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Questions for Oral or Written Answer
beginning on Monday 6 October 2008
(the 'Questions Book')
Part 1: Written Questions for Answer on
Monday 6 October 2008
This paper contains only Written Questions for answer on Monday 6 October of which previous notice has been given in the Notices of Questions paper. They are arranged in alphabetical order of answering Department. For other Written Questions for answer on Monday 6 October of which no previous notice has been given, see the Order Paper. For Written and Oral Questions for answer after Monday 6 October see Part 2 of this paper.
Questions to the Chairman of the Administration Committee 1
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee, how much hydrogenated fat the Department of Facilities and its predecessor bought for cooking use in the last year for which figures are available. | | (224489) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches have been in his Department in the last 12 months; and what action was taken to correct the breach in each case. | | (222559) | 3
| Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield, Attercliffe): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many employees were made redundant when TICC Ltd went into liquidation; how many received compensation from public funds; how such compensation payments were determined; and under what statutory authority such payments were made. | | (222802) | 4
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many (a) male and (b) female workers in Bolton North East constituency receive wages at the national minimum rate. | | (222832) | 5
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage business investment in the West Midlands. | | (224174) | 6
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage international corporations to base businesses in the West Midlands. | | (224175) | 7
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for what reasons his Department's annual report was published on the penultimate sitting day of Parliament before the summer recess. | | (223895) | 8
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for what reasons 22nd July 2008 was chosen as the publication date for his Department's consultation paper towards a nuclear national policy statement, Applying the Proposed Strategic Siting Assessment Criteria: A Study of the Potential Environmental and Sustainability Effects. | | (223896) | 9
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Home Office, (b) the Treasury, (c) HM Revenue and Customs and (d) the Scottish Executive on the economic impact of minimum pricing of alcohol. | | (221890) | 10
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223026) | 11
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department and its predecessors have participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short-haul and (c) long-haul flights. | | (222048) | 12
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department and its predecessor has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (222049) | 13
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (222050) | 14
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (222051) | 15
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (222052) | 16
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC and (ii) ACORN data. | | (222053) | 17
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (222054) | 18
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or in kind from the saving. | | (222055) | 19
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what types of data have been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (222056) | 20
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many applications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (222057) | 21
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (222058) | 22
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 10th July 2008, Official Report, column 1730W, on mininim wage: publicity, what the criteria were for the choices of location of the visit of the Minimum Wage Battle Bus. | | (222212) | 23
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much was in each political fund of each trades union in the most recent period for which figures are available, according to records held by the Certification Officer. | | (222213) | 24
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many full-time equivalent members of staff in (a) his Department and (b) its associated public bodies are working on projects in relation to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games; how many of them are working on (i) project management, (ii) legacy planning, (iii) project oversight and (iv) financial oversight; and what plans he has for future staffing levels in each case. | | (221869) | 25
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or the administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222277) | 26
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the Government's response to the Competition Commission's inquiry into grocery retailing of 29th July 2008, what definition of consumer interest his Department will use when determining whether to establish an independent Ombudsman to oversee the Groceries Supply Code of Practice. | | (224279) | 27
| Andrew George (St Ives): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the findings contained in the Office of Fair Trading's market study of personal current accounts. | | (224300) | 28
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222182) | 29
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221833) | 30
N | Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he anticipates that decommissioning work at Trawsfynydd nuclear power station will be complete. | | (224507) | 31
N | Mr David Jones (Clwyd West): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, when he expects to announce his decision on the application by Npower Renewables for consent for the development of the Gwynt y Mor wind farm under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989. | | (224508) | 32
| Susan Kramer (Richmond Park): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many post office branches have experienced temporary closures of more than one month in the last five years for which information is available; and what assessment he has made of the merits of using mobile post offices during such periods of temporary closure. | | (221768) | 33
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what expenditure was incurred by regional development agencies in maintaining offices overseas in 2007-08; and what expenditure on such offices has been budgeted for in 2008-09. | | (222829) | 34
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 329W, on regional planning and development: electronic government, how much funding each regional development agency has provided to the regional equality and diversity partnership in each region. | | (222986) | 35
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 11th June 2008, Official Report, column 15WS, on regional development agencies: re-appointments, what the declared political activity of each of the 12 re-appointed board members is. | | (223012) | 36
| Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to ensure that people may only advertise their services as accountants once they have undertaken professional requirements similar to those required of solicitors and barristers. | | (222490) | 37
| Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, with reference to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in case C-303/06, what plans he has to issue new guidance to employers on the rights of carers to demand flexible working; and if he will make a statement. | | (221779) | 38
| Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will require all new coal plants to capture at least 90 per cent. of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 if they are to continue operating. | | (223985) | 39
| Jessica Morden (Newport East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps his Department is taking to encourage mobile network operators to reduce their text and data roaming charges for customers travelling abroad. | | (222614) | 40
| Bob Russell (Colchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what discussions he has had with the Department of Health on the potential implications for the (a) urology market, (b) stoma market and (c) single-line items market of the proposed new arrangements under Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and urology appliances, and related services, in Primary Care: A consultation, June 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (222387) | 41
| Helen Southworth (Warrington South): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to ensure that broadband customers receive the level of service advertised by their broadband provider. | | (223812) | 42
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will commission research on the extent to which wind energy can provide baseload electricity generation in the UK. | | (222463) | 43
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, if he will take steps to protect the privacy of UK users of YouTube in light of the recent US court judgement. | | (222466) | 44
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, pursuant to the Answer of 7th July 2008, Official Report, column 1320W, on departmental home working, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of homeworking by his Department's staff. | | (222470) | 45
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how much his Department spent on services in (a) Dartford Borough, (b) Kent Thameside, (c) the Thames Gateway, (d) Kent County Council area and (e) the South East region in each of the last five years, broken down by type of service. | | (222448) | 46
| Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what progress has been made in establishing an energy park at Langage, Devon, pursuant to the licence granted to the former Department of Trade and Industry to build a power station on the site. | | (222416) | 47
| Matthew Taylor (Truro & St Austell): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many working days were lost as a result of strikes in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Cornwall, (b) the South West region and (c) England in each year since 1979. | | (222403) | 48
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effect of Ordnance Survey's licensing terms on trends in business take-up of its services; and if he will make a statement. | | (222736) | 49
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the operating costs of the Export Credits Guarantee Department were in each of the last five years. | | (222764) | 50
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what the operating costs of the Defence Export Services Organisation were in each of the last five years. | | (222767) | 51
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what public consultation exercises were undertaken by his Department in each of the last five years; and what the cost of each was. | | (222768) | 52
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what his policy is on the export of thermobaric weapons; and if he will make a statement. | | (222769) | 53
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what steps he is taking to support manufacturing companies in London. | | (222770) | 54
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what research his Department has (a) undertaken, (b) commissioned and (c) evaluated on attitudes of small and medium-sized enterprises to regional development agencies. | | (223820) | 55
N | Steve Webb (Northavon): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment he has made of the effect of enhanced UK domestic nuclear generating capacity on UK dependence on imported gas; and if he will make a statement. | | (222438) | 56
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what assessment the Better Regulation Executive has made of the impact of the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive on (a) manufacturers, (b) retailers and (c) consumers of specialist herbal remedies; what estimate he has made of the effect of the Directive on the number of herbal remedies on the market; and if he will make a statement. | | (221881) | 57
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, whether the Better Regulation Executive was consulted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency about the consistency with the principles of good regulation of the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive; and what assessment he has made of whether those principles are met by the Directive. | | (221883) | 58
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, what percentage of the economy the clothing and textiles industry accounts for. | | (223832) | 59
| Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, how many people were employed in the (a) weaving, (b) spinning, (c) dyeing, (d) finishing and making-up and (e) silk industry sectors at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (224182) | Questions to Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer 60
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will visit the HM Revenue and Customs offices in Southend-on-Sea to meet (a) staff and (b) union representatives to discuss the number of staff employed at the office; and if he will make a statement. | | (222287) | 61
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received since January 2008 from Southend-on-Sea Borough Council on staffing levels in HM Revenue and Customs offices in Southend; what plans he has to meet representatives from the council to discuss this issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (222288) | 62
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the representations received from (a) Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and (b) the Public and Commercial Services Union on the closure of HM Revenue and Customs offices in Southend; what responses he gave in each case; and if he will make a statement. | | (222289) | 63
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will maintain 2,000 jobs in HM Revenue and Customs offices in Southend; and if he will make a statement. | | (222290) | 64
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) costs and (b) projected savings are expected to be of the Estates Consolidation Programme of HM Revenue and Customs in the Southend urban area; what recent representations he has received about this programme; what response was given; and if he will make a statement. | | (222365) | 65
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to answer Question 210664 on vehicle excise duty tabled on 9th June 2008 by the hon. Member for Southend West; what the reason for the time taken to reply is; what steps he (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to answer written Parliamentary Questions within a working week of them being tabled; and if he will make a statement. | | (222369) | 66
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of each (a) sex and (b) grade were employed at HM Revenue and Customs offices (i) Tyler's House, (ii) Dencora Court, (iii) Alexander House, (iv) Portcullis House, (v) Shoeburyness Computer Complex, (vi) Kelting House in Southend-on-Sea, (vii) Kelting House, Basildon and (viii) Regent House, Basildon on (A) 31st March 2006 and (B) 31st March 2008. | | (222370) | 67
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of each (a) sex and (b) grade were employed at the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise offices (i) Tyler's House, (ii) Dencora Court, (iii) Alexander House, (iv) Portcullis House, (v) Shoeburyness Computer Complex, (vi) Kelting House in Southend-on-Sea, (vii) Kelting House, Basildon and (viii) Regent House, Basildon on (A) 31st March 2000, (B) 31st March 2002 and (C) 31st March 2004. | | (222371) | 68
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in his Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223046) | 69
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of sterling/euro exchange rate changes on the UK net contribution to the EU in (a) each of the last five years for which figures are available and (b) 2008 to date, using the previous Budget Red Book as a base figure in each case. | | (222496) | 70
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the level of the personal allowance for income tax would be in the 2008-09 tax year if it had been increased in line with the Retail Price Index since 1972. | | (222502) | 71
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Deparmtent is taking to refund pre-paid Air Passenger Duty to passengers who had booked tickets with airlines which ceased trading prior to the date of the flight. | | (224528) | 72
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many notifications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies made to the Information Commissioner following the loss or mishandling of personal information or data in each of the last three years; and what was notified in each case. | | (222900) | 73
| Colin Burgon (Elmet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps HM Revenue and Customs has taken to ensure effective enforcement of the minimum wage in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) Leeds. | | (222758) | 74
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on Government revenue of delaying the two pence rise in fuel duty to spring 2009. | | (222935) | 75
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect of trends in the levels of house prices on stamp duty receipts. | | (222936) | 76
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the effect on revenue to the Exchequer of decreasing the basic rate of income tax by (a) one penny, (b) two pence, (c) three pence, (d) four pence and (e) five pence. | | (222937) | 77
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the effect on revenue to the Exchequer of index linking capital gains and taxing them as income. | | (222938) | 78
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of introducing a retirement relief on capital gains tax of (a) £100,000, (b) £250,000, (c) £500,000 and (d) £1,000,000. | | (222939) | 79
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss of revenue to the Exchequer from legitimate tax avoidance in the last period for which figures are available. | | (222940) | 80
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss of revenue to the Exchequer from stamp duty tax avoidance through the use of offshore trusts in the last period for which figures are available. | | (222941) | 81
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the proportion of tax relief on pensions which is claimed by higher rate taxpayers. | | (222942) | 82
| Dr Vincent Cable (Twickenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the effect on revenue to the Exchequer of (a) petroleum revenue tax and (b) value added tax from increased oil prices since the 2008 Budget. | | (222943) | 83
N | Mr Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had on (a) the future of the Mapeley STEPS Ltd estate and (b) the reorganisation of HM Revenue and Customs offices. | | (221859) | 84
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many residents of Bolton North East constituency made a claim for a tax credit in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007. | | (222833) | 85
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effectiveness of tax credits in meeting their objectives in the last three years. | | (222834) | 86
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average cost of employing each member of staff in the compliance department of HM Revenue and Customs was in the last financial year. | | (222615) | 87
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average yield produced by each member of staff in the compliance department at HM Revenue and Customs was in the last financial year. | | (222616) | 88
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library the full results of each of the staff satisfaction surveys at HM Revenue and Customs in each of the last five years. | | (222617) | 89
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) his Department and (b) it's agencies spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223025) | 90
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of materials his Department has distributed to schools in the last three years. | | (223958) | 91
N | Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax payers resident in Scotland are attached to Inland Revenue Centre 1, Glasgow. | | (224308) | 92
N | Mr Brian H. Donohoe (Central Ayrshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax payers resident outside Scotland are attached to Inland Revenue centres outside of Scotland. | | (224309) | 93
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (221998) | 94
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (221999) | 95
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (222033) | 96
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (222034) | 97
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (222035) | 98
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (222036) | 99
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (222059) | 100
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (222060) | 101
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (222061) | 102
