Written Answers Written Answers to Questions Monday 8 March 2010 Prime Minister Departmental Official Engagements Stewart Hosie To ask the Prime Minister what his official engagements are in March 2010. The Prime Minister My official spokesman announces my forthcoming official engagements each day. On 6 March, I visited Helmand where I was briefed by our military and civilian leaders, and by Afghan Commanders, on the latest developments on the ground, in particular on Operation Moshtarak, and on the challenges faced by our forces throughout Helmand, especially in Sangin. I was updated on ISAF plans to reorganise responsibilities and command and control in Southern Afghanistan, as the operational situation evolves after Operation Moshtarak and the deployment of additional US forces. Key to this will be building on the increasingly successful partnering of the Afghan security forces, and achieving the right ratios of security forces (international and Afghan) to the civilian population to enable General McChrystal’s counter-insurgency approach. And although final decisions have yet to be taken it is likely UK forces will increasingly concentrate in central Helmand. I was updated on ongoing stabilisation efforts: provision of jobs on projects, efforts to strengthen the local economy, and helping farmers cultivate a range of legal crops rather than poppy. 1,000 Afghan civil order police are now being deployed into the areas cleared in Operation Moshtarak. Over time they will be replaced by 1,000 regular Afghan police. To support this the UK are deploying an additional eight police mentoring teams, additional police advisers for the NATO training mission and the EU police mission, and additional support for the police training centre, a total of over 150 extra personnel. I was updated on progress with recruiting in the Afghan army, which has increased sevenfold since the end of 2009, with 500 more Afghan army in Helmand since December. Embedded partnering between British forces and the Afghan army is already generating positive results: for example, UK battlegroups report a 30 per cent. improvement in intelligence collection, including on the location of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), after the introduction of joint patrolling with Afghan forces. I was updated on progress in equipment including faster delivery of Vallon IED detectors towards our target of deploying over 6,500 by July, together with additional sets of ground penetrating radar. Specialised Talisman route-clearance vehicles and equipment will deploy in the next two months. The Ministry of Defence is also committing a further £18 million over the next two years to strengthen pre-deployment training on counter-IED techniques, in addition to the significant investment announced in December. I was updated on the increased number of hours our Chinook and Apache helicopters can fly each month; the successful introduction of Merlin helicopters; the deployment of Czech helicopters made possible by the British helicopter fund initiative; and the recent increases of Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicles and options for accelerating the planned increase of Predator/Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, I visited engineers responsible for sustaining the fleet of protected mobility vehicles including Mastiff and Ridgeback vehicles—offering world-leading protection against IED strikes. Over 100 more of those vehicles have been deployed since last summer. I also inspected the newly introduced Husky utility vehicle, 100 of which are in transit to Afghanistan. I was able to update our forces on the Ministry of Defence’s plans for a new light protected patrol vehicle, with Treasury approval of the first 200 vehicles as an urgent operational requirement. The Ministry of Defence judge that this meets the requirement in Afghanistan and will make announcements on further tranches in due course, as is standard practice with major equipment procurements. I look forward in the coming weeks to discussing the position in Afghanistan with the King of Jordan and Prime Minister Erdogan when they visit London. I also plan to attend the European Council meeting in Brussels on 25 to 26 March. Northern Ireland Departmental ICT Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information technology projects initiated by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. Paul Goggins During the last 12 months no information technology projects initiated by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) or its agencies have been cancelled prior to completion. Departmental Pay Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was paid in reimbursable expenses to special advisers in his Department in each of the last five years. Paul Goggins The following table shows how much the Northern Ireland Office, including its arms-length bodies and the Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland but excluding its agencies and NDPBs, paid in reimbursable expenses to special advisers in each of the last five years: ------------------- | |£ | ------------------- |2004-05|11,579.84| ------------------- |2005-06|9,182.01 | ------------------- |2006-07|1,837.74 | ------------------- |2007-08|1,068.97 | ------------------- |2008-09|1,457.49 | ------------------- House of Commons Commission 14 Tothill Street Mr. Stewart Jackson To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 3 February 2010, Official Report, column 329W, on 14 Tothill Street, how much has been spent in total to date, including the House of Commons contribution and the House of Lords contribution to the Commission on (a) rent, (b) refurbishment, (c) business rates and (d) utilities in respect of the unoccupied premises at 14 Tothill Street. Nick Harvey The expenditure to the end January 2010 on the unoccupied premises has been: ----------------------------------- |Account |Commons|Lords|Total| ----------------------------------- |Rent |4,592 |2,256|6,848| ----------------------------------- |Refurbishment|1,598 |2,293|3,891| ----------------------------------- These figures exclude costs incurred by the House of Lords since taking up occupancy on 1 September 2009. Business rates and utility costs, of £340,000 and £72,000 respectively, have also been incurred since the building became partially occupied. These are shared between the Commons (60 per cent.) and Lords (40 per cent.). Illegal Immigrants Mr. Syms To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 3 February 