Lord Walney

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what occasions each Minister within his Department has taken domestic flights on official business since May 2010.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what professional development courses are made available to staff of his Department; and what the cost to the public purse is of each such course.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many senior civil servants appointed to positions in his Department since 2010 were previously (a) political appointees within that Department and (b) employed by a political party...

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many senior civil servants appointed to positions in his Department since 2010 were previously (a) political appointees within that Department and (b) employed by a political party.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department spent on legal fees in cases relating to the release of information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what occasions each Minister within her Department has taken domestic flights on official business since May 2010.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records his Department holds on numbers of magnetic resonance imaging scans deing undertaken on behalf of the NHS at zoological or veterinary premises.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provision is made for the use of non-NHS facilities for MRI scans where the patient's weight precludes the use of an NHS-standard scanner.