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (222062) | 103
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list each type of data that has been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (222063) | 104
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many departmental identity cards or departmental passes have been reported lost or stolen by staff in (a) his Department and (b) each of its executive agencies in the last 24 months. | | (222226) | 105
N | Tim Farron (Westmorland & Lonsdale): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration his Department has given to the introduction of a derogation from road tax increases for working farm vehicles. | | (224438) | 106
N | Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse of nationalising Northern Rock has been to date. | | (221719) | 107
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or the administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222278) | 108
| Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fines have been issued to employers for paying employees at rates below the national minimum wage in (a) Southampton and (b) the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire. | | (222292) | 109
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many homes qualified for the zero carbon home stamp duty relief since its inception, broken down by constituency; and if he will make a statement. | | (222727) | 110
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate has he made of the effect on Exchequer receipts in each financial year of the entry into force of clause 144 of the Finance Bill, on rebates to vehicle excise duty. | | (222789) | 111
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the British Aggregates Association on the Opinion of 17th July of Advocate General Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice on the legality of the aggregates levy. | | (223771) | 112
| Justine Greening (Putney): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the legality of the aggregates levy following the comments of 17th July of Advocate General Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice on the legality of the levy. | | (223772) | 113
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 7th July 2008, Official Report, column 1263W, on Revenue and Customs: visits abroad, why it is no longer possible to disclose the destinations visited by HM Revenue and Customs staff. | | (223972) | 114
| Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede & Weybridge): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on works of art in each HM Revenue and Customs office in the last 12 months. | | (223974) | 115
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in respect of which private finance initiative projects the obligations on either party have not been met, leading to (a) contract renegotiation and (b) contract failure followed by project reversion to public control. | | (224456) | 116
N | Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the capital liabilities in respect of private finance initiative contracts were in each year since 1990-91, broken down by Department. | | (224471) | 117
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222180) | 118
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221837) | 119
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which Minister has responsibility for each of his Department's public service agreement targets. | | (223983) | 120
| Mark Hunter (Cheadle): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department spent on mobile telephones in each year since 1997. | | (222343) | 121
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of housing repossessions; and if he will make a statement. | | (222394) | 122
N | Mr Greg Knight (East Yorkshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people his Department employs who have an annual salary of over £100,000. | | (222322) | 123
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Valuation Office Agency has made of the average house price in London in (a) April 2006, (b) April 2007 and (c) the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (222839) | 124
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for the decision on whether local authorities will be compensated by HM Revenue and Customs for the VAT payments they have made on off-street car park charges; what the Government's policy is on the issue; and if he will make a statement. | | (222840) | 125
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what planning applications were made by his Department between 2001-02 and 2006-07; and for what purpose in each case. | | (222841) | 126
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Surrey Heath of 12th October 2006, Official Report, column 887W, on the Valuation Office Agency, and the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 8th October 2007, Official Report, columns 226-27W, on housing: valuation, whether the ACORN data was used in whole or in part by the Valuation Office Agency to assist with the division of the country into the 10,000 localities. | | (222877) | 127
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 30th October 2006, Official Report, column 51W, on the Valuation Office Agency, how much has been spent by the Valuation Office Agency on ACORN data from CACI Ltd; and when the last dataset update was provided to the Agency. | | (222878) | 128
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 7th July 2008, Official Report, column 1266W, on the Valuation Office: Northern Ireland Land and Property Services, if he will place in the Library copies of the minutes of the Steering Committee on Harmonisation in respect of each of the meetings listed in the Answer. | | (222896) | 129
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what items from the Government Art Collection are located within his Ministerial residence in Downing Street. | | (222989) | 130
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, columns 258-9W, on the Valuation Office: databases, whether the databases being aligned include the Valuation Office Agency's (a) geographic information system, (b) automated valuation model and (c) council tax banding tool. | | (223076) | 131
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, columns 258-9W, on the Valuation Office: databases, whether the information being provided to the Valuation Office Agency by Ordnance Survey is in respect of (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) both. | | (223077) | 132
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 3rd July 2008, Official Report, column 1015W, on departmental ICT, what contracts with an IT component the Valuation Office Agency has entered into in the last five years. | | (223078) | 133
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19th June 2008, Official Report, columns 1106-7W, on the Valuation Office Agency: Rightmove, whether Rightmove.co.uk plc is supplying current property data to the Valuation Office Agency. | | (223079) | 134
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19th June 2008, Official Report, columns 1106-7W, on the Valuation Office Agency: Rightmove, what the date is by which the Valuation Office Agency and HM Revenue and Customs acting on the Agency's behalf must take an operational decision on whether to extend the contract with Rightmove. | | (223080) | 135
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, if he will place in the Library an Excel chart listing the numerical value of the co-efficient for each locality used by the automated valuation model. | | (223081) | 136
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, and to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 7th May 2008, Official Report, columns 912-13W, on housing: valuation, what unique number has been given to each locality; and in which billing authority each lies. | | (223086) | 137
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, if he will place in the Library (a) a hard copy and (b) electronic copies of the maps and boundaries of each locality. | | (223087) | 138
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Valuation Office Agency has allocated for data capture in 2008-09. | | (223089) | 139
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on housing: valuation, what the average area of each locality is. | | (223092) | 140
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if the Valuation Office Agency will adopt a principle of data minimisation in the information it collects and holds on domestic dwellings. | | (223961) | 141
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what spending was on tax reliefs under the mortgage interest relief at source scheme in each of the last 20 years, broken down by (a) type of tenancy and (b) category of housing provision. | | (221776) | 142
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases of tax credit administration the computer system has been incapable of producing a result and the case has been transferred to manual management in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (222025) | 143
| Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for UK policy of the recent decision by the Dutch authorities in relation to the tax on mobility scooters for the use of disabled people in response to legal action in that country. | | (222243) | 144
| Mr Michael Moore (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what financial savings he expects to accrue from the closure of the HM Revenue and Customs offices in (a) Hawick and (b) Galashiels, broken down by (i) financial year and (ii) each category of expense representing five per cent. or more of the total savings in each year. | | (222818) | 145
| Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many public service jobs have been re-allocated from the South East to the North East of England in the last four years; and if he will make a statement. | | (222078) | 146
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's policy is on the levying of retrospective taxation. | | (224330) | 147
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether an impact assessment has been produced in relation to the Valuation Office Agency's decision to (a) increase business rates on port and shipping companies and (b) backdate the higher rateable values. | | (224525) | 148
N | Mr Brooks Newmark (Braintree): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the public sector pension deficit is if calculated using a discount rate based on index-linked gilts; and what rate was used for the most recent calculation of the deficit. | | (224505) | 149
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on how many occasions income tax has been repaid to people in custody in the last three years. | | (224310) | 150
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 152W, on the Valuation Office: video recordings, what the titles are of the internal training videos available on the Valuation Office Agency intranet. | | (222478) | 151
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15th July 2008, Official Report, column 230W, on council tax: valuation, what the cost to the public purse was of the work on the council tax banding support tool by CapGemini, SAS and CLT/Tyler Technologies. | | (222479) | 152
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15th July 2008, Official Report, column 234W, on Revenue and Customs: Rightmove, what the timetable is for the operational decision to be made on whether to extend the contract. | | (222486) | 153
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15th July 2008, Official Report, column 234W, on Revenue and Customs: Rightmove, when the contracts expire; and whether the expiration of the contract would mean that historic data could still be accessed. | | (222487) | 154
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 151W, on the Valuation Office: Eurostar, what source of funding or financial aid system was being investigated. | | (222488) | 155
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 151W, on the Valuation Office: video recordings, what the name is of each internal training video used by the Valuation Office Agency for valuation purposes. | | (222489) | 156
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what powers of entry are exercisable by representatives of (a) the Valuation Office Agency and (b) HM Revenue and Customs under (i) primary and (ii) secondary legislation. | | (222696) | 157
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of the meeting of the Valuation Office Agency's National Ratepayers' Valuation Forum of 11th March 2008. | | (222916) | 158
| Mr Greg Pope (Hyndburn): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what percentage of staff have left the employment of HM Revenue and Customs at each of its offices in the North West since April 2006. | | (222687) | 159
| Mr John Spellar (Warley): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to restrict those engaged in the operation of the oil industry from trading in oil futures. | | (222752) | 160
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 128W, on departmental home working, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of home working by his Department's staff. | | (222535) | 161
| Mr Mark Todd (South Derbyshire): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the mileage rate permitted for expenses claims above which tax may be applied. | | (223833) | 162
N | Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether hon. Members who report alleged instances of employers paying wages at rates below the national minimum wage are routinely informed of steps taken by his Department in response to such reports. | | (221704) | 163
N | Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken on enforcement of provisions relating to the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement. | | (221752) | 164
N | Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many prosecutions have been brought against employers for breach of national minimum wage legislation in the last 12 months; and how many of those cases related to employers in (a) Wakefield district and (b) Hemsworth constituency. | | (221753) | 165
N | Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fines have been issued to employers for paying employees at rates below the national minimum wage in (a) England, (b) Wakefield district and (c) Hemsworth constituency since the provisions came into force; and what the sum of such fines has been in each year. | | (221754) | 166
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the likely effect of the changes to vehicle excise duty introduced in the 2008 Budget on the value of second hand cars. | | (221767) | 167
N | Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the postponement of the two pence increase in fuel duty on revenue accruing to the Exchequer in each of the next 12 months. | | (222316) | 168
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many arrests were made by customs officers in Lancashire in each year since 2000. | | (223698) | 169
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many arrests have been made as part of investigations into (a) VAT fraud, (b) smuggling, (c) duty avoidance and (d) large-scale tax avoidance in Lancashire in each year since 2000. | | (223700) | 170
| Mark Williams (Ceredigion): To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is planning to take to alleviate the effects of increased costs of fuel on local authority budgets. | | (221915) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families 171
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what payments his Department has made to the Sex Education Forum in 2007-08; how much is planned for 2008-09; what restrictions his Department places on the use of such funds; and if he will make a statement. | | (222356) | 172
| Mr David Amess (Southend West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which faith-based schools were included in the national mapping of on-site sexual health services in education settings produced by the Sex Education Forum; and if he will make a statement. | | (222357) | 173
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in his Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223053) | 174
| Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending free school meals to (a) children in families in receipt of maximum tax credit, (b) all children in families in receipt of tax credits and (c) all children in families below the official poverty line. | | (222838) | 175
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate his Department has made of the amount spent by maintained schools in England on ornamental plants and seeds in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (222499) | 176
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children taking GCSEs in (a) grammar schools, (b) comprehensive schools, (c) secondary modern schools and (d) independent schools were awarded five or more GCSEs, broken down at (i) A* to A and (ii) A* to B grades in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (224526) | 177
N | Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of A grade A-levels in (a) chemistry, (b) physics, (c) mathematics and (d) modern languages were awarded to pupils at (i) grammar schools, (ii) comprehensive schools, (iii) sixth form colleges and (iv) independent schools in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (224527) | 178
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children were suspended or excluded from school for possession of an offensive weapon on school grounds in each of the last five years. | | (222803) | 179
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to answer Question 194268, on family intervention projects, tabled on 11th March 2008. | | (222804) | 180
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many notifications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies made to the Information Commissioner following the loss or mishandling of personal information or data in each of the last three years; and what was notified in each case. | | (222906) | 181
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in England have CCTV cameras in children's toilets. | | (221812) | 182
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which Ministers from the devolved administrations have expressed an interest in attending the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's examination of the UK State Party report in September 2008. | | (221813) | 183
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) fathers and (b) mothers have been (i) fined and (ii) imprisoned for their children's non-attendance at school in each of the last five years. | | (221814) | 184
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps he is taking to maximise the beneficial effects of the NHS operating framework for 2008-09 on the health and well-being of looked-after children. | | (223944) | 185
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many primary school children at schools in West Lancashire constituency have access to healthy school meals. | | (221887) | 186
| Mr Geoffrey Cox (Torridge & West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many times restraint has been used in maintained primary and secondary schools in England for the purpose of preventing a child from (a) committing an offence, (b) causing personal injury to, or damage to the property of, a person, including the child in question and (c) prejudicing the maintenance of good order and discipline at the school or among pupils receiving education at the school in the last 12 months. | | (222782) | 187
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to address childhood obesity. | | (222677) | 188
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to regulate advertising aimed at children. | | (222678) | 189
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to assess the effect of advertising on children. | | (222679) | 190
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps the Government has taken to address recent delays in the provision of SAT results to schools in Coventry. | | (222680) | 191
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to promote reading in primary education. | | (222702) | 192
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve the provision of athletic equipment in schools. | | (222703) | 193
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent steps the Government has taken to raise awareness of all religions amongst school children. | | (222704) | 194
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps the Government plans to take to improve the nutritional content of school meals. | | (224286) | 195
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what steps the Government has taken to assist schools to encourage parents to provide healthy meals for children. | | (224288) | 196
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if his Department will allocate funding to the Real Action Butterfly Children's Programme. | | (222807) | 197
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Real Action Butterfly Children's Programme in (a) raising educational attainment and (b) diverting young people away from anti-social behaviour and crime. | | (222808) | 198
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the direct instruction method of teaching in raising educational attainment. | | (222809) | 199