2010, Official Report, column 411W, on illegal immigrants, how many House of Commons staff have been appointed and later discovered to be illegal immigrants since 2005. Nick Harvey Since 2005, one employee of the House of Commons has been found to be not eligible to work in the UK. This was due to a change in circumstances that occurred after the employment began. Members: Allowances Mr. Frank Field To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2010, Official Report, column 38W, on Members: allowances, how much has been spent under each budgetary heading referred to in the answer. [Official Report, 11 March 2010, Vol. 507, c. 11-12MC.] Nick Harvey The costs to date, inclusive of VAT, are as follows: ------------------------------------ | |£ | ------------------------------------ |Sir Thomas Legg's review| | ------------------------------------ |Work commissioned |870,784 | ------------------------------------ |Staff costs |306,534 | ------------------------------------ |Office supplies |5,889 | ------------------------------------ |Total |1,183,207| ------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------ |Sir Paul Kennedy's work | | ------------------------------------ |Work commissioned |18,327 | ------------------------------------ |Travel |643 | ------------------------------------ |Office Supplies |180 | ------------------------------------ |Total |19,150 | ------------------------------------ Older Workers Mr. Winnick To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what guidance the House authorities have issued on arrangements to enable staff of the House, excluding its Officers, who wish to continue to work beyond the age of 65 years to do so; and if he will make a statement. Nick Harvey The House of Commons service currently has a “no retirement age” policy for most of its staff. This will be extended to include all staff from 1 April 2010 when the retirement age of 65 for the senior commons structure is removed. Mr. Winnick To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission how many House of Commons staff, excluding Officers of the House, there are over the age of 65 years; and if he will make a statement. Nick Harvey 64 members of staff, excluding Officers of the House (staff in pay band A and above), are over the age of 65. Parliament: Internet Mr. Amess To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission with reference to the answer of 20 July 2009, Official Report, columns 747-8W, on standing committees: internet, what progress the Commission has made on placing on Parliament's website the transcripts of Standing Committee debates held prior to 1997; and if he will make a statement. Nick Harvey Standing Committee debates held prior to 1997 have been digitised (421 volumes covering the period 1919 to 2004-05) and have now gone through the necessary quality assurance procedures. These data, along with many other related stand-alone sites will be brought into the main site over the next few months as part of the implementation of a new, improved content management system. Trade Unions Mr. Syms To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission how many days staff of the House of Commons Service spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate has been made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. Nick Harvey A record of the number of days that staff of the House of Commons Service spent on trade union activity is not maintained centrally. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Departmental Internet Mr. Hurd To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for which Google Adword online advertising keywords his Department and its agencies have paid in the last 12 months; and at what cost. Dan Norris The Department has spent £156,000 on Google Adwords in the last 12 months. A list of the keywords used has been placed in the House Library. We are unable to disclose the individual cost against specific keywords as this information is commercial in confidence. Detailed spend on advertising by DEFRA agencies is not held centrally and could be collated only at disproportionate cost. Land: Forestry Tim Farron To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his Department has made a recent estimate of the amount of land available for afforestation. Huw Irranca-Davies We have not made any recent estimates of the amount of land available for afforestation. The Forestry Commission is currently working with DEFRA and Natural England to develop a high-level spatial framework to guide where woodland creation could best deliver a range of benefits. This work is likely to be completed over the coming year. Land: Set-aside Schemes Mark Durkan To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of former set-aside land (a) has gone back into agricultural production since the abolition of the set-aside scheme in 2008 and (b) remains as fallow land. Jim Fitzpatrick The June Agricultural Survey only records aggregate areas and does not collect information on individual fields. Hence, it is not possible to say how much of the set-aside land recorded in 2007 was located on fields that remained fallow in subsequent years. Nor is it possible to say how much of the former set-aside land is now cropped. However, in 2009 there were 254,000 hectares of uncropped land in the UK, which is equivalent to 58 per cent. of the 2007 set-aside area. Quarries: Nottinghamshire John Mann To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which extraction quarries are currently licensed in Nottinghamshire; and which of them have received aggregate levy sustainability fund Objective 5 money for community projects. Huw Irranca-Davies There are currently 31 aggregates extraction sites in Nottinghamshire, of which 19 are active (Abbey Quarry, Bellmoor; Besthorpe; Bestwood 2; Burntstump; Carlton Forest; East Leake; Finningley; Girton; Langford Lowfields; Linby; Lound/Blaco Hill; Misson Bawtry Road; Misson Newington; Misson West; Nether Langwith; Ratcher Hill; Rufford; Scrooby; and, Scrooby Top) and 12 that are currently inactive (Carlton in Lindrick; Cromwell; Holme Pierrepont; Hoveringham; Mattersey (two sites); Rampton; Serlby; Sturton le Steeple; Styrrup; Warsop; and, Yellowstone). None of the sites has received funding directly from the communities theme (“Objective 5”)—aggregate levy sustainably fund funding is directed, via Nottinghamshire county council, to community projects. John Mann To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many current