Llun, 25 Ionawr 2010
To ask the Prime Minister whether the prices of items in the Downing Street Gift Shop were increased when the value added tax rate returned to 17.5 per cent.
To ask the Prime Minister with reference to the answer of 21 July 2009, Official Report, column 1166W, on Government Departments: security (1) who would be consulted when taking a decision on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will take steps to ensure that employees of (a) his Department, (b) the Police Service of Northern Ireland and (c) the Northern Ireland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted of an assault in which the victim was a child in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the quantity of food waste generated by his Department in each year for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will place in the Library a copy of the results from his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of domestic violence were reported to the police in each (a) police district and (b) council area in Northern Ireland in 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted of (a) a motoring offence that resulted in a fatality and (b) careless driving in each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were subject to a racially-motivated attack in each (a) police district and (b) council district in Northern Ireland in each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of a serious sexual assault in each year since 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether the (a) Department, (b) agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which he has responsibility plan to sign up to the 10:10 campaign...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) mobile telephones and (b) BlackBerrys were provided to (i) Ministers and (ii) special advisers in his Department since April 2009; and at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of Tomorrow's Wales since the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election.
To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission what guidance the Electoral Commission provides to second home owners on their...
To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the merits of holding a national...
To ask the hon. Member for South-West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 22 October...
To ask the hon. Member for South- West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission what information the Electoral Commission holds on the number of election counts...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the monetary value was of allowances paid to his Department's civilian staff based in Afghanistan in 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department is taking to support and promote provincial and district level governance in Afghanistan outside the Kabul district.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 87W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, how many personnel (a) wounded and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much funding he expects to allocate in respect of contract work related to the new aircraft carrier project to be undertaken in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what preparations he has made for the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent research his Department has undertaken on the predictability of the outbreak of future conflicts of (a) a state-against-state and (b) an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service accommodation properties in (a) Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency, (b) the Highlands and (c) Scotland have an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of the recommendations of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review have since been fully funded.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on external consultancy during 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many iPods have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much and what percentage of his Department's budget was spent on (a) pay, (b) pensions and (c) equipment in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans there are for the UK to participate in permanent structured co-operation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate has been made of the cost of deploying Eurofighters to the Falkland Islands; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many aircraft of each type there are in the RAF.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will consider the merits of awarding a General Service Medal to British forces personnel who served in Oman prior to 1970.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the space-based infrared system at RAF Menwith Hill to be operational.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost was of external policing at (a) RAF Menwith Hill and (b) RAF Fylingdales in each year since 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his policy is on women serving as crew members of Her Majesty's submarines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the answer of 29 October 2009, Official Report, column 502W, on Trident, whether the Defence Board has concluded its assessment of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the maintenance cost of the Vanguard class submarines in (a) 2009-10 and (b) each of the next five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the maintenance cost for the Vanguard class submarine was in 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what contracts have been signed in respect of the construction of new (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels since May 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many domestic flights in the UK travelled (a) 300 and (b) 360 miles or less in each of the last three years; and how many such flights...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many flights to (a) domestic destinations, (b) destinations in near Europe and (c) other international destinations departed from UK...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the average distance travelled by (a) domestic excluding lifeline, (b) near Europe and (c) other international flights departing...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the maximum permitted take-off weight for planes departing from UK airports is, broken down by type of plane.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many bus companies have (a) become bankrupt, (b) gone into liquidation, (c) ceased trading for other reasons and (d) started up in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will extend the relaxation of enforcement of EU rules on drivers' hours in the Scottish Highlands and Islands to the week beginning 25...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many iPods have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b) plastic, (c)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps the Highways Agency is taking to ensure that contractors have direct incentives to minimise whole life costs.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the proportion of heavy goods vehicles weighing over 3.5 tonnes registered in (a) the UK and (b) abroad which...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many vehicles of each type there are registered in the UK.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport which local authorities use CCTV cameras for parking enforcement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport when he plans to answer question 300566, on departmental pay, tabled on 18 November 2009.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many train companies have (a) become bankrupt, (b) gone into liquidation, (c) ceased trading for other reasons and (d) started up in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether the review of value for money for the railways announced in the pre-Budget report will be used to assist in deciding overall funding...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will direct train operating companies to offer discounts on season tickets for commuters affected by reduced services in severe...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the cost to the economy of road congestion in the next (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 25 and (d) 50 years.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport which 50 stretches of road have the highest rates of (a) accidents and (b) fatal accidents; and how many (a) accidents and (b) fatal...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the percentage year-on-year change in the number of (a) deaths and (b) serious injury as a result of road accidents has been in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what guidance has been issued to local authorities on the technical aspects of repairing potholes in roads.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what local transport notes have been provided to local highways authorities on the use of guard railing in residential streets.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether there are mechanisms in place to compensate local authorities in circumstances in which companies contracted by them to provide salt...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) whether he has received recent representations on (a) damage to roads in Wirral caused by ice and (b) (i) main roads and (ii) side...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how frequently the Government's Salt Cell meets during periods of extreme weather; how many times it has met since 19 December; and how...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what changes have been made to the requirements on local highways authorities to clear (a) roads and (b) pavements of snow and ice since 1997.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport with reference to the contribution of Lord Davies of Oldham of 2 February 2004, Official Report, House of Lords, column 444, on footpaths...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many requests the Highways Agency has received from Royal Mail to clear the roads (a) in Wirral, South constituency and (b) elsewhere...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what recent reports he has received of fires appearing above the SS Richard Montgomery in the Thames Estuary; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what scenarios have been run under the National Transport Model in the last five years.