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223023) | 200
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department and its predecessor have participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (221994) | 201
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (221995) | 202
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department and its predecessors has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (221996) | 203
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (221997) | 204
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many applications his Department and its predecessor have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (a) undertake directed surveillance, (b) use covert human intelligence sources, (c) acquire communications data and (d) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (222000) | 205
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the location is of each office occupied by his Department and and its predecessor which has been (a) newly occupied and (b) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (222001) | 206
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department and its predecessor spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (222002) | 207
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (222003) | 208
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether those staff of his Department who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (a) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (b) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (222004) | 209
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what types of data have been sold by his Department under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (222005) | 210
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (222008) | 211
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff in his Department and its predecessors have been seconded to public relations or public affairs firms or consultancies in each of the last five years. | | (222187) | 212
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer to the Rt hon. Member for Horsham of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 638W, on economic and monetary union, if he will place in the Library a copy of the last version of the plan. | | (222188) | 213
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 25th June 2008, Official Report, columns 25-27WS, on data handling procedures, if he will commission a privacy impact assessment for the ContactPoint database. | | (222189) | 214
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many staff from public relations or public affairs firms or consultancies have been seconded to his Department and its predecessor in each of the last five years. | | (222190) | 215
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what specialist epilepsy schools there are in East Lancashire. | | (221899) | 216
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time equivalent members of staff in his Department are working on projects relating to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games; how many of those are working on (a) project management, (b) legacy planning, (c) project oversight and (d) financial oversight; and what plans he has for future staffing levels in each case. | | (221870) | 217
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222271) | 218
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the (Provisional) SFR National Curriculum Assessments at key stage three in England 2008 will be published on the second Tuesday in August as was originally scheduled. | | (221901) | 219
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether the (Provisional) SFR National Curriculum Assessments at key stage two in England 2008 will be published on the first Tuesday in August as was originally scheduled. | | (221902) | 220
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, who in the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority was responsible for the negotiations with ETS for the contract to administer and mark the Key Stage 2 and 3 SATs. | | (222023) | 221
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 680, on SATS, when the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority entered into contractual discussions with ETS Europe; and for how long these discussions are expected to continue. | | (223072) | 222
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 680, on SATS, what factors Ofqual took into account in determining that the quality of marking of this year's key stage 2 and key stage 3 national curriculum tests was at least as good as in previous years. | | (223073) | 223
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 680, on SATS, if he will place in the Library the advice to him which stated that Ministerial statements intended to influence the outcome of contractual discussions between the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and ETS Europe would jeopardise the public interest. | | (223074) | 224
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 680, on SATS, what the evidential basis is for his assertion that a Minister can move the responsibility for redress from where it presently falls under the contract between the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and ETS Europe. | | (223075) | 225
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 21st July 2008, Official Report, column 929W, on children: disadvantaged, how many and what proportion of (a) all pupils and (b) pupils eligible to receive free school meals did not attain any GCSE grades higher than a D in each year since 1997-98. | | (223713) | 226
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 10th September 2008, Official Report, columns 1854-6W, on examination results, what percentage of students who gained a GCSE in (a) French, (b) German and (c) Spanish at each grade were educated in the (i) mainstream maintained sector and (ii) the independent sector in each year since 1997. | | (224476) | 227
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 10th September 2008, Official Report, columns 1854-6W, on examination results, what percentage of students who gained a GCSE in (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology or human biology were educated in (i) the mainstream maintained sector and (ii) the independent sector in each year since 2005, broken down by grade. | | (224477) | 228
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will list the programmes aggregated as Other Miscellaneous programmes in each section of table 8.3, pages 88 to 89, of his Department's 2008 annual report. | | (224478) | 229
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, at how many comprehensive schools 50 per cent. or more pupils achieved a modern languages GCSE at A*-C in each year since 1997. | | (224479) | 230
N | Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of pupils in the maintained mainstream sector achieved five GCSEs including a modern language at A* to C grades in each year since 1997. | | (224500) | 231
N | Mr Robert Goodwill (Scarborough & Whitby): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children assessed as being at risk of exclusion are entered on school registers as educated off-site and B-code; and how many hours per week of education such children receive on average. | | (222835) | 232
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils sat A levels in (a) media studies, (b) psychology, (c) law, (d) mathematics, (e) physics and (f) history in each year since 1997, broken down by type of school or college. | | (221759) | 233
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils took GCSEs in (a) media studies, (b) psychology and (c) law in each year since 1997, broken down by type of school. | | (221760) | 234
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which organisations submitted a bid for the current contract to mark key stage two and three standard assessment tests. | | (221903) | 235
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much each organisation that submitted a bid for the current contract to mark key stage two and three standard assessment tests proposed to charge to deliver the contract. | | (221904) | 236
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's guidance relating to the (a) structure of and (b) methodology of compiling performance league tables for schools which are offering diploma courses. | | (223733) | 237
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the (a) original expected completion date and (b) current expected completion date is of each Building Schools for the Future project; and what the reasons are for delays in completion of projects in each case where there is a delay. | | (223734) | 238
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, which schools are offering a diploma course in the 2008-09 academic year; and how many pupils are taking each diploma course in each such school. | | (223836) | 239
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many students in independent schools have received the education maintenance allowance in each year since the allowance was introduced. | | (223837) | 240
| Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will publish a list of circulars issued to (a) local authorities and (b) schools by his Department in the academic year 2007-08. | | (223838) | 241
N | Michael Gove (Surrey Heath): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in how many maintained mainstream schools over 75 per cent. of pupils obtained fewer than five GCSEs including English and mathematics at grades A to C in the last year for which figures are available. | | (224519) | 242
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222179) | 243
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much additional spending has been allocated for public libraries in the Newcastle upon Tyne area for the next 12 months. | | (222629) | 244
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, whether his Department plans to produce regular reports on the outcomes and effectiveness of early years intervention work following the establishment of Sure Start Children's centres in every community beyond 2010. | | (222635) | 245
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what contracts his Department has with EDF; and how much his Department paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221847) | 246
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the changes in grammar school admission numbers consequent upon the Building Schools for the Future programme in (a) Gravesham constituency and (b) nationally in the next three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (221895) | 247
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what progress has been made in issuing guidance to local authorities on producing revised expressions of interest for Building for the Future waves 7 to 15; and which of the factors raised in the consultation which closed on 4th July were taken into account in drafting the guidance. | | (224488) | 248
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of children in (a) foster care, (b) children's homes, (c) residential special schools and (d) juvenile secure establishments in England in the last 12 months (i) saw a family member at least once a week in that period and (ii) had no contact with their family in that period. | | (221778) | 249
| Mr David Kidney (Stafford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in each local authority in England made a complaint about social services provision in each of the last two years; and how many such complaints were rejected because they were (a) not made within a year, (b) deemed unclear, (c) deemed frivolous and (d) deemed vexatious. | | (221780) | 250
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many key stage two scripts were unmarked as at 14th July; and if he will make a statement. | | (221782) | 251
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many key stage two and key stage three text scripts were sent out to the wrong markers in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221783) | 252
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many key stage two and key stage three text scripts were reported mislaid in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221784) | 253
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many key stage two and key stage three test markers were rejected for lack of reliability during the live marking of the tests in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221785) | 254
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what payments are due to ETS for the administration of the national tests in each year from 2008-09 to 2012-13; how much has been paid to ETS to date; and if he will make a statement. | | (221786) | 255
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of (a) key stage two and (b) key stage three tests in (i) science, (ii) English and (iii) mathematics were (A) marked, (B) marked with results entered into a computer system and (C) marked and returned to the relevant school by (1) 8th July and (2) 15th July 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221787) | 256
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what proportion of key stage two and key stage three scripts were sent out late to markers in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221788) | 257
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of appeals against key stage two and key stage three marking were upheld in each year from 2005 to 2008; how many appeals were received in each year; and if he will make a statement. | | (221789) | 258
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what representations were received by (a) his Department, (b) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and (c) the National Assessment Agency on the arrangements for administration and marking of the key stage tests for 2008 in (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007; and if he will make a statement. | | (221790) | 259
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many prospective markers for (a) key stage two and (b) key stage three failed the tests for marking quality at the (i) standardisation stage and (ii) monitoring stage in (A) science, (B) mathematics and (C) English in each year from 2005 to 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221791) | 260
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many markers were employed to mark the key stage (a) two and (b) three tests in (i) English, (ii) mathematics and (iii) science in (A) 2006, (B) 2007 and (C) 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221792) | 261
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of the key stage two and key stage three tests in each year from 2004 to 2008; and if he will make a statement. | | (221793) | 262
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many marketing officers (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority employed in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (222708) | 263
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on employing marketing officers in each year since 2001. | | (222709) | 264
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department and its predecessors spent on freelance press officers in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. | | (222710) | 265
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many freelance press officers his Department and its predecessors employed in each year since 2001. | | (222711) | 266
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average number of times was an individual trainee on the initial teacher training course took the basic skills test in (a) literacy, (b) numeracy and (c) ICT in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement. | | (223714) | 267
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools are using temporary mobile classroom accommodation in each region; and if he will make a statement. | | (223715) | 268
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of (a) 16 to 18, (b) 17 and (c) 18 year olds are not in education, employment or training in each region. | | (223716) | 269
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what advertising campaigns his Department has run between 2000 and June 2004; and what the (a) date and (b) cost was of each. | | (223717) | 270
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of primary school children are being taught a foreign language; and if he will make a statement. | | (223718) | 271
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) headteachers and (b) deputy headteachers took early retirement in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223719) | 272
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many primary school language teachers were recruited in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (223720) | 273
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary teachers and (b) primary teaching assistants have been given training to teach foreign languages to their pupils since 2005; and if he will make a statement. | | (223721) | 274
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary schools have set a benchmark to increase the number of key stage 4 pupils taking a modern language; and if he will make a statement. | | (223722) | 275
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the income of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (a) was in each year from 1999 to 2000 to 2007-08 and (b) is planned to be for each year from 2008-09 to 2010-11, broken down by (i) central Government grants, (ii) subscriptions from schools, (iii) private sector donations and (iv) other income; and if he will make a statement. | | (223887) | 276
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much money for schools from his Department was not devolved to local authorities or schools but allocated directly by his Department in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the (a) purpose of the funding and (b) amount spent was. | | (223888) | 277
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much has been spent on the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant in each year since 2004-05; how much is allocated for each of the next three years; what the purpose of the grant is; and if he will make a statement. | | (223889) | 278
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when the Talent Taskforce was established; what it has cost to date; and what the performance of the taskforce has been against its objectives. | | (223890) | 279
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of the cost of the Office of the Schools Commissioner for each year from 2006-07 to 2010-11; and if he will make a statement. | | (224280) | 280
| Mr David Laws (Yeovil): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent list of national challenge schools; and if he will make a statement. | | (224296) | 281
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children's centres there are in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) Great Grimsby constituency, (c) North East Lincolnshire and (d) North Lincolnshire; how many are planned to be opened in each area; how much was spent on such centres in each of the last three years; and how much will be spent in the next 18 months. | | (222783) | 282
N | Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, in what formats GCSE examinations are available for children (a) with a (i) visual and (ii) hearing impairment and (b) who are dyslexic; and how many times each such format has been used in the last three years. | | (221705) | 283
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 4th June 2008, Official Report, column 949W, on children: day care, how many and what proportion of daycare settings in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived, (b) 10 per cent. least deprived, (c) five per cent. most deprived and (d) five per cent. least deprived local authority area were awarded ratings of inadequate following an Ofsted inspection in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08. | | (223712) | 284
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the reasons are for the delay in the implementation of ContactPoint; and what the cost to the public purse of (a) that delay and (b) implementation in full will be. | | (223744) | 285
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived and (b) 10 per cent. least deprived local authority areas in each year since such inspections began. | | (223745) | 286
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of childminders were deemed inadequate by Ofsted in each region in each year since such inspections began. | | (223746) | 287
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many registered childminders there were in each region in each quarter of the last three years. | | (223747) | 288
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many registered childminders there were in the (a) 10 per cent. most deprived and (b) 10 per cent. least deprived local authority areas in each quarter of the last three years. | | (223748) | 289
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the objectives are of the Sure Start sufficiency and access grant and the projects it has funded; and how much his Department has allocated to the grant in (a) each year since its introduction and (b) each of the next three years. | | (223749) | 290
