Written Answers for 16 April 2007

Leader of the House

Orders and Regulations

Church Commissioners

Clergy Working Group
Sex Discrimination

Electoral Commission Committee

Electoral Commission

Deputy Prime Minister

Departments: Postal Services
Departments: Redundancy
Labour Party: Conferences
Post Offices

Duchy of Lancaster

Civil Servants: Political Impartiality
Policy Review

Wales

Council Tax: Valuation

Constitutional Affairs

Bailiffs: Certification
Coroners: Armed Forces
Courts
Courts: Nottingham
Courts: Pay
Custody: Parents
Enforcement Law Reform Group
Fixed Penalties
John Smith Memorial Trust
Legal Aid
Legal Aid: Northamptonshire
Legal Aid: Wales
Legal Aid: Wellingborough
Prisoners
Unpaid Fines

Culture, Media and Sport

Museum Collections
Freeview
Racism in Sport
Culture: Huddersfield
Football Governance
School Sports
Arts: Hartlepool
Departments: Freedom of Information
Departments: Public Appointments
Departments: Redundancy
Digital Switchover
Elgin Marbles
Energy: Conservation
Football: World Cup
Licensed Premises: East Sussex
National Lottery: Hampshire
Olympic Games
Olympic Games: Greater London
Radio Frequencies: Licensing
Sports: Finance
Tourism
Tourism: Smoking

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Afghanistan: Drugs
Afghanistan: Peace Keeping Operations
Afghanistan: Scholarships
British Nationality: Overseas Residence
Burma
Burma: EU External Relations
Burma: Ethnic Groups
Burma: Human Rights
Council of Europe
Departments: Public Appointments
Departments: Redundancy
Diplomatic Service
Diplomatic Service: Languages
Diplomatic Service: Retirement
EU Gender Institute
European Union
European Union: Citizenship
Iraq: Casualties
Iraq: Oil
Kazakhstan: Human Rights
Nigeria: Politics and Government
Nigeria: Religious Freedom
Occupied Territories: Property Transfer
Philippines: Human Rights
Queen Elizabeth II: Anniversaries
Russia: Latvia
Somalia
Somalia: Armed Conflict
Somalia: Ethiopia
Somalia: Official Visits
Somalia: Terrorism
Sri Lanka: Human Rights
Sri Lanka: Politics and Government
Sudan: Peace Negotiations
Syrian Arab Republic: Kamal al-Labwani
Turkey: EC Enlargement
USA: Prince Charles
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Politics and Government

Transport

A1307: Accidents
A6 and A45 Interchange
Biofuels: North West Region
British Railways Board (Residuary)
Bus Services: Concessions
Bypasses: Kettering
Driving Offences: Insurance
Exhaust Emissions
First Great Western: Rolling Stock
HGV Drivers
HM Coastguard: Privatisation
Invalid Vehicles
Members: Correspondence
Motor Vehicles: Registration
Motorcycles: Licensing
Pedestrian Crossings
Public Transport: Greater London
Railways: Franchises
Railways: Litter
Railways: Portsmouth
Rights of Way
Speed Limits: East Sussex
Speed Limits: East Yorkshire
Taxis: Kent

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Wages Board
Agriculture: Air Pollution
Agriculture: Subsidies
Air Pollution: Government Departments
Avian Influenza: North West Region
Biofuels
Biofuels: Hemp
Bluetongue Disease
Bluetongue Disease: Disease Control
Bovine Tuberculosis
Bovine Tuberculosis: Cheshire
Bovine Tuberculosis: Compensation
Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
British Waterways: Finance
Bull-fighting: EC Grants and Loans
Chlorofluorocarbons
Climate Change: Finance
Coastal Areas: Access
Coastal Areas: Flood Control
Common Agricultural Policy
Common Fisheries Policy
Consultants
Dairy Farming
Departments: East Sussex
Departments: EC Action
Departments: Email
Departments: Employment Tribunals Service
Departments: Non-departmental Public Bodies
Departments: Older Workers
Departments: Personation
Departments: Public Expenditure
Departments: Redundancy
Departments: Travel
Departments: Work Permits
Diabrotica Virgifera
Domestic Waste
Domestic Wastes: Waste Management
Endangered Species
Energy: Conservation
Environment Agency: Finance
Farm Inspections
Fish: River Don
Fisheries
Fisheries: Quotas
Flood Control
Genetically Modified Organisms: Netherlands
Genetically Modified Organisms: Potatoes
Genetically Modified Organisms: Research
Home Energy Efficiency Scheme
Home Energy Efficiency Scheme: Complaints
Inland Waterways: Finance
Litter
Maps: EC Action
Marine Fisheries Agency
Organic Farming: Milk
Packaging
Palm Oil
Paper: Recycling
Pesticides
Polyethylene Terephthalate: Recycling
Rats
Recycling: Standards
Reservoirs
Round Up Ready Alfalfa
Seals: Canada
State Veterinary Service
Veterinary Services: Rural Areas
Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966
Warm Front Scheme: East Sussex
Waste Disposal
Waste Disposal: Schools
Waste Management
Water Supply: Orders and Regulations
Water: Bills

