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Deposited Paper DEP2007-0426

Deposited by

Vehicle and Operator Services Agency

Type

Deposited papers

Date

24 December 2007

Reference

DEP2007-0426

House

House of Lords

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment she has made of proposals to move frequency of MOT testing for road vehicles to the EU minimum frequency.

Asked by

Roger Williams (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 December 2007

Reference

469 c1182W; 174292

House

House of Commons

Research Facilities: Meriel Laboratory

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether adequate security is provided by the situation at the Merial animal health laboratory where there is only one valve that separates the live virus product line from the line providing an outlet from the steam cleaning process; and whether they will insist that water from this...

Asked by

Duke of Montrose (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2007

Reference

457; 697 c43WA

House

House of Lords

Research Facilities: Merial Laboratory

asked Her Majesty's Government:What history there has been of shortfalls in the quantity of virus recorded each week at the Merial animal health laboratory.

Asked by

Duke of Montrose (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 December 2007

Reference

456; 697 c14-5WA

House

House of Lords

Health: MRSA

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many isolations of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from England and Wales were analysed by the staphylococcus reference laboratory of the Health Protection Agency to identify their type in each of the past three years, and, of these, how many were tested using the method known as pulsed...

Asked by

Lord Hylton (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Notes

Question originally printed on 26 November 2007 at 696 c101WA with the incorrect answer.

Date

5 December 2007

Reference

207; 696 c194WA

House

House of Lords

Buses

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many school buses failed their MoT or safety test in the last year for which figures are available.

Asked by

Lord Roberts of Llandudno (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 November 2007

Reference

562; 696 c130WA

House

House of Lords

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children under the age of 16 years have received free NHS eye tests in (a) Cumbria and (b) Copeland in the last five years.

Asked by

Jamie Reed (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 November 2007

Reference

163016; 468 c715W

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP2007-0181

Deposited by

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Type

Deposited papers

Date

28 November 2007

Reference

DEP2007-0181

House

House of Lords

Health: MRSA

Asked by

Lord Hylton (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

26 November 2007

Local authorities have statutory duties for local air quality management (LAQM) under the Environment Act 1995. Local authorities are required to carry out regular reviews and assessments of air quality in their areas against objectives in the national air quality strategy, which have been prescribed in regulations. Where it is found that these objectives are unlikely to be met, authorities must designate air quality management areas (AQMAs) and prepare and implement remedial action plans to tackle the problem. Defra requires local authorities that have AQMAs to produce an action plan between 12 and 18 months following designation of their AQMA, as set out in policy guidance LAQM.PG(03). Authorities have been required to take account of the guidance in carrying out their duties since February 2003. Defra also encourages authorities whose draft action plan primarily relates to local road transport to integrate them into their local transport plan (LTP). A number of local authorities have taken the opportunity to do so. Most local authorities have met the deadlines and have submitted their action plan to Defra. To date Defra has received 157 action plans from local authorities. However, 18 authorities have yet to produce an action plan. Where local authorities are late in providing plans, Defra officials seek explanations for the delay. My officials have maintained correspondence with the authorities and recently contacted the authorities to remind them about their overdue action plans requesting that they update Defra on progress. My department will continue to work to ensure that local authorities fulfil their responsibilities under the local air quality management process effectively and within the specified deadlines as far as possible. I have arranged for a table, detailing progress to date, to be placed in the House Library. In some cases, the department has agreed to extensions to the original deadlines.

Notes

Question printed with incorrect answer. Question reprinted with correct answer on 5 December 2007 at 696 c194WA.

Date

26 November 2007

Reference

207; 696 c101WA

House

House of Lords

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with (a) the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, (b) drivers' representative groups and (c) the motor industry on the possible deregulation of MOT fees.

Asked by

Theresa Villiers (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 November 2007

Reference

164642; 467 c849-50W

House

House of Commons

Agriculture: Foot and Mouth Disease

asked Her Majesty's Government:What progress is being made on the development of an on-the-spot diagnostic test for foot-and-mouth disease.

Asked by

Lord Greaves (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2007

Reference

5; 696 c40WA

House

House of Lords

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pensioners in Huddersfield have had free eye tests since 1 April 1999.