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children under the age of 16 who were convicted of a criminal offence in each year since 1997 were from a single-parent household. | | (223750) | 291
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children under the age of 16 who were convicted of an offence of gun or knife crime in each year since 1997 were from a single-parent household. | | (223751) | 292
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children classified as having a (a) hearing and (b) vision impairment achieved the national standard in key stage (i) 1, (ii) 2 and (iii) 3 tests in each year since the introduction of the tests. | | (223755) | 293
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children classified as having a (a) hearing and (b) vision impairment achieved five A* to C grades in their GCSE exams in each of the last 10 years. | | (223756) | 294
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children classified as having a (a) hearing and (b) vision impairment achieved five A* to C grades including mathematics and English in their GCSE exams in each of the last 10 years. | | (223757) | 295
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children in England took up free nursery places in each quarter in each year since the scheme was introduced. | | (223760) | 296
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 1st July 2008, Official Report, columns 823-24W, on children: day care, how many senior managers on average a local authority nursery had at the most recent date for which figures are available. | | (223762) | 297
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children who have received a pre-school assessment of speech and language in the last 12 months were referred for speech and language issues. | | (223980) | 298
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what proportion of children's centres were operated by organisations other than the relevant local authority in each year since such centres were introduced. | | (223981) | 299
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what estimate he has made of maintained schools' expenditure on advertising for recruitment in each of the last three years. | | (221756) | 300
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teaching posts in maintained schools were advertised in each of the last three years, broken down by subject; and how many of those posts were filled as a result of the recruitment exercise of which the advertisement was part. | | (221757) | 301
N | Mr Terry Rooney (Bradford North): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what level of assurance the Accounting Officer has been given by his Department's internal audit team regarding the health and safety of children undergoing vocational work experience. | | (221832) | 302
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, pursuant to the Answer of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 405W, on departmental homeworking, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of homeworking by his Department's staff. | | (222472) | 303
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how much his Department spent on services, broken down by type, in (a) Dartford Borough, (b) Kent Thameside, (c) the Thames Gateway, (d) Kent County Council area and (e) the South East region in each of the last five years. | | (222449) | 304
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what his estimate is of the cost of relocating the Training and Development Agency for Schools from London to Manchester. | | (223766) | 305
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many graduates completed the Teach First programme in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement. | | (223793) | 306
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many graduates he expects to complete the Teach First programme in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223794) | 307
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to increase the number of graduates completing the Teach First programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (223795) | 308
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of secondary school teacher training applications for each subject were accepted in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223796) | 309
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of Bachelor of Education course entrants did not have an A-level in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223797) | 310
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to increase awareness of the Teach First programme among graduates; and if he will make a statement. | | (223798) | 311
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the progress of the National College of School Leadership in developing a replacement for the Fast Track scheme; and if he will make a statement. | | (223799) | 312
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the performance of the future leaders programme; and if he will make a statement. | | (223800) | 313
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many people are expected to complete the future leaders programme in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223801) | 314
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the budget for the future leaders programme is for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. | | (223802) | 315
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what plans he has to expand the future leaders programme across England; and if he will make a statement. | | (223803) | 316
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of establishing a national college of teachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (223804) | 317
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of Teach First leavers went on to work in (a) academies and (b) the independent sector in each of the last two years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223805) | 318
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils were suspended more than (a) once, (b) five times and (c) 10 times in (i) England and (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223806) | 319
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils were permanently excluded more than (a) once and (b) twice in (i) England and (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223807) | 320
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many and what percentage of schools in Yorkshire and the Humber were judged by Ofsted to be (a) excellent, (b) good, (c) satisfactory and (d) inadequate at their most recent inspection; and if he will make a statement. | | (223808) | 321
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teaching days were lost to sickness absence in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223809) | 322
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers in Yorkshire and the Humber did not have qualified teacher status in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223810) | 323
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many full-time primary school teachers there were in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223811) | 324
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what percentage of primary school teachers in (a) England and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber were men at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (223813) | 325
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many teaching assistants there were in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223814) | 326
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many pupils in Yorkshire and the Humber were excluded for assaulting or threatening a teacher in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223815) | 327
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many secondary school pupils in Yorkshire and the Humber played truant in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223816) | 328
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many persistent truants there were in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223817) | 329
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many vacancies for full-time secondary school teachers there were in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (223818) | 330
| Mr Graham Stuart (Beverley & Holderness): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many schools in Yorkshire and the Humber have temporary headteachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (223819) | 331
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what financial assistance is available for supply teachers without qualified teacher status (QTS) earning the equivalent of a classroom teacher on the M6 pay scale who wish to obtain QTS; and if he will make a statement. | | (223779) | 332
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average annual earnings of a supply teacher in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District were in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (223780) | 333
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average income of a first year teacher in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (223781) | 334
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what the average income of a teacher on the M6 pay scale in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District was in the last year for which figures are available. | | (223782) | 335
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what programmes there are to encourage current non-qualified teachers who are acting as supply teachers to seek careers as full-time qualified teachers; and if he will make a statement. | | (223783) | 336
| Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, how many children with autism or Asperger's syndrome accessed child and adolescent mental health services in each of the last 10 years. | | (222579) | 337
| Mr Charles Walker (Broxbourne): To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, what assessment he has made of the effect of bullying on children with autism. | | (222581) | Questions to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 338
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches have been in his Department in the last 12 months; and what action was taken to correct the breach in each case. | | (222560) | 339
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in the Prime Minister's Office were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223050) | 340
N | Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many people were unemployed in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Chelmsford local authority area in each of the last six months for which figures are available. | | (224481) | 341
| Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the Cabinet Office's policy is on the disposal of hard disks from redundant personal computers. | | (223963) | 342
| Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what funding his Department has provided for social enterprises delivering public services in West Lancashire constituency in the last 12 months. | | (221885) | 343
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the cost to the public purse was of media monitoring activities carried out by (a) the Central Office of Information, (b) his Department and (c) the Prime Minister's Office in each of the last five years. | | (222598) | 344
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will make a statement on the pension arrangements in place for the Prime Minister's Chief of Strategy and Principal Adviser. | | (222599) | 345
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many mobile telephones have been (a) purchased, (b) repaired and (c) replaced by the Prime Minister's Office since 27th June 2007. | | (222602) | 346
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when he expects to appoint a new Permanent Secretary for Government Communications. | | (222606) | 347
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many complaints were made by civil servants alleging breaches of the Civil Service code in each of the last 10 years. | | (222611) | 348
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many incidents have been reported by his Department under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 since 27th June 2007. | | (222637) | 349
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how much (a) the Cabinet Office, (b) its agency and (c) the Prime Minister's Office spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223038) | 350
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (221972) | 351
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (221973) | 352
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (221974) | 353
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (221975) | 354
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many applications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (221987) | 355
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) the Cabinet Office and (b) the Central Office of Information which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (221988) | 356
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (221990) | 357
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (221991) | 358
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (221992) | 359
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what types of data have been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (221993) | 360
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what expenditure is made from the public purse for work related to the Prime Minister's personal appearance. | | (222214) | 361
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 24th June 2008, Official Report, column 236W, on departmental aviation, what information on the number of flights and journeys is transferred to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund by the Cabinet Office in order to calculate the carbon offset payment to the fund. | | (222215) | 362
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 24th June 2008, Official Report, column 238W, on departmental television, what the premium channels subscribed to are. | | (222216) | 363
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 238W, on departmental carbon emissions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the dataset and the accompanying methodology used by the Cabinet Office to calculate its payments to the Offsetting Fund in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. | | (222217) | 364
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what his policy is on the release to third parties of transcripts of broadcast interviews (a) produced and (b) commissioned by the Media Monitoring Unit at public expense. | | (222218) | 365
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer of 9th July 2008, Official Report, column 1625W, on departmental retirement, how many requests to work beyond the standard retirement age were received by his Department in each of the last five years. | | (222432) | 366
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222276) | 367
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222177) | 368
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agency has with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agency paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221851) | 369
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many notices of death were received by the Registrar General relating to (a) babies born after 24 weeks gestation and (b) neonatal deaths for each of the last three years, broken down by (i) registration district and (ii) notifying hospital. | | (224451) | 370
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what change there has been in the number of (a) women, (b) black and minority ethnic people and (c) people with disabilities holding senior Civil Service posts since 1997. | | (223727) | 371
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne of 12th June 2008, Official Report, column 498W, on local government finance, what assumptions about (a) local authority housebuilding rates and (b) the rate of net migration have been made in individual local authority projections for (i) 2008, (ii) 2009 and (iii) 2010. | | (222642) | 372
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, column 238W, on departmental television, what premium satellite channels or packages are subscribed to by his Department for each of the three subscriptions. | | (222781) | 373
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what the policy of (a) the Cabinet Office and (b) the Central Office of Information is on the hiring by departments and executive agencies of external public relations agencies to undertake public relations work. | | (222931) | 374
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 4th June 2008, Official Report, column 1046W, on departmental recordings, what the titles are of the online videos produced for internal audiences which are available on his Department's intranet. | | (222983) | 375
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 2nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1003W, on departmental press, how many copies of PR Week the Cabinet Office subscribes to. | | (222998) | 376
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods or services to the Cabinet Office in 2007-08, from the purchase order data held in the departmental financial system. | | (223010) | 377
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 2nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1003W, on Departmental press, how many copies of PR Week are purchased by the Cabinet Office each week. | | (223011) | 378
| Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many (a) part-time and (b) full-time jobs there were in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) North East Lincolnshire and (iii) North Lincolnshire in each year since 1997. | | (222784) | 379
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for which ethnic groups not included in the current Census 2011 Test questionnaire consultation on ethnic group, national identity, religion, and language there were the most requests for inclusion in the Census 2011. | | (221519) | 380
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many of the Sikh organisations which responded to the Census 2011 Test questionnaire consultation on ethnic group, national identity, religion, and language were (a) in favour of and (b) against the inclusion of Sikhs as a separate ethnic group on the Census 2011 itself. | | (221520) | 381
N | Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many responses to the consultation on the Census 2011 questionnaire the Office for National Statistics received from (a) organisations representing Sikhs and (b) all organisations on possible questions in the 2011 Census on (i) ethnic group, (ii) national identity, (iii) religion and (iv) language. | | (221521) | 382
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with reference to page 106 of the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08, if he will provide a breakdown of the fixed asset expenditure incurred in relation to the (a) £4.7 million on 10 to 12 Downing Street, (b) £2.0 million on 70 Whitehall, (c) £1.2 million on Admiralty Arch and (d) £0.5 million on minor spend, furniture and fittings. | | (222485) | 383
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, if he will place in the Library copies of the display energy certificates and Advisory Reports relating to the Downing Street estate. | | (224504) | 384
| Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, what recent advice he has issued to departments on the storage of personal data on memory sticks or other portable data storage devices. | | (224294) | Questions to the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners 385
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Church Commissioners have produced a euro changeover plan. | | (222344) | 386
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that disposal of glebeland (a) complies with legal requirements and (b) respects the terms of covenants. | | (223723) | 387
| Jon Trickett (Hemsworth): To ask the honourable Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what procedures exist for members of the public to object to a sale of glebeland. | | (223724) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 388
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in her Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223054) | 389
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the sum spent by local authorities in England on ornamental plants and seeds in the most recent year for which figures are available. | | (222497) | 390
N | Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families with children have been evicted as a result of anti-social behaviour in each local authority area in each of the last five years. | | (221795) | 391
| Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2nd June 2008, whether the Government Office for the South West has issued instructions to local councils to approach local land owners regarding developments in the Lytchett Minster and Lytchett Maltravers area. | | (224197) | 392
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has a contract with ABL Consulting. | | (222076) | 393