International Development

Afghanistan: Overseas Aid
Afghanistan: Schools
Africa: Health Workers
Africa: HIV Infection
Africa: Maternal Mortality
Burma: Overseas Aid
Cocoa: Imports
Democratic Republic of Congo: Overseas Aid
Departments: Advertising
Departments: Pressure Groups
Developing Countries: Health Education
Developing Countries: Maternity Services
Developing Countries: Overseas Aid
Developing Countries: Pesticides
European Civil Peace Corps
European Development Fund
Gaza: Sewers
India
Kashmir: Earthquakes
Orphans: Finance
Overseas Aid: Publicity
Overseas Aid: Water
Serbia: Overseas Aid
Somalia: Overseas Aid
Sudan: Overseas Aid
Tanzania: Overseas Aid
Uganda
Written Questions
Zambia: Overseas Aid
Zambia: Paediatrics

Defence

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Force Levels
Afghanistan: Peace Keeping Operations
Air Force: Calendars
Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft Carriers: Procurement
Animal Experiments
Armed Forces: Children
Armed Forces: Council Tax
Armed Forces: Deployment
Armed Forces: Desertion
Armed Forces: Discharges
Armed Forces: Health Services
Armed Forces: Housing
Armed Forces: Israel
Armed Forces: MRSA
Armed Forces: Northern Ireland
Armed Forces: Pay
Armed Forces: Public Perception
Armed Forces: Personnel’s Perception
Armed Forces: Rules of Engagement
Armed Forces: Selly Oak Hospital
Armed Forces: Uniforms
Army Board: Members
Army Board: Official Cars
Army Costs
Army: Discharges
Army: Manpower
Army: Northern Ireland
Astute Class Submarines
Basra Air Base
Bell 412 Helicopter
Conflict Prevention
Departmental Offices
Departments: Compensation
Departments: Public Appointments
Departments: Public Expenditure
Departments: Publicity
Departments: Repairs and Maintenance
Departments: Trade Unions
Diego Garcia: USA
EC Defence Policy
Eurofighter
Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent White Paper
Gurkhas
Harrier GR7
Hercules Aircraft
International Security Assistance Force
Iraq: Peace Keeping Operations
Iraq: Reconstruction
Iraq: Territorial Waters
Royal Navy: GPS
Lynx Helicopter
Military Aircraft: Helicopters
MOD Police
Navy: Deployment
Navy: Recruitment
Navy: Warships
RAF Feltwell
RAF Menwith Hill
Royal Ordnance Factories: Chorley
Service Personnel
Territorial Army: Desertion
Type 22 Frigates
Warships: Gulf
World War II: Bombs

Trade and Industry

Alternative Energy
Animal Experiments: Cosmetics
Anti-dumping: EC Action
Competition Commission
Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations
Departments: Pressure Groups
Departments: Redundancy
Departments: Reorganisation
Digital Switchover
EC Trade
Electricity: Meters
Employment: Discrimination
Energy: Bills
Insolvency: Directors
IT: Labour Market
Low Carbon Buildings Programme
Postal Services
Postal Services: Competition
Postal Services: Regulation
Public Bodies: Reorganisation
Radio Frequencies: Licensing
Renewable Energy Grants
Renewable Energy: Finance
Satellites
Seals: EC Action
Severn Barrage
Small Businesses
Solar Power: Grants
Telecommunications: Fees and Charges
Tour Operators: Competition
Tour Operators: Mergers

