Llun, 7 Tachwedd 2005
To ask the Solicitor-General what guidance has been provided to (a) the Crown Prosecution Service and (b) police in relation to statutory charging arrangements and pre-charge bail from a police...
To ask the Solicitor-General whether the Serious Fraud Office is investigating the allegation of corruption involving a Department of Trade and Industry employee.
To ask the Solicitor-General which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Solicitor-General what progress has been made, in terms of (a) headcount reductions and (b) cost savings, in achieving the efficiency objectives set for the Law Officers' Departments...
To ask the Solicitor-General who in the Law Officer's Departments has been made responsible for achieving the efficiency objectives set for the Departments by the Gershon review.
To ask the Solicitor-General if the Attorney-General will place his advice to the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the compatibility of the Terrorism Bill with the Human Rights Act...
To ask the Solicitor-General if he will make a statement on the compatibility of the Terrorism Bill with the Human Rights Act 1998.
To ask the Leader of the House which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Office's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Leader of the House how much his Office spent on items of art in 2004–05.
To ask the Leader of the House further to the answer of 24 October 2005, Official Report, column 83W, on Scottish legislation (scrutiny), how much time was spent on scrutinising Scottish...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how his Department plans (a) to monitor and (b) to disaggregate information on how direct budget support provided as bilateral aid is spent.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what discussions he has had with the European Commissioner for External Trade on (a) the Economic Partnership Agreements and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when his Department first received warning of a food crisis in Niger from (a) the Early Warning System of the UN Food and Agriculture...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he last discussed NHS dentistry with the Health Minister in the National Assembly for Wales Government.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he will issue his guidance for a Government Department on devolution; and if he will place a copy in the Library.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what steps the Government are taking to tackle women's pension inequality; and what discussions she has had with the Department for Work and Pensions on...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what steps the Government are taking to encourage women to provide for their retirement using private pensions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research her Department has commissioned on preventative measures to prevent the spread of Avian influenza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many registered quarantine sites for birds exist in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what training for (a) state veterinary service veterinary surgeons and (b) private practice veterinary surgeons (i) has been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what arrangements have been made for the safe disposal of poultry carcasses in the event of a cull for avian influenza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the rendering industry to deal with the number of poultry...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what further steps her Department plans to take to ensure that Avian influenza does not enter the UK through poultry meat imports.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what tests her Department carries out on meat imports to ensure that they are free of (a) Avian influenza and (b) foot and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for how long she expects farms infected with avian influenza to be closed.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to her oral statement of 26 October 2005, Official Report, column 308, how many poultry and bird markets she expects...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for how long the Government propose to keep (a) bird auctions and (b) bird markets closed in the event of an outbreak of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures she will take to ensure secondary losses resulting from biosecurity restrictions relating to avian influenza do...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what compensation package has been agreed with the poultry industry in the event of an avian influenza outbreak; and if she...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the adequacy of personnel numbers within the state veterinary service to deal with an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what model her Department has prepared to predict the spread of avian influenza should an outbreak occur.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance she has given on the holding of bird fairs and sales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what her Department's assessment is of the risk of the feral pigeon population as a disease reservoir for avian influenza;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has in place regarding the treatment and regulation of birds in (a) zoological gardens and (b) other public...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) parrots and (b) other birds at the quarantine facility in Essex referred to in DEFRA press release 471/05 have...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what (a) parrots and (b) other birds have been sampled for H5N1 avian influenza virus; how many samples were collected; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether there have been any recorded episodes of animal-to-animal spread of H5N1 avian influenza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether H5N1 avian influenza is transmissible to pigs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions officials from her Department had with officials of the Taiwan Government prior to publishing the working...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the source of H5N1 infection among birds at the quarantine facility in Essex.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what laboratory procedures are used to identify clades.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what definition of clade her Department uses in relation to the taxonomy of H5N1 sub-types.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to her oral statement of 26 October 2005, Official Report, columns 307–9, on avian influenza, what regulations...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of UK-produced biomass energy for (a) electricity and (b) heat has been generated from crops grown in the UK...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish the latest information provided by her Department to farmers on biosecurity measures to deal with avian...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the level of preparedness for the vaccination of animals against (a) avian influenza and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information she has received on the number of wild birds traded into the European Union (a) in 2004 and (b) to date in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what procedures are followed for the quarantine of birds from different countries in separate facilities; and when this...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many call centres were run by her Department and its agencies in (a) 2003–04, (b) 2004–05 and (c)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what guidance she has issued to local waste collection authorities concerning the charging of charity shops for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when the register of commercial poultry producers is expected to be established.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will update the information released relating to individual recipients of common agricultural policy support payments...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list recipients of payment under common agricultural policy agri-environment and rural development schemes for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information she has received on progress towards implementing the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions she has had with the EU Trade Commissioner on agricultural support payments; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she expects to reply to the letter dated 25 July 2005 from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan regarding tallow combustion.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list formal consultations being sponsored by her Department and its agencies; and what the (a) commencement date...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which individual is responsible for developing and implementing her Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will place in the Library a copy of her Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of her Department's vehicles use (a) hydrogen fuel cells and (b) hybrid environmentally friendly technologies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions her Department's vehicles have produced in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of journeys made by (a) officials and (b) Ministers in her Department have been made by public transport in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many inspections have been carried out in each of the last three years at the premises of duck producers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the possible existence in wild plants of the fireblight disease.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures are in place to ensure that exporters of fireblight-susceptible species of trees and shrubs do not use other...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much has been allocated to complete the Morecambe sea defence scheme; and when work will commence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what payments to contractors who undertook work for the Government during the foot and mouth outbreak are outstanding; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made, in terms of (a) headcount reductions and (b) cost savings, in achieving the efficiency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs who in the Department has been made responsible for achieving the efficiency objectives set for the Department by the Gershon...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assumptions of economic growth were made when setting the targets for the reduction of greenhouse emissions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which local authorities have a fortnightly collection of household waste.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many employees in her Department requested training to improve their (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she is taking to promote uptake of the national tests in adult literacy and numeracy among employees of her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much her Department spent on in-house training on (a) literacy and (b) numeracy (i) in total and (ii) per head in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the Government have calculated a figure for a fair price for a litre of milk.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) highest, (b) average and (c) lowest price paid per litre to farms for milk was in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average (a) farm gate price of a litre of milk, (b) cost of producing a litre of milk and (c) retail price for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what account was taken of the free availability of similar information from other sources when deciding to charge a fee for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to amend the over 30 months scheme; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how long she expects the voluntary initiative on pesticide use to stay in place; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from which countries imports of poultry meat to the United Kingdom are banned.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to her answer of 14 October 2005, Official Report, column 617W, on radioactivity, whether (a) national Governments...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of household waste each local authority in England recycled in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of household waste each council in the Yorkshire and Humber region recycled in the last period for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) whether the Government have a renewable heat strategy; (2) what assessment her Department has made of the effect on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many renewable obligation certificates went to biomass crop-fuelled generation in each year of the operation of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment the Government have made of the carbon abatement which may be achieved by using biodegradable municipal waste...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent research she has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the danger to (i) badgers, (ii) livestock and (iii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what emission factors are used in the calculation of UK carbon emissions from natural gas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the effect of the introduction of origin labelling in Australia on UK exports to that country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on what date the new treatment standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment will be published; and if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what changes of policy he expects will be made to give developing countries the freedom and flexibility implied in paragraph 31 of the G8...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the final cost was of the Bechtel consultancy on the British nuclear industry; and if he will publish the full report from Bechtel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what consultancy projects Bechtel is undertaking for his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what fund will replace the Phoenix Fund in relation to Bolton Business Ventures Ltd.