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether planning policies for eco-towns will (a) include the provision of a community heating system and (b) include mitigation measures to reduce the impact on surrounding areas; and what provisions there are in areas of (i) outstanding natural beauty and (ii) green belt in relation to minimum standards of green space and tree retention. | | (222476) | 394
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department's planning policies for eco-towns will (a) be site specific, (b) specify a minimum number of affordable houses and their size and (c) specify the required level of transport infrastructure and public service provision. | | (222507) | 395
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether planning policies for eco-towns will contain measures to (a) prevent or mitigate building on flood plains, (b) deal with any instances of contaminated land and (c) regulate the provision of car parking spaces and reduce car usage. | | (222583) | 396
| Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if her Department will publish (a) a planning policy statement and (b) a sustainability strategy on eco-towns. | | (222817) | 397
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what systems are operated by the fire control network in London; what plans there are for the London Fire Service to procure (a) an automatic vehicle relocation system, (b) satellite navigation, (c) an integrated geographic information system and (d) premise-based gazetteer mobilising at premises level; and if she will make a statement. | | (222949) | 398
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to encourage people to put fire extinguishers in their homes. | | (222012) | 399
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to encourage people to take precautions to prevent fires. | | (222013) | 400
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to promote fire safety in homes. | | (222014) | 401
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government plans to take to inform people about fire safety. | | (222015) | 402
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to educate the public on how to react to a fire. | | (222016) | 403
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to increase the provision of affordable housing in the West Midlands. | | (222366) | 404
N | Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to provide sufficient affordable housing for people with disabilities. | | (222367) | 405
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to ensure developers take account of the wishes of the local community. | | (224178) | 406
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to encourage developers to provide amenities for the local community. | | (224179) | 407
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much the Government spent on modernising equipment used by the Fire Service in 2007-08. | | (224289) | 408
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps the Government has taken to improve training facilities for the Fire Service. | | (224290) | 409
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) her Department and (b) its agencies spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223027) | 410
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that her Department and its predecessors have participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (221976) | 411
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use her Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (221977) | 412
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by her Department and its predecessors has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (221978) | 413
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to her Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (221979) | 414
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much (a) her Department and its predecessors and (b) its agencies spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (221980) | 415
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what use (a) her Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (221981) | 416
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in her Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (221982) | 417
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether those staff of (a) her Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (221983) | 418
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what types of data have been sold by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (221984) | 419
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications (a) her Department and its predecessor and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (221985) | 420
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) her Department and its predecessor and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (221986) | 421
| Clive Efford (Eltham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make a statement on the future of the Gaelic Sports Ground in Eltham following the High Court judgement to uphold her decision to reject the appeal from Novalong. | | (224301) | 422
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to assist first-time buyers with property purchases; and how many first-time buyers she estimates will receive such assistance in 2008-09. | | (221898) | 423
N | Mr Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department provided for the improvement of standards in council housing in each year since 1997. | | (222960) | 424
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many full-time equivalent members of staff in (a) her Department and (b) its associated public bodies are working on projects relating to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; how many of them are working on (i) project management, (ii) legacy planning, (iii) project oversight and (iv) financial oversight; and what plans she has for future staffing levels in each case. | | (221864) | 425
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of the Millennium Dome to public funds (a) was in 2007-08 and (b) is expected to be in 2008-09; and how much the public purse received from the New Millennium Experience Company Limited in each year since the inception of the Dome. | | (222828) | 426
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many officials in her Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222269) | 427
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what approval for the introduction of mixed mode at Heathrow airport would be required from (a) the Infrastructure Planning Commission and (b) Hillingdon Borough Council. | | (224472) | 428
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what arrangements her Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222178) | 429
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what statutory protection exists for people (a) living in poor conditions and (b) experiencing bullying or harassment from landlords, where those landlords are not registered social landlords. | | (222527) | 430
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received on people living in almshouses who were (a) living in poor conditions and (b) experiencing bullying or harassment from landlords in each of the last five years. | | (222528) | 431
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to review the effects of open plan planning policy on large housing estates. | | (222628) | 432
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what further assessment her Department plans to make of the performance of Pathfinder in the Newcastle area in meeting the needs of communities by developing retail premises within communities which previously fell within the most deprived indices. | | (222633) | 433
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what contracts (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have with EDF; and how much (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221838) | 434
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that social housing tenants who do not choose to opt into arms length management organisation schemes receive the same per capita subsidy from Government as those who do. | | (224187) | 435
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will bring forward proposals for measures to allow local authorities to raise finance against their assets to purchase homes (a) undergoing and (b) pending repossession by commercial creditors. | | (224188) | 436
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings of the Arc Manche Assembly representatives of (a) her Department and (b) the Government Offices attended in the last 12 months; and on what dates. | | (224482) | 437
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what her policy is on requiring local fire and rescue authorities to move their operations into a regional fire control centre if they do not voluntarily agree to do so; and if she will make a statement. | | (224483) | 438
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's resource accounts for 2006-07 what the fines are that her Department (a) has received and (b) is expected to receive in respect of ERDF programme irregularities; and if she will make a statement. | | (224485) | 439
N | Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what powers local authorities have to enter private properties which are subject to (a) discretionary and (b) mandatory licensing of houses of multiple occupation for inspection purposes; and what are the penalties for refusing or obstructing entry. | | (224486) | 440
| Ms Sally Keeble (Northampton North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of housing repossessions; and if she will make a statement. | | (222395) | 441
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the latest timetable is for the commencement and conclusion of the review of the Infrastructure Planning Commission's role in relation to the referral of decisions to the Secretary of State. | | (222484) | 442
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what performance targets or indicators the Standard Board sets for local authority monitoring officers; and whether these are incorporated into the National Indicator set. | | (222540) | 443
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will produce a privacy impact assessment on her Department's proposals to allow access to the Energy Performance Certificate database by any energy assessor. | | (222544) | 444
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed minimum rateable value threshold for liability for busines rate supplements will be increased in 2010 following the business rates revaluation to reflect higher average rateable values. | | (222545) | 445
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average budget of a local authority in England was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (222546) | 446
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1135W, on eco-towns: land, what the area and proportion is of (a) greenfield and (b) brownfield land use in each of the other short-listed eco-town bids. | | (222556) | 447
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what additional central funding has been given to local authorities to assist them in funding local council tax discounts for those affected by flooding. | | (222557) | 448
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent to support advice services for homeowners in each of the last three years; and how much (a) has been spent in 2008-09 and (b) is expected to be spent in each of the next three years. | | (222558) | 449
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was spent on the New Deal for Communities in each year since it was established; and what the budget is for each of the next three years. | | (222561) | 450
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what minimum level of the Code for Sustainable Homes homes in eco-towns will have to meet. | | (222562) | 451
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the estimated timetable is for (a) outline and (b) final planning permission to be granted for the successful eco-town bidders. | | (222563) | 452
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the latest timetable is for the decision to be made on selecting the final 10 eco-town bids. | | (222564) | 453
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment (a) her Department and (b) the Valuation Office Agency has made of whether businesses are demolishing buildings to avoid paying empty property business rates. | | (222565) | 454
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to change the Widdecombe rules on the participation of senior officers in party political activity. | | (222566) | 455
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the new edition of planning guidance PPS6 will be a draft version; and what the timetable is for publication and consultation. | | (222567) | 456
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for local authorities to review and amend their executive structures according to the new executive models available to local authorities. | | (222568) | 457
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what access the Valuation Office Agency has to the National Register of Social Housing. | | (222569) | 458
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of whether local authorities may purchase land compulsorily for eco-towns to provide the land for the whole development. | | (222570) | 459
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the publication of (a) her proposed changes to the South East Regional Spatial Strategy and (b) the final version of the strategy. | | (222571) | 460
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether billing authorities will have a liability for the administrative costs of rebilling in circumstances similar to the decision to cap Lincolnshire Police Authority in 2008 and issue new bills. | | (222572) | 461
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what use Ordnance Survey makes of ACORN data from CACI Ltd. | | (222573) | 462
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the speech by the Minister for Local Government to the Local Government Association conference on 2nd July 2008, why the introduction of multi-area agreements is not a policy for cities. | | (222574) | 463
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effect on local identities of moving Lowestoft from Suffolk into Norfolk as part of the latest round of unitary restructuring. | | (222575) | 464
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the rules for the (a) liability and (b) the tariff rate for the Community Infrastructure Levy will be centrally or locally determined. | | (222576) | 465
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she has issued on the role of the Local Government Ombudsman in oversight of the functions of parish councils; and if she will make a statement. | | (222587) | 466
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role she plans for (a) workplace parking taxes, (b) residential parking charges and (c) congestion taxes to play in eco-town developments. | | (222588) | 467
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of the Valuation Office Agency's Programme Board of the council tax revaluation in England for the meetings of (a) 20th September 2005 and (b) 18th October 2005. | | (222589) | 468
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed Planning Policy Statement on eco-towns will be (a) locationally specific and (b) binding on local planning authorities. | | (222590) | 469
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the introduction of local member review bodies to replace planning appeals by the Planning Inspectorate. | | (222591) | 470
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether supporting infrastructure for new eco-town developments will be considered to be of nationally significant importance. | | (222592) | 471
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the likely effect on carbon dioxide emissions of the spatial planning decisions in each regional spatial strategy. | | (222593) | 472
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average band D 2008-09 council tax, (a) including and (b) excluding average parish precepts will be in each billing authority in Lincolnshire, following the decision to cap the police authority there in 2008. | | (222594) | 473
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) the theft of her laptop, (b) the theft of her Ministerial driver's mobile telephone and satellite navigation system and (c) the associated damage to her official car. | | (222595) | 474
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what obligations local authorities are under to provide performance management information to the Standards Board. | | (222596) | 475
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, how much and for what purpose public expenditure was incurred in respect of (a) Blue Rubicon, London, (b) Arts Club, Dover Street, London, (c) British Masonry Society, (d) Buffet4U, Birmingham, (e) Experian Ltd, (f) Euro RSCG 4D Digital, (g) Euro ESCG London Ltd, (h) the Conservative Campaign HQ, (i) the Labour Party, (j) the Liberal Democrat Party and (k) Cheese and Pickle Co., Sunderland. | | (222612) | 476
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the publication of the updated business case for the South West Regional Fire Control Centre. | | (222619) | 477
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will place in the Library a copy of the full background dataset of the YouGov survey of attitudes to eco-towns as referred to in her Department's press release of 30th June 2008. | | (222620) | 478
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what research her Department has commissioned from Andrew Irving Associates or its parent company Optimisa in the last 12 months; at what cost; and what contracts the firm has for ongoing research for her Department. | | (222621) | 479
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, and 28th April 2008, Official Report, column 139W, on departmental records, if she will place in the Library a copy of the list of names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods or services to the Deputy Prime Minister's Office during the period it existed as a Government department from purchase order data held in the appropriate departmental financial system. | | (222639) | 480
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 1st July 2008, Official Report, column 789W, on eco-towns: green belt, which proposed eco-town bids would involve development on green belt land for fixed infrastructure. | | (222640) | 481
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 1st July 2008, Official Report, columns 790-91W, on green belt: databases, for what reasons the Maps on Tap database was discontinued; and what the total cost of the project was. | | (222641) | 482
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 21st April 2008, Official Report, column 1689W, on Valuation Office: Geographical Information System, if she will list the mapping products and datasets that the Valuation Office Agency will use from Ordnance Survey for the Geographical Information System. | | (222643) | 483
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the fire risk from recycling sacks or boxes left near doorsteps in blocks of flats. | | (222644) | 484
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on advertising with general ledger account number 40001 in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. | | (222654) | 485
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance has been issued to local authorities by (a) her Department and its predecessors and (b) the Audit Commission on the use of surveillance powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 since the Act came into force. | | (222655) | 486
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008, which individuals and organisations responded to her Department's consultation on the extension of the Mayor of London's powers and responsibilities; and if she will publish a summary of those responses. | | (222656) | 487
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons her Department terminated its funding for the International Centre of Excellence for Local E-Democracy. | | (222658) | 488
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to reject eco-town proposals where such development would cause indirect, irreparable damage to sites of special scientific interest as a result of interference with ground and surface water flows. | | (222659) | 489
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the average house price in London in (a) April 2006, (b) April 2007 and (c) the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (222661) | 490
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what visits and on what dates has she made to the locations proposed for the development of an eco-town in the last 12 months; and what such visits, on what dates, she plans to undertake in the next two months. | | (222673) | 491
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what percentage of newly-built dwellings were flats in each year since 1996-97. | | (222674) | 492
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the average annual volume of carbon dioxide emissions from domestic dwellings for designated level (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five and (f) six under the Code for Sustainable Homes. | | (222675) | 493
