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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) percentage and (b) numerical change in the number of unemployed disabled people was between (i) 1st May 1997 and (ii) the latest date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. - Includes text of letter...

Asked by
Paul Marsden (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 2001
Reference
368 c425-6W; 143372
House
House of Commons
Supplementary on commitment to achieving full employment and including disabled people, lone parents and people over 58 to the labour market.
Asked by
Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c259
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Andrew Smith (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c259
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if individuals who claim disablement as a result of participating in experiments at the Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down are entitled to receive the case notes of their application for an award from the War Pension Agency. - No.

Asked by
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c321-2W; 160495
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many disabled people are seeking work. - Includes figures and fact that figures on jobseeking activity are currently available on for adults of working age.

Asked by
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Employment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c275W; 158103
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money was spent in the last financial year under the provisions of the Disabled Persons (Consultation, Representation and Services) Act 1986. - Inc ref to Personal Social Services Current Expenditure in England 1999-2000.

Asked by
Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c366W; 160534
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what the average length of time is that people spend on incapacity benefit in (a) Glasgow, Pollok, (b) the City of Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK. - Inc figures.

Asked by
Ian Davidson (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c321W; 160830
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proposals he has to amend the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme to include those who have been affected by vaccination but who are over the age of 21; if he will seek to amend the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 to...

Asked by
Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c321W; 160915;160916
House
House of Commons

Whether accessibility standards have been finalised for tourist accommodation businesses, as proposed by the timetable set out in the English Tourism Council's consultation document entitled the National Accessibility Scheme, published in 2000. [HL 2084].

Asked by
Lord Harrison (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
HL 2084; 624 c385WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, When he next expects to meet the Disability Rights Commission to discuss disability rights in Northern Ireland. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by
Tom Clarke (Labour)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
368 c162W; 159634
House
House of Commons

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 10 April, 624 c178-9WA, that copies of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group Annual Report were disseminated widely to several hundred voluntary and professional organisations, whether they will list all the national disability organisations to which the report...

Asked by
Earl Howe (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
HL 1839; 624 c364WA
House
House of Lords
Supplementary on the Human Rights Act 1998 and the role of the Disability Rights Commission.
Asked by
Tom Clarke (Labour)
Answering body
Advocate General for Scotland
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
368 c9
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Baroness Clark of Calton (Labour)
Answering body
Advocate General for Scotland
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
368 c9
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, how many persons (a) qualified for the higher mobility rate of disability living allowance and (b) participated in the Motability scheme, in each of the last five years. - Table given. (Holding answer 3 May 2001).

Asked by
Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
159741; 368 c10W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the reduction in the number of services for profound and multiple disabilities in the last three years. - Inc ref to "Valuing People, a New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21 Century".

Asked by
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
158085; 368 c145-6W;368 c145W
House
House of Commons

Whether local authorities are meeting their statutory duties concerning the provision of public sanitary facilities; and whether such facilities include provision for frail elderly and disabled people; and what arrangements are in place for monitoring the discharge by local authorities of their statutory duties concerning the provision of public sanitary...

Asked by
Lord Morris of Manchester (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
624 c362-3WA; HL 2056;HL 2057
House
House of Lords

SI 2001/1747 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 June 2001

Department
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1747
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

That this House commends the "subtitles@yourlocalcinema" campaign started by nine year old Dean Rhodes-Brandon to promote better access to cinemas for the disabled; regrets that most British cinemas do not have suitable facilities for the deaf and blind; notes that there are over seven million deaf and hard of hearing...

Primary sponsor
Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
642
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, What assessment he has made of the protection offered to (a) disabled and (b) elderly people purchasing and leasing mobility aids.

Asked by
Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
367 c772W; 159073
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his Answer of 25th April, Official Report, 367 c269W, how many incapacity benefit claims were terminated because the claimant (a) died, (b) reached pensionable age, (c) started employment and (d) left the caseload for another - Includes table and...

Asked by
Lord Willetts (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
160231; 367 c786-7W
House
House of Commons