To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many staff of his Department were recorded absent for non-medical reasons on (a) 2 February 2009 and...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the initial estimated (a) cost and (b) delivery date for each ICT project initiated by his...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department and its predecessor was in...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 4 February 2008, Official Report, column...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much was spent on subscriptions to (a) newspapers and (b) magazines for delivery to the (i)...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what information his Department holds on the number of persons appointed to executive positions in bodies...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what his Department's policy is on the renewal of the contracts of (a) temporary and (b) agency staff.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether his Department has provided voice coaching to any of its employees in the last 12 months.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether the Secretary of State absented himself from the decision on whether to issue an intervention...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many officials of each grade in his Department visited India on official business (a) in 2008 and (b)...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many officials of each grade in his Department visited Israel (a) in 2008 and (b) in 2009 to date.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many and what proportion of new mothers went on maternity leave in each year since 1997.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when he plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire of 11 December 2008...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when the Minister for Small Businesses plans to respond to the letter from the right hon. Member for West...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 25 February 2009 with...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what assessment he has made of the recommendations relevant to his Department's policy responsibilities...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many and what proportion of new fathers went on paternity leave in each year since the right to such...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) how much Advantage West Midlands has spent on hospitality and entertainment in each year since it was...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how much Royal Mail receives in allowances for pension deficit recovery under its price control agreement...

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will have discussions with Ministerial colleagues on the resilience of the IT and telecommunications...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many complaints (a) Ofsted and (b) his Department received from (i) schools and (ii) other education providers in respect of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils of each age group received (a) up to one hour, (b) between one and two hours, (c) between two and three hours...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils in each age group have a personal learning guide or coach.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the contextual value added scores were of each school which achieved fewer than 30 per cent. five A* to C grades including...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools in each local authority are participating in the Gaining Ground initiative; which local authorities have entered...

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers left the profession before retirement age in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make it her policy to permit local authorities to keep all receipts from rent paid by their tenants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many Code homes have gained credits for security in each year since the Code for Sustainable Homes was introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent discussions she has had with Yorkshire Forward on regeneration initiatives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent assessment she has made of the effect on local authorities of the collapse of Icelandic banks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to make a decision on the approval of regional spatial strategies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the independence from central government of local authorities; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effect on small businesses of changes in the level of business rates from April 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will take steps to provide members of the public with more powers in respect of planning applications made by supermarkets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what discussions she has had with the Audit Commission on its findings in respect of the management by local authorities of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made on the implementation of the FiReControl project.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much Band D council tax has increased on average in (a) England and (b) South Bedfordshire in absolute and percentage...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what progress has been made on her proposals for the transfer of assets to community groups.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the steps the Government Office for the South West has taken to assist the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will make an assessment of the effect of the new home information pack rules on the housing market.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of unitary authorities which have set their absolute rate of council tax since the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much revenue was raised in absolute terms through the fire precept on council tax in each precepting authority in the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the average percentage change was in the council tax precepts levied by (a) district councils, (b) county councils, (c)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance (a) her Department and (b) the Standards Board has issued to local authorities on the undertaking of Criminal...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were rescued by the Fire and Rescue Service from (a) all fires and (b) dwellings fires in each (i) fire...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homeless (a) children and (b) adults are in temporary accommodation in (i) Birmingham Hall Green constituency and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, columns 973-74W, on housing: crime prevention, for what reasons...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether members of local authority independent remuneration panels are required to be resident in the local authority area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what role her Department had in the drafting of the Equality Standard for Local Government.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding regional improvement and efficiency partnerships have allocated to the development of the Equality Standard for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information her Department holds on the (a) top, (b) median and (c) average salary of chief executives in (i) county and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to her Department's National Indicators for Local Authorities and Local Authority Partnerships: Handbook of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate she has made of the number of firms eligible for transitional rate relief in each year of the 2005 to 2010...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in respect of which Government Office regions (a) her Department and (b) the relevant Government Office has been notified that...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the planned timetable is for the publication of the final version of the South East Plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 23 March 2009, Official Report, column 79W, on the Tenant Services Authority, (1) how many people...