To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2010, Official Report, column 1065W, on 14 Tothill Street, what...
To ask the Leader of the House how much was spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he expects Ofcom to designate the Advertising Standards Authority as the regulator for video on demand advertising under the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many sites and monuments are in the guardianship of local authorities under the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many times compulsory purchase powers under (a) the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and (b) other legislation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding he plans to allocate to the (a) British Film Institute National Film Centre, (b) British Museum World Conservation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies plans to sign up to the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been paid in bonuses to civil servants in his Department in each year since 2003.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of local commercial radio stations in Scotland without a digital migration pathway.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what mechanisms are in place to regulate the use of credit card payments to make bets through gambling websites.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many licensed premises there were per 1,000 of population in Birmingham in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the English Heritage at Risk register will next be updated.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what free educational schemes his Department operates in national museums and galleries.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much accrued to the Royal Parks Agency from the encroachment rate payable in Bushy Park in each of the last 10 years; when the rate...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on the research project by Peter Brett Associates on the effects of car parking charges in Richmond and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much the Big Lottery Fund has given to sport-related activities in 2008-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department has provided to local authorities in (a) North East Lincolnshire and (b) North Lincolnshire to meet the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many convictions there have been of residents of Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency for non-payment of a television...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London borough of Bexley have been prosecuted for not having...
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding has been made available for tourism regeneration projects in Torbay constituency in the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many members of staff from each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies are planning to attend the Winter Olympics in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people injured in accidents attributable to adverse weather conditions in January 2010; and what estimate he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people transported to hospital by helicopter in preference to transport by ambulance in December 2009 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of support it provides to carers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people resident in Chesterfield constituency (a) under 18 and (b) over 60 years old were registered as carers in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what support for dementia (a) patients and (b) their carers is being provided from the additional funding awarded to NHS Cumbria through the National...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff in his Department received bonus payments in each of the last five years for which information is available; what proportion of the total...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many officials in his Department earn a salary over £100,000 per annum.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to page 48 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, if he will provide details of the (a) central strategic health authority allocation,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to answer Questions tabled by hon. Members on the operation of (a) NHS foundation trusts and (b) Monitor; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) boys and (b) girls aged (i) under 10, (ii) 10, (iii) 11, (iv) 12, (v) 13, (vi) 14, (vii) 15, (viii) 16, (ix) 17 and (x) 18 years old were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the outcome was of his recent discussions with a delegation from the Isle of Man Government on reciprocal health arrangements; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of (a) all patients and (b) patients aged (i) under 16 years old, (ii) between 16 and 74 years old and (iii) over 74 years...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people aged 60 years and over in (a) England and (b) Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency who...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 11 January 2010, Official Report, column 758W, on hotels, what the cost of his Department's hotel booking contract has been...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the health and safety advice issued to each new starter upon joining his Department.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate has been made of the proportion of people who have mental health problems; and on what basis that estimate is made.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library at the earliest opportunity a copy of the report of the inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust commissioned...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) the executive chairman and (b) each of the five paid directors of Monitor were paid in the latest period figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received from the Charity Commission on changes to accounting standards in respect of charitable donations to hospital...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many clinical negligence cases funded by conditional fee agreements were closed in each of the last five years; in how many such cases damages were...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) financial and (b) other assistance his Department is providing to the social enterprise Your Health proposed by Kingston's Primary Care Trust;...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will bring forward proposals to make it a criminal offence for the food industry to manufacture and sell artificial food products which are known to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent reports he has received from (a) professional, (b) campaigning and (c) other public health organisations on the effects on coronary health...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what research his Department undertook for the purposes of its consultation and impact assessment on automatic generic substitution in respect of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the effect of the Physical Agents Directive on the number of patients per week who receive medical scans.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the costs to his Department arising from the severe weather conditions in the period 4 January to 18 January 2010; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2009, Official Report, column 1059W, on swine influenza: disease control, what consideration he has given to the...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 12 October 2009, Official Report, column 31W, on the Equality and Human...
To ask the Minister for Women and Equality with reference to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's press release of 11 December 2009, on the Hirst decision of the European Court of Human...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if his Department will take further steps to ensure more efficient delivery of liquefied petroleum gas to customers whose supplies have...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the current size of the UK's strategic gas reserve is; and what the UK average daily winter gas demand is.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many times the UK's strategic gas reserves have been drawn on in each year of the last 30 years; for what reason in each case; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the reason for the cost of the finance function of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority referred to in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress he has made on the Government's commitment to raise the perception of energy demand from renewable sources to 15 per...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) how many renewable obligations certificates were issued to developers of renewable energy technologies in (a) 2005, (b) 2006,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what guaranteed price Round 3 offshore wind development partners have been given for the future (a) energy they produce and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the planned timetable is for (a) commissioning and (b) construction of each Round 3 offshore wind (i) generator and (ii) platform.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the evidential basis is for his Department's announcement of 8 January 2010 that 70,000 jobs will be created by the 32 GW of...
To ask the Solicitor-General which of the public appointments for which the Law Officers' Departments are responsible are due to be (a) renewed and (b) filled in the next 24 months; what the...