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what rating has been attained under the most recent assessment of the application of BREEAM98.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the outcome was of the consultation conducted by his Department on the impact of proposed new Eurocodes on the British steel industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much businesses received through (a) collaborative research and development, (b) transfer networks and (c) knowledge transfer partnerships...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact on (a) jobs and (b) investment in the UK micro-renewables sector of the decision to end the Clear...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to minimise the gap between the end of the Clear Skies and Solar Photovoltaics Major Demonstration Programme and the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what steps he is taking to improve the Department's performance in replying to hon. Members' correspondence; (2) what steps he is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he will reply to the letters of 26 May 2005 and 25 July 2005 from the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells on regulation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much energy has been consumed by his Department in each of the last five years; and how much was spent on energy in each year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what (a) land and (b) property his Department owns in Kettering constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much his Department spent on items of art in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many departmental staff are attached or seconded to small businesses as part of their career development; and which sectors they work in.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions he has had with EU colleagues on strategies to bulk purchase diesel; and what assessment he has made of the likely impact of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to expand skills retraining services for displaced workers in Coventry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the amount of money fraudulently obtained from UK consumers through e-mail scams in each of the past 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the value was of (a) imports from India to the UK and (b) exports to India from the UK in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many of his Department's trade missions involving representatives from companies there have been to India in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps his Department is taking towards ensuring that developing countries are not obliged to open up their markets through international...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the budget is for the low carbon buildings programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the total value is of compensation payments paid to former miners in the Rotherham metropolitan borough council area since 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether any assessment has been made of the political stability of countries containing potential sources of uranium for use in the UK's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in which years since 1997 the UK has been a net oil (a) exporter and (b) importer, giving the quantity of oil in each case.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many (a) sub-post offices and (b) post offices there were in (i) the UK and (ii) Westmorland and Lonsdale in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list (a) enterprise gateways, (b) enterprise hatcheries and (c) enterprise hubs in each regional development agency; and which of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much money each regional development agency has spent on (a) providing, (b) designing, (c) constructing and (d) erecting (i) sculptures...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the final funding settlement is for the renewables industry in the current funding programme for renewable energy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the final deadlines are for grant funding applications to the (a) Clear Skies and (b) solar photovoltaics major demonstration programmes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when the (a) Clear Skies and (b) Solar Photovoltaics Major Demonstration Programmes will end; when their successor programmes will begin; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the number of (a) residential and (b) commercial properties (i) contracting to receive renewable energy and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what funding has been made available for renewable energy sources in the UK in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps have been taken to ensure that there is adequate funding for renewable energy sources in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on funding targets set for renewable energy sources in the UK; and whether funding targets have been met.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on (a) proposals to replace the Major Photovoltaic Demonstration Programme and the Clear Skies Initiative and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact on future investment decisions of his decision not to confirm an extension to the renewables...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) how much compensation was paid to members of the public for letters lost or stolen while in the possession of the Royal Mail in the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the implications for the effectiveness of oversight of security-sensitive exports of the change in the number...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to help small businesses to expand.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what grants are available for research and development undertaken by small and medium-sized enterprises.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the annual budget for UK Trade and Investment and its predecessor body was in each year from 1997; and what the staff complement was in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the volume of trade was between the United Kingdom and Uganda in each year since 2001, broken down by product.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact of the universal banking service on financial inclusion of the residents of small rural communities;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the likely variability of wholesale gas prices during winter 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact of the practice of straddling, whereby a domestic retail supplier sells gas at a fixed price and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what capital grants have been allocated to (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind projects in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment has been made of the merits of the construction of wind turbines on electricity pylons.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to ensure full account is taken of the interests of developing countries during the World Trade Organisation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions he has had with the European Commissioner for External Trade regarding (a) the forthcoming World Trade Organisation meeting...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the outcome of discussions held on 19 and 20 October with World Trade ministers on the preparations for the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will support at the World Trade summit measures to allow developing countries the right to set their own level of tariff reductions in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes have been committed by people who have been released from prison before the end of their sentence in each of the last eight years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department What projections he has made of the prison population in the next 12 months; and what steps he is taking to ensure projected numbers are...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with ethnic minorities on the Terrorism Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure that measures in place to protect children and mothers from domestic violence and abuse are effective.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government are taking to prevent people who are in the country illegally from working.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department What measures he is taking to tackle Violent Crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the cost of identity cards.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of the police inquiry into the deaths of young soldiers at Deepcut.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward proposals to make it an offence for occupants of cars to refuse to identify the driver after a serious offence has...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers are being held in detention.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for immigration centres designed to hold asylum seekers has been since 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers have been returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last five years; and how many failed asylum seekers...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what resources are made available to asylum seekers when they arrive in the UK; and what the cost was of the provision of such resources in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government are taking to remove failed asylum seekers.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government are taking to deal with alcohol-related crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of antisocial behaviour have been reported to police in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 17 October 2005, Official Report, column 343W, on antisocial behaviour orders, how many of the 793 individuals who...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the four non-EU national women rescued in the anti-trafficking operation by West Midlands police on 29 September will be granted...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what contingency plans have been put in place by his Department to safeguard the containment of prisoners in the event of an avian...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of bonded labourers in the United Kingdom held by people smugglers.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of securing the UK's borders has been since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his policy on the creation of a common EU border police force.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers there have been in (a) the South Tyneside area command and (b) Northumbria in each year since their inception.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter of 22 September 2005 from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regard to Mr. Abdul Khaleq.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of victims and qualifying applicants eligible for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995 made an...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department at what stage of the legal process victims and qualifying applicants are informed about the possibility of applying for compensation under...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many locations a ban on drinking in public places has been imposed; and how many local authorities have bans in place.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of prison facility funding was spent on drug rehabilitation schemes in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what punishments are available for drug smugglers who are caught by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much, in (a) metric weight and (b) street value, of the (i) heroin and (ii) meta-amphetamine supply in the UK he estimates originated in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many meetings of the (a) EU Committee on the introduction of a uniform format for visas, (b) EU Committee for the implementation of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if a Minister from his Department will attend the Europe Goes Alternative Conference in Brussels on 7 November.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many strategic management groups have been established in historical sex abuse investigations; and how many were chaired by (a) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the operation of the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929; (2) if he will make a statement about the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will accede to the request by Kagho Sebata (Home Office reference number S1038309) for the return of his passport; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on in-house training on (a) literacy and (b) numeracy (i) in total and (ii) per head in each year since 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department plans to take to change the practices and procedures for monitoring the taking of medication by prisoners suffering...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he expects that some probation areas will cease to function under the National Offender Management Service proposals.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the probation boards will be retained under the National Offender Management Service designer model.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff who have been transferred to the National Offender Management Service since January 2004 have subsequently transferred back.