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Whether animals on foot and mouth contiguous farms are automatically blood tested; and how many of these contiguous farms were found to be developing the disease. [HL 1979].

Asked by
Baroness Byford (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 2001
Reference
HL 1979; 624 c426WA
House
House of Lords

Why, early in March, scientists at Pirbright refused the offer of the United States Dept of Agriculture to supply field-testing kits based on the amplification of foot and mouth virus RNA by a real-time polymerase chain reaction; and whether they will reconsider their decision. [HL 1682].

Asked by
Countess of Mar (Crossbench)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 2001
Reference
HL 1682; 624 c427-8WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make the results of blood tests arising from suspected cases of foot and mouth disease available to private veterinary surgeons engaged by farms where the disease is confirmed by his Department's contracted veterinary laboratory services. - (Holding answer...

Asked by
Roger Gale (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 2001
Reference
368 c479W;368 c481W; 159408
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what impact the foot and mouth outbreak has had on (a) regular tuberculosis testing of cattle, (b) the culling of badgers for the triplet studies of TB and (c) the validity of the triplet studies of TB. (Holding answer 9 May...

Asked by
James Paice (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c302W; 160671
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many farms at which his Department carried out continguous culls of livestock were subject to laboratory tests for foot and mouth disease; and if he will make a statement; how many farms that were subject to laboratory tests for foot...

Asked by
Lembit Opik (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c297W; 161012;161013
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the reliability of the different kinds of test for foot and mouth disease carried out at his Department's laboratories at Purbright.

Asked by
Lembit Opik (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
368 c296-7W; 160742
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/1812 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 June 2001

Department
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1812
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

SI 2001/1816 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 2 July 2001

Department
Home Office
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
10 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1816
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

Whether they have any information on the consignment of sheep that was exported to France in January and tested positive for foot and mouth. [HL 2115].

Asked by
Baroness Nicol (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
624 c390-1WA; HL 2115
House
House of Lords

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what resources are available to him to test milk and blood samples for foot and mouth disease (a) in his Department, (b) in other government departments, (c) in places of education, (d) in the private sector and (e) elsewhere; and if...

Asked by
Peter Luff (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
158479; 368 c237W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement about the consignment of sheep that was exported to France on 31st January and which tested positive for foot and mouth disease.

Asked by
Martyn Jones (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
368 c228W; 160950
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will publish his Department's assessment of the discovery on 31st January by French veterinarians of foot and mouth disease in sheep exported from Wales. - (Holding answer 9 April 2001).

Asked by
Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
368 c233-4W; 157483
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the efficiency of equipment to test live animals in the field for the presence of foot and mouth disease infection. - (Holding answer 1 May 2001).

Asked by
David Curry (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 May 2001
Reference
368 c245-6W; 159822
House
House of Commons

Whether animals slaughtered as part of a contiguous cull in a foot and mouth outbreak are routinely tested for the disease being present in that stock; and, if so, and the contiguous herd is found to prove positive, whether that farm is added to those recorded as having the infection....

Asked by
Baroness Byford (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
624 c341WA; HL 1868
House
House of Lords

What is the "time lag" for the results of blood tests taken from animals caught up in foot and mouth outbreak week-by-week since these tests started. [HL 1977].

Asked by
Baroness Byford (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
HL 1977; 624 c340-1WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd April, 366 c68W on baton rounds, if he will place in the Library (a) the outline plan of the technical assessment drawn up by DERA, Porton Down and endorsed by the DSAC, (b) the...

Asked by
Kevin McNamara (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
368 c89W; 158538
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he will make a statement on the level of testing for bovine TB and associated slaughtering in the national herd since 20th February. - (Holding answer 3 May 2001).

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 May 2001
Reference
368 c142W; 160208
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department has given to (a) health authorities and (b) NHS trusts about plans to roll out the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening pilot project; and what advice he has given about the timescale for preparing for the roll-out; what the...

Asked by
Christopher Chope (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
367 c758W; 158647;158648
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what models of plastic baton round have been tested that would meet the criteria for a penetrating kinetic energy round; and what his assessment is of the lethality potential of such weapons.