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects her Department to have completed its collection of data on social lets to foreign nationals; and when she plans...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he will make...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how much funding his Department provided to amateur sports clubs in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North...

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) BlackBerrys and (b) other mobile telephones have been provided to (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he was first informed of the suspected death of Mr. Rashid Rauf following a US air strike on the village of Ali Khel on 22 November 2008.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for how long the Cabinet Office has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many laptop computers have been provided to (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in (i) his Department and (ii) the...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will place in the Library a copy of the Green ICT Scoreboard; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much has been spent on (a) the purchase of and (b) bills for (i) BlackBerrys and (ii) other mobile telephones for (A) Ministers, (B) special...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what information his Department holds on the number of Government departments and agencies which require people to dial a premium rate number to...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) how many non-departmental public bodies there were in (a) 1997, (b) May 2007 and (c) February 2009; (2) how many staff of...

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what recent steps his Department has taken to assist members of the public to use interactive digital technology in order to participate in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of anthrax in cattle.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what contact his Department has had for monitoring purposes with businesses operating dog rental schemes in England in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 974W, on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what schemes he supports to promote farmers' markets and local produce in Lancaster and Wyre constituency.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding his Department has made available for the promotion of farmers' markets in 2008-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what contingency plans his Department has to ensure the security of food supply.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of foot and mouth disease.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the level of UK carbon dioxide emissions of the replacement of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will take steps to facilitate the use of bio-digestion as a method of disposal of fallen stock.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he plans to introduce on-farm storage of fallen stock.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he plans to reply to the letter of 22 January 2009 from the hon. Member for Northavon, sent on behalf of Miss D. Moore...

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to encourage appropriate biodegradable packaging of products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the reservoir capacity in England and Wales was in (a) 1989 and (b) January 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the cost of installing individual water meters in each unmetered domestic property in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much has been spent by his Department on the development of energy efficient insulation (a) technology and (b) initiatives to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 19 December 2008 on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of Old...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will place in the Library a copy of the Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee's most recent annual report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which bodies are undertaking work formerly undertaken by the Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the budget for the Hydrogen, Fuel Cell and Carbon Abatement Technologies Demonstration Programme is in each year from 2008-09 to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much each contractor appointed under the Warm Front scheme has received under the scheme in each of the last three financial years...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Braintree of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 410W, on the Warm Front Scheme:...