Asked by

Barry Sheerman (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 November 2007

For answer on

8 November 2007

Answered on

13 November 2007

The information is not available in the format requested. Information on persons aged 60 and over will be available at primary care trust level in the publication ““General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England and Wales: April 2007-September 2007””. This will be published by March 2008.The total number of national health service sight tests paid for in England for persons aged 60 and over for the years ending 31 March 2005-07 are included in the following table. These are taken from reports published by the Information Centre for health and social care (IC) and are counts of patients who cited their age as being 60 or over as the reason for being entitled to a free eye test. Information for the year ending 31 March 2005 is the earliest data published by the IC.

Total number of NHS sight tests paid for in England for persons aged 60 and over in the specified years ending 31 March
	Number
2005	4,303,128
2006	4,450,007
2007	4,518,672
Source:
The Information Centre for health and social care

The 2007 report ““General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England and Wales year ending 31 March 2006”” is available in the Library. The 2005 and 2006 reports, ““General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England and Wales October 2004—March 2005 and year ending 31 March 2005””, are available in the Library.

Date

13 November 2007

Reference

162165; 467 c191-2W;467 c192W

House

House of Commons

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of children under the age of 16 years in (a) England, (b) the east of England and (c) Suffolk have taken up free NHS sight tests.

Asked by

Lord Risby (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 October 2007

Reference

161191; 465 c1221W

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent discussions she has had on (a) improving the MOT fee-setting process and (b) the possible deregulation of fees for MOTs.

Asked by

Theresa Villiers (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 October 2007

Reference

160501; 465 c1304W

House

House of Commons

Drugs: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for concurrent animal and non-animal testing of recreational drugs.

Asked by

Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 October 2007

For answer on

22 October 2007

Answered on

29 October 2007

In order to be licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 a project must be for one of the ““permissible purposes”” listed in section 5(3) of the Act.These include:"the prevention (whether by the testing of any product or otherwise) or the diagnosis or treatment of disease, ill-health or abnormality, or their effects, in man, animals or plants;""the assessment, detection, regulation or modification of physiological conditions in man, animals or plants; and""and the advancement of knowledge in biological or behavioural sciences."Any projects using animals involving the use of so-called recreational drugs would have had to satisfy one or more of these requirements. The 1986 Act regulates only the use of live animals and this is only licensed by the Home Office when no other research method would satisfy the research objectives.Studies involving such drugs may provide valuable new information about the modes of action of the individual drugs and drug addiction and abuse in general, their short and long-term adverse effects, and how these can be avoided or managed. Such insights are essential to better inform the prevention and treatment of these activities and conditions. Many such drugs are also currently used or are being further evaluated, for legitimate clinical use.The Home Office does not commission any work where recreational drugs are tested on human subjects, i.e. non-animal testing. Samples have been and will soon be taken again from people who already use drugs to test for the presence of drugs/metabolites in their body fluids. These people take the drugs of their own free will. We are not testing the effect of the drugs on the people but researching or evaluating methods of detecting use. This work is undertaken on behalf of Road Policing and Drug Intervention Programme policies.

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160165; 465 c927W

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport on what date she plans to open a consultation on proposals to improve the MOT fee-setting process and the possible deregulation of MOT fees.

Asked by

Theresa Villiers (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160502; 465 c872W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the title is of each document relating to British nuclear tests in (a) Australia, (b) Christmas Island and (c) Malden Island that has been withheld from public release at the National Archives.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 October 2007

