Written Answers (Commons) of 19 December 2003 Series 6 Vol. 416

  1. LEADER OF THE HOUSE
      2. c1W
    1. Sitting Hours 75 words
  2. TREASURY
      3. cc1-2W
    1. Banking Payments System 440 words
      2. c2W
    2. Iraqi Money 124 words
      3. cc2-3W
    3. Income and Corporation Taxes Act 432 words
      4. cc3-4W
    4. National Statistics 274 words
  3. HOME DEPARTMENT
      4. cc4-9W
    1. Asylum and Immigration 2,158 words
      2. c9W
    2. Child Protection Referrals 180 words
      3. c9W
    3. Corporate Killing 100 words
      4. cc9-10W
    4. Correspondence 192 words
      5. c10W
    5. Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships 85 words
      6. cc10-1W
    6. Custody Death Investigations 481 words
      7. cc11-2W
    7. Highly Skilled Migrants 134 words
      8. c12W
    8. Identity Fraud 160 words
      9. c12W
    9. Judicial Review 72 words
      10. cc12-3W
    10. Juvenile Offenders 278 words
      11. c13W
    11. Paedophiles 142 words
      12. c13W
    12. Prison Education 73 words
      13. cc13-4W
    13. Prisons (Suicide Prevention) 314 words
      14. cc14-5W
    14. Sexual Offences 253 words
      15. c15W
    15. Terrorism 79 words
      16. c15W
    16. Unregistered Ships 52 words
      17. cc15-9W
    17. Women Prisoners 1,674 words
      18. c19W
    18. Working Holidaymakers 134 words
  4. DEFENCE
      5. c19W
    1. "Delivering Security in a Changing World" 155 words
      2. c19W
    2. Aircraft Carriers 87 words
      3. cc19-20W
    3. Armoured Vehicles 58 words
      4. c20W
    4. Arms Contracts 63 words
      5. c20W
    5. Army Strength 199 words
      6. cc20-4W
    6. Attitude Surveys 1,808 words
      7. cc24-5W
    7. Chemical Weapons (United Kingdom) 145 words
      8. c25W
    8. Decommissioning (UK Naval Ships) 269 words
      9. cc25-6W
    9. Depleted Uranium 178 words
      10. cc26-7W
    10. Defence Fire Service 248 words
      11. c27W
    11. Equipment Upgrades 155 words
      12. c27W
    12. Fair Trade Products 97 words
      13. c27W
    13. Future Rapid Effects Systems 75 words
      14. cc27-8W
    14. Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft 53 words
      15. c28W
    15. Harrier Aircraft 421 words
      16. cc28-9W
    16. HMS Echo/HMS Enterprise 216 words
      17. cc29-30W
    17. Iraq 686 words
      18. cc30-1W
    18. Kosovo 58 words
      19. c31W
    19. Legislation 69 words
      20. c31W
    20. Military Personnel (Psychiatric Treatment) 205 words
      21. cc31-2W
    21. Queen's Lancashire Regiment 145 words
      22. c32W
    22. Saudi Arabia 64 words
      23. c32W
    23. Seawolf 141 words
      24. cc32-3W
    24. Service Pensions 195 words
      25. c33W
    25. Staffordshire Regiment 90 words
      26. cc33-4W
    26. Subcontractors 170 words
      27. c34W
    27. Territorial Army 83 words
      28. c34W
    28. Type 45 Destroyer 78 words
  5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
      6. c35W
    1. Angola 287 words
      2. cc35-6W
    2. Colombia 197 words
      3. c36W
    3. Disabled Civil Servants 95 words
      4. c36W
    4. Emergency Food Aid 189 words
      5. cc36-7W
    5. Eritrea 51 words
      6. c37W
    6. EU Aid (Fraud) 185 words
      7. c37W
    7. European Constitution 142 words
      8. cc37-8W
    8. Give as You Earn Scheme 180 words
      9. cc38-40W
    9. HIV/AIDS 1,004 words
      10. cc40-1W
    10. Iraq 457 words
      11. c41W
    11. Rwanda 316 words
      12. cc41-3W
    12. Southern Africa 551 words
      13. c43W
    13. World Trade Organisation 57 words
      14. cc43-4W
    14. Zimbabwe 532 words
  6. ELECTORAL COMMISSION
      7. c44W
    1. Boundary Review 84 words
      2. cc44-5W
    2. Voting Procedures 126 words
  7. TRANSPORT
      8. c45W
    1. Air Transport 246 words
      2. c45W
    2. BAA 70 words
      3. cc45-6W
    3. Birmingham Airport 88 words
      4. c46W
    4. Child Pedestrians (Road Accidents) 234 words
      5. cc46-7W
    5. Drink Driving 601 words
      6. cc47-9W
    6. Fuel Efficiency (Road Transport) 578 words
