the Disabled Facilities Grants allocation for Hyndburn borough council for the year 2010-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what requirements apply to homes in eco-towns to be constructed at (a) Level 5 and (b) Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes he expects to be built in each proposed eco-town; and over what period.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to his Department's publication, "Warm homes, greener homes: a strategy for household energy management", whether...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he has made an estimate of the proportion of (a) private rented, (b) social rented and (c) owner-occupied households...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what change there has been to the extent of green belt land in (a) England and (b) Coventry since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate he has made of the number of homeless people in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding his Department has allocated under the hostels improvement programme to (a) Leeds City Council and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of young people who have left their family home without having in place arrangements to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the ratio of median quintile house prices to lowest quintile earnings was in 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 371W, on housing: databases,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much local authorities spent on (a) children and families services and (b) other adult care in (i) cash and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the letter to leaders of principal local authorities in Norfolk of 9 March 2010 from the Minister for Local...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he has made an estimate of the monetary value of the potential frauds identified by the Audit Commission in its National...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much funding his Department allocated under the Mortgage Rescue scheme in each region for the spending period 2008-11;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average cost to a household of accepting an offer under the Mortgage Rescue Scheme has been since the scheme's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2009, Official Report, column 399W, on non-domestic rates, what estimate his Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the recent changes to criteria for value for money audits of town and parish councils; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information his Department holds on the amount collected in parking fines in ( a) Montgomeryshire and (b) England in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough of 2 March 2010, Official Report, column 1160W, on social rented...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, column 831W, on special protection areas: cats, whether (a) his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what estimate he has made of the number of pregnant women living in temporary accommodation in each year since 1997; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2010, Official Report, column 671W, on tenancy deposit schemes, whether redacted copies of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) when he plans to answer question 316095, on children in temporary accommodation, tabled on 2 February 2010; (2) when he...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many apprenticeships were (a) started and (b) completed by residents of each (i) local authority area and (ii)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many officials at each grade have been employed on work relating to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme since...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether the £75 million potential savings identified by the National Audit Office in its report on Improving...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the agreement finalised on 5 March 2010 between the Government...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many (a) places there were available at and (b) applications there were to each higher education establishment...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 3 February 2010, Official Report, column 411W, on...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will request the Office of Fair Trading to use freephone numbers for their public call lines.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many post offices have been closed in (a) Montgomeryshire and (b) England in each year since 2005; and if he...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what procurement process the Post Office followed in selecting Camelot as its partner and agent for the provision of...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments the Sector Skills Development Agency has made to public affairs companies to date.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding his Department and its predecessors have provided to further education colleges to help students with...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will bring forward proposals to grant high-ranking universities more flexibility in relation to the setting of...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what requests for assistance his Department has received from Corus in relation to Teesside Cast Products.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of people in Leeds North West constituency aged (a) between 16 and 18 and (b) between 19 and 24...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which Minister approved the decision to classify the audit reports of the Union Modernisation Fund as commercially...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of the Unite trade union in the last 12 months.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the £17 million to be saved on transmissible spongiform encephalopathy surveillance will be due to a more risk-based approach to monitoring, as...
To ask Her Majesty's Government on what basis they conclude that Roundup residues are not present in genetically modified products derived from Roundup Ready varieties and that they are harmless...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Thornton on 10 March (WA 61), what contact they or their advisers have had with the authors of the 2009 American Academy...
To ask Her Majesty's Government which repeat feeding experiments they have commissioned for assessing the findings of Pusztai and Ewen relating to genetically modified potatoes, Emarkova relating...
To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Food Standards Agency did not examine the experiments reported in the scientific dossiers in support of the Remessen genetically modified high-lysine maize...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by Baroness Thornton on 4 March (WS 184), what were the services provided to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Thornton on 15 March (WA 123), what reference the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's records of its annual...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many households have had works funded by the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make proposals regarding financial transparency in the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme, particularly in relation to energy suppliers and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure consumers are informed of how much they are paying towards the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target as a part of their tariff.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken research of consumers' awareness of the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target; and, if so, where such research is published.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which of Europe's fish stocks have quotas above the safe biological level determined by scientists; and for which stocks they lack the scientific evidence to make...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Mr Stephen Byers has spoken to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Lord Mandelson, about food labelling regulations; and, if so,...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 15 June 2009 (WA 178-9), what assessment they have made of the United States Food and Drug...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage other primary care trusts to adopt the model used by the Residential Oral Care Sheffield scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they have given to medical research into type 1 diabetes in each of the past 10 years.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the ratio of specialist diabetes nurses to the number of people with type 1 diabetes in the United Kingdom.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the British Healthcare Trades Association about variations in the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances by Primary...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the arrangements for healthcare for United Kingdom residents on holiday on the Isle of Man from 1 April.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hostel beds are available for those under 18 who have run away from home or care.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what recommendations the cross-Government Working Group For Young People who run away from home has made in the past two years; and how many of them have been...
To ask the Chairman of Committees why there are different provisions for a Member's eldest child and a Member's eldest son (where the right has previously been exercised) to watch the proceedings...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average annual net immigration in each year since 1997, according to household projections.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to work with women's magazines to inform women about healthy eating and keeping to a healthy weight.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding was provided by the Department for Work and Pensions for the Medical Research Council's PACE Trials; from whom they received a request for...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of clinical negligence against the National Health Service funded by conditional fee agreements in each of the past five years were closed; in how...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff have been (a) dismissed, and (b) made compulsorily redundant, in each year since 1997.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many chief executives of (a) strategic health authorities, (b) foundation trusts, (c) primary care trusts, and (d) other NHS trusts, have been recruited from...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total continuous NHS service of each chief executive of (a) strategic health authorities, (b) foundation trusts, (c) primary care trusts, and (d) other...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the existing and proposed procedures for (a) dismissing NHS staff, and (b) making compulsory redundancies of NHS staff; and what compensation (including...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what procedures are in place to monitor overwork and stress amongst clinicians and senior managers in the National Health Service; and what action is taken to...
To ask Her Majesty's Government which organisations, bodies, agencies or others have requested an extension to the period for consultation on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland; and what were...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the chair of the Bill of Rights Forum, Mr Chris Sidoti, has been engaged by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; if, so, in what capacity; at what...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House all correspondence they had with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission in February 2010.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are consulting ECPAT UK on methods for preventing children suspected of being trafficked from disappearing from care.
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 14 November 2007 (WA 25), under which Acts and secondary legislation listed in the Schedule to the Powers...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the outcomes of calculations under regulation 30A(5) of the Renewables Obligation Order 2009 (SI 2009/785) (as inserted by regulation 9 of the draft...
To ask Her Majesty's Government which companies have contracts with the Highways Agency for litter collection from roads in England; what are the start and end dates of each such contract; and...
To ask Her Majesty's Government in cases where the Rural Payments Agency computer system calculates an acreage of a farm and Rural Payments Agency staff agree a different figure submitted by the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost of compensating for cases in which Rural Payments Agency systems have failed.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any full-time Unite representatives are employed in government departments or agencies.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any government department has procured training from Unite; and, if so, at what cost.
To ask Her Majesty's Government which Unite national office holders have passes to government offices.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment the Head of the Civil Service has made of the evidence given by the Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive to the Public Audit Committee of...
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