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many Warm Front heating installations have been completed by Matthew Score over the last eight years; how much was received by...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which British Overseas Territories have held trials of power generation from (a) wind turbines, (b) solar power stations and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much electricity is generated from renewable resources in each British Overseas Territory.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what properties his (a) Department and (b) Department's (i) executive agencies and (ii) non-departmental public bodies have...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the average server capacity utilisation by each division of his Department was in each of the last five years; and if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much EU grant-aided funding for non-member states there was in 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues on (a) human rights abuses in countries from which people undertake...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he plans to meet the new Foreign Minister of Israel to discuss UK-Israel relations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which Ministers have visited Kenya in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his Kenyan counterpart on anti-piracy operations off the coast of Kenya.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects to reply to the letter dated 14 January 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he plans to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton of 23 February 2009, with regard to Mr...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 25 March 2009, Official Report, columns 17-19WS, on conflict resources...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many visits were made by Ministers to Moscow in the financial year 2007-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the implications for the Government's policy on non-proliferation of the European Commission...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with the government of Pakistan on the provision of education for women in (a) Swat region...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans there are for a new governance structure for the Pitcairn Islands in April 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made on ensuring a more regular shipping service for passengers and freight to and from the Pitcairn...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which Ministers have visited Uganda in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British citizens live in Zimbabwe.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his Zimbabwean counterpart on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his US counterpart on the political situation in Zimbabwe.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward proposals to prevent patients being discharged from an abortion clinic without their prescribed medication; what discussions he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many maternal deaths have resulted from legal abortions in each year since 1979; and what the maternal mortality rate was (a) for all causes and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the effect on (a) patient care and (b) clinical priorities of the four-hour waiting time target for accident...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent assessment he has made of the effects of levels of particulate pollution on the mortality rate; (2) if he will publish the Committee on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of males (a) between (i) 10 and 16, (ii) 17 and 21 and (iii) 22 and 26 and (b) over 26 years who have been...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished accident and emergency admission episodes there were in each NHS trust where the primary or secondary diagnosis was alcohol-related and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) men and (b) women in each age group have been admitted to hospital for stomach pumping procedures as a result of alcohol poisoning in each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how long the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's review of the (a) use of and (b) segregated use of anti-TNF drugs for the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the cost to local authorities of identifying the number of disabled children and adults with autism in their area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to review the structure of the burns service in the North West; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will produce its guidance on the use of (a) bevacizumab, (b) sorafenib, (c) sunitinib...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of multi-disciplinary cancer teams for each type of cancer do not have clinical nurse specialist cover.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2009, Official Report, column 1302W, on contaminated blood and blood products, what timetable he has set for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions to hospital there were as a result of drug-related mental health conditions in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department has issued on the legality of the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what factors his Department has identified as hindering full implementation on the part of primary care trusts of National Institute of Health and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department's definition of a (a) district nurse, (b) community matron and (c) health visitor is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses, (b) midwives and (c) health visitors returned to work in the National Health Service in each year since 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the likely cost of introducing a universal health visitors programme in schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what criteria his Department used in choosing the winners of the Healthcare Associated Infection Technology Innovation programme Awards; and whether each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 1223W, on hospitals: infectious diseases, for what reasons the average of all quarters...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new cases of influenza were diagnosed in December and January of the year (a) 2008-09, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2006-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which local authorities in the Spearhead Group (a) had widened the gap in life expectancy at birth compared with the population as a whole in the latest...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women have died (a) in childbirth and (b) as a result of complications in childbirth in each year since 1997; and how many such women have died...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Government funding will be provided to develop new medical devices for use in the NHS during 2009-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many funding applications for development of medical devices were received in the last three years for which information is available; (2) how...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many medical devices that received Government funding for their development were used by the NHS within (a) 12 months and (b) 24 months of funding...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date his Department was first informed of the conclusions of the Healthcare Commission's investigation into patient care at Mid Staffordshire NHS...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many miscarriages attributed to (a) violence against and (b) misuse of (i) alcohol and (ii) drugs by the mother were recorded in each of the last...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the National Burn Care Group's last meeting was before its meeting on 24 February 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 900W, on NHS: death rate, for what reasons 43 of the alerts in the first year were not...