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the operational start date for the Infrastructure Planning Commission is. | | (222676) | 494
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what types of information are obtained from local authority building control and planning departments by the Valuation Office Agency for council tax valuation purposes; and what use is made of electronic billing authority reports in transferring such data. | | (222712) | 495
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effects of (a) changes in the housing market and (b) local opposition on her Department's plans to establish 10 eco-towns. | | (222713) | 496
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what geographical data sources the Valuation Office Agency will purchase, obtain and repurpose to populate its proposed geographic information system. | | (222714) | 497
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on identifying and reporting annual efficiency gains. | | (222715) | 498
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will adjust right-to-buy discounts to take account of changes in house prices since 1997. | | (222716) | 499
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effects of targeting national indicator 191 on residual household waste on local authorities' propensity to adopt fortnightly rubbish collections. | | (222717) | 500
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what property attributes the National Register of Social Housing will collect in 2008-09. | | (222718) | 501
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 624W, on eco-towns, which proposed eco-town developments will involve development on greenfield land. | | (222741) | 502
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 18th March 2008, Official Report, column 971W, on housing: standards, if she will place in the Library copies of each revised business plan for each pathfinder area. | | (222816) | 503
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 329W, on regional planning and development: electronic government, what public funding each regional assembly provided to its respective regional equality and diversity partnership. | | (222842) | 504
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 988W, on non-domestic rates: valuation, on what valuation grounds the Valuation Office Agency lost the rating challenge made by representatives of the Ministry of Justice; what assessment she has made of the likely implications of the judgement for other businesses of a similar nature; and if she will make a statement. | | (222843) | 505
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 955W, on housing: planning permission, what the name was of each respondent to the consultation. | | (222844) | 506
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18th June 2008, Official Report, column 955W, on housing: planning permission, if she will place in the Library each response to the consultation. | | (222845) | 507
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 30th June 2008, Official Report, columns 621-2W, on departmental contracts, who each of her Department's approved suppliers is; and which suppliers provide goods and services to her Department under an Office for Government Commerce-approved Product Framework Agreement. | | (222846) | 508
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 30th June 2008, Official Report, columns 626-7W, on home information packs, what the timetable is for her Department to consider whether home condition reports should be mandatory. | | (222847) | 509
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 625W, on empty properties: charities, whether an impact assessment was produced on the effect of the empty business rate changes on property owned by charities which is not wholly or mainly used for charitable purposes. | | (222848) | 510
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the target dates are for all (a) new build private sector homes and (b) new build social housing to meet (i) Level 4 and (ii) Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. | | (222853) | 511
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the level of avoidance and evasion of empty property business rates. | | (222854) | 512
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effect of changes in business rates on rates of business closures. | | (222855) | 513
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effect of greenfield development on carbon dioxide emissions. | | (222869) | 514
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 3rd July 2008, Official Report, column 1063W, on property development: green belt, how many dwellings were built on green belt land in each year since 1997 for which figures are available; and how many hectares of land were so developed in each year. | | (222873) | 515
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent of 12th June 2008, Official Report, column 503W, on the Zero Carbon Delivery Unit, if she will place in the Library a copy of the business plan for the unit. | | (222874) | 516
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 4th June 2008, Official Report, column 983W, on eco-towns, whether the leadership role of the Homes and Communities Agency in delivering eco-towns may include the Agency using its planning powers. | | (222875) | 517
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 20th June 2008, Official Report, column 1241W, on planning: Thames Gateway, what each of the agreed detailed baselines are for the performance management of the Thames Gateway; and what monitoring process is in place of these baselines. | | (222876) | 518
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the aggregate gross income from local authority parking services in England was in each year since 1996-97. | | (222879) | 519
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25th June 2008, Offficial Report, column 349W, on local government: pensions, whether her Department holds the 2007 actuarial valuation reports for each local authority pension fund in (a) physical and (b) electronic form. | | (222880) | 520
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 350W, on parish councils: council tax, whether her Department plans to estimate the average Band D parish council precept for 2008-09 in due course. | | (222881) | 521
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 351W, on public telephones, how many stand-alone telephone boxes in England were on the 1995 ratings list on 31st March 1997 or the nearest date for which figures are available. | | (222882) | 522
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many property details relating to domestic dwellings were updated as a result of a CR10 review by the Valuation Office Agency in 2007-08. | | (222883) | 523
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the empty dwellings in England were flats in the most recent period for which figures are available. | | (222884) | 524
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 1st July 2008, Official Report, column 791W, on housing: empty property, what proportion of the dwellings in each Government Office region were empty public sector dwellings in both years. | | (222885) | 525
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 1st July 2008, Official Report, column 791W, on housing: empty property, how many empty dwellings there were in each Government Office region in England in October 2005. | | (222886) | 526
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, columns 24-25W, on deprivation indicators, if she will seek permission to publish the underlying indicators for each of the sub-domains of the 2004 Index of Deprivation. | | (222887) | 527
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 19W, on community relations: Islam, what the timetable is for the report by the Change Institute on Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities to be completed; and if she will place a copy in the Library on receipt. | | (222888) | 528
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20th June 2008, Official Report, column 63WS, on a correction to a parliamentary Question, in what circumstances her Department opts to correct an answer given to a parliamentary Question by means of (a) a Written Ministerial Statement and (b) a Ministerial Correction. | | (222889) | 529
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1141W, on regional spatial strategies: green belt, whether it is the practice of (a) the Government Office for the Region and (b) planning inspectors to give informal valuations to local authorities on the soundness of a draft core strategy. | | (222890) | 530
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1141W, on regional spatial strategies: green belt, whether any core strategy development plan documents have been found unsound. | | (222891) | 531
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what level of expenditure may be undertaken by her Department without an approved purchase order. | | (222892) | 532
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 26th June 2008, Official Report, columns 31-32WS, on local government, what the timetable is for the distribution of the remaining funding to local authorities. | | (222893) | 533
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 629W, on official hospitality: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, what the cost to the public purse of the then Deputy Prime Minister is on entertainment of the Chinese Ambassador at Mr Cha's China Palace on 2nd April 2004 was. | | (222894) | 534
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 25th June 2008, Official Report, column 345W, on the INTERREG programme: finance, if she will place in the Library a copy of the final report or conclusions of the POLYNET project. | | (222895) | 535
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, what the aggregate amount paid to date has been to each organisation on the list supplied in 2007-08, according to purchase order data held in her Department's financial system. | | (222944) | 536
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, what payments her Department and its predecessor have made to Dave Collier's Only Murder Company since the establishment of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; on what dates; and at what cost. | | (222945) | 537
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, how much was paid to menspeakers.co.uk of Ibstock in 2007-08; what the purpose of the expenditure was; and who was hired to provide services. | | (222946) | 538
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which councils reduced their absolute rate of council tax for 2008-09 compared to 2007-08. | | (222950) | 539
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, columns 269-70W, on public participation, what plans in relation to the production of a national survey of attitudes are (a) in development and (b) under consideration; and what the scope of the attitudes under assessment is. | | (222952) | 540
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 24th June 2008, Official Report, column 265W, on licensing laws, how many of the planning appeals concluded with the application for the premises (a) being refused and (b) being granted in whole or in part. | | (222958) | 541
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, columns 269-70W, on public participation, what topics were covered by the questions on sensitive issues referred to in the Answer. | | (222975) | 542
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 24th June 2008, Official Report, columns 269-70W, on public participation, in what way the proposed national survey of attitudes differs from the Integrated Household Survey. | | (222976) | 543
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any of the proposed eco-town developments will require development of associated infrastructure on green belt land. | | (222977) | 544
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) gross and (b) net income from parking for each local authority in England was in 1996-97. | | (223001) | 545
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 625W, on the eco-towns challenge panel: business interests, what the declared (a) pecuniary and (b) non-pecuniary interests of each challenge panel member are. | | (223051) | 546
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 23rd June 2008, Official Report, column 24W, on departmental procurement, how much was paid to (a) the Political Skills Forum, London, (b) Mysalepack plc, (c) Majestic Wine Warehouse Ltd, London, (d) Info Terra Limited, (e) Roll on Friday, Hatfield, (f) Fancyapint Limited, (g) Fancy a Nibble, (h) Financial Dynamics, (i) Il Cappuccino Catering, London, (j) Inn on the Lake Limited and (h) LLM Communications; and what the purpose of each payment was. | | (223065) | 547
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans the Valuation Office Agency has to revise its Charter in relation to cold-calling following the recent ruling by the Adjudication Officer on inspecting premises without making a prior appointment. | | (223953) | 548
| Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what total spending was on (a) newly built and (b) renovated social housing in each of the last 20 years at constant 2008 prices, broken down by (i) registered social landlords, (ii) local authorities and (iii) other providers; and if she will make a statement. | | (221777) | 549
N | Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make a statement on the first anniversary of the Prime Minister's speech of 29th November 2007 to the Thames Gateway Forum giving an assessment of the progress made on the Thames Gateway policy, with particular reference to (a) land assembly for residential development, (b) planning permission granted for residential development, (c) housing construction starts, (d) use of brown field land, (e) regeneration, (f) measures to improve the skills base, (g) commercial and industrial development and (h) transport and communications. | | (222376) | 550
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22nd July 2008, Official Report, column 1171W, on Thames Gateway: annual reports, when the hard copy version of the annual report was (a) delivered to her Department and (b) made available in the Vote Office; and if she will make a statement. | | (223784) | 551
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many units of (a) social housing and (b) private housing were completed in Slough in each year since 1997. | | (222264) | 552
| Fiona Mactaggart (Slough): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many properties in Slough have been improved under the Decent Homes programme in each year of the programme; and how many require improvement. | | (222265) | 553
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many empty (a) residential and (b) commercial properties there are in (i) St Albans, (ii) London and (iii) England; and what steps she is taking to encourage property owners to bring these properties back into use. | | (222031) | 554
| Anne Main (St Albans): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many consultants have been employed by her Department in each of the last five years. | | (222032) | 555
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of progress in applying the decent homes standard to occupied council houses flooded in 2007 and still awaiting repair. | | (224440) | 556
N | John Mann (Bassetlaw): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assistance has been given by (a) local and (b) national government to individual householders whose properties were flooded in Bassetlaw constituency in 2007. | | (224443) | 557
| Mrs Maria Miller (Basingstoke): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many 16 and 17 year-olds (a) applied for and (b) received homelessness assistance in each housing authority in England in each of the last five years. | | (222683) | 558
N | Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17th September 2008, Official Report, column 2206W, on planning: South East, what her latest estimate is of the date upon which the South East Plan will be (a) adopted and (b) come into force as planning guidance. | | (224515) | 559
N | Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17th September 2008, Official Report, column 2206W, on planning: South East, what steps have been made to enable digitally excluded households to respond to the latest consultation on the South East Plan. | | (224516) | 560
N | Anne Milton (Guildford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17th September 2008, Official Report, column 2206W, on planning: South East, if she will make it her policy that written representations made to the Government Office for the South East on the latest South East Plan consultation which do not cite specific paragraphs of the Plan will be considered fully as part of the consultation process. | | (224517) | 561
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the increase in (a) aggregate rateable values and (b) annual revenue from the Valuation Office Agency's decision to backdate new business rate revaluations of port businesses at designated ports. | | (224329) | 562
N | Robert Neill (Bromley & Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Valuation Office Agency decided to revalue business properties in the Port of Hull; what back-dated changes to business rates have been made as a result; and if she will make a statement. | | (224331) | 563
N | Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effects of the changes made in response to the Local Government Efficiency Review led by Sir Peter Gershon on efficiency and practice in local government. | | (221755) | 564
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department has provided for the Empty Homes Agency in each year since the Agency was established; and what funding has been allocated for the Agency for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (221803) | 565
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many applications to become partner organisations her Department has received in the last 12 months; and how many such applications have been accepted. | | (221804) | 566
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding her Department will provide to partner organisations in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. | | (221805) | 567
| Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what meetings (a) the Minister of State for Local Government and (b) the Minister of State for Housing has had with (i) non-governmental environmental organisations and (ii) non-governmental business organisations since her appointment. | | (222743) | 568
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether properties which are (a) boarded up and (b) without a roof are liable for empty property business rates. | | (222688) | 569
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what personal information the Audit Commission will be entitled to access as part of the National Fraud Initiative. | | (222810) | 570
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 493W, on Valuation Office: maps, if she will place in the Library a CD-ROM containing the Valuation Office Agency's delineation of each locality in England. | | (222912) | 571
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much has been allocated to support the Rent to Homebuy scheme; and over what period the allocation has been made. | | (222913) | 572
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what target she has set for the number of households to benefit from the Rent to Homebuy pilot scheme; and over what period the pilot will be assessed. | | (222914) | 573
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what role her Department has in the INTERACT II programme. | | (222915) | 574
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for further unitary restructuring of local government. | | (222917) | 575
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations she has received on unitary restructuring of local government in Gloucestershire from hon. Members representing the Labour Party. | | (222918) | 576
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to remove from the final version of the South East Plan any proposals to remove green belt protection where such proposals are not supported by the local planning authority. | | (222920) | 577
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many payments English Partnerships has made to Brahm for public affairs, public relations or stakeholder engagement contracts; which contracts for future work have been agreed; and what the value of such contracts is. | | (222921) | 578
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of green belt land are scheduled for (a) review and (b) deletion in the most recent version of the South East Plan. | | (222922) | 579
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to amend land use planning rules around major hazard sites following the recommendations of the Buncefield accident review. | | (222923) | 580
| Mr Eric Pickles (Brentwood & Ongar): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Ordnance Survey plans to use hectares as a unit of measurement. | | (223952) | 581
