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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

Fuel-Testing Pilot Projects (Biobutanol Project) Regulations 2007

SI 2007/3098. (Negative instrument). Together with an explanatory memorandum from the Treasury. Coming into force 23 November 2007.

Department

Revenue and Customs

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

30 October 2007

Reference

SI 2007/3098

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

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

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what records his Department holds on how many (a) British service personnel, (b) medical auxiliaries, (c) UK Atomic Energy Authority personnel, (d) Atomic Weapons Research Establishment personnel and (e) others took part in the British nuclear testing programme in the Pacific and...

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

465 c977W; 160505

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what categories of records of human exposure to radiation during (a) British nuclear warhead tests and (b) plutonium dispersal tests at Maralinga are held by the Health Protection Agency.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 October 2007

Reference

160506; 465 c479W

House

House of Commons

Eyesight: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of (a) pre-school children, (b) children under five years and (c) children under 12 years received eye tests in each primary care trust in the last 12 months.

Asked by

Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 October 2007

Reference

158637; 464 c1388W

House

House of Commons

Drug Screening

Given the estimates that fully 18 per cent. of drivers killed in road accidents are under the influence of drugs or have traces of drugs in their system, will the Minister explain the inordinate delay in introducing roadside tests, given the fact that permission was given four years ago, in the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003? Why are the Government dragging their heels so much on giving the police the assistance they need to deal effectively with the problem?

Asked by

Mark Hunter (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

464 c554

House

House of Commons

Drug Screening

The Forensic Science Service has been engaged in drawing up the detailed specification essential for such a device. The specification will be issued shortly; it will then be for manufacturers to prepare devices in line with that specification and to submit them to the type approval process.

Answered by

Lord Coaker (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

464 c553-4

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many heavy goods vehicles (HGV) and public service vehicles (PSV) were tested in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; how many such vehicles were not tested; how many such vehicles were fitted with speed limiters; how many centres in fitting limiters were...

Asked by

Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

157159; 464 c771W

House

House of Commons

Drug Screening

The Government are not dragging their heels. The scientists are putting together a specification; when they have done so, it will be made available to manufacturers to enable them to produce a device allowing roadside screening for the presence of certain drugs. The hon. Gentleman will know, however, that the offence is not necessarily the presence of illegal drugs in someone's body, but the impairment that they cause, and the field impairment test is currently available to police officers to use at the roadside.

Answered by

Lord Coaker (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

464 c554

House

House of Commons

Drug Screening

What progress has been made in approving a roadside drug screening device for use by police.

Asked by

Mark Hunter (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2007

Reference

464 c553-4; 157289

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

Asked by

Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Notes

Question not printed in Bound Volume.

Date

11 October 2007

Reference

157159; 464 c734W;464 (Not in Bound Volume)

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the most recent estimate is of the number of vehicles which should have an MOT safety test but do not.

Asked by

Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 October 2007

Reference

156054; 464 c734W

House

House of Commons

Motor Vehicles: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many MOT vehicle testing stations are in operation.

Asked by

Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Transport

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 October 2007

Reference

156057; 464 c493W

House

House of Commons

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House

Session

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Department

Member

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Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

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