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BSE
Mr. Gray: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the report into BSE which he has commissioned from Professor Gabriel Horn. [159263]
Ms Quin [holding answer 27 April 2001]: The review of the origin of BSE chaired by Professor Horn is well under way. It is expected that the group will submit their report by the end of May. Their conclusions will be included in the Government's detailed response to the BSE Inquiry Report.
Pigs (Whey Feeding)
Mr. David Heath: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of methods of disposal of whey as an alternative to feeding to pigs. [159434]
Ms Quin: We would assess alternative methods of disposal of whey in the event of it being banned as a feedingstuff to pigs.
Mr. David Heath: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what volume of whey was fed to pigs in England in each of the last five years. [159433]
Ms Quin [holding answer 27 April 2001]: We do not hold figures on the volume of whey fed annually. However, figures resulting from consultation with the industry indicate that approximately 450,000 tonnes of pasteurised milk waste products, including whey products, are used by pig industry per annum.
Mr. David Heath: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many pigs in England were fed with whey in the last 12 months; and what proportion they constitute of the national herd. [159432]
Ms Quin [holding answer 27 April 2001]: It is estimated that up to 20 per cent. (or 1,051,600 pigs) of the British pig production sector utilises high moisture and moist co-products in pig feeds through liquid-feeding systems, which includes whey.
Bovine TB
Mr. Drew: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a simplified version of the husbandry report on bovine TB will be made available to farmers. [154031]
Ms Quin [holding answer 16 April 2001]: The Government accepted the recommendation of the independent Husbandry Panel on the need for more effective guidance to farmers on reducing the risk of TB. We will re-assess the mechanisms used to deliver this
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guidance in the light of the Panel's advice, although the timeframe for this work will be extended because of the foot and mouth outbreak.
CABINET OFFICE
Special Advisers
Mr. Evans: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the total cost was of employing special advisers in his Department from 1997 to date. [160039]
Marjorie Mowlam: Details of costs for special advisers within individual Departments are not given, in order to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned.
The estimated cost for special advisers as a whole in 2001-02 is £4.4 million.
The overall costs for the previous years since 1997 are as follows:
| £ million | |
|---|---|
| 1997-98 | 2.6 |
| 1998-99 | 3.5 |
| 1999-2000 | 4.0 |
| 2000-01 | 4.4 |
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will list the special advisers employed by each Government Department on 1 March 1997, the date on which each resigned, and the reason for that resignation. [151896]
Marjorie Mowlam: A list of special advisers in post on 1 March 1997 is as follows:
| Government Department | Special advisers |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister's Office | Normal Blackwell |
| Carolyn Fairbairn | |
| Katherine Ramsay | |
| Simon Walker | |
| Arabella Warburton | |
| Sean Williams | |
| Chief Whip's Office | Shana Hole |
| Cabinet Office(9) | Andrew Caesar-Gordon |
| Lady Eileen Strathnaver | |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | George Osborne |
| Ministry of Defence | Alison Broome |
| Department for Education and Employment | Dr. Elizabeth Cottrell |
| Nicholas Heslop | |
| Department of the Environment | Keith Adams |
| Gavin Barwell | |
| Tom Burke | |
| Liam O'Connor | |
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Graham Carter |
| Department of Health | Tony Hockley |
| Tim Rycroft | |
| Department of National Heritage | Andrew Honnor |
| Home Office | Patrick Rock |
| Rachael Whetstone | |
| Privy Council Office | Sophie McEwen |
| Praveen Moman | |
| Department of Social Security | Peter Barnes |
| Department of Trade and Industry | Greg Clark |
| Department of Transport | Lucy Miller |
| Her Majesty's Treasury | Paul Gardner |
| Anthony Teasdale | |
| Edward Troup | |
| Scottish Office | Jacqui Low |
| Gerald Warner | |
| Welsh Office | Barnaby Towns |
(9) In addition, Sir Peter Levene was employed as Efficiency Adviser
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Information on the date of resignation of individual special advisers and the reason for resignation is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Policies
Caroline Flint: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Don Valley constituency, the effects on Doncaster of her Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [153523]
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the constituency, the effects of her Department's policies and actions on the constituency of Houghton and Washington, East since 2 May 1997. [152995]
Mr. Stringer: The Cabinet Office is responsible for a range of functions which cover England as a whole, or in relation to non-devolved matters, Great Britain or the United Kingdom. It is therefore not possible to say what their specific impact is on a particular constituency. Additionally any policy changes arising from reports by Cabinet Office units, such as the Social Exclusion Unit and the United Kingdom Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit, are implemented by the appropriate Government Department rather than by the Unit itself.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Prison Disorders
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison disorders have taken place in prisons in England and Wales during the last 12 months; and if he will list the prisons concerned. [158387]
Mr. Boateng: The term "disorder" is understood as referring to incidents of concerted indiscipline. An incident is classified as concerted indiscipline when prisoners collectively: refuse to comply with a lawful order; or involve themselves collectively in disruption of an establishment's normal regime and the incident is not otherwise reportable in its own right, unless that reportable incident presents a wider threat to the good order or discipline of the establishment.
During the last 12 months, 103 incidents of concerted indiscipline have taken place in prisons in England and Wales. The prisons at which the disorders took place are listed in the tables:
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