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people convicted of crimes received a non-custodial sentence since 1997, broken down (a) by ethnicity and (b) by offences for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the operation of sections (a) 58 and (b) 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861; (2) if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will return the passport of Mr. M.J. of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, (case reference J1124857;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of requests for return of documents resulted in the issuing of a loss of passport letter by the Home Office passport unit in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many loss of passport letters were issued by the Home Office Passport Unit in (a) 1997–98, (b) 2001–02, (c) 2002–03,...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in Northern Ireland have a valid British passport.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the areas to which police neighbourhood teams have been allocated in each London local authority area.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what long-term funding has been allocated to (a) rural policing, (b) community support officers and (c) neighbourhood police teams.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were as of 1 April 2005 in each police force in England and Wales; and what the percentage at each rank was of...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government is taking to improve (a) community engagement and (b) neighbourhood policing in Bedfordshire; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide additional financial and other support to the Northamptonshire police.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have died as a result of self-inflicted injuries in prisons operating (a) above certified normal accommodation (CNA) and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the extent of drugs being (a) taken into prisons by (i) prisoners, (ii) visitors, (iii) governors, (iv)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ease overcrowding in prisons.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are being taken to tackle prison overcrowding; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment his Department has made of the implications of the ruling in R. v. Leonard Cheshire Foundation (2002) H.R.L.R.30 on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average amount of purposeful activity undertaken by a prisoner has been in each prison in England and Wales in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the average waiting time for prisoners to be transferred from their original prison to their next prison in the last period...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance he gives to local authorities on the use of private security firms; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to introduce the race for justice project commissioned by the Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Criminal Justice Board across...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what qualifications are held by each of the psychologists employed in each of the secure training centres.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many times each of the four secure training centres has been inspected in the past six years; (2) how often each of the secure...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent changes his Department has made in procedures for checking whether sex offenders are entering the UK; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many tagged offenders re-offended while tagged in (a) Romford, (b) Havering and (c) Essex in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what co-operation the police are providing to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to tackle organised fraud in relation to tax credits; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to amend section 62A to E of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 to streamline the procedure for the removal...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what meetings he has had with representatives of the Corporation of London in the last six months.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the revaluation of council tax in Bedfordshire.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were (a) employed and (b) unemployed in each electoral ward in Cleethorpes constituency in each of the past 10 years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much grant-in-aid the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its predecessors spent as a percentage of gross domestic product in each year since...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the level of youth unemployment has been in Hemel Hempstead constituency in each of the last five years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has for the future provision of HM Revenue and Customs customer service offices in Cumbria.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money HM Revenue and Customs received through fines and enforcement orders directly related to the illegal use of fuel in motor vehicles in...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in each ward, of each county, described themselves as Irish in the 2001 census.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of progress towards the Lisbon goals for European economic reform.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he plans to use the UK's presidency of the European Union to achieve progress towards the Lisbon goals for European economic reform.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the impact on gross domestic product of changes to the (a) manufacturing, (b) science and (c) engineering sectors of the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the merits of levying a windfall tax on UK oil companies; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effect of oil prices on (a) revenues to the Exchequer and (b) the UK economy.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make available increased resources to the Parliamentary Ombudsman to allow him to appoint more investigating officers.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 21 October 2005, Official Report, column 1315W, on planning gain supplement, whether Kate Barker's recommendations to his...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans the Government have to introduce a tax on plastic carrier bags.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the annual change in gross domestic product per hour worked was in each year since 1975; and what assessment he has made of whether productivity trends...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department has taken to encourage people to live more sustainable lifestyles within the framework of the Government's sustainable development...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department has taken to implement the guidelines on (a) water usage, (b) travel arrangements and (c) procurement in the Sustainable...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effects of (a) research and development tax credits, (b) vaccines research relief and (c) contaminated land tax credits;...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the Paymaster General's evidence to the Treasury sub-committee on 26 October, if he will place in the Library a copy of the new and agreed tax...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what percentage of adults of working age were (a) unemployed and (b) economically inactive in each year since 1997, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the occasions in the last five years on which 0870 telephone numbers have been used by his Department as contact numbers for members of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 17 October 2005, Official Report, column 659W, on air support units, what air support was available to British forces in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his plans are concerning extending the service life of the current fleet of armoured vehicles before the Future Rapid Effect System comes into service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department will sign up to the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps he is taking to improve the Department's performance in replying to correspondence from the general public.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the trend in real terms expenditure on defence since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Department's skills development plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what methods of assessment of (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills are used as part of the recruitment process by employees of his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he intends to make substantive responses to the questions about the future aircraft carriers tabled by the hon. Member for New Forest East for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many trainers NATO member states have contributed to training the Iraqi Security Forces; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many units of the Iraqi Security Forces are able to conduct counter-insurgency operations without support from the multi-national forces; (2)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which body within the Iraqi Government is responsible for recruitment and vetting of Ministry of the Interior employees; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the number of Iraqi instructors is who have completed the Train the Trainer course organised by the NATO Training Mission in Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what proportion of time British troops deployed in Multi National Division in Iraq spend in (a) barracks and (b) on patrols; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British Army vehicles are in operation in Iraq; and how many are fitted with electronic countermeasures.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer to questions 24129 and 24125 when the Government received the submission of the Irish Government requesting that consideration be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he expects to have available appropriate naval operating platforms for the joint combat aircraft (JCA) by the time that the United Kingdom's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many new build units in the married quarters estate are planned by his Department in each of the next three years; and how many houses this will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department's married quarters are empty; what proportion of this represents his Department's management margin required for managing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many requests from hon. Members for visits to departmental sites have been refused in each of the last five years, broken down by political party.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what agreement has been reached between Royal Ordnance and the Government on security of supply of initiators and boxer caps following the announcement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what revenue guarantees from the Department have been (a) indicated and (b) requested by QinetiQ's investment bankers in respect of the company's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many 16 to 24-year-olds are expected to be recruited following the most recent annual Royal Air Force recruitment campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what plans the Government have (a) to retrain and (b) to prepare for civilian life members of the Royal Irish Regiment; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has (a) to replace and (b) to upgrade the (Special Nuclear Materials) load carrier vehicles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list Territorial Army units located nearest to residents within the Kettering constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost of re-fitting each of the Trident submarines was in each year since they were commissioned.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons his Department has withdrawn its objections to the proposal to erect three 81 metre wind turbines at Yelland Farm, West Devon.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence his Department relied upon in stating in a letter from Defence Estates of 26 May, to the West Devon borough council, that the erection of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what freedoms academies have been given that do not apply to other schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many of the expressions of interest that her Department received in establishing academies were from the private sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research (a) her Department and (b) the Learning and Skills Council has conducted on the (i) ability and (ii) willingness of (A)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the retention rate was among year two A-level students in Bolton in each year since 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the retention rate has been among year two A-level students in Hemel Hempstead constituency in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what changes there have been in funding for training organisations providing apprenticeships in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the percentage of the population who lack basic skills, broken down by (a) 18 to 24, (b) 25 to 29, (c) 30 to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the Bridgewater primary school to be built in Northamptonshire will have kitchen facilities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the timetable is for the latest round of bids under Building Schools for the Future; when the round was announced; and what the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding she plans to make available under Building Schools for the Future for the refurbishment and re-building of school kitchens.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures (a) secondary schools and (b) local education authorities will be required to have in place to deal with hard to place pupils...