To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 5 June 2006, Official Report, columns 118-19W, on House of Lords nominations, how many of the 4,090 people nominated for a non-party peerage were interviewed; and whether the Commission's undertakings on confidentiality and the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 applied to the process extend to the names of those nominated. (76601)

This is a matter for the House of Lords Appointments Commission.