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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when his Department expects to pay the outstanding invoices to Greyhound Plant Services, Oswestry in connection with foot and mouth plant services; and if he will make a statement. (Holding answer 3 May 2001).

Asked by

Paul Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 May 2001

Reference

368 c296W; 160165

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what steps he is taking to encourage more prompt payment of bills by local authorities. - Inc figure.

Asked by

Damian Green (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 April 2001

Reference

158670; 367 c80W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd April, 366, column 4W, on paypoint terminals, what assessment he has made of the implications for competitiveness in convenient bill payment facilities of the Post Office's policy. - Inc ref to The Performance and...

Asked by

Mark Todd (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 April 2001

Reference

157631; 366 c515-6W

House

House of Commons

Sainsbury of Turville, Lord

What has been the impact of the Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998; and whether they will adopt the new elements in the European Union Late Payment Directive which enables such firms to charge recovery costs and other incidentals on top of lost interest from those firms and institutions...

Asked by

Lord Harrison (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 April 2001

Reference

624 c146WA; HL 1605

House

House of Lords

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what work his Department has carried out on examining the effectiveness of the operation of the Statutory Right to Contract legislation. (Holding answer 27 March 2001).

Asked by

Richard Page (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 April 2001

Reference

155790; 366 c211W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps he is taking to ensure that sub-postmasters have the right to have Paypoint terminals on their premises.

Asked by

Mark Todd (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 April 2001

Reference

156516; 366 c4-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what steps his Department has taken to improve its late payment record. - (Holding answer 27 March 2001).

Asked by

Richard Page (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 March 2001

Reference

155789; 365 c653W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many payments were made by his Department in each of the last five years to suppliers in which compensation was paid due to late payment. - This information not held centrally and would incur disproportionate cost. (Holding answer 27...

Asked by

Richard Page (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 March 2001

Reference

155791; 365 c653W

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a statement on the extent to which DERA has met its targets in relation to payment of its sub-contractors; and what steps are being taken to improve the timeliness of payments. - Including figure. (Holding answer 8 March...

Asked by

David Drew (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 March 2001

Reference

152772; 364 c410W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, What recent representations he has received from business organisations concerning late payments of bills. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Crispin Blunt (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 February 2001

Reference

363 c278W; 149038

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if the Girobank contract with Post Office Counters Limited prevents POCL giving better prices to clients wishing to use bill payment services for their customers at Post Office counters.

Asked by

Tony Wright (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 February 2001

Reference

363 c283W; 149846

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions during each of the last three years pharmacists were denied prescription reimbursement by the NHS because they had submitted forms for prescription charge exemption that had been erroneously completed by patients; and what was the estimated cost of...

Asked by

Mark Todd (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

1 February 2001

For answer on

15 February 2001

Answered on

15 February 2001

Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on how many occasions during each of the last three years pharmacists were denied prescription reimbursement by the NHS because they had submitted forms for prescription charge exemption that had been erroneously completed by patients; and what was the estimated cost of these erroneously completed forms to pharmacists in each of those years. [149063] Ms Stuart: No pharmacy contractors have been denied reimbursement because they have submitted prescription forms which have been incorrectly completed by patients claiming exemption from charges. Pharmacists are required to collect a charge in respect of each chargeable item supplied unless a declaration of entitlement to exemption or remission is completed on the prescription form by or on behalf of the patient. This has been a requirement since 1968. Pharmacists are also required to sort forms into "exempt" and "non-exempt" groups before submitting them to the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) for payment. When a form is submitted as exempt from charges but without a completed declaration, it will be treated as non-exempt. Forms submitted as exempt but showing a charge are also treated as non-exempt. Forms submitted as non-exempt are treated as exempt if they bear a completed declaration. In each case these forms are processed according to the declaration, as required by law, rather than according to the group in which the pharmacist has submitted them. A temporary concession has been introduced for prescriptions dispensed from June 2000 onwards to encourage pharmacists and their staff to improve the completion rate. Under the concession, no adjustment is made in respect of forms for patients aged less than 16 or 60 or over on which the patient's age has been printed by the prescriber, even if the declaration required by law has not been completed. In conjunction with this, information is now routinely provided to pharmacists by the PPA about the number of forms which have been submitted as exempt but treated as non-exempt; which would have been treated as non-exempt but for the concession; or have been treated as exempt when submitted as non-exempt. Information about forms submitted as exempt without a completed declaration of exemption prior to June 2000 is not available. Information about exempt and non- exempt forms since then is in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. June July August September Items on forms submitted as 118,013 107,911 105,822 104,025 exempt without a declaration Items to which concession 37,965 35,834 36,583 35,290 applied for patients under 16 or 60 and over Charges deducted from 480,288 432,462 415,436 412,410 payments--line one less line two x £6.00 (£) Total items dispensed 45,049,254 42,314,572 43,062,881 42,518,754 Percentage of items on forms 0.26 0.26 0.25 0.24 submitted as exempt without a completed declaration--line one/line four _________________________________________________________________________________________________. If previous patterns of submitting forms without declarations of exemption were similar, then adjustments to payments would have been around £7 million in 1997-98, £7.4 million in 1998-99 and £7.8 million in 1999-2000.