Northern Ireland

Arts: Finance
Autism
Belfast-Bangor County Down Railway Line
Community Service
Complementary Medicine
Council Tax
Creative Youth Partnerships Programme
Departments: Advertising
Departments: Consultants
Departments: Pressure Groups
Departments: Work Permits
Desmond Clayton
Diabetes
Doctors: Pay
Doctors: Training
Domestic Rates
Domestic Rates: Valuation
Domestic Waste: Republic of Ireland
Educational Psychology
Excise Duties: Motor Vehicles
Fly-tipping
Graffiti
Health and Social Services Authority
Hearing Aids
Irish Language
Macular Degeneration
Motor Vehicles
National Institute for Health and Clinical Guidance
New Businesses
North South Implementation Bodies
Northern Ireland Executive: Departmental Co-ordination
Orchestras: Finance
Outdoor Advertising
Planning
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Redundancy Pay
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
Prisons: Northern Ireland
Pupils: Intimidation
Racial Hostility Offences
Railways: Freight
Rates and Rating
Regeneration: Belfast
Roads: Bangor
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children: Surgery
Sentencing
Social Services: Sexual Offences
Social Services: Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust
South Eastern Education and Library Board
Special Educational Needs
Speed Limits
Stillbirths: Miscarriage
Suicide
Tomography: Waiting Lists
Translation Services
Valuation and Lands Agency
Victims: Finance
Voluntary Organisations: Health Services
Water Treatment: Ballyhalbert
William Frazer
Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre
Written Questions

Work and Pensions

Advertising
Benefit Fraud
Child Support Agency
Children: Poverty
Council Tax Benefits: Carlisle
Departmental Fixed Assets
Departmental Offices
Departmental Staff
Departmental Databases
Departmental Paper
Disability Living Allowance
Employment
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment Schemes
Employment Schemes: Manpower
Gershon Review
Housing Benefit
Housing Benefit: Shared Housing
Income Support
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentres: Norfolk
National Insurance Numbers
New Deal Schemes
New Deal Schemes: Kidderminster
New Deal Schemes: Sanctions
Pathways to Work: Standards
Pesticides: Export Controls
Smith Institute: Finance
Social Fund
Social Fund: Greater London
Social Security Benefits
Social Security Benefits: Disabled
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Social Security Benefits: Highland Council
Social Security Benefits: Postal Services
Social Security Benefits: Sanctions
Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services
Social Security Benefits: Terrorism
State Retirement Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Carers
Voluntary Organisations: Religion
Welfare to Work: Reform
Winter Fuel Payments
Young Persons

Communities and Local Government

Community Development: Religion
Council Housing: Property Transfer
Council Tax
Council Tax: Part-time Students
Council Tax: Fines
Councillors: Payments
Departments: Databases
Departments: Manpower
Departments: Paper
Departments: Pay
Departments: Public Appointments
Departments: Publicity
Discrimination
Emergency Services: Reorganisation
Fire Services
Gaming Clubs: Planning Permission
Ground Rent: East Sussex
Hartlepool Borough Council: Government Assistance
Heat: Wastes
Home Information Packs
Housing
Housing Associations: Charities
Housing Corporation
Housing: Construction
Housing: Disabled
Housing: Energy
Housing: Finance
Housing: Greater London
Housing: Hartlepool
Housing: Inspections
Housing: Low Incomes
Housing: Racial Discrimination
Housing: West Midlands
IPPR
Land Use: Planning
Local Authority Land Sales
Local Government Executive
Local Government Finance: Housing
Lyons Inquiry
Mortgages: Climate Change
Motorway Service Areas
Parish Councils
Public Requests Ordering Disposal
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
Social Rented Housing
Unitary Councils: Bedfordshire
Written Questions
Yalberton Valley