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an estimate of the average length of time a family has been on a socially provided housing waiting list before being suitably housed within (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland. | | (223914) | 582
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of homes required to house key workers in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the next five years. | | (223915) | 583
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of families which are more than three months in arrears with mortgage payments in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland. | | (223916) | 584
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of socially provided homes that will need to be adapted for disabled tenants in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland over the next five years. | | (223931) | 585
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of private sector homes that will need to be adapted for disabled owners in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland over the next five years. | | (223932) | 586
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many private home owners have received disability adaptation grants in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the last five years. | | (223933) | 587
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of empty disabled-adapted social homes in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in 2008-09. | | (223934) | 588
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has identified any suitable properties that could be purchased under the unsold stock programme within (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland to help meet affordable housing needs. | | (223935) | 589
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many home repossessions there were in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the last five years. | | (223936) | 590
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of first-time buyers who purchased a home in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the last five years. | | (223937) | 591
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families are on waiting lists for social housing within (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland. | | (223938) | 592
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of socially provided homes that will be needed to meet housing needs in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland over the next five years. | | (223956) | 593
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the number of private sector homes that will be needed to meet housing needs in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland over the next five years. | | (223957) | 594
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what national guidance she issues on the location of hazardous waste management facilities. | | (222720) | 595
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what national guidance she issues on consultation of local residents on the construction of new waste management facilities. | | (222721) | 596
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what penalties may be imposed upon a householder not completing, in whole or in part, information on a Property Information Questionnaire on a home information pack and then marketing a property. | | (224501) | 597
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will use her powers under section 162 of the Housing Act 2004 to suspend the requirement to product a home information pack to market a property. | | (224502) | 598
N | Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the National Register of Social Housing will including property attributes from shared ownership dwellings. | | (224503) | 599
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the account taken of competition issues and open tendering in the processes adopted by local authorities in selecting partnership agreements with private sector companies on waste management; and if she will make a statement. | | (222865) | 600
| Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Liverpool City Council on the selection of their private sector waste management partner. | | (222866) | 601
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether a residential house may be used as a house of multiple occupation involving five or more residents without planning permission. | | (221770) | 602
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what categories of (a) men and (b) women are entitled to receive housing under statutory homelessness regulations; and if she will make a statement. | | (221771) | 603
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she gives to local authorities on the definition of vulnerability when considering young men for local authority housing under statutory homelessness regulations; and if she will make a statement. | | (221772) | 604
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many private sector homes for homeless people were used in each of the last five years by Castle Point Borough Council (a) within the borough and (b) outside the borough. | | (221773) | 605
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance she gives to local authorities on consulting local residents who live in the vicinity of homes used to house people who (a) have been charged with criminal acts and are awaiting a court hearing, (b) have served time in prison and have recently been released and (c) behave disruptively; and if she will make a statement. | | (221774) | 606
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many registered homeless people originating from outside Castle Point are housed within the borough. | | (221858) | 607
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding her Department provided to Castle Point Borough Council to support its provision of housing for registered homeless (a) men, (b) women and (c) families in each of the last five years. | | (222458) | 608
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of unlicensed houses of multiple occupation used by Castle Point Borough Council within Castle Point (a) in each of the last five years and (b) at the latest date for which information is available. | | (222459) | 609
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average annual (a) revenue and (b) capital cost to the public purse of a fire service helicopter was in the last period for which figures are available; and she will make a statement. | | (222464) | 610
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of complaints to local authorities about rodent problems in each of the last 10 years. | | (222465) | 611
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30th June 2008, Official Report, column 622W, on departmental home working, if she will make it her policy to collate and maintain central records of home working by her Department's staff. | | (222534) | 612
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much her Department spent on services, broken down by type in (a) Dartford Borough, (b) Kent Thameside, (c) the Thames Gateway, (d) Kent County Council area and (e) the South East region in each of the last five years. | | (222453) | 613
| Sarah Teather (Brent East): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many hoax 999 calls were answered by the fire service in London in the last period for which figures are available. | | (222761) | 614
N | Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey): To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Sittingbourne Light Railway Group participated in the key stakeholder discussions which gave rise to the Cluster Study report for Milton Regis. | | (224499) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 615
| Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress Ofcom has made in its investigation into the pay television market; and when he expects the conclusion of the investigation to be published. | | (222830) | 616
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in his Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223055) | 617
| Mr Douglas Carswell (Harwich): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has a contract with ABL Consulting. | | (221905) | 618
| Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps the Government has taken to protect historic buildings. | | (222312) | 619
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agency spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223029) | 620
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (221952) | 621
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (221953) | 622
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (221954) | 623
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (221955) | 624
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (221956) | 625
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (221957) | 626
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (221958) | 627
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (221959) | 628
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what types of data have been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (221960) | 629
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (222026) | 630
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (222027) | 631
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green of 1st July 2008, Official Report, column 881W, on departmental retirement, how many requests to work beyond the mandatory retirement age were received by his Department in each of the last five years. | | (222436) | 632
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full-time equivalent members of staff in (a) his Department and (b) its associated public bodies are working on projects relating to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games; how many of them are working on (i) project management, (ii) legacy planning, (iii) project oversight and (iv) financial oversight; and what plans he has for future staffing levels in each case. | | (221871) | 633
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19th March 2008, Official Report, column 1157-58W, on sports: per capita costs, what the per capita spend on sport from (a) public and (b) national lottery sources was in each (i) Government region and (ii) local authority area in each of the last three years. | | (223834) | 634
| Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) lottery funding and (b) public funding has been provided to (i) athletics and (ii) swimming, broken down by (A) local authority area and (B) region, in each year since 2005. | | (223842) | 635
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222266) | 636
N | Justine Greening (Putney): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Transport on the implications for the Royal Parks of the proposals in the Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport consultation document; and if he will make a statement. | | (221758) | 637
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222175) | 638
| Mr Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assistance his Department is giving to third sector organisations in the North East region to support the development and work of local voluntary sports clubs. | | (222627) | 639
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agency has with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agency paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221850) | 640
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much public money is projected to be spent on grassroots sports in the London boroughs of (a) Southwark, (b) Lambeth, (c) Lewisham, (d) Newham, (e) Hackney, (f) Waltham Forest, (g) Tower Hamlets and (h) Greenwich in each year of the current spending round. | | (224185) | 641
| Simon Hughes (North Southwark & Bermondsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much public money was spent on grassroots sports in the London boroughs of (a) Southwark, (b) Lambeth, (c) Lewisham, (d) Newham, (e) Hackney, (f) Waltham Forest, (g) Tower Hamlets and (h) Greenwich in each of the last five years. | | (224186) | 642
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on salaries for staff working on heritage in each year since 1997. | | (224495) | 643
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many educational visits to English Heritage managed properties took place in each of the last five years; and how many of these were provided without charge by English Heritage. | | (224496) | 644
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the annual contribution of the heritage sector to the national economy. | | (224497) | 645
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he expects to appoint a new Chair of Sport England; whether the remit and responsibilities associated with the post will differ from those of the former Chair; and what remuneration the new Chair will receive. | | (224498) | 646
N | Mr Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 27th June 2008, Official Report, columns 860-1W, what contribution he expects Sport England to make to the £140 million fund announced on 6th June 2008 to encourage local authorities to offer free swimming; and what percentage of the fund will come from (a) Lottery income and (b) grant-in-aid income. | | (224513) | 647
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what central funding will be given to local authorities to meet the Government's pledge of offering free swimming to the over 60s and under 16s; and what mechanism and methodology will be used to calculate the funding to each local authority. | | (222836) | 648
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what options are available to licensing authorities regarding applications for Temporary Event Notices where the premises concerned has previously been found to have breached licensing conditions. | | (222997) | 649
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding the Big Lottery Fund has provided to each regional equality and diversity partnership in the last 12 months; and on what date each such payment was made. | | (222999) | 650
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 2nd July 2008, Official Report, columns 51-52WS, on DCMS engagement, what changes are planned to the regional structures of (a) the Arts Council, (b) Sports England, (c) English Heritage and (d) Museum, Libraries and Archives Councils. | | (223004) | 651
| Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 2nd July 2008, Official Report, columns 51-2WS, on DCMS engagement, what estimate he has made of the costs arising from abolition of the Regional Cultural Consortia. | | (223017) | 652
N | Mr Mark Lancaster (North East Milton Keynes): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the minutes of his meeting with Bernie Ecclestone on 18th March 2008 on the British Grand Prix. | | (222690) | 653
| Joan Ryan (Enfield North): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations his Department has received from the London Borough of Enfield on maintaining the Queen Elizabeth II Sports Stadium in Enfield as a sports centre; and what steps his Department is taking to discourage local authorities from allowing their sports facilities to become unsafe for use. | | (222662) | 654
N | Sir Michael Spicer (West Worcestershire): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether English Heritage plans to list the Edinburgh Dome at Malvern St James School, Worcestershire; and if he will make a statement. | | (222407) | 655
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Upper Bann of 28th February 2008, Official Report, column 1830W, on departmental home working, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of home working by his Department's staff. | | (222538) | 656
N | Dr Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much lottery funding has been awarded to sports groups in Milton Keynes in the last 12 months. | | (224326) | 657
| Dr Howard Stoate (Dartford): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on services, broken down by type in (a) Dartford Borough, (b) Kent Thameside, (c) the Thames Gateway, (d) Kent County Council area and (e) the South East region in each of the last five years. | | (222451) | 658
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were employed by Arts Council England in (a) 1997-98 and (b) 2007-08 in (i) the Chief Executive's office, (ii) the Chairman's office, (iii) press and public affairs, (iv) finance and resources, (v) business assessment and planning, (vi) finance, (vii) information, (viii) office services, (ix) personnel, (x) combined arts, (xi) drama, (xii) dance, (xiii) film, video and broadcasting, (xiv) literature, (xv) music, (xvi) touring, (xvii) visual arts, (xviii) arts and disability and (xix) policy and research. | | (223882) | 659
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people are employed (a) directly and (b) as consultants by Arts Council England to administer funds from the National Lottery. | | (223883) | 660
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were employed by Arts Council England as consultants in each year since 1997-98; and what the annual cost of such employment was in 2007-08 prices. | | (223884) | 661
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent by Arts Council England on (a) Creative Partnerships, (b) own art and (c) the Cultural Leadership programme in every year since each programme's inception in 2007-08 prices. | | (223885) | 662
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much grant-in-aid was received by Arts Council England in each year since 1997-98 in 2007-08 prices; and what such grants were excluding funds for Creative Partnerships. | | (223886) | 663
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people are employed by Arts Council England (a) nationally and (b) regionally on Creative Partnerships. | | (224166) | 664
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were employed by each regional arts council in 2007-08. | | (224167) | 665
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were employed by the regional arts boards of the Arts Council in 1997-08. | | (224168) | 666
| Mr Edward Vaizey (Wantage): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people were employed by Arts Council England (a) nationally and (b) regionally in (i) 1997-08 and (ii) 2007-08. | | (224169) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Defence 667
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in his Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223056) | 668
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notifications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies made to the Information Commissioner following the loss or mishandling of personal information or data in each of the last three years; and what was notified in each case. | | (222901) | 669
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 19th February 2007, Official Report, column 304W, on Iraq: peace keeping operations, what recent reports he has received on the (a) detention and (b) status of Abdul Razzaq Ali al-Jedda; what representations he has received on the case; and if he will make a statement. | | (222503) | 670
| Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) reports and (b) complaints his Department has received of civilian deaths due to aeroplane attacks by NATO forces in Afghanistan in the last 12 months; what the (i) date, (ii) location and (iii) alleged resulting number of civilian deaths of each such attack was; what response his Department has made to each (A) report and (B) complaint; and if he will make a statement. | | (223728) | 671
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the enhanced repair and maintenance facility for military equipment at RAF St. Athan will have the capability to repair and maintain road transport carriers for nuclear weapons. | | (223892) | 672
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent on taking forward the disarmament laboratory initiative at AWE Aldermaston; what the total budget allocated to the project is; how many staff are working on the project; and what security clearance is required for project participants. | | (223893) | 673
| Mr Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what evaluation was made of the compatibility with the United Kingdom obligations under Article 1 of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) when deciding to invite Norway to participate as a non-nuclear state party to the NPT in the disarmament laboratory project on nuclear warhead dismantlement at AWE Aldermaston. | | (223894) | 674
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of materials his Department has distributed to schools in the last three years. | | (222549) | 675
| Philip Davies (Shipley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on taxis in the last financial year for which figures are available. | | (223030) | 676
N | Mr David Davis (Haltemprice & Howden): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many servicemen have been wounded in Afghanistan as a result of (a) friendly fire, (b) accident and (c) enemy action in each year since 2001. | | (224510) | 677
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14th July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. | | (221938) | 678
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 19th June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use his Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. | | (221939) | 679