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many cases of child (a) physical and (b) sexual abuse there have been in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers have been trained as specialists in citizenship education in each year since it was introduced as a statutory part of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in each city academy are children with special educational needs (a) with statements and (b) without statements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in schools from which each new academy was created were children with special educational needs (a) with statements and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many classroom assistants have been employed in (a) the Kingston and Surbiton constituency and (b) London in each year since 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) classroom assistants and (b) full-time equivalent classroom assistant posts there were in schools in the Kettering constituency...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding was allocated by her Department to Milton Keynes for (a) capital projects and (b) revenue funding in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what checks the assessment and payment body carry out in respect of claimants of education maintenance allowance on (a) declared income and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) spelling mistakes and (b) grammatical errors in the Education White Paper were identified by her Department after publication.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what (a) powers, (b) funding and (c) responsibilities that are currently within the remit of local education authorities she expects (i) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what (a) powers, (b) funding and (c) responsibilities the proposed (i) School Improvement Partners and (ii) Office of the Schools...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the likely effects of the reforms proposed in the Education White Paper on (a) local government finance and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the likely effects of the reforms proposed in the Education White Paper on local councils appointing school...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps are taken to deal with failing schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to her oral answer of 27 October 2005 to the hon. Member for Barnsley, East and Mexborough (Jeff Ennis), Official Report, column...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will initiate a publicity campaign to persuade adults and employers that there is a need to pay higher fees for courses provided by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to encourage secondary school leavers to go into further education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have interruptible contracts for gas and electricity supply; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to her oral answer of 27 October 2005, Official Report, column 440, to the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Hugh Robertson),...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what average number of A and A* grades at GCSE was achieved in all schools in each year from 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (a) how many and (b) what proportion of secondary school pupils are members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (i) in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to her oral answer to the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr. McCrea) of 27 October 2005, Official Report, column 441, on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been allocated to homework clubs in schools in (a) England, (b) Kent and (c) Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) football and (b) cricket matches were played by inner city academies in the academic year 2004/05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to encourage more students in secondary schools to take language GCSEs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what change to the administration costs of the Learning and Skills Council she expects through the planned streamlining operation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many independent schools have expressed an interest in joining the maintained sector in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment her Department has made of the pilot schemes for offender learning.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will take steps to ensure that the forthcoming Green Paper on Reducing Re-offending through Skills and Employment addresses (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of schools have parent councils.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many parenting contracts have been issued in (a) Morecambe and Lunesdale and (b) England since their inception.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much her Department plans to spend on prison education in (a) 2005–06, (b) 2006–07 and (c) 2007–08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the requirement for school building repairs in Leeds, North-West; and what estimate she has made of the cost...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what was the average amount spent on school meals per pupil per day in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the proportion of children between the ages of five and 16 years who do not attend school.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what are the most recent truancy levels for (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in Morecambe and Lunesdale.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the truancy figures were from colleges of further education (a) in England and (b) broken down by constituency, in the last year for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what average number of hours of physical education was undertaken per week in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, in England in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to ensure that children in schools undertake more physical exercise.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the schools designated as sports hubs in Hemel Hempstead constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list categories of companies which would not be permitted to set up a school trust because of the nature of their business.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the types of person who would not be permitted to set up a school trust.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the most recent truancy levels are for (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in the Hemel Hempstead constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many qualified teachers of (a) the sciences, (b) English, (c) modern foreign languages, (d) physical education, (e) drama, (f)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of existing science teachers will have reached retirement age by (a) 2006, (b) 2008 and (c) 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of people taking Skills for Life courses have previously taken leisure courses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the Skills for Life courses at Entry Level 1 cover elements of the Skills for Life course at Entry Level 2.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many adults on the Skills for Life programme have achieved (a) two Skills for Life qualifications, (b) three Skills for Life...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the White Paper, High Standards, Better Schools for All" what the issues are that arise for special schools from Trust status;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many sports colleges there are in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will undertake a publicity campaign to dissuade children from using sunbeds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) full-time equivalent teaching posts there were in schools in the Kettering constituency in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what account is taken of differences between the value of pension provision of teachers in the public sector and that of teachers in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the proposed Trust schools will be able to apply for the flexibility to borrow against their assets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools offered (a) Part One and (b) Full General National Vocational Qualification at (i) Foundation and (ii) Intermediate level...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to tackle benefit fraud; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to visit Coventry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average waiting time has been between the rejection of an application for disability living allowance and an appeal hearing in each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many appeals there have been as a result of rejected applications for disability living allowance in each of the last five years for which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who have appealed against the withdrawal of a higher rate of disability living allowance have lost all benefit at the appeal in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many appeals brought as a result of rejected applications for disability living allowance have been upheld in each of the last five years...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the (a) average and (b) total cost is to the disability and carers service of defending decisions to refuse claims for disability...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 7 June 2005, Official Report, column 452W, on disability living allowance, what progress has been made in developing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average length of time taken to process new claims for disability living allowance has been in each year since 2001, broken down by region.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what meetings have taken place between the (a) owners and (b) officials of DNA Bioscience since 5 May and (i) Ministers in his Department, (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the claimant off-flow rates from (a) incapacity benefit and (b) severe disability allowance were in each of the last 15 years, broken down...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of (a) the impact of the reduction in the number of job clubs and (b) the effect of the use of larger contractors...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on the current review of job creation schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on the end of job centre contracts in the last funding round, with particular reference to further education colleges.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what large scale redundancies have been notified to the Job Centre Plus in North Staffordshire by the Department of Trade and Industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people in Edinburgh, North and Leith have received the lone parent work search premium; (2) how many people in Edinburgh, North...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on changes in the budget for new deal programmes for 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have (a) registered on the new deal for disabled people and (b) obtained a sustained (i) part-time and (ii) full-time job...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average monthly contribution to stakeholder pensions is.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 22 June 2005, Official Report, column 1076W, on private finance projects, what proportion of assets and liabilities...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 22 June 2005, Official Report, column 1076W, on private finance projects, what the accounting treatment of assets and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the cost of extending Sure Start Maternity Grant eligibility to recipients of (a) long-term incapacity benefit, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the proportion of leisure air passengers who were protected by the Air Traffic Organisers Licence in each year since 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate the proportion of leisure air passengers who will be protected by the Air Traffic Organisers Licence in each year to 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the number of leisure air passengers who flew without Air Traffic Organisers Licence protection in each year since 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate the total regulatory compliance cost of the Air Traffic Organisers Licence bonding requirements for tour operators.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many UK airlines have become insolvent since 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what additional funding he is providing (a) in England and (b) to each of the district councils in Gloucestershire in 2005–06 to cover the cost...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what arrangements he is making to enable cross-boundary travel between County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Teeside under the concessionary travel scheme...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether a new (a) chair and (b) chief executive of Cross London Rail Links has been appointed; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what (a) land and (b) property his Department owns in Kettering constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many full-time equivalent employee reductions his Department has made as a result of the Gershon review; what cost savings relating to IT projects...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made, in terms of (a) headcount reductions and (b) cost savings, in achieving the efficiency objectives set for the Department...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many IT projects have been developed for his Department since 2001; and whether he has agreed to make public (a) in full and (b) in part Gateway...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the role of the British Transport Police in the run-up to the Olympic Games to be held in London in 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what action he is taking to address air pollution and emissions from motor vehicles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received regarding noise pollution from cars fitted with double exhausts; and what discussions he has had with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he intends to direct Network Rail to start work in developing a scheme to lengthen the platform at Bromsgrove station; and what estimate he has...