To ask the Solicitor-General what public appointments are made by (a) Ministers and (b) officials in the Law Officers' Departments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what funding his Department and its agencies provided for social housing in Islington in 2009-10; and how much such funding he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1261W, on the Audit...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 58W, on the Audit Commission:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 7 December 2009, Official Report, column 59W, on the Audit Commission:...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what contribution his Department is making to the Ministry of Justice's proposed accommodation relocation and nationalisation...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many complaints the Local Government Ombudsman has received in relation to waste collection services in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will discuss with his US counterpart the applicability to UK building stock of the report on building sector energy...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of new dwellings built in London were built in areas of high flood risk in the most recent year for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government by what means the contents of the written ministerial statement of 19 January 2010, Official Report, columns 6-7WS, on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what figures his Department and its agencies hold on sale and rent back transactions of domestic properties; (2) how many...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department has commissioned research into the attitudes of home buyers in relation to the effects on buying...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have received Level 6 Code for Sustainable Homes certification. [Official Report, 28 January 2010, Vol. 504, c....
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the status is of the two-tier joint working pathfinder project; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what timetable has been set for the completion of the Audit Commission's study into council publicity expenditure.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many full time-equivalent staff work in his Department's local government review unit on unitary council restructuring.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans he has for elections to the new shadow unitary authorities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations he has received on the recent decision by Lancashire county council to refuse planning permission for a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the average business rates charge in England in 2010-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many charities in England are granted 100 per cent. relief from business rates.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many port companies newly assessed for business rates (a) have and (b) have not accepted the option of paying...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1298W, on non-domestic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what support his Department has made available for the Mersey Coastal Park Strategy; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which regional planning bodies are branded as regional assemblies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when he expects to make a decision on the 199 proposals shortlisted by the Local Government Association and submitted to him...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many hours of training A4e staff working on contracts let by her Department undertake annually.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people received carers' allowance in (a) Torbay constituency, (b) Devon and (c) England in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent steps her Department has taken to publicise the application process for cold weather payments to (a) pensioners and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 57W, whether the notification provides details of the dates for which the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what targets her Department has for (a) the acknowledgement and (b) the issue of a substantive answer to an enquiry from (i) an hon. Member,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether her Department's information assurance procedures have been independently audited.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what powers (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) have to impose administrative...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what volume of waste her Department and its predecessors generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which (a) actors, (b) musicians and (c) other performers were used to support the directgov advertisement, Go DirectGov.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 26 October 2009, Official Report, columns 151-52W, on employment and support allowance, what information her...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the 95,000 jobs announced through the Future Jobs Fund will start between October 2009 and March 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Future Jobs Fund jobs have been confirmed; and how many of them are guaranteed to (a) be permanent, (b) last for up to three months,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 116W, on housing benefit,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) men and (b) women under the age of 18 years were in receipt of housing benefit on the latest date for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to respond to the letter of 18 August 2009 from the right hon. Member for Banff and Buchan on his constituent from Fraserburgh.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the percentage take-up-rate of council tax benefit was amongst pensioners in (a) 1996-97 and (b) the most recent year for which figures...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reasons the £200 payment to pensioners to assist with council tax bills made in March 2005 has not been repeated.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2009, Official Report, column 408W, on crisis loans, how many and what proportion of crisis loan...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment her Department made of the effects on competition in the temporary and agency work sector of the four-year staging period for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance the Health and Safety Executive has published on clearing pavements, roads and paths of ice and snow; what assessment has it made...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate she has made of the average annual cost of implementing the Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps her Department is taking to assist people with autism to obtain support available to them through the benefits system.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the 10 largest benefit debts owed to her Department by individuals were at the latest date for which figures are available; and to which...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how long on average her Department took to investigate alleged instances of benefit overpayment following the death of the claimant in the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions her Department has had with the Law Society on the number of personal estates that are prevented from winding up because of an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much her Department spent on investigating alleged benefit overpayments to claimants in the last 12 months in cases where the claimant had...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases of alleged benefit overpayments her Department investigated on cases where the claimants had since died in each of the last five...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much money her Department recovered from the estates of recently deceased benefit claimants who had received overpayment of benefit in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many state pension payments were delayed in each month of 2009; what the monetary value of such payments was in each such month; and for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners resident in Birmingham are in receipt of winter fuel allowance; and how much her Department paid to such pensioners in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the number of claimants of winter fuel payment in (a) Dunfermline and West Fife constituency and (b) Scotland...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many medical assessments were carried out in respect of claims for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance in (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many medical assessments were carried out for (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance in (i) the UK, (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to her Department's White Paper on Building Britain's Recovery, how many people are in receipt of the disabled worker element of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2009, Official Report, column 300W, on Afghanistan: corruption, how many officials...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that post sent to UK aid workers and others working in Afghanistan is processed as quickly as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of progress in the development of bi-communal civil society links in Cyprus; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the prospects for success of the intensified round of settlement talks in Cyprus; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the outcomes were of (a) his discussions with his Turkish counterpart on 12 January 2010 and (b) the Minister of Europe's...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made with the distribution of the 259 million euros allocated by the EU to northern Cyprus; and if he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will revise his Department's guidance in relation to property development in the north of Cyprus in light of the Court of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in December 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the quantity of food waste generated by his Department in each year for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what volume of waste his Department generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a) paper, (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many events have been held under his Department's EU debate programme; when and where they have been held; what the cost of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of officials in the European External Action Service to be seconded from the diplomatic...