Education and Skills

Adoption: China
After-school Clubs: East Sussex
Apprenticeships
Children: Day Care
City Academies
City Academies: Admissions
City Academies: Qualifications
Curriculum
Education: Finance
Education: Standards
Education: Surveys
ESOL
GCSE
GCSE: Results
Headteachers: Vacancies
Health Education: Sex
Higher Education
Higher Education: Sports
Higher Education: Tees Valley
Languages: GCSE
Literacy: Assessments
Literacy: Standards
Local Education Authorities: Tribunals
Mathematics: Curriculum
Numeracy: Teachers
Nurseries: East Sussex
Politics and Government: Children
Pupils: Absenteeism
Pupils: Eyesight
Pupils: Bullying
Schools: Clothing
Schools: Complaints
Schools: Energy
Schools: Teenage Pregnancy
Schools: Transport
Secondary Education: Curriculum
Secondary Education: Teaching Methods
Special Educational Needs: Expenditure
Teaching Methods: Finance
Teaching Methods: Portsmouth
Train to Gain Programme
Truancy
Vocational Education
Youth Services: Hartlepool
Youth Work: Tees Valley

Health

Abortions
Accident and Emergency Departments
Accidents: Fees and Charges
Acute Beds: East Sussex
Living Wills
Air Ambulance Services: Drugs
Alcohol Abuse: Young People
Ambulance Services: Standards
Blood: Contamination
Body Mass Index
Breast Cancer: Greater London
Breast Cancer: Screening
Burton Independent Sector Treatment Centre
Cancer
Cancer: Urinary System
Care Homes
Care Homes: Fees and Charges
Care Homes: Manpower
Carers: Peterborough
Cataracts: Surgery
Bowel Cancer Screening
Colorectal Cancer: Surgery
Community Care: Expenditure
Dental Services: West Sussex
Departmental Contracts
Departments: Work Permits
Diabetes: Screening
Drugs: Internet
Drugs: Licensing
Drugs: Side Effects
Drugs: Testing
Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust
General Practitioners: East Sussex
General Practitioners: Standards
Gynaecology
HC1 Form
Health Professions: Foreign Workers
Health Services
Health Services: Internet
Health Services: North West Region
Health Services: Overseas Residence
Health: Irish Community
Health: Regulatory Impact Assessment
Hearing Aids: Gloucestershire
Heart Diseases: Bolton
Hepatitis
Home Births
Hospital Stays
Hospitals: Admissions
Hospitals: Consultants
Hospitals: Greater London
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Out-patients
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Surgery
Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos
Incontinence: Children
Independent Sector
Insulin
Junior Doctors: Career Structure
Maternity Services
Maternity Services: Leeds
Mental Health Services: Children
Migraine
Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust: Taxis
NHS Budget
NHS Treatment Centres: Personal Records
NHS: Complaints
NHS: Finance
NHS: ICT
NHS: Procurement
NHS: Publications
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust: Maternity Services
Nurses: Pay
Obesity: Surgery
Out-patients: Eastbourne
Patients: Surveys
Pharmacy
Pregnancy
Primary Care Trusts: Per Capita Costs
Primary Care Trusts: Planning
Primary Care Trusts: Prisons
Private Sector Treatment
Public Health Observatories
Quality Health Ltd.
Russells Hall Hospital
Scottish Expenditure
Smoking: Licensed Premises
Smoking: Public Places
Smoking: Television
Soft Drinks
Surgery: Eastbourne
Surgery: Eastern Region
Three Rivers Primary Care Trust: Wheelchairs
Transplant Surgery
West Sussex Primary Care Trust: Finance
Wheelchairs: Waiting Lists
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: Ophthalmology

Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
Assets
Assets: Kazakhstan
Budgets
Cannabis: Death
Capital Gains Tax
Child Benefit
Construction Industry Scheme
Departmental Staff
Departments: Smith Institute
Departments: Internet
Departments: Press
Departments: Pressure Groups
Departments: Public Expenditure
Departments: Visits Abroad
Duty Free Allowances
Economic and Monetary Union
Energy: Conservation
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: Finance
European Community
European Union: Citizenship
Excise Duties: Alcoholic Drinks
Excise Duties: Motor Vehicles
Financial Ombudsman Service
Financial Services: EC Law
Financial Services: Regulation
Government Departments: Fees and Charges
Heads of State
Income: Distribution
Inheritance Tax
Inheritance Tax: Northern Ireland
Insurance: Pensioners
Loans: Students
Local Authority Business Growth Incentives Scheme
Members: Correspondence
Ministerial Residences
Ministers: Travel
National Insurance Contributions
No. 11 Downing Street: Meetings
Official Hospitality
Olympic Games: Greater London
Pay: Public Sector
Pay: Wales
Public Bodies: Accountancy
Public Expenditure
Public Sector: Fees and Charges
Revenue and Customs
Revenue and Customs: Buildings
Revenue and Customs: Huddersfield
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
Road Transport
Sick Leave
Sir Ronald Cohen
Small Businesses: Grants
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Taxation: Companies
Taxation: Self-assessment
Unemployment
Unemployment: East Sussex
USA
Valuation and Lands Agency: ICT
Valuation Office Agency
Valuation Office Agency: Travel
Valuation: Housing
Valuation: Lancashire
VAT: Fraud
Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
Widowed People: Taxation
Working Tax Credit
Working Tax Credit: Dundee