For answer on

23 October 2007

Answered on

29 October 2007

In accordance with the Public Records Acts, MOD withholds from release to the public at the National Archives files that are over 30 years old, or extracts from them, if and for so long as their contents are judged to be sensitive.Currently MOD holds 45 complete file parts and 10 extracts from file parts that relate to the nuclear tests in Australia, Christmas Island and Malden Island. Lists of all the documents contained within these files could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The files titles are as follows:Files"Christmas Island""Decay rates of fallout at Operation Hurricane""Fallout distribution at Operation Hurricane""Grapple ““Z”” extracts""HMS Diana in light fallout—Op Mosaic""Maralinga and Christmas Island tests""Maralinga—contaminated waste x 2 files""Maralinga, Emu and Monte Bello x 7 files""Nuclear test series, code name Buffalo x 2 files""Operation Antler: preparation for UK nuclear weapon trials at Maralinga 1957""Operation Hurricane: preparation for United Kingdom nuclear weapon trials at Monte Bello 1952""Op Buffalo x 4 files""Operation Antler""Op Hurricane""Operation Hurricane/Tigress""Some solubility experiments on Mosaic and Grapple Fallout""Surface phenomena at Operation Hurricane""UK hydrogen bombs tests: details relating to operations ““Mosaic”” ““Buffalo”” and ““Grapple””""UK hydrogen bomb tests code name ““Grapple”” x 3 files""UK megaton weapon tests at Christmas Island, code name Grapple X x 2 files""UK tests and experiments 1952 to 1963 x 2 files""UK tests and experiments 1952-1963 x 9 files."File extracts"Atomic energy—UK trials—Antler (formerly Sapphire and Volcano)""Buffalo""Grapple ““Z”” extracts""Hydrogen bomb trials x 3 file extracts""Hydrogen bomb trials—Grapple—Grapex""Nuclear tests codename Buffalo""UK megaton weapon tests at Christmas Island, code name Grapple X x 2 file extracts."The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds on the same basis a large number of documents and files relating to nuclear tests. Their list has some 560 entries, and I will arrange for a copy of it to be placed in the Library of the House.

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

465 c977-8W; 160507

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment has been made of the potential adverse health effects of the use of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane to control flies on Christmas and Malden Islands during their use in British nuclear warhead tests.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160509; 465 c978W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department (a) was invited to attend and (b) attended the meetings on nuclear test veterans held on 15 and 16 October 2007 at the House of Commons, chaired by the hon. Members for Norwich North and Billericay.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160527; 465 c978W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information his Department holds on Fijian nationals who were present at the British nuclear tests in the Pacific.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 October 2007

For answer on

23 October 2007

Answered on

29 October 2007

The Ministry of Defence holds limited information on Fijian nationals who were present at the British nuclear tests in the Pacific. Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) contain four pages listing the names of Fijian nationals involved, and the tests for which they were present. No radiation doses were recorded for any Fijian national.At Operation Mosaic, which took place in 1956 at the Monte Bello Islands off the North West coast of Australia, 32 Fijians were onboard HMS Newfoundland. Two Mosaic trials were held. At the first on 16 May, HMS Newfoundland was docked at Singapore. At the second on 19 June trial, the ship was approximately 565 nautical miles (approx. 940 km) west north west of the Monte Bello Islands.Operation Grapple comprised three trials which took place in May and June of 1957 off the Maiden Island; 42 Fijians were onboard the aircraft carrier, HMS Warrior, which was the Forward Area Control Ship for the trials, and the Task Force flagship. The flagship acted as the control centre for a group of ships stationed off Maiden Island during the trials.At a later trial, Operation Grapple Y, 23 Fijians were stationed at HMS Resolution. The Grapple Y trial took place on 28 April 1958 off the south east point of Kiritimati (formerly Christmas Island). From December 1957, HMS Resolution was the name used for the group of naval personnel based onshore at Kiritimati. HMS Resolution was situated at Port London, on the north west side of the island, approximately 43 km from the point of detonation.At a subsequent series of trials, Operation Grapple Z, 16 Fijians were attached to 269 Squadron. The series comprised four nuclear detonations at the south-east point of Kiritimati, which took place in August and September 1958. The duties performed by 269 Squadron during Operation Grapple Z were reconnaissance, meteorological patrol and air-sea rescue.More widely, AWE records indicate that the 'Fijian Military Force' was under 12 Independent Field Squadron from April 1958 to February 1959; under 36 Corps Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, from February 1959 to November 1959; and under 73 (Christmas Island) Squadron, Royal Engineers, from November 1959 to April 1960.

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160529; 465 c979W

House

House of Commons

Year	Number of S. aureus referred for typing	Number of S. aureus tested by PFGE
2004	5835	1206
2005	6266	2050
2006	6189	1930
Total	18290	5186

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