Asked by
Kevin McNamara (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
367 c715W; 158047
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what impact tests were conducted by (a) the Defence Evaluation Research Agency at Porton Down and (b) the Defence Scientific Advisory Council on the L21A1 plastic baton round; how many (i) animals and (ii) human beings were involved in testing; and how...

Asked by
Kevin McNamara (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
158048; 367 c715W
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/1650 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 28 May 2001

Department
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1650
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

SI 2001/1648 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 28 May 2001

Department
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
3 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1648
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged over 60 years have had eye tests in each year since 1995-96 in Sefton Health Authority. - Inc table.

Asked by
Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
2 May 2001
Reference
367 c646W; 158529
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/1644 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 July 2001

Department
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
2 May 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1644
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

Whether any difficulties have been experienced in prisons with mandatory drug testing of prisoners who are prescribed painkillers; and if so, which painkilling drugs are not prescribed for this reason. [HL 1804].

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 May 2001
Reference
624 c255WA; HL 1804
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when Tornado GR4s will be given military aircraft release; when the first GR4s will be deployed on operations; and if he will make a statement; what effect there will be on the United Kingdom's commitments to the Joint Rapid Reaction Force of...

Asked by
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 April 2001
Reference
367 c308-9W; 157588;157640
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate has been made of the percentage of recorded crime in Lancashire that was drug-related in the last five years. - Inc table.

Asked by
Peter L Pike (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 April 2001
Reference
158403; 367 c400W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drug treatment and testing orders have been (a) made, (b) breached and (c) revoked by the courts since the national roll-out of the order in October 2000. - Table given.

Asked by
David Lidington (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 April 2001
Reference
158946; 367 c382-3W
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
European Scrutiny Committee
Notes
Received 02.05.01
Date
25 April 2001
Reference
HC 28-xii 2000/01
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if he received a report from the Canadian authorities on the causes of the Advanta seed contamination last year. - Inc ref to 8 March 2001, 364 c345-6W.

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 April 2001
Reference
367 c26W; 153229
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what measures he judges the success or failure of his policies on the use of illegal drugs. - Inc figures.

Asked by
Jon Owen Jones (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 April 2001
Reference
158221; 367 c144-5W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, What plans he has to review the penalties for failing to obtain a valid MoT certificate.

Asked by
Paul Goggins (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 April 2001
Reference
156055; 366 c463W;366 c463-4W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what safety tests genetically modified crops being grown on UK farm scale trials have been subjected to in order to establish their safety for (a) human consumption and (b) use as animal fodder; if he will provide details of these tests, including...

Asked by
Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Scotland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 April 2001
Reference
366 c425-6W; 156770;156767
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if a farmer chosen to take part in the farm-scale evaluations of GM crops in the UK enters into a contract to grow and manage the field of GM and non-GM crop with (a) the Farming and...

Asked by
Joan Ruddock (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 April 2001
Reference
157158; 366 c322W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will place in the Library a copy of the voluntary agreement between his Department and the Farming and Biotechnology Industry Body concerning the farm-scale evaluations of GM crops in the UK. (In Library Dep 01/614)....

Asked by
Joan Ruddock (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 April 2001
Reference
157112; 366 c322W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what measures he is taking to ensure that common standards are applied for appraising drugs and treatments for the NHS.

Asked by
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 March 2001
Reference
365 c755W; 155583
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee written evidence; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Date
28 March 2001
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/1208 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 28 September 2001

Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
28 March 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1208
House
House of Commons; House of Lords
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Notes
Received 03.04.01
Date
26 March 2001
Reference
HC 174 2000/01
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if, for the duration of the foot and mouth restrictions, he will delay the implementation of the EU scheme for sampling all bovine carcasses of animals more than 30 months old; what modifications have been made to the scheme following his...

Asked by
Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 March 2001
Reference
154716; 365 c519W;365 c521W
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees
Committee
Science and Technology Committee
Notes
Received 03.04.01
Date
26 March 2001
Reference
HC 174 2000/01
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what commercial activities are prescribed by the voluntary agreement with the GM industry on GM crop trials. - (Holding answer 8 January 2001).

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 March 2001
Reference
144375; 365 c259W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if the voluntary agreement with the GM industry on the conduct of crop trials in the United Kingdom (a) covers trials licensed under a Part C consent and (b) allows the harvesting and storage of GM seed from trial sites before...