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under what authority smoking rooms were set up for participants in the G20 summit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the budget is for the UN Committee on Missing Persons in 2009-10; what recent assessment he has made of the progress the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the (a) date, (b) venue and (c) cost of (i) accommodation, (ii) transport and (iii) security was of each international...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has received on the ending of the UK's bilateral health arrangement with the Isle of Man.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Kazakhstan.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Mexico.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will meet representatives of relevant non-governmental organisations and representatives of the government of Nigeria to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what Government policy is on the legality under international law of the blockade of Gaza; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations his Department has made to the government of South Africa to seek to ensure that street children are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department has recently altered its travel advice in respect of areas close to the Cabinda province of Angola.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the EU to make a final decision on existing preferential trade concessions for Sri Lanka; and if he will make a...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aims and objectives he has set for UK foreign policy in respect of Turkmenistan.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions the then Chancellor of the Exchequer had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the availability of funding for the purchase of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government reached a binding agreement with the Government of Iceland on the repayment of that country's debt to the UK prior to the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much each bank in receipt of public funding has spent on funding the British Bankers' Association since public funding was made available to it.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what discussions he has had with (a) the Payments Council and (b) British banks on the development of a practical alternative to replace cheques...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of child benefit claims in 2009-10 to date have not been processed within (a) 20 days, (b) 40 days, (c) 60 days, (d) 90...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department has taken to ensure that (a) child benefit and (b) child tax credit are received by the parent with care in cases where the...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how long on average it took to process a claim for (a) child benefit and (b) child tax credit in the last 12 months.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) average and (b) longest time taken to resolve a child benefit complaint was in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07, (iii) 2007-08 and (iv) 2008-09.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of childcare providers who have declined to accept payment through the childcare voucher scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in December 2009.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what formal mechanisms are in place for co-operation between HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last three years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Government's Euro National Changeover Plan was last updated.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent version of the Integrated Communication Plan for the Euro Changeover.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he last met Sir John Chadwick to discuss the payment of compensation to Equitable Life policyholders.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much duty has been collected from the whisky industry in each of the last five years.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to ensure Government procurement policies provide equal opportunities to businesses regardless of size.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Government departments and agencies have participated in electronic auctions facilitated by (a) the Office of Government Commerce and (b)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of owners of furnished holiday letting properties who are over the state retirement age.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many hotel room nights were booked by officials in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in each year since 2007; and how much (i) his Department...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on the contribution of that Department towards the housing...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's Rent Service handbook for valuing rental property for housing benefit purposes.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much has been received by the Exchequer in duties collected from companies importing (a) produce and (b) goods into the UK from Moroccan...
To ask Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of working (a) men and (b) women earning less than the income tax personal allowance...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to page 109 of the pre-Budget report 2009, Cm 7747, whether the expected £550 million of savings from local government are to be...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to page 109 of the pre-Budget report 2009, what proportion of the planned £550 million of local government savings will be from more...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tenanted properties were repossessed by mortgage lenders from landlord owners in (a) England and (b) Coventry between 2005 and 2009; what...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of tenants who were evicted as a result of repossession of property by a mortgage lender in cases where landlords...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many income sources (a) terminated and (b) commenced during (i) 2006, (ii) 2007, (iii) 2008 and (iv) 2009.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the owners of the Gunwharf site in Portsmouth have paid to the Exchequer in clawback payments; and on what date each instalment of such payments...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many private finance initiative projects have been undertaken by his Department in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) Hemel Hempstead constituency in the last...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost of preparing whole of Government accounts was in each year since 2000.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether HM Revenue and Customs has plans for staff redundancies at the Banbury tax office.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information his Department holds on reasons for which complaints were made to Revenue and Customs about its services in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much in (a) direct and (b) indirect taxes was (i) collected and (ii) administered by HM Revenue and Customs' office in Elgin in each year since 2006.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff were based at HM Revenue and Customs and its predecessor organisations' office in Elgin in each year since 2006.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps HM Revenue and Customs plans to take to retain the knowledge of the whisky industry of the staff at its Elgin office following the closure of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what consultation HM Revenue and Customs held with its staff based at Elgin over the workforce change programme; (2) what assessment has been made of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what consultation HM Revenue and Customs undertook with the representatives of the whisky industry over the closure of its office in Elgin.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assistance HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has offered staff at Elgin over the workforce change programme; whether HM Revenue and Customs plans any...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the outcomes were of the HM Revenue and Customs (a) Customer Journeys Individuals (two phases) and (b) Complaints Tracking Research (three phases)...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of calls to the tax credits helpline were terminated before being answered by an operator in (a) the month preceding the tax...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the answer of 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 590W, on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), what measures and indicators HMRC uses to...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what telephone lines are available for hon. Members to contact HM Revenue and Customs.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough of his Department's...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the average length of time taken was for (a) all claimant and (b) claimants who are citizens of EU A8 and A2 countries of tax credits who...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of making the personal allowance transferable between members of couples individually subject to the basic...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the status is of the national implementation programme for the In and Out of Work scheme.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many programmes for which HM Revenue and Customs is responsible have a verification procedure for access by users to (a) their tax records and (b) HM...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the evidential basis is for the statement in his Department's document, "Impact assessment of withdrawing the furnished holiday letting rules", that...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment his Department has made of the extent of the practice of re-designating property ownership to avoid tax liability on the sale of...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many appeals from which ports against the (a) new rating assessments and (b) demands for retrospective payments by the Valuation Office Agency have...
