Written answers

Monday, 8 October 2012

  • Transport

    • Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what his Department's policy is on taking into account when assessing tenders submitted for departmental contracts the (a) apprenticeship schemes, (b)...

  • Communities and Local Government

    • Charities

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what his Department's policy is on the (a) grant to and (b) use by registered charities of funding from his Department for the...

    • Child Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps the Troubled Families Unit plans to take to evaluate work with families in cases were there is (a) serious concern...

      Diabetes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what discussions his Department has had with the Department of Health on provision for local government diabetes prevention...

      Mayors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will provide guidance to local authorities on (a) transitional governance arrangements and (b) budget setting processes in...

      Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the highest paid position is in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's agencies.

      Planning Permission

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what steps he plans to take to ensure the safeguarding of landscapes and habitats following the proposed relaxation of planning...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the name is of each company with which his Department has a contract; what the monetary value of each such contract...

      Social Rented Housing: Antisocial Behaviour Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information his Department holds on the number of evictions from (a) local authority and (b) social housing following the...

  • Defence

    • Afghanistan

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the security situation in Helmand Province; and if he will make a statement.

    • Armed Forces: Deployment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what UK (a) military and (b) other personnel (i) have been and (ii) are deployed under Common Foreign and Security Policy or Common Security and Defence...

      Armed Forces: Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many military personnel received training in (a) Farsi or Dari, (b) Arabic, (c) Urdu and (d) Mandarin in each year since 2008.

      Armed Forces: Germany

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what estimate he has made of the (a) up- front and (b) long-term costs associated with the re-basing of the elements of the armed forces based in...

      Armed Forces: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what treatments are used to treat soldiers diagnosed as suffering from mild traumatic brain injury.

      Armed Forces: Religion

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many employees of his Department are employed within the Chaplaincy Department for each (a) faith and (b) denomination.

      Assets

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assets his Department has sold and leased back over the last 12 months; what the sale price was of each asset so sold; and what estimate his...

      AWE Aldermaston

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many incidents at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston have resulted in the attendance of the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service in each...

      BAE Systems

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of document number (a) 24, (b) 25, (c) 26, (d) 27, (e) 28 and (f) 29 listed in schedule 9 of his Department's 2009...

      Centre for Defence Enterprise

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Centre for Defence Enterprise; and if he will make a statement.

      David Laws

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Minister of State in the Cabinet Office, the right hon. Member for Yeovil, has been issued with a security pass for his Department's main...

      Defence Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which items in the equipment programme have had their in-service delivery dates delayed since May 2010.

      Defence Equipment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the near cash projected spending on the Equipment Plan and Equipment Support Plan is for each year to 2016.

      HMS Dragon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been spent on HMS Dragon since it was handed over to the Royal Navy for sea trials.

      HMS Dragon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) for how much time HMS Dragon has been able to complete sea duties as part of the Royal Navy fleet since it has been fully in service; (2) for how...

      HMS Dragon

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost is of works to be carried out on the engine and the gearbox of HMS Dragon; and from which budget these costs will be funded.

      Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his policy is on military aid to the civil authorities.

      Military Aircraft

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the value of maintenance contracts for (a) Globemaster, (b) Hercules, (c) Hawk, (d) Puma, (e) Merlin, (f) Lynx and (g) Chinook aircraft was in each...

      Child Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many childcare places his Department provides on its estate; what the cost is of providing such places; how many such places his Department provided...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what rate of inflation was used in the calculation of the necessary rise in the post-2015 defence budget needed to meet the 10-year equipment budget plan.

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) which of his Department's programmes have been delayed between July 2011 and May 2012; when each programme has been delayed (a) from and (b) until;...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which equipment contracts he has renegotiated since 2010; and what estimate he has made of the overall amount saved.

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the name is of each company with which his Department has a contract; what the monetary value of each such contract is; and what is provided to his...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's policy is on taking into account when assessing tenders submitted for departmental contracts the (a) apprenticeship schemes, (b)...

      Royal Fleet Auxiliary

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the ability of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort Class fleet replenishment ships to support the new Queen Elizabeth Class...

      Territorial Army

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of level of officer recruitment, training and retention in the Territorial Army; and if he will make a statement.

      UK National Codification Bureau

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the results of his Department's consultation on Kentigern House to be published; and when he expects a decision to be made on the...

      Unmanned Air Vehicles

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for future research funding for unmanned air vehicles.

      Veterans: Radiation Exposure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the health of nuclear test veterans and their offspring as a result of detonations at Christmas Island between 1957...

  • Home Department

  • International Development

    • Burma: Thailand

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what reports she has received on refugees from Burma in camps in Thailand having to leave the camps due to reductions in funding.

    • Burma: Thailand

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the effect of the level of rations provided to children in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border...