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 March 2001
Reference
365 c259-60W; 144371;144367
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/1084 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 10 April 2001

Department
Department of Health
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
20 March 2001
Reference
SI 2001/1084
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if test firing of DU shells at the Dundrennan range is exempt from regulation under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.

Asked by
Alasdair Morgan (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 March 2001
Reference
151848; 364 c675W
House
House of Commons

(Pursuant to the replies 15 January 2001 c42-3W and 09 March 2001 c357-8W) Statement on which of his Department's test locations in the United Kingdom the firing of depleted uranium projectiles has taken place; how many test firings have been made at each location; what arrangements are in place for...

Asked by
Lord Cunningham of Felling (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 March 2001
Reference
144771; 364 c675-6W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many DU penetrators have landed on the land area of the base since test firing of DU shells at Dundrennan range began; and, of these, how many have not been located. - Inc figures.

Asked by
Alasdair Morgan (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2001
Reference
151846; 364 c506W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if test firing of DU shells at the Dundrennan range is exempt from regulation under the Ionising Radiations Regulations. - Inc ref to 361 c419W.

Asked by
Alasdair Morgan (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2001
Reference
151847; 364 c507W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many of the samples taken from seed offered for sale and tested for purity between 1st May and 31st October were tested for the presence of GM varieties. - (Holding answer 8 January 2001).

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2001
Reference
144344; 364 c563W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what dates depleted uranium shells have been (a) tested and (b) demolished at (i) the Shoeburyness Range and (ii) adjacent mud flats/sandbanks. - (Holding answer 8 February 2001).

Asked by
Roger Gale (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 March 2001
Reference
149517; 364 c506W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what safeguards apply to ensure that people applying for insurance policies are not asked to reveal the results of tests for genetic conditions which have not had approval from the Genetics and Insurance Committee.

Asked by
Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 March 2001
Reference
148856; 364 c418-9W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what progress has been made in implementing measures to tackle alcohol and drug abuse in the maritime sector; and if he will make a statement. - Includes figures and ref to Thames Safety Inquiry report summary in...

Asked by
Maria Eagle (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 March 2001
Reference
153376; 364 c469W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will make the import of over-30-month beef illegal; if he will list categories of food product covered by the ban on the sale of imported over 30 month meat; what investigation the Government has undertaken into the extent of...

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 March 2001
Reference
364 c370-1W; 144247;144330;144249;144311;144248;144255
House
House of Commons

(Pursuant to reply on 18.01.2001 at 361 c298W) To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if depleted uranium has been a component of munitions used on (a) Salisbury Plain training area, (b) Porton Down, (c) Lulworth ranges and (b) Shoeburyness. - Includes ref to 361 c42-3W at 15 January...

Asked by
Robert Key (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 March 2001
Reference
145945; 364 c357-8W
House
House of Commons

(Pursuant to reply on 15.01.2001 at 361 c42-3W) Statement on which of his Department's test locations in the United Kingdom the firing of depleted uranium projectiles has taken place; how many test firings have been made at each location; what arrangements are in place for the protection and monitoring of...

Asked by
Lord Cunningham of Felling (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 March 2001
Reference
144771; 364 c357-8W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, when he will publish the report received from the Canadian authorities on the causes of the Advanta seed contamination last year; and if the Government has used the information in the report to reach conclusions in its review of separation distances....

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 March 2001
Reference
151542; 364 c345-6W;364 c346W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, What investment he has made into research for a diagnostic test for BSE. (Failed OPQ). - Includes figures.

Asked by
Ian Gibson (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 March 2001
Reference
364 c338W; 151410
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/776 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 April 2001(L.13)

Department
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
8 March 2001
Reference
SI 2001/776
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

SI 2001/773 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 April 2001

Department
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
8 March 2001
Reference
SI 2001/773
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Oral statement by the Minister for the Armed Forces on 9th January 2001 at 360 c878, concerning oversight of the firing programme of DU shells at the Dundrennan range, if he will specify the nature and extent of the...

Asked by
Alasdair Morgan (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 March 2001
Reference
151868; 364 c221-2W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when universal neonatal hearing screening will be piloted; in which health authorities it will be piloted; and how long it will be piloted before the Government announces the timetable for the national implementation of UNHS. - Includes list. (Holding answer 5 March...