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the Department has allocated to the West Midlands for rail transport infrastructure for 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which railway lines he expects to close in order to allow more high speed and freight services to run.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the railway lines being considered for closure by his Department in the next 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what restrictions are in place regarding the sale of alcohol on board trains.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment has been made of the economic impact of the Bexhill to Hastings link road on the local community; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much grant-in-aid funding was allocated by Arts Council England to culture in (a) London and (b) Croydon in the financial year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much grant-in-aid funding was allocated by Arts Council England to recipients in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Dacorum in 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the (a) cost to date and (b) projected cost is of the merger of the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund to create the Big...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism will reply to the letter of 18 August from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what meetings Members of her Department have had with representatives from (a) the Natural History museum, (b) the Royal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether her plans for help and follow-up support with digital switchover for people aged 75 years and over extend to providing free (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) lottery and (b) Foundation for Sport and the Arts funding was allocated to (i) soccer and (ii) the Gaelic Football...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the Treasury first informed (a) her and (b) her Department that freelance musicians would be required to pay higher national...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many retailers sell National Lottery tickets; and how many of those retailers also sell Olympic Lottery tickets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many retailers selling National Lottery tickets have declined to sell Olympic Lottery tickets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what guidance has been given to retailers selling National Lottery tickets on the sale of Olympic Lottery tickets.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether visitor numbers for those museums and galleries in London that are funded by grant in aid have declined since the terrorist...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many undertakings to indemnify objects under section 16 of the National Heritage Act 1980 have been made in each year since 1990 by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what rules govern the staging of other sports fixtures in the UK during the Olympic games in 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether any member of the English Institute of Sport had discussions with (a) candidates, (b) potential candidates and (c) voting...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many businesses in the Marshgate area need to be resettled to accommodate the London 2012 Olympics; how many have accepted final...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how compensation for businesses due to be relocated due to the London 2012 Olympics is calculated ; and on what date the land value is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what rules govern the use of sports stadiums whose name includes an advertisement as a venue for Olympic Sports in 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps her Department is taking to provide individuals with assistance with the switchover to digital television.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which day in 2006 has been earmarked for the return of the football World Cup trophy to England in the event of victory in Germany.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what account is taken of differences between the value of civil service pension provision and that of workers in comparable jobs in the private...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the cohort life expectancy of (a) male and (b) female civil servants retiring in normal health at age 60 (i) was in 1972, (ii) is based on the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what assessment he has made of the literacy and numeracy skills of new recruits to his Department.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what proportion of new recruits to his Department do not have a level 2 qualification in English and mathematics.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what (a) land and (b) property the Duchy owns in the Kettering constituency.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what assessment he has made of the level of security on the e-Government network.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many full-time equivalent employee reductions were made in his Department as a result of the Gershon review; what cost savings relating to IT...
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he has drafted regulations to be laid before Parliament under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 in the event of an influenza pandemic.
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people in his Department (a) were relocated in 2004–05 and (b) are expected to be relocated in 2005–06 as a result of the...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the average time was between the receipt of papers by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal from the Home Office appeals...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many failed asylum seekers are appealing against a Home Office decision to deport them from Great Britain.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether her Department will sign up to the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how much has been collected in fines at magistrates courts in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs when she expects to report on the outcome of the investigation being carried out into irregularities that may have occurred...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many county court judgments have been (a) registered and (b) issued on people due to arrears of unsecured debt for each...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what recent assessment his Department has undertaken of the circumstances in which financial institutions can repossess...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many proceedings for the repossession of mortgaged property were initiated in each quarter since 1988, broken down by...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what (a) land and (b) property her Department owns in Kettering constituency.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether DNA Bioscience is accredited for DNA-related work in the UK.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs if she will make a statement on the training received by individuals who give expert testimony in court.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether the Great War Medal Index cards are privately owned.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what criteria were used in making the decision to pass the original Great War Medal Index Cards to the Western Front Association.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what tendering process was undertaken for the storage of the Great War Medal Index Cards.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs if she will list military museums which are classified as National Archive depositories.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what guidance she has provided to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to representation at hearings by justices in chambers.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether she plans to bring forward proposals to increase enforcement powers for financial institutions seeking to recover...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what measures she has taken to increase the registration on the electoral register of black and ethnic minorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Government will be represented at the International Parliamentary Convention on Tibet in Edinburgh in November.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he will reply to the letter of 7 September from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regard to Mr. Siddak Ali.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he will reply to the letter of 26 September from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regard to Mrs. Tahira Hussain.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British nationals are serving custodial sentences outside the UK, broken down by category of offence.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British nationals are serving custodial sentences outside the UK, broken down by country.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British nationals have served custodial sentences outside the UK in each year for the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what methods of assessment of (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills are used as part of the recruitment process by employees of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent shootings in Addis Ababa; and what action he has taken to express the UK's concern to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost was of hosting the G8 Summit in Gleneagles.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2005, Official Report, column 954W, on Holy See, why no advert inviting applications for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the strength is of the British Trade Mission in India.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what UK policy is towards Iran; and what changes have been made as a consequence of the deaths of British soldiers in which the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations are being made to the Iranian Government about the statement made by its President on the right of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will break off diplomatic relations with Iran following its President's remarks about Israel.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what evidence he has received of Iranian involvement in Iraqi resistance groups operating in the British sector of Iraq.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has received on the replacement of stored locally grown seeds traditionally used by Iraqi farmers by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to paragraphs 91 and 92 of the Intelligence and Security Committee Report, Cm 5972, Session 2002–03, whether the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many IT projects have been developed for his Department since 2001; and whether he has agreed to make public Gateway reviews...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he plans to visit Libya; and what his long-term goals are for Anglo-Libyan relations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the Palestinian authority on the situation in the Middle East; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with the Spanish government about the implementation of Ley Reguladora de Actividades Urbanisticas...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the cost of contract security staff in UK embassies in each year since 1990; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will reconstitute the Architects Registration Board so that jurisdiction extends only to practising architects who have chosen not to be a member of the...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many building regulations have been put in place over the last five years.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what estimate he has made of the average carbon emissions associated with (a) the construction of a new average-sized dwelling and (b) the demolition of an...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister when preparations for the current council tax re-banding process began.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many people employed by his Department have been involved in council tax re-banding exercises to date.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the revaluation of council tax in (a) the Kettering constituency and (b) Northamptonshire.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister by what date he expects all social rented homes will have met the decent homes standard.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much energy has been consumed by his Department in each of the last five years; and how much was spent on energy in each year.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what (a) land and (b) property his Department owns in Kettering constituency.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what proportion of new recruits to his Department do not have a level 2 qualification in English and mathematics.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much his Department spent on items of art in 2004–05.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the cost of the East of England regional chamber (a) was for the last two years and (b) is projected to be in the next two years.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans he has to change the level of investment into Milton Keynes via English Partnerships over the next four years.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what was the average time taken by the West Midlands Fire Service to arrive on scene in response to a 999 call in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the average time taken by Hertfordshire Fire Service to arrive on the scene of an incident in response to a 999 call has been in each year since 1997.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the effect on the number of jobs in (a) the parliamentary constituency of Gravesham (b) the county of Kent and (c) the South East...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the impact on Fire and Rescue Service average response times in Gravesham of establishing a regional fire control room for the...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what evaluation of the Firelink system will be carried out in advance of the move to regional control centres.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many fire-related deaths there have been in dwellings in Leeds, north-west in each year since 1997.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 11 October 2005, Official Report, column 440W, on green belt, if he will list the type of development in each case that was (a) refused...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans his Department has to establish a national register of (a) the total area of land within the existing green belt and (b) applications for a change of...