      7. c49W
    7. Legislation 94 words
      8. cc49-50W
    8. Maritime and Coastguard Agency 196 words
      9. c50W
    9. Marketing 145 words
      10. c50W
    10. Motorways 89 words
      11. cc50-1W
    11. New Airport (Thames Estuary) 68 words
      12. c51W
    12. Pollution Tracking 131 words
      13. c51W
    13. Public Service Obligations (Air Services) 68 words
      14. c51W
    14. Railways 160 words
      15. cc51-2W
    15. Road Charging 82 words
      16. c52W
    16. Road Resurfacing 128 words
      17. cc52-3W
    17. Safety Cameras 521 words
      18. cc53-4W
    18. Traffic Management Bill 172 words
      19. cc54-5W
    19. Transport Council 794 words
      20. cc55-6W
    20. US Ships (Decommissioning) 235 words
      21. cc56-7W
    21. Vehicle Licensing 400 words
  8. PRIME MINISTER
      9. c57W
    1. Asylum Law 102 words
      2. c57W
    2. Chechnya 45 words
      3. c57W
    3. EU Policy 33 words
      4. cc57-8W
    4. EU Reform 105 words
      5. c58W
    5. Give as You Earn Scheme 158 words
      6. c58W
    6. Public Sector Investment 146 words
      7. cc58-9W
    7. Romania 94 words
      8. c59W
    8. Saddam Hussein 57 words
      9. c59W
    9. Yemen 24 words
  9. EDUCATION AND SKILLS
      10. cc59-60W
    1. Performing Arts 234 words
      2. c60W
    2. Aimhigher Programme 82 words
      3. c60W
    3. Child Referrals 141 words
      4. c60W
    4. Child Support 165 words
      5. cc60-1W
    5. Children At Risk Green Paper 132 words
      6. c61W
    6. Children in Care 159 words
      7. cc61-2W
    7. Children in Prisons 160 words
      8. c62W
    8. Education (North-west) 116 words
      9. cc62-4W
    9. Further Education 820 words
      10. c64W
    10. Identity Cards 109 words
      11. cc64-5W
    11. List 99 247 words
      12. c65W
    12. Literacy and Numeracy Hours 160 words
      13. c65W
    13. Local Education Authorities 66 words
      14. cc65-6W
    14. Maintenance Loan 160 words
      15. cc66-7W
    15. Non-resident Parents 432 words
      16. cc67-8W
    16. Non-vocational Community Education 495 words
      17. cc68-9W
    17. Pre-school Places 347 words
      18. c69W
    18. Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators 80 words
      19. c69W
    19. Specialist Schools 155 words
      20. cc69-70W
    20. Speech Therapists 164 words
      21. c70W
    21. Statementing (Portsmouth) 203 words
      22. c70W
    22. Top-up Fees 45 words
      23. c70W
    23. Workforce Reform 49 words
  10. WALES
      11. c71W
    1. Children's Commissioner 88 words
      2. c71W
    2. Disabled Civil Servants 46 words
      3. c71W
    3. Potato Ring Rot 235 words
  11. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
      12. c72W
    1. Asylum Appeals 225 words
      2. c72W
    2. Entry Clearance 138 words
      3. cc72-3W
    3. European Court of Human Rights 413 words
      4. c73W
    4. Postal Voting 71 words
  12. SOLICITOR-GENERAL
      13. c74W
    1. Fair Trade Products 255 words
      2. c74W
    2. Guantanmo Bay 96 words
      3. cc74-6W
    3. Timber 278 words
  13. CABINET OFFICE
      14. c76W
    1. Hutton Inquiry 159 words
  14. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
      15. c77W
    1. Gibraltar 294 words
      2. cc77-8W
    2. Arms Trade 361 words
      3. cc78-9W
    3. Art Acquisition 211 words
      4. c79W
    4. Brussels Summit 192 words
      5. cc79-80W
    5. Burundi 561 words
      6. cc80-1W
    6. Central Asian Drugs Action Plan 145 words
      7. c81W
    7. Chechnya 105 words
      8. c81W
    8. China 101 words
      9. cc81-2W
    9. Colombia 187 words
      10. c82W
    10. Disabled Civil Servants 61 words
      11. c82W
    11. Draft European Constitution 152 words
      12. cc82-3W
    12. EU-Israel Association Agreement 398 words
      13. cc83-4W
    13. Great Lakes 216 words
      14. c84W
    14. Indonesia 125 words
      15. cc84-5W
    15. Iraq 722 words
      16. cc85-6W
    16. Kashmir 438 words
      17. cc86-7W
    17. Middle East 70 words
      18. c87W
    18. Official Receptions 54 words