      Charities

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what her policy is on the (a) grant to and (b) use by registered charities of funding from her Department for the purposes of advocacy,...

      Haiti

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what plans she has to provide assistance to reduce the spread of cholera in Haiti.

      Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the highest paid position is in (a) her Department and (b) her Department's agencies.

  • Treasury

    • Blood Diseases

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the cost to the economy of deaths caused by sepsis.

  • Work and Pensions

    • Disability Living Allowance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many disability living allowance claimants have had their entitlement uprated after a reassessment in the last 12 months.

    • Disability Living Allowance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claiming disability allowance (a) in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency, (b) in Scotland and (c) nationally had their...

      Olympic Games 2012

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department used the Olympic Route Network for travelling during the London 2012 Olympic and...

      Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the likely (a) highest, (b) median, (c) median full-time equivalent and (d) lowest full-time equivalent salary to...

      Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the highest paid position is in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's agencies.

      Pension Funds

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to review the governance responsibilities of trustees of pension funds; and if he will make a statement.

      Pensions Regulator

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to review the powers and responsibilities of the pensions regulator; and if he will make a statement.

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the name is of each company with which his Department has a contract; what the monetary value of each such contract is; and what is...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department's policy is on taking into account when assessing tenders submitted for departmental contracts the (a) apprenticeship...

      Social Security Benefits

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the total cost is of in-work benefits paid to local government employees in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern...

      Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to his answer of 19 December 2011, Official Report, column 916W, on social security benefits: foreign nationals, whether nationality...

      Social Security Benefits: Stafford

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Stafford constituency were claiming (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) incapacity benefit,...

      Work Capability Assessment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have been waiting for a work capability assessment by home visit under the Exeter Assessment Centre for (a) less than one...

      Work Capability Assessment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the additional cost to the public purse of repeated work capability assessments in cases where the applicant has...

      Work Capability Assessment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Stafford constituency have been given a work capability assessment since May 2010; and what proportion of those people were...

      Work Capability Assessment

      To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of cases of people who were declared fit to work by ATOS, who had their assessment overturned on appeal...

  • Education

    • Schools: Knives

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many people in each region have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of knife-related crimes on school property in the last year.

  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs

    • Animal Boarding Establishments Act 1963

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities on the interpretation of section (3)(c) of the Animal Boarding...

    • Gun Sports

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the sport of shooting of introducing a ban on using lead shot;...

      Pay

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the highest paid position is in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's agencies.

      Sustainable Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to implement the European Commission's strategy for a resource-efficient Europe.

      Sustainable Development

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to promote resource efficiency in the economy.

      Timber: EU Law

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he has made an assessment of the implications for UK companies of the criminal enforcement agreement between Gibson...

  • Health

    • Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people waited more than (a) two and (b) four hours in Accident and Emergency at (i) Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals, (ii) Barnet and...

    • Blood Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many and what proportion of deaths in intensive care were caused by sepsis in each of the last five years; (2) what estimate he has made of the...

      Blood Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what procedures are in place in general hospital wards to recognise developing sepsis.

      Cosmetics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people of each ethnicity, age and gender have received skin lightening treatment in the last five years.

      Electronic Cigarettes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to regulate e-cigarettes; and what assessment he has made of the risks to public health posed by e-cigarettes.

      Hepatitis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has to publish a quality standard on the treatment of hepatitis C.

      Hepatitis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who are hepatitis C positive.

      Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the report by Robert Francis QC on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust; and if he will make a statement.

      Palliative Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent progress his Department has made on the national implementation of electronic palliative care co-ordination systems; (2) what plans his...

      Palliative Care

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to ensure everyone receives an integrated health and social care assessment and care plan at the end of life.

      Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to assist Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to recover the costs of treatment from foreign national...

      Surgery

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many robotic surgical systems such as Da Vinci are in use in the NHS.

  • Justice

    • Civil Disorder

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign nationals from each country were convicted of offences related to the 2011 summer riots; and how many of those convicted were deported...

    • Non-molestation Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many men were made the subject of a restraining order under the terms of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 during 2011; and how many...

      Departmental Contracts

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the name is of each company with which his Department has a contract; what the monetary value of each such contract is; and what is provided to his...

  • House of Lords

    • Armed Forces: Education

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the report by Child Soldiers International, Mind the Gap: Education for Minors in the British Armed Forces.

    • Banking: Fund Managers

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will negotiate for fund managers to be exempt from restrictions on pay proposed by the European Union.

      Employment: Work Capability Assessment

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are employed by the Department for Work and Pensions as decision makers for the purposes of the work capability assessment; and how many of those...

      EU: Budget

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sassoon on 23 July (WA 90), in the event that losses of €60 billion on the European financial stability mechanism and...

