MPs receive latest written answers

Business, Innovation and Skills

including

• Business Links' health check service
• Government assistance for those with high levels of personal debt
• higher education: university admissions and graduate employment
• vehicle scrappage scheme

All Business, Innovation and Skills answers

Cabinet Office

including

• number of senior civil servants who resigned to work in the private sector
• details of the public relations firms on the Central Office of Information's accredited list each year since 1997

All Cabinet Office answers

Children, Schools and Families

including

• expenditure on Sure Start Children’s Centres
• state schools in England which take children aged three to 18 years old
• special educational needs and disabilities

All Children, Schools and Families answers

Communities and Local Government

• Government's reasons for not proceeding with housing reform green paper

Communities and Local Government answer

Culture, Media and Sport

including

• number of community amateur cricket clubs registered in England
• second round of the Government's free swimming capital modernisation programme
• operational timing on the Government's proposed 12 pilot community music rehearsal spaces

All Culture, Media and Sport answers

Defence

including

• Afghanistan operations: equipment, troop numbers
• bullying in the armed forces
• armed forces mental health services
• global positioning system and missile tracking

All Defence answers

Energy and Climate Change

including

• vulnerability of the electricity supply network to malicious damage
• number of households in fuel poverty in England in 2006

All Energy and Climate Change answers

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

including

• potential effects on human health of smells from agricultural muck-spreading
• implementation of codes of practice for animal welfare under the Animal Welfare Act 2006
• plans for, and expenditure on, flood defences 2009-11
• number of municipal waste incinerators operating in England

All Environment, Food and Rural Affairs answers

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

including

• cost of campaigns since 2001 aimed at Britons travelling abroad
• the new Foreign and Commonwealth Office-Libya IRA Compensation Unit
• piracy in Somalia and the steps taken by the the Government

All Foreign and Commonwealth Office answers

Health

including

• number of emergency hospital admissions 2007-08 following an asthma attack
• level of funding provided for breaks for carers and for carers' grants in 2009-10
• representations received on the age at which cervical cancer screening should start
• proportion of adults with learning disabilities in settled accommodation

All Health answers

Home Office

• consideration of the disposal of the former Police Training College at Cwmbran

Home Office answer

International Development

including

• number of staff working in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan poppy cultivation and prices

All International Development answers

Justice

including

• final proposals on House of Lords reform should be published later this year
• average daily allocation of funding for food for a prisoner in England
• prisoner transfers applications made and received; prisoner transfer agreements between this administration and foreign governments since 1979
• numbers of prisoners since 2004 who have attempted, or committed, suicide while serving a custodial sentence

All Justice answers

Transport

including

• national bus concessionary travel in England
• effects of the ethanol and bio-content of some modern fuels on fibreglass fuel tanks and bonding glue

All Transport answers

Treasury

including

• non-domestic rates on firms in ports
• Valuation Office Agency treatment of all information about domestic property (number of bedrooms/bathrooms, floors etc) as personal data

All Treasury answers

Work and Pensions

including

• how many people in England and Wales applied for, and received, a crisis loan in 2008-09
• value of payments of incapacity benefit to recipients in each year since 1997
• The number of claims for incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance and employment and support allowance begun since 1 January 2007

All Work and Pensions answers

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