      19. cc87-8W
    19. Pakistan (Immigration) 407 words
      20. c88W
    20. Russia 108 words
      21. c88W
    21. Strategy White Paper 98 words
      22. cc88-9W
    22. US-occupied Sites 167 words
      23. c89W
    23. Zimbabwe 285 words
  15. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
      16. cc89-90W
    1. Agenda 21 214 words
      2. c90W
    2. Albatrosses and Petrels 131 words
      3. cc90-1W
    3. Carcinogens 409 words
      4. c91W
    4. Bovine TB 201 words
      5. cc91-3W
    5. Climate Change 733 words
      6. c93W
    6. Crop Areas 229 words
      7. cc93-4W
    7. Disabled Civil Servants 115 words
      8. c94W
    8. Energy Production 173 words
      9. cc94-5W
    9. Flood Prevention 225 words
      10. c95W
    10. Nuclear Sites 99 words
      11. c95W
    11. Quality Council Status 238 words
      12. cc95-6W
    12. Racing Greyhounds 38 words
      13. c96W
    13. Regional Producers (Wiltshire) Ltd. 156 words
      14. c96W
    14. Small Businesses 112 words
  16. DEFENCE
      17. c96W
    1. Gulf War Syndrome 59 words
      2. cc96-7W
    2. Iraq 448 words
      3. cc97-8W
    3. Legal Costs 76 words
      4. c98W
    4. Military Personnel (Psychiatric Treatment) 48 words
      5. c98W
    5. Territorial Army 147 words
      6. c98W
    6. Typhoon 45 words
      7. cc98-9W
    7. UK Sites (USA Occupation) 378 words
      8. c99W
    8. Wind Turbines 94 words
  17. HOME DEPARTMENT
      18. c100W
    1. Art Acquisition 175 words
      2. c100W
    2. Correspondence 97 words
      3. cc100-1W
    3. Crime Reduction Initiatives 344 words
      4. cc101-2W
    4. Criminal Cases Review Commission 560 words
      5. cc102-3W
    5. Identity Cards 244 words
      6. c103W
    6. Identity Fraud 92 words
      7. c103W
    7. Information and Technology Projects 141 words
      8. cc103-4W
    8. Northern Ireland Troubles 486 words
      9. cc104-5W
    9. Passports (Secure Delivery) 105 words
      10. c105W
    10. Prison Spending 291 words
      11. cc105-6W
    11. Probation Service 357 words
      12. c106W
    12. Terrorism 75 words
      13. c106W
    13. Volunteers in Action Programme 64 words
  18. WORK AND PENSIONS
      19. c107W
    1. Women Pensioners 200 words
      2. c107W
    2. Chronic Pain 204 words
      3. cc107-8W
    3. Occupational Deafness 78 words
      4. c108W
    4. Pension Credit 264 words
  19. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
      20. cc108-9W
    1. Broadband 438 words
      2. cc109-10W
    2. Business Innovation 206 words
      3. c110W
    3. Business Investment 161 words
      4. cc110-1W
    4. Business Support Schemes 164 words
      5. c111W
    5. Colombia 62 words
      6. cc111-2W
    6. Commission for Equality and Human Rights 366 words
      7. c112W
    7. Correspondence 73 words
      8. c112W
    8. Departmental Grants 62 words
      9. c112W
    9. Disabled Civil Servants 104 words
      10. cc112-3W
    10. Electricity Act 151 words
      11. c113W
    11. Entrepreneurs 152 words
      12. cc113-4W
    12. Equal Opportunities 329 words
      13. c114W
    13. Equal Treatment at Work Directive 185 words
      14. cc114-5W
    14. Foreign Debt 589 words
      15. c115W
    15. Identity Cards 137 words
      16. cc115-6W
    16. Industrial Development Unit 187 words
      17. c116W
    17. Legislation 70 words
      18. cc116-8W
    18. Manufacturing Industry 905 words
      19. c118W
    19. Ministerial Meetings 41 words
      20. cc118-9W
    20. Motor Industry 291 words
      21. c119W
    21. Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee 119 words
      22. cc119-20W
    22. Oil-fired Appliances 100 words
      23. cc120-1W
    23. Post Offices 530 words
      24. cc121-3W
    24. Regional Development Agencies 1,280 words
      25. cc123-4W
    25. Regulations 216 words
      26. c124W
    26. Royal Mail 117 words
      27. cc124-5W
    27. Small Businesses 318 words
      28. c125W
    28. Venture Capital 116 words
  20. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
      21. cc125-6W