Date

15 February 2001

Reference

149063; 363 c305-6W;363 c305W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many arrangements (a) are and (b) were in each of the last five years in place to deduct gas and electricity payments from income support and income-based jobseekers allowance; and if he will make a statement. - Includes tables.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 January 2001

For answer on

29 January 2001

Answered on

29 January 2001

Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many arrangements (a) are and (b) were in each of the last five years in place to deduct gas and electricity payments from Income Support and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance; and if he will make a statement. [147813] Angela Eagle: The information is in the tables. Deductions from Income Support for gas and electricity, August 1996 to August 2000 Thousand _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year All cases Electric only Gas only Electricity and gas 1996 168.4 27.0 121.1 20.2 1997 137.6 23.7 98.1 15.8 1998 99.2 20.2 67.7 11.4 1999 71.9 18.9 44.7 8.3 2000 60.4 17.0 35.8 7.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Deductions from income-based Jobseeker's Allowance for gas and electricity, August 1997 to August 2000 Thousand _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year All cases Electric only Gas only Electricity and gas 1997 15.4 3.0 11.1 1.4 1998 10.3 2.7 6.7 1.0 1999 5.6 1.8 3.4 0.5 2000 3.5 1.2 2.1 0.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample records, taken at August each year, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling error. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred and shown in thousands. 3. Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance replaced Income Support for the unemployed in October 1996. Source: Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiries, August 1996 to August 2000. Jobseeker's Allowance Quarterly Statistical Enquiries, August 1997 to August 2000.

Date

29 January 2001

Reference

147813; 362 c94W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of valid invoices have been paid by the Small Business Service within 30 days in each quarter since April 2000. - Includes table.

Asked by

David Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 January 2001

Reference

361 c624W;361 c626W; 146501

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if his Department paid all correctly presented bills within 30 days of receipt of goods or services or an invoice in (a) 1999 and (b) 2000. - Inc figure. (Holding answer 8 January 2001).

Asked by

David Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 January 2001

Reference

360 c494W; 144143

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a statement on the Government's progress in developing legislative proposals to open up access to payment systems and oversee access charges. (Document in Library as DEP 00/1965).

Asked by

Ian Stewart (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 December 2000

Reference

360 c332W; 143601

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages regarding energy efficiency in the rented commercial office sector where (a) tenants are given an incentive to save energy by a separate energy cost based on actual...

Asked by

Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 December 2000

For answer on

20 December 2000

Answered on

20 December 2000

Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the advantages and disadvantages regarding energy efficiency in the rented commercial office sector where (a) tenants are given an incentive to save energy by a separate energy cost based on actual energy consumption, alongside charges for floor space rental and (b) landlords are given an incentive to save energy through building refurbishment, by charging a fixed rental price from the owners of the building being occupied, regardless of energy use by the tenant. [142256] Mr. Meacher: My Department has made no detailed assessment of the relative advantages and disadvantages arising from the two scenarios identified. However, my Department's Property Advisory Group drew attention to various barriers to greater energy efficiency in commercial buildings in its 1998 report, "Sustainable Development and Buildings". The report identified that in some leasing arrangements, where the tenant reimburses the landlord's energy costs, neither party has an incentive to achieve greater energy efficiency. The Group commended all-inclusive occupation agreements as a means of giving the landlord and tenant a mutual incentive to reduce energy consumption. The Group explored this further and concluded that while there was considerable and growing interest in all-inclusive leases in the commercial property sector, wider adoption would primarily be a matter for market evolution. I intend to give further consideration to this. The forthcoming Climate Change Levy will provide a major incentive for greater energy efficiency in the non-domestic sector. The Government do and will continue to provide information to encourage business to become more energy efficient, through its Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme. The programme promotes strategies to motivate the different players in the rented commercial property sector through a suite of publications setting out best practice in design, construction, occupation and energy services. Good Practice Guide 258 "A Looking for a new Investment Angle?" targets developers, landlords and financiers, with Good Practice Guides 285 "What will energy efficiency do for your business?" and 288 "Is poor energy efficiency in your office hitting your bottom line?" targeting tenants and occupiers. Each document spells out to the relevant audience the environmental, financial and other business benefits to be gained from investing in major energy efficiency improvements and in practising good energy management. The guide for tenants encourages businesses not only to exercise proper management over areas where they have direct control, but also to explain to current and potential landlords that they expect to be provided with environmentally smart buildings.

Date

20 December 2000

Reference

360 c167-8W; 142256

House

House of Commons

Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

SI 2000/3208 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 31 December 2000.

Department

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

8 December 2000

Reference

SI 2000/3208

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

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