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many prescriptions for drugs falling within section 4.3 of the British National Formulary were made out in each of the last five years; (2) how...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many claims relating to adverse reactions to prescription drugs were paid by the NHS Litigation Authority in each of the last five years; and what the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) RIDDOR and (b) non-RIDDOR incidents were reported in each NHS organisation identified by organisation code in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what sums BT has (a) received and (b) been promised for taking over elements of Fujitsu's contract under the NHS IT programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2009, Official Report, column 878W, on NHS manpower, what definition his Department uses of (a) cases involving...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government is taking to increase the uptake of new and innovative medical technology devices across the NHS.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will undertake a review of the effectiveness of the overview and scrutiny functions of local government in relation to the NHS in light of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the basic NHS bursary rate for (a) degree nurse students and (b) diploma nurse students in real terms has been in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many occupational therapists qualified in each year since 2000; and what estimate he has made of the number of trained therapists required to fill...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many occupational therapists the NHS employs; and how many of them completed their training (a) in the UK and (b) abroad.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prescriptions were issued by (a) nurse independent prescribers, (b) community practitioner nurse prescribers and (c) doctors in each of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time for radiotherapy treatment was in the latest period for which figures are available; what targets his Department has set for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many successful claims for compensation for medical negligence at Scarborough Hospital were made in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; how much compensation was...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much had been spent on his Department's social care recruitment advertising campaign at the latest date for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department issues to acute care units on the emergency classifications of stroke; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialised stroke units there are in England; and what his plans are for the future numbers of such units.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many stroke patients have been treated in specialised units in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to increase patient access to (a) diagnostic scans and (b) thrombolysis for those whose stroke was caused by a blood...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with suspected stroke or transient ischaemic attack receive (a) rapid assessment, (b) access...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of patients' ability to obtain stroke services in rural areas; and what steps he is taking to increase access to stroke...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Wyre Forest of 4 November 2008, Official Report, column 363W, on venous thromboembolism, what his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment his Department has made of the implications for medical practice of pig-to-primate organ transplant experiments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of tuberculosis have been identified in (a) agricultural workers and (b) other persons involved in agriculture in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what steps she has taken to ensure an effective transition between the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners and its...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been brought following investigations by the e-crime unit in the Serious Organised Crime Agency since its...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funds her Department has allocated to tackle internet crime in each year since 2001.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many firearms offences (including those involving air weapons) were recorded in each police force in England and Wales in each year since...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her latest estimate is of the policing and security costs incurred in respect of the G20 summit.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers from forces other than the Metropolitan police were deployed to police the G20 summit.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the percentage of heroin sold in the UK which originated in Afghanistan in the most recent period for which...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the (a) Identity and Passport Service and (b) National Identity Scheme spent on external consultants in 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Zimbabwean citizens were granted (a) asylum and (b) right to remain in the UK in 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 386W, on the immobilisation of vehicles, when she plans to publish the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 385W, on immobilisation of vehicles, what proposals she is considering in...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to reply to the letter dated 22 January 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on Abduul Karim Barry.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many DNA profiles of subjects aged (a) under 10, (b) 11 to 18 and (c) over 18 years were added to the national DNA database in...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females in each age group were charged with having sex with a minor in (i) the UK, (ii) the North East, (iii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been paid in parking fines by security vehicles carrying cash and valuables in each local authority area in each year since 1997-98.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what international obligations apply to the implementation by her Department of measures to ensure the security of passports.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many of the recommendations of the Flanagan review have been implemented; (2) what progress has been made in implementing each of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 91W, on police: bureaucracy, how much time (a) police officers...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding her Department provided for the use of police head-cameras in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to page 29 of the Policing Green Paper "Policing Our Communities Together", which police forces had met the standards in the...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sexual assault referral centres were operating in each police force area in each of the last five years; how many were in (a) rural...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding the Government have provided to sexual assault referral centres in each year since their introduction.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 24 February 2009, Official Report, column 695W, on terrorism, (1) what proportion of the £2.5 billion...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Statistical Bulletin on Terrorism Arrests and Outcomes, 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008 will be published; and what the reasons...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (a) how many and (b) what percentage of record checks processed by the Criminal Records Bureau were completed (i) within (A) 10, (B) 14,...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many wild reptiles have been seized as illegal imports at UK airports and ports in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (1) how many graduates were paying back a proportion of their student loans in each of the last five years; (2) how much...

