To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that persons making applications to the Commission for Care Standards Inspection in different areas are not required (a) to furnish and (b) to pay for separate Criminal Records Bureau checks in respect of each application...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that persons making applications to the Commission for Care Standards Inspection in different areas are not required (a) to furnish and (b) to pay for separate Criminal Records Bureau checks in respect of each application...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether an individual applying for approval under the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 is required to undergo separate Criminal Records Bureau checks in respect of applications to different offices of the Care Standards Commission.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether an individual applying for approval under the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 is required to undergo separate Criminal Records Bureau checks in respect of applications to different offices of the Care Standards Commission.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that persons applying for approval under the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 to different offices of the Care Standards Commission are only required to pay for one Criminal Records Bureau check when making...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that persons applying for approval under the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 to different offices of the Care Standards Commission are only required to pay for one Criminal Records Bureau check when making...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that a person approved by one office of the Care Standards Commission is treated as being approved by all other offices of the Care Standards Commission.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to ensure that a person approved by one office of the Care Standards Commission is treated as being approved by all other offices of the Care Standards Commission.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what auditing processes are in place to ensure uniformity of decision making between different offices of the Care Standards Commission with regard to approval of individuals under the provisions of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what auditing processes are in place to ensure uniformity of decision making between different offices of the Care Standards Commission with regard to approval of individuals under the provisions of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on voluntary organisations concerned with the delivery of personal care to elderly and vulnerable people of the cost of Criminal Records Bureau checks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the impact on voluntary organisations concerned with the delivery of personal care to elderly and vulnerable people of the cost of Criminal Records Bureau checks.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the total costs imposed on the voluntary sector in 2003-04 by (a) Criminal Records Bureau changes in respect of volunteers, (b) registration fees imposed under the Care Standards Act 2000 and (c) medical checks...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the total costs imposed on the voluntary sector in 2003-04 by (a) Criminal Records Bureau changes in respect of volunteers, (b) registration fees imposed under the Care Standards Act 2000 and (c) medical checks...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 27th March, 347 c60W, for what reasons he was unable to act prior to presentation of the Waterhouse Report to Parliament to extend the consultancy index to include people named in that report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 27th March, 347 c60W, for what reasons he was unable to act prior to presentation of the Waterhouse Report to Parliament to extend the consultancy index to include people named in that report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons he was unable to act prior to publication of the Waterhouse Report in extending the consultancy index to include people named in that report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons he was unable to act prior to publication of the Waterhouse Report in extending the consultancy index to include people named in that report.