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation sponsored by his Department has (i) amended and (ii) enhanced existing powers of entry since May 1997. | | (221940) | 680
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the names and addresses of each organisation that supplied goods and services to his Department in 2007-08, based on the purchase order data held in the Department's financial database. | | (221942) | 681
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on each of the external public relations and marketing companies included in the Central Office of Information's Public Relations Framework in each of the last 36 months. | | (221943) | 682
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. | | (221944) | 683
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what permanent residential accommodation is provided for use by civil servants in his Department; how many residential dwellings are provided; where they are located; and for what grade of civil servant they are provided. | | (221945) | 684
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. | | (221946) | 685
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what type of data have been sold by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations in the last 12 months. | | (221947) | 686
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have made under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to (i) undertake directed surveillance, (ii) use covert human intelligence sources, (iii) acquire communications data and (iv) undertake intrusive surveillance in the last 24 months. | | (221948) | 687
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the location is of each office occupied by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. | | (221949) | 688
| James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the Rt hon. Member for Horsham of 3rd July 2008, Official Report, column 1039W, on departmental manpower, what records his Department's human resources department holds of the number of (a) permanent staff without fixed posts or (b) staff classified as priority movers. | | (222192) | 689
| Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green of 7th July 2008, Official Report, column 1174W, on departmental retirement, how many requests to work beyond the standard retirement age were received by his Department in each of the last four years. | | (222434) | 690
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many training airborne jumps were conducted by service personnel in the armed forces in each month since November 2007, broken down by type of aircraft. | | (222017) | 691
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in tranferring Basra airbase to Iraqi civilian authority; and if he will make a statement. | | (222018) | 692
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many patrols of each type were conducted by the 2 Battalion, The Rifles during their recent deployment to Kosovo. | | (222019) | 693
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel were (a) injured and (b) wounded during the 2 Battalion, The Rifles recent deployment to Kosovo. | | (222020) | 694
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 449W, on EU defence policy, how many departmental (a) military and (b) civilian personnel work in each position listed. | | (222065) | 695
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) SA-80 assault rifles, (b) 9mm Browning pistols and (c) other weapons, listed by type, were reported (i) lost or missing and later recovered and (ii) lost or missing and not recovered by armed forces in the United Kingdom in each month since November 2007. | | (222066) | 696
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vehicles of each type were reported (a) lost or missing and later recovered and (b) lost or missing and not recovered by armed forces in the United Kingdom in each year since 1997. | | (222067) | 697
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the standard Dangerously Ill Forwarding of Relatives (DILFOR UK) payment was in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (222068) | 698
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's annual expenditure was on the (a) Dangerously Ill Forwarding of Relatives (UK) and (b) Dangerously Ill Forwarding of Relatives (Overseas) programmes for each year since 2003. | | (222069) | 699
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sources of funding there are for the increase in compensation payments outlined in the Service Personnel Command Paper. | | (222070) | 700
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sources of funding there are for further and higher education payments to be made to service personnel as outlined in the Service Personnel Command Paper; and whether these payments will cover living costs. | | (222072) | 701
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many rounds of each type of ammunition were fired by the 2 Battalion, The Rifles during their recent deployment to Kosovo. | | (222073) | 702
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are plans to pool the burden of the (a) maintenance, (b) provision of spare parts and (c) any other requirements for the future operation of the A400M cargo plane between EU member states. | | (222075) | 703
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK personnel were deployed on operations on the most recent date for which figures are available, broken down by location. | | (222310) | 704
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans there are to establish a Status of Forces Agreement with the government of Iraq. | | (222585) | 705
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Statement made by the Prime Minister on 22nd July 2008, on Iraq, when Operation Charge of the Guards (a) commenced and (b) ended. | | (222932) | 706
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Statement made by the Prime Minister on 22nd July 2008, on Iraq, what objectives were set for Operation Charge of the Guards. | | (222933) | 707
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral Statement made by the Prime Minister on 22nd July 2008, on Iraq, how many British troops participated in Operation Charge of the Guards. | | (222934) | 708
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the armed forces' (a) Mastiff, (b) Jackal, (c) Panther and (d) Snatch Land Rover vehicles were (i) in service, (ii) fit for purpose and (iii) out of service at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (223673) | 709
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the armed forces' (a) Vectors, (b) Viking and (c) Bulldog vehicles were (i) in service, (ii) fit for purpose and (iii) out of service at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (223846) | 710
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of the armed forces (a) Apache, (b) Lynx and (c) Gazelle vehicles were (i) fit for purpose and (ii) out of service at the latest date for which figures are available. | | (223847) | 711
| Dr Liam Fox (Woodspring): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK armed forces personnel were deployed on operations at the latest date for which figures are available, broken down by location of operation. | | (223848) | 712
| Mr Mark Francois (Rayleigh): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are wholly or mainly tasked with the negotiation, implementation or the administration of EU legislation and consequent policies. | | (222282) | 713
| Mr Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis & Littlehampton): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many employees of his Department are on gardening leave. | | (222811) | 714
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which 10 companies have supplied his Department with the most equipment in the last 12 months; and what the UK-based workforce is of each company. | | (222340) | 715
| Mr Mike Hancock (Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any savings will have been forgone as a result of the time taken to sign the Military Flying Training System contract; and if he will make a statement. | | (222342) | 716
| Mr Greg Hands (Hammersmith & Fulham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what arrangements his Department has in place to assist officials to overcome the effects of stress experienced in the workplace. | | (222174) | 717
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average cost per patient was of the provision of (a) internet, (b) television and (c) telephone facilities at (i) the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak and (ii) Headley Court Rehabilitation Centre in the latest period for which figures are available. | | (222491) | 718
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans are in place for the re-investment of capital generated by the sale of land identified as disposable in the Defence Estates Development Plan. | | (222493) | 719
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which tasks have been completed by 7 Regiment Air Army Corps in the last six months. | | (222494) | 720
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost for fuel for the recently ordered aircraft carriers in the first 12 months of their operation; and what cost of oil per barrel this calculation assumes. | | (222521) | 721
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the costs to his Department to date of legal advice relating to claims made by nuclear test veterans claiming compensation from the Government; and how much is expected to be spent in the next 12 weeks. | | (222524) | 722
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) deaths and (b) injuries of service personnel resulted from cluster munitions and other similar ordnances in each of the last five years. | | (222525) | 723
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cluster munitions were deactivated (a) in the field of action and (b) amongst UK stores of weapons in each year since 1997, broken down by location. | | (222526) | 724
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what acreage of land is owned by his Department and used for non-military agricultural purposes; and for what reasons such land is held. | | (222529) | 725
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the 20 per cent. threshold for war disablement pensions was set at that level. | | (222530) | 726
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many out-of-court settlements there were regarding war pensions in each of the last five years; and what information his Department holds on the reasons for such settlements being made. | | (222531) | 727
| Nick Harvey (North Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) evaluated on the possible health effects of beryllium on humans. | | (222851) | 728
| Mr Mark Hoban (Fareham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have with EDF; and how much (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies paid to EDF in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the purpose of the payment. | | (221844) | 729
| Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 19th July 2006, Official Report, column 505W, on armoured vehicles, what progress has been made in securing delivery of the Vector armoured vehicles. | | (221900) | 730
N | Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many rounds have been fired by British forces in Afghanistan since October 2007, broken down by type of ammunition used. | | (224450) | 731
N | John Howell (Henley): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to reply to the letter of 29th July from the hon. Member for Henley regarding a constituent, Alan Hill, and the sale of property by the Ministry of Defence. | | (224520) | 732
| Mr Paul Keetch (Hereford): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Future Rapid Effects System programme was discussed at the meetings between the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support and GDUK on 13th September 2007 and 29th January 2008; and what Ministerial meetings were held with either of the other principal bidders between June 2007 and June 2008. | | (221920) | 733
| Robert Key (Salisbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the terms of reference are of the Army's Bye-Law Review Team. | | (223736) | 734
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what planning his Department has undertaken in respect of the manning of the Future Aircraft Carriers; and if he will make a statement. | | (224452) | 735
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy personnel man existing aircraft carriers; and how many will be required to man each of the Future Aircraft Carriers. | | (224453) | 736
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is intended to man both the Future Aircraft Carriers simultaneously. | | (224454) | 737
N | Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what effect he anticipates on the manning of other units of the Fleet when (a) the first and (b) both of the Future Aircraft Carriers receive their full crews. | | (224455) | 738
| Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reports he has received on the practice of beasting in the Royal Welsh Regiment; which senior officers (a) have been admonished and (b) are the subject of disciplinary action arising from the practice of beasting in the regiment since 3rd July 2006; and if he will make a statement. | | (223905) | 739
| Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the elements of the First Sea Lord's job which the post holder would (a) be unable to conduct and (b) find difficulty in accomplishing without sea command experience. | | [R] (222010) | 740
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his Russian counterpart on Russia's continuing cooperation on the Open Skies Treaty. | | (223918) | 741
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Chinese nationals fighting alongside the Taleban have been killed or taken into custody as part of UK military operations in Operation Herrick. | | (223920) | 742
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will hold discussions with his Chinese counterpart on the security of the China-Afghanistan border against (a) drugs, (b) arms and (c) people smuggling. | | (223921) | 743
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed service personnel have become (a) single, (b) double, (c) triple and (d) quadruple amputees as a result of injuries sustained in Operation Telic and Operation Herrick. | | (223922) | 744
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the in-service date for the Mantis unmanned aerial vehicle. | | (223989) | 745
| Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of the contract for package 1 of the Defence Training Review programme is. | | (223990) | 746
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of (a) the Army, (b) the Royal Navy and (c) the Royal Air Force were recruited from (i) Cumbria and (ii) Copeland in the last five years. | | (223948) | 747
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of HM Armed Forces recruited from (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland are expected to complete their military service in financial year 2008-09; and how many of them will be eligible to receive recently-announced further education support. | | (223949) | 748
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of HM Armed Forces who were recruited from (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland who will complete military service in 2008-09 and will be under 60 years of age will qualify for concessionary bus travel. | | (223950) | 749
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of members of HM armed forces from (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland completing their military service in financial year 2008-09 who will require specially-adapted social housing. | | (223954) | 750
| Mr Jamie Reed (Copeland): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) primary school places and (b) secondary school places in (i) Cumbria and (ii) Copeland which will be required for children of members of HM armed forces completing their military service in 2008-09. | | (223955) | 751
| Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7th July 2008, Official Report, column 1169W, on departmental homeworking, if he will make it his policy to collate and maintain central records of all homeworking by his Department's staff. | | (222473) | 752
N | Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) small arms and (b) light weapons were (i) exported and (ii) imported by the UK in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. | | (224312) | 753
| Mr Gary Streeter (South West Devon): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effects of the Equality Act 2006 on redundancy terms for employees at Devonport Dockyard aged 50 years and over. | | (222418) | 754
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on measures to prevent blue on blue engagements by armed forces units. | | (223823) | 755
| Mr Ben Wallace (Lancaster & Wyre): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which countries cadets have attended RMA Sandhurst in the last three years. | | (223824) | Questions to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 756
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what work the Office of Climate Change has undertaken; and what further work is planned. | | (222405) | 757
| Gregory Barker (Bexhill & Battle): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 26th July 2007, Official Report, column 1528W, on the Office of Climate Change, what progress the Office has made in (a) developing policy options for reducing emissions from heating and cooling of buildings, (b) its assessment of the UK's institutional arrangements and their ability to support domestic climate change goals and (c) its assessment of the global carbon finance flows required to support developing countries in moving towards low carbon economies. | | (222518) | 758
| Mr John Baron (Billericay): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the five most serious disciplinary breaches in his Department were in the last 12 months; and what steps were taken in response to each breach. | | (223057) | 759
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of the organisations that were originally proposed to be included in the Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme will now no longer be included as a consequence of the qualifying threshold being doubled from 3,000 to 6,000 megawatt hours of annual electricity consumption. | | (222335) | 760
| Peter Bottomley (Worthing West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies will be included in the Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme. | | (222336) | 761
| Mr Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the size of world peat reserves in (a) 1998 and (b) 2008. | | (222501) | 762
| James Brokenshire (Hornchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many notifications (a) his Department and (b) its agencies made to the Information Commissioner following the loss or mishandling of personal information or data in each of the last three years; and what was notified in each case. | | (222897) | 763
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, what steps his Department has taken to inform suppliers, farmers, allotment holders and gardeners of the risks associated with the use of aminopyralid. | | (222377) | 764
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, what assessment he has made of the risk of further contamination of crops during the next growing season. | | (222378) | 765
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the precautions taken by (a) the suppliers and (b) the end-users of aminopyralid to ensure that it did not contaminate manure. | | (222379) | 766
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, which herbicides have (a) been granted provisional authorisation, (b) been refused provisional authorisation, (c) been granted full authorisation, (d) had provisional authorisation rescinded and (e) had full authorisation rescinded. | | (222380) | 767
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, in what circumstances his Department would rescind a provisional authorisation for a herbicide. | | (222381) | 768
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, what representations he has received on the withdrawal of the provisional authorisation of aminopyralid. | | (222382) | 769
| Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16th July 2008, Official Report, column 435W, on manure, what further stages of approval aminopyralid will be subject to before it may be fully approved. | | (222383) | 770
| Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the UK has placed a moritorium on the importation of non-domestic animals from non-EU countries, with particular reference to South African white rhinoceroses, in advance of EU-wide agreement on the harmonisation of rules on such imports; which other EU member states have put such a moritorium in place; and if he will make a statement. | | (222849) | 771
| Mr David Cameron (Witney): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consultation he undertook with zoos and similar institutions, with particular reference to the Cotswold Wildlife Park, prior to establishing the moratorium on the importation of non-domestic animals from non-EU countries.; and if he will make a statement. |
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