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many (a) fatalities and (b) serious injuries there have been on Government-funded training programmes in each year...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much has been spent on (a) the purchase of and (b) bills for (i) BlackBerrys and (ii) other mobile telephones for (A) Ministers,...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) BlackBerrys and (b) other mobile telephones have been provided to (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding his Department provided to the (a) Home Office and (b) Foreign and Commonwealth Office migration funds in each financial...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) staff and (b) ministerial away days have been organised by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department's policy is on holding departmental away days at locations other than departmental premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance is being provided under his Department's auspices to the Iranian anti-drug enforcement agencies.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what humanitarian assistance the Government have provided to the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 12...

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether his Department has incurred expenditure on legal advice in preparation for a possible judicial review of the decision to pause...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent discussions he and officials of his Department have had with representatives of (a) the Home Office and (b) the Lord Chief Justice on the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the (a) energy consumed by, (b) energy cost of and (c) carbon dioxide emissions from each category of IT device in each...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate has been made of the proportion of personal computers in each of his Department's offices that are turned off (a) overnight, (b) at...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have received the minimum jail sentence of five years for possession of a firearm in each year since 2004.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what representations he has received in favour of repeal of the so-called Waddington amendment in respect of incitement to homophobic hatred; and from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of all registrations received by HM Land Registry in each of the last three years were processed within two working days.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2009, Official Report, column 453W, on legal aid: housing, when the information sought will be collated.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cases were heard in magistrates courts in each year since 1997.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders held in a cell designed for one inmate shared it with one other in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on discharge grant in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders held on remand were not given a custodial sentence in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many early releases under the End of Custody Licence release scheme there have been from each prison in each month since the scheme came into effect,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners have been held in solitary confinement for over one year; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many Zimbabwean nationals are being held in prison.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to the consultation on Titan prisons.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which prisons host mobile telephone masts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many probation areas provide unpaid work assignments for offenders in the evening.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each cohort are in training to enter the probation service; and how many posts in the service he estimates will be available for newly...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the local (a) adult and (b) juvenile reoffending rate was in each (i) London borough and (ii) upper tier local authority in the latest year for...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign nationals (1) were (a) convicted of and (b) sentenced to immediate custody for (i) drug dealing and (ii) firearms offences in 2007;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many convictions for (a) shoplifting, (b) robbery of business property and (c) theft by an employee there were in the quarter between July and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for offences relating to acts of vandalism in (i) West Chelmsford constituency, (ii)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for vandalism in (i) North Wiltshire and (ii) Wiltshire in each year since 2000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent steps his Department has taken to improve support for families of murder victims.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent steps his Department has taken to improve support for those injured in road traffic accidents where another person or persons has been found...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people under the age of 16 years in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex received a custodial sentence in each of the last 10 years.

To ask the Leader of the House if she will make it her policy to provide that a copy of each (a) parliamentary report and (b) other material funded from the Communications Allowance produced by...

To ask the Leader of the House what plans she has to enable hon. Members better to engage with their constituents through the use of interactive digital technology.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2009, Official Report, column 735W, on China, on what date he received the invitation from the Scottish Council...

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland for how long his Department has followed the Carbon Trust's Carbon Management programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps have been taken by his Department to improve the thermal efficiency of its buildings in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much has been spent on (a) the purchase of and (b) bills for (i) BlackBerrys and (ii) other mobile telephones for (A) Ministers, (B) special...

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) BlackBerrys and (b) other mobile telephones have been provided to (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2009, Official Report, column 831W, how much his Department has spent on official portraits of its Ministers since...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department has taken to ensure compliance with section 28 of Appendix A to the document on the UK Asset Protection Scheme; and if he will...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tax avoidance investigations have been launched as a result of disclosure under the Asset Protection Scheme; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent estimate he has made of the cost of the assignment and transfer of assets into the Asset Protection Scheme by (a) Lloyds Banking Group and (b)...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average duration of the assets placed in the Asset Protection Scheme by (a) Lloyds Banking Group and (b) RBS is; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer within what period it was agreed with (a) Lloyds Banking Group and (b) RBS that they would provide a quarterly statement of all loses and recoveries in...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has provided (a) Lloyds Banking Group and (b) RBS with consent to credit hedge in respect of the Residual Amount in the Asset Protection...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish details of the hedging strategies entered into with (a) Lloyds Banking Group and (b) RBS to cover non-sterling denominated assets in...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what criteria have been set by each bank in receipt of public money for qualification for senior staff bonuses; whether the Financial Services Authority...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will prohibit the payment of bonuses by banks in receipt of public funds until such monies have been repaid in full.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy that any bank proposed for receipt of public funds (a) should be required to stop using tax havens for tax avoidance purposes...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the levels of activity of specialist lenders in the UK mortgage market on (a) the availability of...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what definition of success fee was used by his Department in its discussions with Goldman Sachs on the taking into temporary public ownership of Northern Rock.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what due diligence work was carried out in relation to (a) Northern Rock and (b) Northern Rock's loan book prior to taking the bank into temporary public...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will direct UK Financial Investments Ltd. to establish whether the Royal Bank of Scotland pension scheme contains a forfeiture clause under the terms...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what steps his Department has taken to address the effect on levels of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department of its ICT purchases since the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) printers and (b) multi-function devices with printing functions were in use in each division of his Department in each of the last five...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many and what proportion of IT products in each category procured for each division of his Department were compliant with the Government's Buy...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been spent on (a) the purchase of and (b) bills for (i) BlackBerrys and (ii) other mobile telephones for (A) Ministers, (B) special advisers...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) BlackBerrys and (b) other mobile telephones have been provided to (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what guidance his Department issues on whether members of staff may claim for travel in first-class carriages on trains if there are no seats in standard class.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been spent on media training for each Minister in his Department in each of the last three years; how many sessions have been provided; and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what his Department's policy is on the practice of holding departmental away days outside the Department's buildings.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the potential of StartHere to deliver the Government's digital inclusion strategy.