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what total area of land within the green belt has had a change of use status since 1997.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether the Government plans to build houses on green belt land in east Tilbury, Thurrock.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 24 October 2005, Official Report, column 15W, on Highbury, what monitoring his Department has undertaken of section 106 agreements...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what the levels of child homelessness have been in each Government office region in each year since 1997; (2) how many accommodation places are provided...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will estimate how many homeless (a) 16-year-olds and (b) 17-year-olds there have been in Leeds, North West since 1997; and how many have been placed in bed...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will publish the construction (a) strategies and (b) costs of the competitors in the £60,000 house competition; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many affordable housing units have been (a) built and (b) procured in Gravesham since 1997.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what steps he is taking to increase the number of units of (a) social and (b) affordable housing in Hartlepool constituency.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what modelling work his Department is doing to evaluate the infrastructure needs for its housing projections in (a) the South East and (b) London.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many dwellings have been refurbished under the decent homes standard programme; and how many further dwellings the Government plan to refurbish under the...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what the average cost is per dwelling of refurbishment under the Government's decent homes standard programme; (2) what have been the 10 most expensive...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) how many (a) affordable housing units and (b) housing units for special needs he expected to be provided when he gave his consent to the Newcastle Gateshead...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will change the building regulations to ensure that each new build property (a) includes renewable energy facilities and (b) is energy efficient.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister which 25 local authorities had the highest number of households on the housing register per head of population in the local authority area as at 1st April; and if...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what percentage of homes built for key workers have been sold to key workers, broken down by region.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of tenant involvement in (a) registered social landlords after privatisation, (b) arms-length management organisations and (c) council...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many vacant homes there are in Hertfordshire; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many employees in his Department requested training to improve their (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills in each year since 2002.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much his Department spent on in-house training on (a) literacy and (b) numeracy (i) in total and (ii) per head in each year since 2002.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what methods of assessment of (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills are used as part of the recruitment process by employees of his Department.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans the Government have for the restructuring of local government; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the Audit Commission's plans to move Comprehensive Performance Assessment to a star rating measure.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the merits of unitary status for councils in Hertfordshire.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what representations he has received about the proposal to move to whole council local elections every four years, as outlined in the consultation document...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what consultations have been held with local authorities about the new data being used to calculate the day visitor indicator as part of the formula spending...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of the impact of the new data for day visitor indicators as part of the formula spending share on the financial position of Charnwood...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what (a) time period and (b) methodology was used in amending the day visitor indicator of the formula spending share; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many dwellings in each pathfinder area have been (a) demolished and (b) constructed in each year since 2001.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what guidance the Government have provided to local planning authorities on informing nearby local residents that a planning application in their vicinity has...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2005, Official Report, column 402W on railways (fire regulations), if he will seek from local fire and rescue authorities the...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 10 October 2005, Official Report, column 402W, on railways (fire regulations), how many of the premises covered by the Fire Precautions...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 25 October 2005, Official Report, column 340W, on regional chambers, for what reasons the Audit Commission does not audit the other...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the cost to public funds has been to date of the corporate recovery of Rossendale borough council since the draft Corporate Governance Inspection Report of...
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what information he collates on the cash in lieu of developments held under section 106 agreements by each London local authority.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what steps are planned to apply the new code for sustainable buildings.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 12 September 2005, Official Report, column 2441W, on telecommunication masts, if he will break down the figures by Government office region.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many tenancies have ceased at the end of an introductory tenancy, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) registered social landlord.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will publish a draft bill on tenure reform.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the timetable is for the building of the Thames Gateway project.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 24 October 2005, Official Report, column 24W, on Travellers, what the budget of the new Gypsy and Traveller Unit is for 2005–06;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment and the Department for Education Northern Ireland will evaluate the proposals by Dr....
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients were waiting for more than two hours on trolleys in accident and emergency departments of hospitals in Northern Ireland in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Road Service expects to commence construction of the A20 Frederick Street Link in Newtownards.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average waiting time for surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm was in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the addictions service offered to those in Strangford constituency.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what resources have been made available in Northern Ireland for (a) sufferers from and (b) carers who are affected by Alzheimer's disease in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many admissions to the psychiatry unit at Ards hospital in each of the last five years have been for addictions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many armed robberies have taken place in West Belfast since July.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individuals in the Province would be covered by the antiviral drugs stockpiled to counter an outbreak of avian influenza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the level of (a) detected and (b) undetected benefit fraud in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted of benefit fraud in each year since 1998.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to provide (a) enhanced social care and rehabilitation services and (b) additional resources in rehabilitation worker...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what action the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety is taking to promote breast cancer awareness among women aged (a) 18 to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will estimate the costs incurred in commissioning and producing Sir Michael Buckley's report regarding the University of Ulster.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the process of evidence location and collation by the policing unit designated C8 has been completed; whether the collection and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many of the staff employed in the policing unit designated C8 are (a) serving police officers and (b) former members of the Royal Ulster...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) role and (b) task is of the policing unit designated C8; what progress has been made by this unit towards the completion of its...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many car thefts there were in each district command unit in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many newly diagnosed cases of cardiomyopathy there were in the Province in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to implement a pay scale for carers across Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the administration cost of the Child Support Agency in Northern Ireland has been in each of the past five years; and what the expected...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of those living in each district council area in the Province are (a) professionals and (b) skilled workers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the likely costs resulting from clinical negligence in the Province in each of the next five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many clinical negligence cases are pending within each health trust in the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proportion of cases have been considered by the Compensation Agency in Northern Ireland for more than two years before a decision was...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the conviction rate for (a) common assault, (b) breach of peace and (c) drunkenness in each of the last five years broken down by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding his Department has provided for (a) Ulster Scots and (b) Irish cultural (i) groups, (ii) events and (iii) projects in each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding has been allocated to the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Research and Development Fund in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding he expects to be allocated to the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Research and Development Fund in (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which individual is responsible for developing and implementing his Department's Skills Development Plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's skills development plan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding has been allocated to learning disability services in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average expenditure on the training of (a) a general practitioner registrar and (b) a doctor in the year after completing their general...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many doctors have completed general practitioner training in the Province in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many domestic violence incidents (a) were reported in each constituency and (b) led to prosecution through the court system in the last year...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) if he will publish the education action zone proposals of each education and library board in Northern Ireland; (2) what funding has been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations the Department of Education for Northern Ireland has received regarding accounting procedures at the (a) Belfast Education...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cumulative deficit is for each education and library board; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of households that have at least one energy efficient light bulb from an energy efficiency advice centre...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on current research he has funded into retinitis pigmentosa.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will meet the Equality Commission to discuss the implications of the maps presented in chapter six of the Commission's publication, Fair...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many permits have been issued to the public for use of fireworks in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the projects being undertaken by the Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Research and Development Office.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) voluntary and (b) state-controlled grammar schools there are in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average waiting time for (a) emergency and (b) routine ultrasound scans was in each health trust in the Province in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients are awaiting an ultrasound scan in the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of patients discharged from hospitals in the Province were readmitted within two months in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the qualifying criteria are for patients wishing to access the hospital travel cost scheme (HTCS); what financial provision is available...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many infections were acquired (a) in hospitals and (b) elsewhere within the health service in the Province in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what the average length of time taken to process planning applications for housing associations in Northern Ireland was in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the Roads Service plans to proceed with the proposed new Knockmore Link Road in Lisburn.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans the Department of Health, social services and public safety has to provide capital funding for improvement works at Lagan Valley hospital.