    1. Thornborough Henges 56 words
      2. c126W
    2. Sports Coaching 128 words
      3. c126W
    3. Performing Arts 73 words
      4. c126W
    4. Museum Closures 70 words
      5. cc126-7W
    5. Sand Yachting 107 words
      6. c127W
    6. British Horse Racing 89 words
      7. c127W
    7. Lottery Grants (Essex) 64 words
      8. c127W
    8. Arts (Deprived Areas) 73 words
      9. c127W
    9. British Film Industry 108 words
      10. cc127-8W
    10. Olympic Bid 81 words
      11. c128W
    11. Audio Description 153 words
      12. c128W
    12. BBC 101 words
      13. cc128-9W
    13. Departmental Expenditure 94 words
      14. c129W
    14. Departmental Budget 80 words
      15. c129W
    15. Departmental Gifts 108 words
      16. c129W
    16. Departmental Staff 86 words
      17. cc129-30W
    17. Departmental Travel 146 words
      18. cc130-2W
    18. Digital Television 772 words
      19. c132W
    19. Food Advertising 174 words
      20. c132W
    20. Football Broadcasting 137 words
      21. c132W
    21. Government Car Service 75 words
      22. cc132-4W
    22. Museums 894 words
      23. cc134-7W
    23. National Lottery 886 words
      24. c137W
    24. Olympic Games 129 words
      25. c137W
    25. Regional Tourist Boards 74 words
      26. cc137-8W
    26. School Sport 530 words
      27. cc138-9W
    27. South West Arts 353 words
  21. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
      22. c139W
    1. Post Offices 94 words
      2. cc139-40W
    2. Tenancy Deposit Scheme 141 words
      3. c140W
    3. Tourism 130 words
      4. cc140-1W
    4. Decent Homes Standard 414 words
      5. c141W
    5. Council Housing 60 words
      6. cc141-2W
    6. Departmental Policies (Regent's Park and Kensington, North) 123 words
      7. c142W
    7. Disabled Facilities Grant 147 words
      8. c142W
    8. Fenestration Self-assessment Scheme 111 words
      9. cc142-3W
    9. Homelessness 269 words
      10. cc143-5W
    10. Housing 1,067 words
      11. c145W
    11. Local Government Finance 125 words
      12. cc145-6W
    12. Identity Cards 74 words
      13. cc146-7W
    13. Kirklees Council (Funding) 562 words
      14. cc147-8W
    14. Ministerial Visits 298 words
      15. c148W
    15. Mobile Phone Masts 89 words
      16. cc148-9W
    16. Police Authority Precepts 243 words
      17. cc149-50W
    17. Regional Assemblies 261 words
      18. c150W
    18. Relationship Managers 255 words
      19. cc150-1W
    19. Wind Farms 95 words
  22. TREASURY
      23. c151W
    1. Consumer Spending 227 words
      2. cc151-2W
    2. Government Employees 313 words
      3. c152W
    3. Tonnage Tax 82 words
      4. cc152-3W
    4. Unemployment (Lone Parents) 424 words
      5. c153W
    5. Decent Homes Standard 194 words
      6. cc153-4W
    6. Agricultural Employment 93 words
      7. c154W
    7. Average Income 176 words
      8. cc154-5W
    8. Budget (Responses) 72 words
      9. c155W
    9. Carers 252 words
      10. c155W
    10. Child Tax Credit 103 words
      11. cc155-7W
    11. Child Trust Funds 1,033 words
      12. cc157-60W
    12. Council Tax 1,216 words
      13. cc160-1W
    13. Debt Interest 309 words
      14. c161W
    14. Departmental Advertising 74 words
      15. c161W
    15. Domestic Business Tax Allowance 66 words
      16. c161W
    16. Employment (Older People) 74 words
      17. cc161-2W
    17. Financial Products (Mis-selling) 474 words
      18. c162W
    18. Gershon Review 36 words
      19. cc162-3W
    19. Gift Aid 362 words
      20. cc163-4W
    20. Hoechst Judgment 143 words
      21. c164W
    21. Israel 91 words
      22. c164W
    22. IT Systems 29 words
      23. c164W
    23. Liquefied Petroleum Gas 101 words
      24. cc164-5W
    24. National Statistics 187 words
      25. c165W
    25. Overseas Companies 59 words
      26. cc165-6W
    26. Private Finance Initiative/Public Private Partnerships Contracts 419 words
      27. cc166-7W
    27. Pre-Budget Report 2003 353 words
      28. c167W
    28. Pre-Budget Report Summary Leaflet 85 words
      29. c167W