Asked by
Oliver Heald (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 March 2001
Reference
151925; 364 c189W;364 c189-90W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements he sets for the accurate monitoring of DNA testing. - Including ref to the Home Office Circular 16/95: National DNA Database.

Asked by
Ian Gibson (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 March 2001
Reference
151681; 363 c747W
House
House of Commons

What changes they intend to make to the random mandatory drug testing programme for immigration detainees. [HL 996].

Asked by
Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 February 2001
Reference
HL 996; 622 c148-9WA
House
House of Lords

Statement on what changes he plans to make to the random mandatory drug testing programme for immigration detainees.

Asked by
Chris Pond (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 February 2001
Reference
151893; 363 c708W
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/599 (Negative instrument). Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
28 February 2001
Reference
SI 2001/599
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

What arrangements they are making to ensure that whenever depleted uranium is used in firing tests of training, the health and wellbeing of adjacent civilian communities are protected. [HL 754].

Asked by
Lord Judd (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 February 2001
Reference
HL 754; 622 c122-3WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost of eye tests was in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement. - Includes figure.

Asked by
Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 February 2001
Reference
151528; 363 c625W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the benefit of allowing insurance companies to have access to genetic information about individuals. (Holding answer 30 January 2001).

Asked by
Tony Lloyd (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2001
Reference
147026; 363 c425-6W;363 c424-5W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of all minutes made of meetings held between representatives from the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency since May 1997, in respect of the environmental monitoring programme of the...

Asked by
Llew Smith (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2001
Reference
145299; 363 c557W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which live firing exercises HMS Shetland has carried out in the past three months; and where these exercises have taken place.

Asked by
Lord Davies of Stamford (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2001
Reference
151280; 363 c568W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes have been made to (a) procedures, (b) methods and (c) equipment for drug testing in prisons since 1997; and if he will make a statement. - Inc table and ref to Prison Service Orders in Library.

Asked by
Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2001
Reference
150982; 363 c484W
House
House of Commons

SI 2001/541 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 20 March 2001

Department
Department of Health
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
26 February 2001
Reference
SI 2001/541
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

SI 2001/414 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 19 February 2001

Department
Department of Health
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
15 February 2001
Reference
SI 2001/414
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

SI 2001/307 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 1 March 2001

Department
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Statutory instruments
Date
7 February 2001
Reference
SI 2001/307
House
House of Commons; House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost of the purchase of the Javelin missiles is; how many have been ordered; and if he will make a statement; what the estimated cost is of the US test for the Javelin missile; when it will take place; and...

Asked by
Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 February 2001
Reference
362 c360W; 148101;148114
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if post mortem tests for BSE carried out in EU countries are carried out before the carcass is dressed. - No. (Holding answer 11 December 2000).

Asked by
Baroness Browning (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 February 2001
Reference
141720; 362 c263W
House
House of Commons

Whether they will make available to British nuclear test veterans the same screening facilities that are being provided for other ex-servicemen. [HL 374].

Asked by
Lord Ashley of Stoke (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 January 2001
Reference
HL 374; 621 c50-1WA
House
House of Lords

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, If he will make it a requirement for both parents in disputed cases before the Child Support Agency to take a second independent test if either party requests it. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by
Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 January 2001
Reference
362 c85W; 145987
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what assessment he has made of the report of the French food agency into the screening of French cattle for BSE; and if he will make a statement. - Inc figures. (Holding answer 8 January 2001).

Asked by
Tim Yeo (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 2001
Reference
144332; 361 c727W;361 c729W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 17th January 2001 at 361 c272W, (ref. 145569), which prisons do not have a significant known level of dealing in unlawful drugs. - Includes further information in table containing figures from the random mandatory drug...

Asked by
Peter Bottomley (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 January 2001
Reference
146713; 361 c717W;361 c719W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many laboratories were licensed for using animals for the testing of drugs in (a) 1996 and (b) 2000. - Includes figures and ref to relevant statistics for 2000 not yet available, but the corresponding figure for 1999 is 296.

