To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to question 68798, tabled by the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire on 3 May 2006, on guidance to staff escorting deported foreign nationals. (77245)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 July 2006, Official Report, column 449.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many written parliamentary questions tabled to his Department before 1 July were unanswered on 19 July. (88191)

The number of parliamentary questions outstanding as at 19 July 2006 was 480, equating to 5 per cent. of the total number of questions asked.