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he is taking to promote uptake of the national tests in adult literacy and numeracy among employees of his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many employees in his Department requested training to improve their (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills in each year since 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were employed in the manufacturing sector in each parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much has been paid out due to medical negligence in each health board in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many schools in each education board in Northern Ireland make use of temporary mobile classroom accommodation; and what the timetable is for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the impact of prescription price reductions for multiple sclerosis disease modifying treatments (DMTs) since...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints have been made against each health trust in the Province in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost to each health board in Northern Ireland of contracting procedures out to the private sector has been in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many employees of health trusts in the Province are on sick leave, broken down by profession.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the costs resulting from sick leave among NHS employees in the Province in 2004–05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many overseas nurses are employed by each health trust in the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many nursing vacancies there are in each health trust in the Province.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints he has received from police officers regarding (a) actions by officers from the Ombudsman's Office and (b) investigations...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many consultant orthopaedic surgeons there are in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many paramilitary (a) shootings and (b) assaults have been recorded by each Police District Command Unit in the Province in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what the assessment procedures and criteria are for new pedestrian crossings in Northern Ireland; whether he plans to review them; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many pension books were issued in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the pensioner population is in each Westminster constituency in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what hospital projects have been built in Northern Ireland using private finance initiative schemes in each year since 2001; and where each is...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many planning applications were determined by the Planning Appeals Commission in each year since 1999; and how many of these determinations...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many police cells are in use in each district command unit in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prisoners sentenced in courts in Northern Ireland are serving their sentence at prisons in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what (a) representations and (b) complaints have been made by members of the public to the Prison Service in Northern Ireland in the last two...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many restorative justice schemes have been introduced in Northern Ireland under the terms of Part IV of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many road traffic collisions involving stolen vehicles there have been in each of the last five years; and how many were (a) fatal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many road traffic collisions involving hit and run vehicles there have been in each of the last five years; and how many were (a) fatal...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2005, Official Report, column 114W, on road traffic offences, what 'intelligence led basis' means in this...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much he has allocated for school transport in Northern Ireland for (a) 2005–06 and (b) 2006–07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what criteria are used in assessing the viability of schools in terms of pupil numbers; and whether the same criteria are applied across all...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps are being taken in Northern Ireland to promote sexual equality in the workplace in relation to terms and conditions of employment,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many smoking-related deaths there were in Northern Ireland in the last four years; and how many people he estimates smoked regularly in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the level of Sports Council funding for minority sports in Northern Ireland in 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what costs were incurred by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety resulting from attacks on ambulance crews and their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps are being taken to increase the number of students taking up teacher training programmes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he expects to publish a report on the work of the Teachers' Health and Well-Being Strategy Group; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who has been consulted during the consultation process being carried out by the Teachers' Health and Well-Being Strategy Group; and when he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) Protestant and (b) Catholic teachers are employed in (i) the state controlled sector, (ii) the Catholic maintained sector and the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many suspected Irish terrorists have been held for more than seven days under Schedule 8 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he intends to enable the Unauthorised Encampments (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much funding has been allocated for victim groups in Northern Ireland in the past five years, broken down by (a) Westminster parliamentary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what budget is planned for the Office of the Commissioner for Victims; how many staff are expected to be employed in that office; and when the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many young offenders institutions there are in Northern Ireland; how many offenders are in each; and what the capacity is of each.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the places where youth conferences of the kind set out in the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 have been piloted in Northern...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she plans to publish a White Paper on adult social care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to receive updated guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on the use of (a) donepezil, (b) rivastigmine,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on replacing the ambulance station in Salisbury.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if she will ensure that each child diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome receives immediate referral for assessment in order to gain access to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she plans to extend the range of high risk groups who currently receive influenza vaccination.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on breast screening performed at age 50 and over on patients living in (a) North Yorkshire and (b) Essex; and at what (i) age...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) cancelled operations and (b) delayed transfers of care there have been in Lancashire hospital teaching NHS trust in each of the last seven years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts are providing cancer patients with velcade.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether cancer drugs are approved more rapidly if applications are restricted to national use and do not require European approval by the EU's committee...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts fund velcade for cancer treatment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her answer of 12 October 2005, Official Report, column 538W, on carbon monoxide poisoning, what the budget for section 64 grants is in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidance her Department issues to (a) local authority social services and (b) NHS organisations concerning the frequency of assessments for (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds have been allocated to fund carers' grants in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will set out the criteria used to choose those general practitioners who wish to participate in the pilot choose and book exercise; and if she will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of general practitioner practices are making referrals using the choose and book system.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she has taken to ensure that the Commission for Social Care Inspection has the capacity to analyse trends in the numbers and types of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects the Commission for Social Care Inspection to publish its follow-up report on medication in care homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects the Commission for Social Care Inspection to publish its national report on its joint inspection activity.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will ensure that community pharmacists are allocated a guaranteed seat on the commissioning boards of the locality commissioning consortia which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the results of the 2004 annual consultant physician census carried out by the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average duration of an episode of NHS continuing care has been in each year since 1997–98; and what the total cost has been of providing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the evidential basis is for the statement in her response of 21 July 2005 to the Health Select Committee's report on Continuing Care that the divide...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what procedures are in place to be followed by (a) primary care trust officers and (b) social workers to ensure that the NHS carries out a complete...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the at risk population of (a) Dacorum primary care trust and (b) Hertfordshire is expected to be inoculated against existing strains of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of breast cancer have been diagnosed in the area covered by Dacorum primary care trust in each month since January.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the Government's policy is on NHS dentist administration fees for children of those on incapacity benefits.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what have been identified as the most significant sustainable development impacts in relation to operation of her Department's estate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Gateshead, East and Washington, West constituency, the effects in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills of new recruits to her Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what reduction there has been in water consumption by her Department between 2002 and 31 March 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health at which non-office sites on (a) her Department's estates and (b) estates of its arm's length bodies opportunities have been identified for significant...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners per head of population there have been in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) Tyne and Wear, (d) the North...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many deanery-approved junior doctors' training places there were for (a) senior house officers and (b) registrars in each of the last 10 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many drugs have been approved by the European Medicines Evaluation Agency for formal marketing approval in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of whether the consultation process undertaken by the Food Standards Agency on proposed changes in the regulation of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she will allow foundation hospitals to compete to provide services in other areas.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether NHS foundation trusts may advertise their services abroad to attract non-UK patients.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of GP practices had adopted practice-based commissioning in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 October 2005, Official Report, column 626W, on GP practices, how many general practitioners, excluding retrainers and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of whether overcapacity will emerge in the NHS under the Government's policy of promoting a choice of healthcare provider for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the Health Protection Agency has been in each year since its inception.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the costs have been of the hepatitis C FaCe It campaign separately identifying (a) the cost of information packs sent to primary health care...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Government funding was made available to (a) children's and (b) adult hospices for 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of beds available in community hospitals in (a) west Kent, (b) east Kent, (c) Thames Gateway, (d) Medway and (e)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the relative risks to the populations of different primary care trust areas across the country during an influenza...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the supply of influenza vaccines available to Kingston primary care trust; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she expects all those in vulnerable groups who want influenza vaccinations to receive them; and whether she has received reports of shortages of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the supply of influenza vaccines to primary care trusts, with particular reference to Cheltenham and Tewkesbury primary...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice her Department offers on the consumption of poultry, with particular reference to avian influenza.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to improve the training opportunities available to informal carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 21 July 2005, Official Report, column 2170W, on Information Technology (Expenditure) what the total revenue expenditure was for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much her Department spent on Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks for (a) physiotherapists, (b) speech and language therapists, (c) occupational...