To ask the Minister for Women and Equality whether the accounts of the Equality and Human Rights Commission for 2007-08 have been approved by (a) the Board of the Commission and (b) its Audit...

To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what salary bands there are for staff of the commission for equality and human rights; how many staff there are in each band; and if she will make a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of raising the income level at which a household no longer receives full council tax...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of payments from the Social Fund were for crisis loans in the latest period for which information was available; and what other...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the average waiting time for calls made to the Crisis Loans Direct helpline to be answered was in each of the last 12 months; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of his Department's capital expenditure in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and if he...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance his Department issues on whether members of staff may claim for travel in first class carriages on trains if there are no seats...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for (1) what reasons attendance allowance has no component equivalent to the lower rate care component of disability living allowance; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what information his Department collects on the number of claimants of disability living allowance who use the mobility component to enable...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the estimated cost in empty property business rates for the vacant properties recorded on the e-PIMS database owned by (a) the Rent...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff the Health and Safety Executive has relocated in response to the recommendations made by Sir Michael Lyons in his report on...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff are employed by the Health and Safety Executive at its (a) London and (b) Bootle offices; and how many staff were employed at...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what expenditure his Department has incurred in the provision of housing benefit in each year since 1997 at 2008-09 prices.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what his estimate is of the number of individuals over the age of (a) 65 and (b) 68 years who will receive housing benefit in (i) 2020,...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many serious injuries to school teachers caused by physical violence in schools in (a) each local education authority area and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Jobpoints have been set up outside Jobcentre Plus since their inception; and in what locations they have been set up.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of (a) the number of people who have used the Jobcentre Plus rapid response service in the last 12-months and (b)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) benefit delivery centres, (b) customer-facing jobcentres and (c) contact centres Jobcentre Plus operated in each (i) region and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff were employed in (i) benefit delivery centres, (ii) customer-facing jobcentres...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Jobcentre Plus staff there are in each function.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many times the police have been called to jobcentres in each year since 1997; and what the reasons were, broken down by category.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average processing time was for claims for (a) income support, (b) jobseekers' allowance and (c) incapacity benefit in each (i)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how his Department measures the performance against objectives of the Jobcentre Plus rapid response service; (2) what information his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many vacancies are being advertised by Jobcentre Plus, broken down by the level of qualifications required for applicants for the vacancy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the oral answer of 2 February 2009, Official Report, column 573, on jobseeker's allowance, what proportion of the increase since...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of increasing jobseeker's allowance by (a) 100 per cent. for claimants with an unbroken...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what expenditure his Department incurred on support for mortgage interest benefit in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people received support for mortgage interest benefit in each of the last 20 quarters.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will extend the public information zones for the Canvey Island (a) Calor Gas and (b) OIKOS sites; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what substance was spilled at the Canvey Island Calor Gas site on (a) 15 and (b) 25 October 2008; what volume of each substance was spilled;...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when and to whom Calor Gas reported the spillages which occurred at its Canvey Island site on (a) 15 and (b) 25 October 2008; (2)...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will meet a delegation including the hon. Member for Castle Point to discuss the safety of the operation of the Canvey Island Calor Gas site.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment the Health and Safety Executive has made of the risk of a spillage at the Canvey Island Calor Gas site igniting.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he plans to take to inform the public to the change in the scheme for registrations of gas fitters from Corgi to the Gas Safe Register.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Pontypridd of 23 March 2009, Official Report, columns 173-74W, what proportion of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in the UK received the full pension credit because they had (a) a low contributory state pension and (b) no additional...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was paid out from the Social Fund in the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department has spent on each benefit delivery centre in each month since April 2006; and what assessment he has made of the...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the (a) minimum, (b) average and, (c) maximum amount of time required to complete each of the (i) previous and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the level of fraud and error losses in working age income support and jobseeker's allowance in each (a) region...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how much he has allocated to fund the childcare costs of lone parents with young children wishing to return to work in 2009-10; (2) from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the Exchequer of raising the state pension by (a) 10, (b) 25, (c) 50 and (d) 100 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of restoring the link between the basic state pension and earnings in each financial...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions under what budget headings the £350 million spending on Train to Gain announced in the pre-Budget Report beyond spending already announced...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2009, Official Report, column 1210W, on vocational training: lone parents, what steps his Department took...