      European Investment Bank

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sassoon on 23 July (WA 90), whether any loans have been made by the European Investment Bank on the basis of guarantees from...

      Gaza

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether imports of construction materials into Gaza have increased since the meetings in July 2012 between British diplomats and Israeli officials.

      Gibraltar

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times armed vessels from the Spanish Guardia Civil have been recorded by the Gibraltarian or United Kingdom authorities entering British Gibraltar...

      Gibraltar

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times HM Ambassador to Spain has been called in by the Spanish Foreign Minister in Madrid to answer complaints from the Spanish authorities with regard to...

      Gibraltar

      To ask Her Majesty's Government many times the Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St James been called in to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to answer complaints from the United Kingdom...

      Gibraltar

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to enhance Royal Naval resources engaged in monitoring and repressing illegal activities by Spanish fishing and Guardia Civil vessels within...

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress, effectiveness and achievements of the seven-nation initiative on nuclear non-proliferation, established at the 2005...

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made as to the effectiveness of the proliferation security initiative as a counter-proliferation instrument; and what steps they have...

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress towards entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; and what steps they have taken to encourage its...

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to facilitate negotiations for a fissile material cut-off treaty.

      Nuclear Weapons

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to support the development and use of proliferation-resistant technologies in the nuclear fuel cycle.

      RAF: Drone Pilots

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many drone pilots are currently qualified in the Royal Air Force; and how many are undergoing training.

      Remploy

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Remploy factories have been closed as a result of their decision to withdraw their subsidy from Remploy. To ask Her Majesty's Government how many...

      Sudan and South Sudan

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports published on 24 July that United Nations investigators have confirmed reports of renewed aerial bombardment of South...

      Welfare: Social Fund

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many residents of Newcastle upon Tyne applied for loans or grants from the Social Fund in the last financial year; what proportion of applications in each...

      Burma

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what projects are funded by the Department for International Development to promote communal understanding between ethnic Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine in Rakhine...

      Civil Service: Secondments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Verma on 9 July (WA 201), how many staff from (1) the Department for International Development, (2) the Foreign and...

      Civil Service: Secondments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many senior civil servants are currently on secondment from HM Treasury to companies in the United Kingdom; and what are the names of those companies. To ask...

      Council Tax

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of the responses to the consultation on localising council tax benefit; if so, when; and whether they...

      Debt

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to reducing government debt as a share of national income by the end of this Parliament.

      Drones

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will ask the United Nations Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings to examine the current use of drones by the United States to kill suspected terrorists.

      Energy: Nuclear Power

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many tonnes of plutonium are stored at Dounreay; whether they intend to move this material to Sellafield; and, if so, how it will be transported.

      Energy: Nuclear Waste

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that any medium-term or long-term repository for nuclear waste in the United Kingdom is constructed in the safest possible...

      Excise Fuel Duty

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time period that HM Revenue and Customs Cumbernauld takes to process paper fuel excise duty returns for biofuels and other fuel substitutes...

      Food: Banks

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the remarks of Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that "it is ridiculous to say that the rise...

      Fuel Excise Duty

      To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to computerise fuel excise duty returns administered by HM Revenue and Customs Cumbernauld.

      Health: Prosthetics

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many patients were fitted with microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees by the National Health Service in each of the past five years in (1) England, and (2)...

      International Atomic Energy Agency

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what practical and financial support they provide to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

      Internet: Broadband

      To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will provide a breakdown of the fees paid to Ofcom in the financial year 2011-12 by each government department for the use of spectrum under Section...

      NHS: Non-executive Appointments

      To ask Her Majesty's Government why no central record is kept of non-executive appointments to the boards of NHS organisations.

      NHS: Staff

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff, in each year for the past ten years, have received a financial settlement to leave the NHS as a part of a confidentiality, non-disclosure or...

      NHS: Tribunals

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many staff have initiated tribunal proceedings against the NHS over bullying or related issues each year for the past 10 years.

      NHS: Whistleblowing

      To ask Her Majesty's Government how many NHS staff have made use of the NHS whistleblowing helpline in each year since its establishment.

      Overseas Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the Department for International Development's core contribution to UNIFEM in (1) 2008-09, (2) 2009-10, and (3) 2010-11.

      Overseas Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the Department for International Development's core contribution to UN Women in (1) 2010-11, and (2) 2011-12.

      Overseas Aid

      To ask Her Majesty's Government which five countries received the most bilateral funding for reproductive health and family planning from the Department for International Development in (1)...

      United Arab Emirates

      To ask Her Majesty's Government what information they have received about Abdulaziz Almehairai, Ali Abdulla Alkhaja, Ahmad Awad Alsharqi, Jawal Awad Alsharqi, Abdulla Naseb Aljabri and Rashed...

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