Home Department

Ahmed Omar Maruf
Alcoholic Drinks: Children
Animal Experiments
Animal Experiments: Inspections
Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
Asylum
Asylum: Children
Asylum: Custodial Treatment
Asylum: Northern Ireland
British Nationality: Gurkhas
British Nationality: Nepal
Bronzefield Prison: Foreigners
Crime
Crime: Rural Areas
Crime: USA
Crime: Young People
Crimes of Violence
Crimes of Violence: Halifax
Custodial Treatment
Departmental Computers
Departments: Advertising
Departments: Complaints
Departments: Contracts
Departments: Freedom of Information
Departments: Golden Arrow
Departments: Logos
Departments: PFI
Departments: Pressure Groups
Departments: Public Appointments
Departments: Surveys
Departments: Theft
Departments: Trade Unions
Deportation
Deportation: Democratic Republic of Congo
Deportation: Equatorial Guinea
Deportation: Zimbabwe
Dispersal Orders: Cleveland
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence: Greater London
Driving Offences
Driving Under Influence
Drugs: Bridgend
Drugs: Rehabilitation Centres
Drugs: Testing
Electronic Tagging
Entry Clearances
Female Genital Mutilation
Firearms: Crime
Firearms: Licensing
Fraud: Credit Cards
Highly Skilled Migrant Programme: Medicine
Homicide
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking: Wales
Hunting: Yorkshire and Humberside
Identity Cards
Identity Cards: Newspaper Press
Illegal Immigrants
Illegal Immigrants: Northern Ireland
Illegal Immigrants: Prostitution
Immigrants: Detention Centres
Immigrants: Employment
Immigrants: Wales
Immigration
Immigration and Nationality Directorate
Immigration Cases
Immigration Controls
Immigration Controls: Fishguard
Immigration Controls: Irish Republic
Immigration: Detention Centres
Immigration: India
Immigration: Manpower
Lancashire Police: Special Constables
Leyhill Prison
Members: Correspondence
Migrant Workers
Miscarriages of Justice: Compensation
Money Laundering
Motoring Offences
National Crime Intelligence Service: National Crime Squad
Naturalisation Test
Oakhill Secure Training Centre
Offenders: Deportation
Offenders: Rehabilitation
Offenders: Republic of Ireland
Offensive Weapons
Passports
Passports: Applications
Passports: Interviews
Police
Police Custody: Wales
Police Patrols
Police: Advisory Groups
Police: Bolton
Police: Business
Police: Cadets
Police: Community Support Officers
Police: Databases
Police: Equal Opportunities
Police: Forms
Police: Retirement
Ports
Prison Places
Prison Sentences
Prisoners Transfers
Prisoners: Age
Prisoners: Foreigners
Prisoners: Human Rights
Prisoners: Humberside
Prisoners: Location
Prisoners: Per Capita Costs
Prisoners: Taunton
Prisons
Prisons: Construction
Prisons: Drugs
Prisons: Genetics
Prisons: Location
Prisons: Manpower
Probation: Greater London
Prosecutions: Hunting
Refugees
Reoffenders: Hartlepool
Roads: Accidents
Samantha Jackson
Secure Accommodation: Young Offenders
Security Guards: Licensing
Security: Heathrow Airport
Sentencing
Serious Organised Crime Agency
Shoplifting: Lancashire
Stop and Search: Terrorism
Terror Suspects
Terrorism
Terrorism Act 2000
Terrorism: Crime Prevention
Terrorism: Detainees
Terrorism: Lancashire
Terrorism: Telephone Services
Tobacco: Young People
Trespass
Victor Makarov
Walking
Work Permits
Work Permits: IT
Young Offenders
Young Offenders: Prisoners on Remand
Young Offenders: Prisons
Youth Crime