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To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 in Nottinghamshire (a) in total and (b) in secure wards; and what the equivalent figures were in 2005.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1444W; 325450
House
House of Commons
I welcome the proposals to support the growing of pomegranates, wheat, raisins and alternative crops that have been proposed by Afghan farmers over many years, but does the Minister understand that for them the key issue is not what they will be encouraged to grow but who will be a secure buyer of what they grow? Has the Minister any plans to step in and at least recognise that the starting point for what they grow at the moment is the poppy crop and that we ought to be looking at ways in which that can legitimately be used for the production of diamorphine?
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
29 March 2010
Reference
508 c499
House
House of Commons
I congratulate the officials in the Department on their work on this matter, but does not the Susan Wu case add a sense of urgency to the need for us to grasp the nettle in regard to regulation in a sector in which the practitioners themselves are pushing for a regulatory framework to set standards within which they can operate securely?
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
23 February 2010
Reference
506 c146
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much electricity was supplied to the City of Nottingham from the national grid in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 February 2010
Reference
506 c63W; 317223
House
House of Commons
Does the Prime Minister accept that the welcome international support for eurozone countries facing economic difficulties is undermined by the $8 billion-worth of speculative transactions that are currently taking place against the value of the euro? Does that not reinforce his case for the urgent introduction of a Tobin tax, which could bring to the international table £400 billion per year? That would be as relevant to the developing needs of the poor countries in the south as it would be to avoiding austerity measures in the north.
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
10 February 2010
Reference
505 c912
House
House of Commons
One of the specific groups of amendments that has been tabled has come from areas most adversely affected by a prodigious growth in student houses in multiple occupation. In my own city of Nottingham, only 2,000 of a total of 7,000 houses in multiple occupation are covered by the current licensing regime, and many of those seeking to avoid it are in the process of converting sheds and garages into living accommodation, with or without removing the up-and-over garage door. Will the Secretary of State give specific consideration to extending the current licensing regime to cover all HMOs and require planning permission for new ones?
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Communities and Local Government
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 2010
Reference
504 c666-7
House
House of Commons

That this House believes that it is vitally important to involve, rather than simply instruct, people and communities and local authorities in efforts to combat climate change; notes that the Sustainable Energy (Local Action) Bill, introduced by a cross-party group of hon. Members, will set in motion that process by...

Primary sponsor
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
13 January 2010
Reference
592
House
House of Commons
I doubt whether anyone can match the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) for the work he has done on this issue, but my limited experience of it prompts me to ask whether the interface that trafficked women have with health services in the voluntary sector can be assisted by overcoming the linguistic barriers, which are part of the problem. In many cases there is a heavy dependence on people who are themselves part of refugee communities to act as translators. Often, they have real difficulties facing the Home Office when addressing their own problems regarding deportation. Will the Minister ask for a coherent interface between key workers and those within the refugee communities in that process, to ease the problems that those women face?
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
12 January 2010
Reference
503 c538
House
House of Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent estimate he has made of the number of banks which have secured the agreement of customers to long-term fixed-rate mortgages for periods during which such banks had forecast that interest rates would be reduced in each of the last three years;...

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 January 2010
Reference
503 c154W; 306889
House
House of Commons
To ask the Prime Minister, if he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 9 December.
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Lead
Status
Tabled
Date
3 December 2009
Reference
304976
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which published scientific papers his Department has taken into account in the formulation of its policy on human consumption of genetically modified foods.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 November 2009
Reference
501 c535W; 301230
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which studies of intestinal damage in animals that have been fed genetically modified foods his Department has considered in the last two years; and whether he has made an assessment of the implications for (a) proliferative cell growth and (b) intestinal immune...

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 November 2009
Reference
501 c535W; 301229
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which animal studies of the effects of links between genetically modified foods and changes in the kidney, pancreas and spleen his Department has considered in the last two years.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 November 2009
Reference
501 c534-5W; 301227
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which studies of links between genetically modified corn and infertility in mice his Department has considered in the last two years; and how many genes were found by those studies to be expressed differently in the mice which were fed genetically modified...

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 November 2009
Reference
501 c353W; 301228
House
House of Commons

That this House underlines the importance of demonstrating a strong commitment to policies to tackle climate change in the run-up to negotiations in Copenhagen; reiterates its welcome for the inclusion of feed-in tariff legislation in the Energy Act 2008; notes the strong support for this legislation from a wide variety...

Primary sponsor
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
26 November 2009
Reference
276
House
House of Commons
Despite the robust rejection that he received from the United States, may I congratulate the Prime Minister on his attempt to advocate the case for an international application of the Tobin tax on speculative capital transactions? At a time when nation states are manifestly failing to meet the funding obligations that they have made on the eradication of poverty, the delivery of food security and climate change mitigation, will he go back to the international community and again make the case that we should tackle speculators, if we are to deliver the programmes that will save the planet and transform the prospects for our future?
Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Prime Minister's questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
11 November 2009
Reference
499 c246
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what scientific papers he has considered in respect of animal studies that document the effect of the consumption of genetically modified food on changes in the kidney, pancreas and spleen;

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 November 2009
Reference
297101; 498 c1032W
House
House of Commons

(2) what recent international research he has evaluated on the effect on the consumption of genetically modified food on human health, with particular reference to the effects on (a) fertility, (b) immune dysregulation, (c) accelerated ageing, (d) gene disruption relating to cholesterol synthesis, (e) cell signalling, (f) protein formation (g)...

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
4 November 2009
Reference
297102; 498 c1032W
House
House of Commons

That this House underlines the importance of demonstrating a strong commitment to policies to tackle climate change in the run-up to negotiations in Copenhagen; reiterates its welcome for the inclusion of feed-in tariff legislation in the Energy Act 2008; notes the strong support for this legislation from a wide variety...

Primary sponsor
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
29 October 2009
Reference
2196
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how long on average it takes the Child Support Agency to pass deduction of earning payments on to the recipient parent; and what steps she is taking to introduce (a) same-day and (b) same-week processing.

Asked by
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Answering body
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 October 2009
Reference
497 c1343-4W; 292105
House
House of Commons