Asked by
Gerry Steinberg (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 January 2001
Reference
146825; 361 c713W;361 c715W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, when the railway lines between London Waterloo and Exeter were last tested ultrasonically.

Asked by
Robert Key (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2001
Reference
361 c526W;361 c528W; 146337
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if depleted uranium ammunition has been test fired at (a) the Pendine Land Range and (b) the Castlemartin Range.

Asked by
Nick Ainger (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2001
Reference
361 c536W;361 c538W; 146749
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Indian Ministers regarding the test firing of intermediate range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Cheryl Gillan (Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2001
Reference
361 c563W;361 c565W; 146874
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list those local authority areas in which depleted uranium tipped ammunition was (a) tested and (b) used by HM forces; if the local authorities were informed of such testing and firing; what the incidence of leukaemia and other cancer-related...

Asked by
Kevin McNamara (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2001
Reference
361 c536W;361 c538W; 146427
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what depleted uranium weapons manufactured in the United Kingdom have been tested at sites abroad; and when and where the tests were. - Inc list.

Asked by
Llew Smith (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2001
Reference
361 c536-7W;361 c538-9W; 145284
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the reason for the year-by-year variation in the testing of depleted uranium shells since 1995. - Inc ref to 19 June 2000, 352 c27W.

Asked by
Llew Smith (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 January 2001
Reference
361 c418W;361 c419W; 145297
House
House of Commons

EU documents nos COM (99) 643, a Commission Communication entitled 'Community Support Plan to Combat Doping in Sport', Com (99) 644, the Helsinki Report on Sport and the unnumbered explanatory memorandum dated 23 November 2000, submitted by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, relating to the Declaration on Sport....

Lead member
Baroness Hoey
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport; European Standing Committee C
Type
European Committee proceedings
Date
17 January 2001
Reference
European SCC
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will make a statement on the outcome of the 5th December 2000 meeting with the Motor Trade Liaison Group, with reference to children's seatbelts.

Asked by
Andrew Dismore (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 January 2001
Reference
361 c190W; 144700
House
House of Commons

Statement on which of his Department's test locations in the United Kingdom the firing of depleted uranium projectiles has taken place; how many test firings have been made at each location; what arrangements are in place for the protection and monitoring of people and the environment; and if he will...

Asked by
Lord Cunningham of Felling (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 2001
Reference
361 c42-3W; 144771
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how many buses which have been subject to spot-checks have been found by the police to have defects in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the number which were school...

Asked by
Patrick Nicholls (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 2001
Reference
361 c15-6W; 144487
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will announce a timetable for universal neonatal hearing screening throughout England. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 January 2001
Reference
144051; 360 c537W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many cattle compulsorily slaughtered on TB reactors in the last 12 months for which records are available were (a) (i) over and (ii) under 30 months old, (b) on post mortem not showing signs of clinical infection, (c) condemned as...

Asked by
James Paice (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2001
Reference
360 c450-1W; 142989
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many prisoners have tested positive through mandatory drug testing in each of the last five years. - Inc table.

Asked by
Gerry Steinberg (Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2001
Reference
360 c422W; 143913
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, in how many cases over the past five years the War Pensions Agency defended appeals from nuclear test veterans to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal; and at what cost. - The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate...

Asked by
Andrew Welsh (Scottish National Party)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2001
Reference
360 c469W; 143924
House
House of Commons

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if all bovine carcasses imported from EU countries have been subject to post mortem tests of (a) brain tissue and (b) the central nervous system; and if he will identify those parts of the central nervous system that are tested. -...

Asked by
Baroness Browning (Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2001
Reference
360 c448W; 141719
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the safety and usage implications for the life of railway lines arising out of the use of (a) heat-treated and (b) non-heat treated railway lines on the national rail network. -...

Asked by
Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 2000
Reference
360 c305W; 143553
House
House of Commons
1st supplementary on whether EU tests are sufficient.
Asked by
David Heath (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 2000
Reference
360 c557-8
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Baroness Quin (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
21 December 2000
Reference
360 c557-8
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the implications for safety in the national rail network arising from not using angle probe techniques in the ultrasonic testing of railway lines; if ultrasonic testing of railway lines at the...

Asked by
Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 December 2000
Reference
360 c304-5W; 143560;143558;143559
House
House of Commons