    29. Private Sector Reviews 91 words
      30. c167W
    30. Public Service Delivery Organisations 104 words
      31. cc167-8W
    31. Tax Stamps (Whisky) 250 words
      32. c168W
    32. Teenage Pregnancies 122 words
      33. cc168-9W
    33. Tonnage Tax Scheme 133 words
      34. cc169-70W
    34. Waste Management (Funding) 403 words
  23. HEALTH
      24. c171W
    1. Adverse Drug Reactions 115 words
      2. cc171-2W
    2. Age-related Macular Degeneration 621 words
      3. cc172-6W
    3. Ambulance Service 2,006 words
      4. cc176-7W
    4. Arrhythmias 163 words
      5. cc177-8W
    5. Audiology 327 words
      6. c178W
    6. Care Homes 196 words
      7. c178W
    7. Communicable Diseases 139 words
      8. cc178-9W
    8. Community Health Council Staff 114 words
      9. c179W
    9. Complaints (Berkshire) 188 words
      10. cc179-80W
    10. Continuing Care (National Health Service Responsibilities) Directions 2003 380 words
      11. c180W
    11. Deaf People 142 words
      12. cc180-2W
    12. Dentistry 820 words
      13. cc182-4W
    13. Departmental Policies 905 words
      14. cc184-6W
    14. Departmental Staff 779 words
      15. c186W
    15. Diagnostic and Treatment Centres 71 words
      16. cc186-7W
    16. Doctors' Earnings 120 words
      17. c187W
    17. Domiciliary Care 159 words
      18. cc187-8W
    18. Drug Eluting Stents 227 words
      19. c188W
    19. Electronic Care Record System 138 words
      20. cc188-9W
    20. Electronic Recruitment 294 words
      21. c189W
    21. EU Health Insurance Cards 120 words
      22. c189W
    22. Food Supplements Directive 129 words
      23. cc189-90W
    23. Foundation Status 186 words
      24. cc190-1W
    24. General Practitioners 295 words
      25. c191W
    25. Geriatricians 202 words
      26. c191W
    26. Give as You Earn Scheme 176 words
      27. cc191-2W
    27. GP Referrals 114 words
      28. cc192-3W
    28. Haemophilia 265 words
      29. c193W
    29. Health Care Commissioning 83 words
      30. c193W
    30. Healthy Living Centres 75 words
      31. c193W
    31. Hospital Beds (Christmas) 106 words
      32. cc193-4W
    32. County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals Trust 312 words
      33. c194W
    33. Influenza 103 words
      34. cc194-5W
    34. Learning Services 124 words
      35. c195W
    35. LifeBytes 118 words
      36. c195W
    36. Maintenance Backlog 100 words
      37. cc195-6W
    37. Mental Health (Drugs and Alcohol) 330 words
      38. c196W
    38. Mental Health Services (Children and Adolescents) 204 words
      39. cc196-200W
    39. Mental Illness 1,570 words
      40. c200W
    40. Mindnseek Website 61 words
      41. cc200-1W
    41. MRSA 128 words
      42. c201W
    42. National Institute for Clinical Excellence 243 words
      43. cc201-2W
    43. NHS Contracts 277 words
      44. c202W
    44. NHS Live 74 words
      45. cc202-3W
    45. Nurse Recruitment 242 words
      46. c203W
    46. Nursing and Midwifery Council 68 words
      47. c203W
    47. Osteoporosis 142 words
      48. cc203-4W
    48. Patients Forums 215 words
      49. c204W
    49. Perinatal Pathologists 49 words
      50. cc204-5W
    50. Pharmacy Services 256 words
      51. cc205-6W
    51. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 439 words
      52. cc206-7W
    52. Prescriptions 500 words
      53. cc207-8W
    53. Prisoners 386 words
      54. c208W
    54. Psychiatrists 110 words
      55. c208W
    55. School Nurses 139 words
      56. c208W
    56. Security Passes 60 words
      57. cc208-9W
    57. Skin Cancer 130 words
      58. c209W
    58. Smallpox Vaccination 114 words
      59. c209W
    59. Smoking 124 words
      60. cc209-10W
    60. Speech and Language Therapists 239 words
      61. c210W
    61. Suicide 112 words
      62. cc210-1W
    62. Tinnitus 172 words
      63. cc211-2W
    63. Transplants 405 words
      64. c212W
    64. West Sussex Social Care NHS Trust 182 words
      65. c212W
    65. Working Time Directive 148 words
      66. cc212-4W
    66. Wigs 87 words