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether remuneration arrangements for members of the Valuation Office Agency board include benefits in kind.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he has taken to prevent poor and vulnerable people being required to repay overpayments of tax credits received for 2003-04 and 2004-05; and if...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what aid his Department provided to China in 2009; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) associated non-departmental public bodies plan to sign up to the 10:10 campaign...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many iPODs have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what volume of waste his Department and its predecessors generated in each of the last three years; what percentage of this was (a)...
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to assist the development of a safe, effective and affordable malaria vaccine.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to develop links between schools in the UK and in developing countries.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 13 January 2010, Official Report, column 1014W, on overseas aid, how much expenditure by Government...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his policy is on teaching about homosexuality in personal, social, health and economic education lessons in state-funded schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he is taking to recruit additional teachers of (a) mathematics and (b) science; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his Department's estimate is of the number of children who returned to care after an adoptive placement in the latest period...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made in the national challenge for schools; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools did not meet the national challenge benchmark in their GCSE results for 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress his Department has made towards its objective of opening 3,500 children's centres by 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he next expects to meet representatives of teachers' unions to discuss policy on exclusions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service's budget was in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10; and what...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many individual children's cases the Children's Rights Director's office considered in 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent teaching assistants there were in schools in Stroud constituency in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assets of his Department are planned to be sold in each year from 2009-10 to 2013-14; what the (a) description and (b) book...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on bottled drinking water since 1 April 2009; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much expenditure his Department has incurred in respect of (a) air, (b) rail, (c) taxi and (d) car travel undertaken by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils in each year cohort were eligible for free school meals in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of 15 year olds entitled to free school meals achieved five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of pupils at schools in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency have been identified as gifted and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he plans to publish the results of his consultation on home education registration and monitoring.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much he expects his Department to spend on giving free books to 11-year-olds in each of the next three years; and if he will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on how many pupils with a valid level of both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 the information in Table 6 of DCSF: National Curriculum...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the budget is of the National Safeguarding Delivery Unit for (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department and its predecessors have allocated for the encouragement of physical exercise for pupils in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the unauthorised absence rate was for pupils in (a) Lewes constituency and (b) East Sussex in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average (a) authorised, (b) unauthorised and (c) persistent absence rate for (i) boys and (ii) girls at Key Stage 4...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his policy is on the recording in statistics on absenteeism those children who are receiving treatment, in hospital or at...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many and what proportion of pupils (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals were classified as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether pupils who do not attend school because of (a) travel difficulties and (b) school closure in severe weather are...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on local health services training for school staff in the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children with epilepsy there are in mainstream schools.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much local authorities spent on IT procurement for schools in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools have closed owing to adverse weather conditions in (a) Leicester, (b) the East Midlands and (c) England in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average staff to pupil ratio is in secondary schools in (a) York and (b) England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to the Slough constituency, the effects on Slough...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the income of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (a) is in 2009-10 and (b) is expected to be in 2010-11 from (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Aylesbury of 16 October 2009, Official Report, column 1106W, on schools:...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged between 16 and 18 have (a) been given and (b) breached an antisocial behaviour order in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding his Department has allocated to initiatives to tackle antisocial behaviour in (a) the London borough of Bexley and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been arrested for offences connected to forgery of passports in each year since 1997; (2) how many people have...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1529W, on asylum:...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1529W, on asylum:...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of people in North Wales was reported by the British Crime Survey as very worried about (a) theft from a car, (b) burglary...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of burglary were recorded in Birmingham in each year since 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding his Department has allocated to (a) the Tackling Knives Action Programme and (b) the Tackling Gangs Action Programme for (i)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which (a) 10 police forces and (b) basic command units recorded the (i) largest reductions in crime and disorder rates in the last 10 years...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on crime awareness campaigns in universities in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) muggings and (b) snatch thefts of mobile telephones were recorded in (i) London and (ii) England and Wales in each year since...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes involving the use of a knife were recorded by police in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last three...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many recorded incidents of robbery there were (a) in total and (b) per head in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded (a) in total and (b) per capita in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the level of recorded crime was in Birmingham in (a) 1997 and (b) the latest period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change in (a) overall recorded crime, (b) recorded violent crime, (c) burglary and (d) vehicle thefts in Houghton and...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders received a police caution for grievous bodily harm in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by his Department and its agencies on conferences they organised which were subsequently cancelled in each of the last...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department has allocated to spend on maintaining its Flickr channel in 2009-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department has allocated to maintenance of its Twitter feed in 2009-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people work on his Department's social media and networking sites; and at what cost in 2009-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many press releases his Department has issued in the last 12 months.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the latest estimate is of the level of failure demand in each call centre run by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of recorded crimes of each type were detected using DNA profiles from the national DNA database in the latest...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in each region were convicted of (a) a motoring offence that resulted in a fatality and (b) careless driving in 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to Public Service Agreement 25 on drug-related offending, referred to on page 15 of his Department's Autumn Performance Report...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders received a police caution for the possession of drugs in each year since 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attacks on (a) police, (b) fire and (c) ambulance services responding to 999 calls were recorded in each police force area in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those granted visas to study in the UK in the last three years subsequently did not complete their courses.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many colleges were approved by the UK Border Agency between December 2008 and December 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many student visas were issued from the beginning of December 2008 to December 2009; and how many such visas were issued to students from...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations his Department has received in the last 12 months on the issue of a two-year visa for a person to visit a spouse...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what subjects at what level had been taught to foreign national students who have been deported from the UK on grounds of national security...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty fines (a) have been issued and (b) remain outstanding or not paid in (i) West Chelmsford constituency and (ii)...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people had registered an interest in identity cards and the National Identity Service on the Identity and Passport Service website...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, column 1388W, on departmental legal costs, what the reasons are for the costs...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 145W, on identity cards, what proportion of the 2,400 applicants have been...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether children who apply for a national identity card will have their fingerprints taken.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who are not required to have an identity card have applied for a voluntary national identity card.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals are recorded on the National Identity Register.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to Lord Stoddart of Swindon of 14 October 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, columns 26-7WA, on the...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff work for the Office of the Identity Commissioner.