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the target for medicine reviews in the National Service Framework for Older People has been superseded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps her Department has taken to ensure that local protocols and pathways are established to deliver services to people who have a learning...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has commissioned into (a) stress, (b) depression and (c) other mental health problems among carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the extent of financial support to be offered to student midwives.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made in establishing a national database of MRI scanners held by each hospital trust; what assessment has been made of (a) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis; (2) how much...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding she has made available for research into the physical causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding her Department has allocated for research into myasthenia gravis in 2005–06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of fruit supplied to schools under the National School Fruit Scheme was sourced according to seasonal variations in local and national...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health from which holding locations fruit is supplied to schools under the National School Fruit Scheme; and by what methods it is transported.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Daventy (Mr. Boswell) of 12 September 2005, Official Report, column 2719W, on neurological conditions, what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) accident and emergency, (b) intensive care unit and (c) general beds are available in each NHS trust; what percentage that represents of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's observations on NHS complaints structures; and if she will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will define the term control total, used for the purposes of the financial monitoring of NHS organisations; and whether NHS organisations will be...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS organisations have financial recovery plans; when each was agreed; over what period each runs; which have been subject to revision; and for what...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2005, Official Report, column 1287W, on NHS finance, who will provide the additional funding needed to provide...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to take the decision on which name should replace the name of direct payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which areas will be piloting individual budgets; when she expects the pilots to begin; and how individual budgets will differ from the system of direct...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the financial position of the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the reasons for graduate unemployment in (a) physiotherapy, (b) medicine, (c) speech and language therapy and (d)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effects of medical careers reforms in the NHS on the number of training contracts available to senior house officers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of nurses leaving the NHS in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has commissioned into the nutrition of older people (a) in care homes, (b) receiving domiciliary care, (c) in an acute...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the health establishments abroad which have treated NHS patients in the last five years; and which other establishments she plans to use.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners appointments were missed in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) on what occasions she has met bodies representing patients' groups since 5 May; (2) which patient groups she has met since 6 May; and on which dates.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the (a) reference numbers and (b) titles of (i) statutory instruments, (ii) departmental circulars and (iii) other documents distributed...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the effective rate of employer contribution is to final salary pension schemes for nurses in the public sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many physiotherapy training places have been commissioned over each of the last four years, broken down by strategic health authority.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the effectiveness of vacuum-assisted closure machines for the treatment of pressure ulcers; whether she plans to instruct...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of redundancies which may arise from the reorganisation of primary care trusts (a) in Durham and (b) in England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance her Department has issued to primary care trusts on compliance with the Secretary of State's directive of 27 February 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps she is taking to ensure that private finance initiative projects for which her Department is responsible create the minimum of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many radiographers have been employed in the NHS in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) in what circumstances a local authority can set limits on what it will pay to meet the assessed needs of a person requiring care in a residential...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people under the age of 16 years have attended a sexual health clinic in (a) Tees Valley and (b) Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the Government's policy on the prescription of continuous positive airway pressure equipment on the NHS for patients suffering from sleep apnoea.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health who the members were of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation which decided to purchase the Lister strain of virus for smallpox vaccine...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the health and safety implications of smoking carriages in (a) enclosed public places and (b) workplaces.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance has been published on (a) access to and (b) transfer of care records from the NHS to social services; how she expects the sharing of patient...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the timescale is for the development of a national framework for continuing care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she plans to take to improve the support offered to carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to ensure adequate provision of speech and language therapists in the public sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps she is taking to act on the recommendation in the Audit Commission's report on supporting people, that her Department, the Office of the Deputy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds Medway primary care trust procured from Swale primary care trust between 2003–04 and 2004–05 for (a) Sheppey community hospital...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) why the Food Standards Agency did not publish the responses to its recent consultation exercise on the use of tryptophan in food prior to the laying...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations have been made to the chief executive of the Food Standards Agency on the agency's decision in relation to the regulation of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to her answer of 20 October 2005, Official Report, column 1180W, on no secrets guidance, what plans she has to collect information on the number...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Written Answer of 20 June 2005, Official Report, column 785W, on breast cancer (waiting times), how the Labour Party manifesto commitment...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost is of employing Opinion Leader Research for the Your Health, Your Care, Your Say consultation exercise.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the cost of the Your Health, Your Care, Your Say consultation exercise to (a) the Department, (b) strategic health...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What guidance they have issued to magistrates regarding the prosecution and sentencing of motorcyclists for (a) inappropriate or excessive speeding; (b) the use of...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What action has been taken to ensure that captains of civil aircraft are made aware of the possible health implications for crew and passengers of pyrolised...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they endorse the proposed new American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Standard 161P, "Air Quality Within Commercial...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have a plan of action for dealing with the handling of crews and passengers directly after landing if an incident with polluted cabin air has...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps have been taken to implement the recommendation made after the 2001 report of the Swedish board of accident investigation, or the incident on board...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they have taken to ensure that carbon monoxide detectors are fitted in aircraft to enable the commander to monitor emissions.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have examined the concerns raised by Dr Vyvyan Howard in April at the International Aero Conference on Contaminated Bleed Air, at Imperial College, in...
asked Her Majesty's Government: With regard to the birds that tested positive for H5N1, whether it is normal practice for birds not to be tested within seven to 14 days of arrival, prior to any...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have considered the possibility that the flu was already endemic in the Pegasus "quarantine" when the first birds arrived from Surinam.
asked Her Majesty's Government: On what basis they have approved a system of quarantine with a rolling entry and a rolling exit date; and how they oversee that policy.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to use vaccination to prevent the spread of H5N1 virus in commercial and domestic poultry in the event that the virus is introduced into the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What was the annual average number of days lost due to sick leave in the Civil Service in each of the past eight years.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their definition of "nature conservation" in Clause 30 (Functions) of the Commons Bill.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much funding will be provided to administer the establishment of a Commons Association as outlined in the Commons Bill; and where this additional funding will...
asked Her Majesty's Government: How much funding will be provided to the commons registration authorities to administer the commons register as outlined in the Commons Bill; and where this...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What proportion of the £11.5 million grant undertaking for the Ferco Silvag biogas plant at Winkleigh, Devon has been paid.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether there are circumstances in which the requirement for electrical efficiency, or any other requirements, are amendable under the terms of the undertaking for...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have received any information which challenges the electrical efficiency calculations made by consultants in the original application for a grant for...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What level of inspection by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority will be required for gangmasters to qualify for a licence; and Whether inspection of gangmasters by...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What priority the European Union has given to the proposals for the construction of an airport and seaport for Gaza, as discussed with the former president of the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What assessment they have made of the current restrictions on the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza; and what immediate steps can be taken by the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many service men and women from Wales, deployed in the 1990–91 Gulf War, have diagnosed or still medically undiagnosed illnesses; and what comparable...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the indication by the Lord Drayson on 25 October (Official Report, col. 1069), what extra financial resources are being allocated to support helicopters.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will discuss early exit strategies for the coalition forces in Iraq with the United States and other allied contingents.
asked Her Majesty's Government: When they next plan to discuss Israel's standing commitment to open its borders to adjacent Palestinian territories.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Why in the case of Trooper Williams resort was sought to the concurrent jurisdiction by the Director of Armed Legal Services, after the charge had been dismissed...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What response they will make to President Abu Mazen's request on 21 October for more support from western countries for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.
asked Her Majesty's Government: Under what circumstances the Prime Minister's wife is entitled to the use of a government car; and at what cost this has been provided in the past eight years; and...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Which facilities and services have been provided at public expense to the Prime Minister's wife over the past eight years.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many places are now available in psychiatric secure wards in England and Wales; and at what locations.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What factors have caused the Lord Hylton's Question for Written Answer (HL536), tabled on 14 June, to be still awaiting a reply 18 weeks later, when the target...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Adonis on 18 October (WA 122), which specific technical or practical skills are most in short supply; and which skills...
asked Her Majesty's Government: What consideration is being given to the prevention of flooding of the proposed housing and other developments in the Thames Gateway.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What representations they are making to the government of Uzbekistan concerning the harassment suffered by employees of the BBC World Service and the arrest and...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they propose to change the additional member system of proportional representation as it will apply to the elections (a) to the Scottish Parliament, and...
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