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 31 March (WS 83—84), what was the estimated size of Communities and...

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 31 March (WS 83—84), what was the estimated size of the Department...

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by the Lord President (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon) on 31 March (WS 83—84), what was the estimated size of the Department...

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will hold their planned consultation on options for maintaining the United Kingdom's capability for intercepting communications data.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the data field for "educational setting" on ContactPoint will be completed for home-educated children and young people.

To ask Her Majesty's Government which official and voluntary organisations from the United Kingdom have been invited to monitor elections in southern Sudan; and whether they will assist in the...

To ask Her Majesty's Government which information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over have been entered into by Communities and Local Government and its predecessors...

To ask Her Majesty's Government which information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over have been entered into by the Department of Health since 1997; and which of those...

To ask Her Majesty's Government which information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over have been entered into by the Department for International Development since 1997;...

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the Department of Health will meet the commitment in the 2005 report of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People, to...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will take steps to ensure that the measurement of pain is routinely assessed with the same priority and frequency as the vital signs, as recommended...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what conclusions they have drawn from the cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights in which the Russian state was a party, or from the 20,296 cases...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what records they hold of the compliance by the Russian Federation with decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in each of the past five years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will make representations to the Government of Iraq about the three-year sentence imposed on 12 March on Mr Muntazer Al-Zaidi.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the Government of Iraq to safeguard the human rights and safety of Iranian residents in Ashraf City; and with what results.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Government of Iraq regarding the alleged execution of gay people in that country.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, since 2008, they have consulted (a) working groups, (b) committees, or (c) expert or advisory groups, on Sharia law.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the National Brownfield Forum has been established; what is its remit; what is its timetable for reporting; and what financial provision has been allocated...

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Darzi of Denham on 24 March (WA 117), how many of the qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff listed as...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay is included in the police DNA database.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of polygamous households in the United Kingdom.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of the murder of Adam Osman Mohammed following his return from the United Kingdom to Southern Darfur, they consider it safe to continue...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what unlawful terrorist-related material the police have caused to be removed without the need for notices to be served under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2006.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how many United Kingdom-based websites contain unlawful terrorist-related material.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to secure the removal of terrorist-related material on non-United Kingdom based websites.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many notices under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2006 have been issued to internet service providers outside the UK.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they have provided to (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, (c) further education colleges, (d) universities, (e) public libraries, and (f)...

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been prosecuted for internet-related terrorist offences in each of the past 10 years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the United Nations has started to investigate alleged war crimes in Lebanon in 2006 and in Gaza in 2008—09; if so, by what means; and when...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in providing medical assistance to those who are suffering from cholera in Zimbabwe; and whether they have the full co-operation of...