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police warrant cards have been reported (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) police officers and (b) police civilian staff there were in Greater Manchester in (i) 1997, (ii) 2008 and (iii) 2009;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the (a) largest, (b) smallest and (c) average expenditure was on a Serious and Organised Crime Agency operation in each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what crime rates were reported for (a) vehicle-related theft and (b) burglary in a dwelling in North Wales in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on the constituency of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent research he has evaluated on the effects on mammalian health of genetically-modified products.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of the fee accompanying a planning application for a wind turbine development is allocated to the local...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate she has made of the number and percentage of charities which do not have established complaints procedures in the latest year for which...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what funding her Department has provided to charities to tackle socio-economic disadvantage and promote social inclusion in the last 12 months.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which executive agencies are not deemed to be part of the civil service for the purposes of civil service headcounts.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the written ministerial statement of 24 June 2009, Official Report, column 57WS, on Report to Parliament on Civil Service...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what guidance her Department has produced for other departments on re-employing former civil servants as (a) fee-paid staff, (b) contractors, (c)...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 20 July 2009, Official Report, column 1035W, on civil servants: pay, if she will place in the Library a copy of the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many obesity-related deaths there have been in each year since 1997.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the written statement of 24 November 2009, Official Report, column 34WS, on the departmental expenditure limit 2009-10, what the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what criminal offences have been (a) created and (b) abolished by primary legislation sponsored by her Department since 1 May 2008.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, column 1254W, on departmental manpower, what the job title was of each of the 200 staff...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how much her Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last three years; (2) how much has...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the yearly running costs, excluding value added tax and including service fees and rental costs, of a photocopier in her Department were in the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will place in the Library a copy of her Office's most recent organisational chart.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether her Department plans to respond to the parts of the Review of the lessons learned from the Metropolitan Police Service's investigation of Home...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the difference was between the size of the electorate in each parliamentary constituency in 1997 and (a) the date of dissolution of the 2001-05...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people are employed in the (a) service sector and (b) financial sector in Portsmouth; and how many people are employed in (i) commerce and...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 411W, on disclosure of information, if she will place in the Library a copy...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much was spent on information and communication technology across central Government in the latest year for which information is available.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much has been spent on information and communications technology across central Government since 1997-98.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will place in the Library a copy of the Central Office of Information's White Book produced for the second half of 2009.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many layers of line management there are in her Department; and what estimate she has made of the average number of layers of line management in...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer was in Torbay constituency in...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what the cost to the public purse was of the Scope IT project; how much was paid to IBM in respect of the project; and how much is planned to be...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate (a) the Office of National Statistics and (b) the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of net additional jobs created by the...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women in each constituency in Devon and Cornwall geographical region (i) is and (ii) was in (A)...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what her Department's timetable is for the publication online of information about ministerial meetings with outside interest groups.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment she has made of energy and climate change-related threats to national security.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how much was spent from the public purse on executive non-departmental public bodies in 2008-09; (2) how much has been spent from the public...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) mean and (b) median full-time wage for (i) private sector and (ii) public sector employees was in (A) 1997 and (B) the most recent period...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average percentage rise in salary has been for (a) members of the academic staff in further education colleges, (b) teachers in secondary...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) men and (b) women in each local authority area earn more than £100,000 per annum.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what measures the Office for National Statistics uses of private sector productivity; and what estimate has been made of the change in private sector...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what measures the Office for National Statistics uses of public sector productivity; and what estimate has been made of the change in public sector...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office on what dates the Public Services Forum task group on the Joint Statement on Access to Skills, Trade Unions and Advice in Government Contracting has met...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the operation of the National Code of Governance for the Voluntary and Community Sectors;...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department and its predecessor has spent on advertising apprenticeship schemes and services in each of...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what proportion of people starting apprenticeship schemes have been from an ethnic minority background since...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many people have dropped out of apprenticeships in each year since 1997; (2) how many people started but...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many people aged (a) between 16 and 18, (b) 18 and 25 and (c) over 25 years old started an advanced...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in which industry sectors have apprenticeships been created under the National Apprenticeship Service.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the average cost to the public purse of a fully-funded apprenticeship was in the last period for which figures...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent per adult student participating in (a) apprenticeships and (b) advanced apprenticeships in the...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will undertake an impact assessment for the (a) retail and (b) bill payments sector of Camelot's proposed...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what information his Department holds on the number of companies in (a) Leeds West constituency, (b) Leeds and (c)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much expenditure under each budgetary heading his Department has spent on advertising the TrustMark scheme in each...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department holds records on the efficiency achieved by its (a) executive agencies and (b)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether written health and safety advice is issued to new employees in his Department.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many iPods have been bought by his Department since its establishment; and at what cost.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing on networked computers.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department spent on maintaining its Flickr channel in the latest period for which figures are available.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Departmental Trade Union Side Officers agreement.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many trade union side officers are employed by his Department; and how many full-time equivalent staff in his...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 6 January 2010, Official Report, columns 420-21W, on digital broadcasting: radio, whether...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment he has made of (a) the availability of radio microphones and similar technologies that will be...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many English language schools have been found to be operating below standard upon inspection in the last 12...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people have been certified by English language schools in the period between those schools being deemed to...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many colleges have (a) applied for and (b) received exceptional support funding from the Learning and Skills...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many full-time officials in his Department have responsibility for policy on the retail petrol industry; and...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of university students who have withdrawn from a course as a result of a delay...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what percentage of pupils who were (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals took up a...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the amount of financial support provided by (a) UK and (b) non-UK (i) private sector...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what higher educational facilities in the UK receive funding from overseas Governments.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 810W, on higher education: admissions, what the...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many non-EU overseas students were accepted onto an undergraduate or postgraduate course, paid their fees, and...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent representations he has received from university and college unions on his Department's proposed changes to...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many residents of Torbay constituency attended university (a) in 1997 and (b) in the most recent academic year...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department plans to establish a University of Wirral under its new University Challenge scheme.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for what reasons the offices of (a) the Commissioner for Rights of Trade Union Members and (b) the Commissioner for...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to ensure effective co-operation between college and university careers services...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what proportion of people in work in Salford have received pay at the national minimum wage rate since...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what export of military equipment to Morocco for use in Western Sahara he most recently licensed; and on what date.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the implication for competition in the UK retail motor industry of the European...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate his Department has made of the value added to the economy by the National Physical Laboratory.
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many employees of his Department and its agencies have been convicted of a criminal offence of each type in each...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will put in place procedures to record separately the export of products to those Moroccan settlements in the...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many foreign nationals have studied at English language schools in England which have subsequently been closed for...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Vauxhall constituency, the effects on...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what information his Department holds on levels of investment by the programme making and special events sector in...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he expects the migration of programme making and special events users from the digital dividend spectrum channels...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the (a) address and (b) area is of each regional development agency property which is (i) occupied and (ii)...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what discussions he has had with Royal Mail on delivery routes in areas which are not receiving mail because of...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students in higher education have received payments in respect of (a) tuition fee loans, (b) maintenance...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students normally resident in Gloucestershire have (a) attended and (b) received student loans to attend...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from what supermarkets he has received representations on the recommendation of the Competition Commission to...
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent representations his Department has received on the skills and training requirements of people with autism.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many representations he has received from hon. Members on the conduct of Burges Salmon LLP Solicitors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many convictions there have been under section (a) 9, (b) 10, (c) 11, (d) 12, (e) 13 and (f) 14 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 as amended by...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many certificated bailiffs have been struck off the HM Courts Service bailiff register in the last 36 months; and on what grounds such bailiffs may...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the timetable is for the commencement of the provisions of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 relating to allowing a judgment creditor...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether HM Courts Service's evaluation of taking payments from debtors by credit card is now complete.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many iPods have been bought by his Department since 2005; and at what cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff in his Department received bonus payments in 2008; what proportion of the total work force they represented; what the total amount of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been paid in bonuses to civil servants in his Department in each year since 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding his Department has allocated for (a) year-end and (b) in-year bonuses for its staff in 2009-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses were paid to officials in his Department in each of the last three years; and how much was paid in such...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) average and (b) highest non-consolidated performance-related payment was in cash terms for a senior civil servant in his Department in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) males and (b) females in each age group who were prosecuted for speeding offences were subsequently found to be without (i) insurance and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the timetable is for the introduction of individual electoral registration.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many sales orders in respect of residential property there were in each year since 1997; and how many charging orders over residential properties...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions, (b) convictions and (c) cautions there were for offences under the Hunting Act 2004 in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009 to date.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether his Department has entered into any contracts with Kellogg, Brown and Root or its subsidiaries since January 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of (a) the number of staff expected to leave posts at the Land Registry as a result of the review of its offices and (b) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what reason the (a) Chief Executive and (b) Director of Operations left their positions at the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which magistrates courts do not have on-site facilities for payment to be made in person.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the collection rate is for fines levied by each magistrates court.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which magistrates courts have withdrawn in-person fine payment facilities in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 14 December 2009 concerning a constituent.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the statutory legal grounds are by which it is claimed the Act of Settlement excludes illegitimate children from a right to succession to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether the UK's interpretative declaration in respect of articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on the Legal Status of Children Born Out Of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what external legal advice he has taken in respect of the rights of illegitimate children in succession to the Crown, and the UK's interpretative...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to his Department's consultation on defamation, the internet and the multiple publication rule.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Standards for Enforcement Agents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to his Department's consultation on the future of the Parole Board.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many full-time equivalent staff are working on preparation of his Department's response to its consultation on pleural plaques.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many juveniles remanded in custody were subsequently (a) acquitted and (b) given a non-custodial sentence in (i) a magistrates' court and (ii) the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) men and (b) women released from prison in each year since 2000 had served (i) four, (ii) five, (iii) six, (iv) seven, (v) eight, (vi) nine...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to his Department's second consultation on the voting rights of prisoners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which prisons in England and Wales provide (a) free parking and (b) charged parking for (i) disabled and (ii) other visitors.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether his Department issues guidance to other Government Departments on the circumstances in which privacy impact assessments are (a) required and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice on what grounds a public body may make a request under the Re-Use of Public Sector Information rules.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Thames Valley Police's rape awareness campaign.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent discussions he has had with the US authorities on the Red Hook Project; and whether he plans to introduce such a project.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has for the further use of restorative justice schemes in respect of young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what average fine was imposed for each type of (a) summary non-motoring offence, (b) summary motoring offence and (c) indictable offence in 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) of 19 October 2009, Official Report, column 1321W, on the Standards Board for...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to publish his response to his Department's consultation on weekend voting.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many sentences for each type of offence were handed down to young offenders in 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many juveniles sentenced to a custodial sentence in the last year for which information is available had served more than three previous custodial...
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the policy of the Youth Justice Board is on access by former employees to (a) laptops, (b) emails, (c) electronic files and (d) information...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what lessons have been learnt from casualties caused by "friendly fire" in (a) Afghanistan, and (b) Iraq, in order to reduce such instances in the future. To ask...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what impact the introduction of a policy of minimum pricing for alcoholic drinks would have on revenues to HM Treasury. To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much would be due from Airbus to the Government or vice versa, under the contractual conditions applying on 31 December 2009, should they cancel their order...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how many skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers would find further employment within three months if their order for the...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have discussed with Boeing or Lockheed the availability of C17s or C130s should they decide to cancel their order for the A400M aircraft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have discussed with the Government of the United States how Her Majesty's Government could satisfy their airlift requirements, should they cancel...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what type of mission or capability the A400M aircraft will be used for that cannot be satisfied by a combination of C130s and C17s.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have asked the United States Air Force how it performs the roles that Her Majesty's Government envisages being performed by the A400M aircraft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether their defence procurement policy takes account of the production lines of both the C130 and the C17 still being open.
To ask Her Majesty's Government when is the next occasion for a decision by the consortium of participating countries to cancel the A400M aircraft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish any representations they have received from other members of the consortium on the possible cancellation of the A400M aircraft.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have had any enquiries from any other members of NATO as to the possibility of buying the A400M aircraft. To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the order for the A400M aircraft had been cancelled as of 31 December 2009.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many orders they expect to be placed for the A400M aircraft in 2010 from countries who are not part of the manufacturing consortium.
To ask Her Majesty's Government for how many months they forecast the Royal Air Force will run a three aircraft fixed wing transport fleet, should the order for the A400M aircraft continue.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much degradation to the original specifications of the A400M aircraft would cause them to reduce their financial contribution to the programme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the gross cost to the United Kingdom taxpayer of the British military presence in (a) Afghanistan, (b) Iraq, (c) Falkland Islands, (d) Northern Ireland...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan for new Chinook helicopters to be given clearances with limited evidence, allowing them to be in service quickly.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of lending by the United Kingdom retail banking sector to small and medium-sized enterprises; and what steps they will...
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the practice of paying bonuses to civil servants began; and what was the total paid in each year since 1997.
To ask Her Majesty's Government to what public posts Sir Richard Dannatt has been appointed since his retirement as Chief of the General Staff.
To ask Her Majesty's Government why the take-up of child tax credits for nursery provision is at its current level.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how 600,000 childcare places for two year-olds will be funded.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that when a customer makes a payment against their credit card debt it is allocated to the debt attracting the highest rate...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what Bills were introduced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and its predecessors in each session since 2005.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what criminal offences have been created by Acts of Parliament promoted by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and its predecessors since 2005.
To ask the Chairman of Committees further to his Written Answer on 23 October 2009 (WA 100) on carbon emissions, whether he will write the letter referred to in the Answer.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proposals they have to promote competitiveness and economic growth in the European Union over the next 10 years.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what conclusions they have drawn from the European Union Lisbon Strategy for economic growth regarding better economic co-operation in future European Union growth...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what targets they have proposed to European Union states for economic growth in the European Union in the next ten years.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there are proposals by the European Commission to introduce a common tax base for business; and, if so, whether they support such a measure.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether proposals to introduce a common tax base for business would require a unanimous vote of the Council of the European Union.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the level of participation in the latest auction for long-term Government bond purchases.
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Myners on 2 April 2009 (Official Report, House of Lords, col. 1173) on equity release, what steps they have taken since then...
To ask Her Majesty's Government which departments hold personal information in electronic form on archive; and what rules govern extracting such information from an archive or moving it between...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Barbara Follett, on 9 December 2009 (Official...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Crawley on 19 January (WA 236-7), what proportion of United Kingdom gross domestic product was represented by...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment has been made of the impact of the proposed revisions to the Export Credits Guarantee Department's business principles and ancillary policies on...
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Bach on 8 December 2009 (WA 112), whether they will publish for consultation a draft protocol on when to hold an inquiry...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications there have been for live music under the Legislative Reform (Minor Variations to Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates) Order...
To ask Her Majesty's Government when Ofqual will be established; and what was the legal authority for making the Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations Order 2009 (SI 2009/3208).
To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued to officials at the Traffic Enforcement Centre at Northampton County Court who make court orders accepting or rejecting out-of-time...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to prevent the outbreak of Q-Fever amongst goats in the Netherlands from reaching the United Kingdom.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what response they will send to organisations advocating an end to compulsory retirement ages.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they respond to the comments made by the Communications Champion Jean Gross that many children lack the vocabulary skills to ensure future employment.
To ask Her Majesty's Government why they have yet to respond to the recommendation of the Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum by Sir John Rose about introducing synthetic phonics in schools.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much income tax was paid by writers on the sale of their archives in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08, and (c) 2008-09.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what parliamentary committees and authorities were consulted over the 2008 extensions to the Westminster World Heritage Site.
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