aggregate levy sustainability fund Objective 5 projects in Nottinghamshire are taking place at sites within one kilometre of a quarry. Huw Irranca-Davies Nottinghamshire county council has targeted communities “within 2 km of mineral extraction sites and any known extraction routes” for its funding from the communities theme (“Objective 5”) of the aggregate levy sustainability fund. Of the current (2009-10) projects, three are directly associated with former aggregates workings within this limit, and the remaining 15 fall within defined target areas of active and spent quarries and any known extraction routes. Renewable Energy: Fuel Oil Mr. Roger Williams To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to increase regeneration capacity for waste oils; and if he will make a statement. Dan Norris DEFRA's policies on waste oils are set out in Waste Strategy for England 2007. We are currently considering the responses to the stage one consultation on the transposition of the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), including the provisions in article 21 on waste oils. Special Protection Areas Mr. Stewart Jackson To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, column 831W, on Special Protection Areas: cats, what guidance the European Commission has provided on the (a) implementation of the European Habitats Directive and (b) appropriateness of banning domestic cats and dogs in housing developments close to areas with Special Protection status. Huw Irranca-Davies The European Commission has produced a range of guidance on specific articles of the Habitats Directive which is available on its website. I am not aware that any of this guidance gives specific advice on the appropriateness of banning domestic pets close to Special Protection Areas. Tuna: Conservation Mr. Drew To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for what reasons the Government decided not to sign up to the EU protocol on sustainable fishing of tuna. Huw Irranca-Davies There is no official EU protocol on sustainable fishing of tuna. However, the UK plays a full part in tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organisations to work towards sustainable management of tuna stocks and, in the case of Atlantic bluefin tuna, has been a leading voice within the EU in calling for additional measures through the listing on Appendix I on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in order to protect this stock. Leader of the House Departmental Marketing Mr. Syms To ask the Leader of the House pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 103W, on departmental marketing, how much her Department and agencies have spent on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to the (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain’s Future themed campaign to date. Barbara Keeley The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons incurred no cost on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain’s Future themed campaigns to date. Scotland Departmental Carbon Emissions Angus Robertson To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2005. Ann McKechin The Scotland Office did not centrally record its carbon emissions before the current financial year. This information is, however, now being recorded and will be reported in our forthcoming annual report. Departmental Energy Dan Rogerson To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps his Department plans to take to participate in the Earth Hour event on 27 March 2010. Ann McKechin As part of the Scotland Office's continuing efforts to reduce energy consumption, staff are reminded regularly to turn off computers, monitors and other electrical equipment, unplug mobile phone chargers and switch off lights when rooms are not in use. As the 2010 Earth Hour event is on the evening of Saturday 27 March, our buildings are likely to be unoccupied. Security guards will ensure that no inessential lights are left on. Departmental ICT Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information technology projects initiated by his Department were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. Ann McKechin The Scotland Office shares an information technology system (SCOTS) with the Scottish Executive, which is responsible for the development, administration and maintenance of the system; consequently, the Office does not directly undertake IT projects. Departmental Languages Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. Ann McKechin No Ministers or civil servants received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months. Trade Unions Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many days staff of his Department spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. Ann McKechin The Scotland Office do not have any staff that spend time undertaking trade union activities. Energy and Climate Change Energy Supply Charles Hendry To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the maximum transmission system demand was in each of the last 20 years. Mr. Kidney DECC's data for the maximum transmission system demand are contained in our report ‘UK Energy Sector Indicators 2009: Supporting Indicators Dataset': http://decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/publications/indicators/indicators.aspx The following table shows the data for simultaneous maximum electricity load met (left axis) from 1985 to 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |GW simultaneous maximum load met, UK (left axis)| ---------------------------------------------------------------- |1985 |53.98 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |55.33 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |53.833 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |53.555 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |53.414 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |1990 |54.068 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |54.472 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |51.663 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |54.848 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |52.362 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |1995 |55.611 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |56.815 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |56.965 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |56.312 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |57.849 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |2000 |58.452 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |58.589 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |61.717 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |60.501 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |61.013 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |61.697 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |59.071 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | |61.527 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |60.289 | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Source: DECC.| | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fossil Fuels Charles Hendry To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of UK energy demand has been met from fossil fuel sources in each year since 2006. Mr. Kidney The volume and proportion of UK energy demand met from fossil fuel sources since 2006 is shown in the following table. -------------------------------------------------------------- | |2006 |2007 |2008 | -------------------------------------------------------------- | |Volume|Proportion (percentage)|Volume|Proportion (percentage)|Volume|Proportion (percentage)| -------------------------------------------------------------- |Coal |43.5 |18.7 |40.9 |18.0|37.9|16.9| -------------------------------------------------------------- |Petroleum |77.1 |33.1 |75.6 |33.4|74.4|33.2| -------------------------------------------------------------- |Natural gas |89.2 |38.4 |90.1 |39.8|93.0|41.4| -------------------------------------------------------------- |Total all fossil fuels|209.8 |90.2 |206.6 |91.2|205.2|91.5| -------------------------------------------------------------- Mining: Coal Charles Hendry To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what (a) deep and (b) open-cast coal mines are operational; and what the annual output was of each such mine in each of the last five years. Mr. Kidney The following table lists deep and surface coal mines operational as at March 2010. Statistics on the output from such mines are provided by operators to the industry's licensing body, the Coal Authority, on a confidential basis and are not publicly available. ---------------------------------------------------- |Mines | | ---------------------------------------------------- |Deep | | ---------------------------------------------------- |Aberpergwm Colliery |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Blaentillery No. 2 Colliery |Torfaen | ---------------------------------------------------- |Cannop Drift Mine |Gloucestershire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Daw Mill Colliery |Warwickshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Eckington Colliery |Derbyshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Hatfield Colliery |Doncaster | ---------------------------------------------------- |Hay Royds Colliery |Kirklees | ---------------------------------------------------- |Kellingley Colliery |North Yorkshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Maltby Colliery |Rotherham | ---------------------------------------------------- |Monument Colliery |Gloucestershire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Nant Hir No. 2 Colliery |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Thoresby Colliery |Nottinghamshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Unity Mine |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Welbeck Colliery |Nottinghamshire | ---------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------- |Surface | | ---------------------------------------------------- |Broken Cross |South Lanarkshire| ---------------------------------------------------- |Bwlch Ffos |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Chalmerston |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Cutacre |Bolton | ---------------------------------------------------- |Cwm Yr Onen Colliery Reclamation|Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |East Pit |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Engine |Derbyshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Ffos-y-Fran |Merthyr Tydfil | ---------------------------------------------------- |Former Biwater Works |Derbyshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Glenmuckloch |Dumfries/Galloway| ---------------------------------------------------- |Glentaggart |South Lanarkshire| ---------------------------------------------------- |Greenbank (St. Ninians) |Fife | ---------------------------------------------------- |Greenburn Project |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |House of Water |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Lodge House |Derbyshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Long Moor |Leicestershire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Methley Quarry |Leeds | ---------------------------------------------------- |Muir Dean |Fife | ---------------------------------------------------- |Nant Helen |Powys | ---------------------------------------------------- |Nant-y-Mynydd Site |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Powharnal |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Selar |Neath Port Talbot| ---------------------------------------------------- |Shewington |Midlothian | ---------------------------------------------------- |Shotton |Northumberland | ---------------------------------------------------- |Skares Road |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Spireslack |East Ayrshire | ---------------------------------------------------- |Steadsburn |Northumberland | ---------------------------------------------------- |Temple Quarry |Kirklees | ---------------------------------------------------- |Wilsontown |South Lanarkshire| ---------------------------------------------------- Aggregate output from the listed mines in each of the last five years was as follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------- | |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 |2009 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Deep mines |7,598,740|8,270,180|7,467,230|7,926,010|7,495,440| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Surface mines|5,834,290|4,727,330|5,208,960|6,531,130|8,428,900| ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board: Meetings Mr. Dai Davies To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will publish on his Department's website the minutes of each meeting of the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board to date. Mr. Kidney The Department of Energy and Climate Change will aim to publish the minutes of meetings of the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board on its website around the time of Easter. Communities and Local Government Departmental Travel Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies spent on first-class travel in the last 12 months. Barbara Follett The Department does not hold this information centrally and it can be answered only at disproportionate cost. Fires Service College could provide this information only at disproportionate cost. Planning Inspectorate could provide this information only at disproportionate cost. Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre has had no expenditure on first-class travel. Essex County Council and Castle Point Borough Council: Pay Bob Spink To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will make it his policy to (a) collect information on and (b) publish the value of remuneration packages for (i) the chief executive officer and the five highest paid officers of Castle Point borough council and (ii) the chief executive officer and the 10 highest paid officers of Essex county council in each of the last 10 years. Ms Rosie Winterton The Department does not currently collect or publish information about individual remuneration arrangements for local authority officers. However, the Department has brought forward new regulations to require local authorities to publish detailed salary and remuneration information for senior officers in their Statement of Annual Accounts with effect from 31 March 2010. Local Government: East of England Mr. Swire To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the cost to the public purse has been of all legal proceedings relating to the structural review of Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon. Ms Rosie Winterton The Department does not hold information about the costs incurred by local authorities for legal proceedings that they have brought relating to the structural reviews in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk. The current costs incurred by the Department are set out in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Legal costs to Department (£)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Challenge against the Boundary Committee where the Secretary of State has been named as an Interested Party brought by:| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Breckland District Council and Others |62,450 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Devon District Council |31,820 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suffolk Coastal (R oao Forest Heath District Council) |45,875 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |King’s Lynn and Others |6,833 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Challenge against the Secretary of State brought by: | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Devon and Norfolk County Councils |3,461 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In litigation against the Boundary Committee related to the structural reviews, the Secretary of State appeared as an Interested Party and therefore did not seek costs. The Boundary Committee has incurred costs of some £358,700, some of which it is seeking to recover from local authorities involved in the litigation. Local Government: Poole Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the borough of Poole council on the effects of trends in Government funding on the level of (a) the provision of services by and (b) employment in the council; and if he will make a statement. Ms Rosie Winterton My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has had no recent discussions with representatives of the borough of Poole council on the effects of trends in Government funding. Olympics Government Olympic Executive: Pay Mr. Scott To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much has been paid in bonuses to civil servants in the Government Olympic Executive in each year since its inception. Tessa Jowell I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) on 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 5W. Olympic Games 2012: Private Finance Initiative Angus Robertson To ask the Minister for the Olympics how many private finance initiative projects relating to the 2012 Olympics have been delayed because of problems obtaining finance; and what the monetary value of each contract is. Tessa Jowell There are no private finance initiative projects being funded from the public sector funding package for the 2012 Olympics. The former private developer projects—the Olympic Village and the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre—which are now public sector projects, are on track to be delivered on time, as set out in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games Annual Report published on 9 February 2010. Olympic Games 2012: Yorkshire and the Humber John Battle To ask the Minister for the Olympics if she will take steps to ensure that sporting venues in (a) Yorkshire and (b) Leeds benefit from expenditure incurred in hosting the London 2012 Olympics. Tessa Jowell Sporting venues in Leeds and Yorkshire are well placed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the London 2012 Olympics. Sport England has recently made a significant investment in the Aquatics Centre at the John Charles Sports Centre in Leeds. These facilities will play a significant part in developing young swimmers and divers and in hosting visiting Olympic squads. The £5 million investment has helped deliver an international standard 50 metre competition and training pool with moveable boom and floor that meets the needs of both performance swimmers and the local community. It also includes one of the best equipped diving competition and training pools in the UK. Leeds has also benefited from the Free Swimming capital programme with awards totalling almost £2.5 million. This investment will help modernise several key community swimming pools including those at Aireborough and Kirkstall. There are 49 pre-games training camps in Yorkshire that are available to Olympics teams, and the Serbian and Dutch swimming teams have already committed to holding their pre-games training camps in Leeds. Sheffield also hosts the GB squads for boxing, volleyball and table tennis, and one of the GB centres for diving. These four sports have received their funding allocation from UK Sport based on their plans for London 2012 and have used some of their Cabinet Office programme's funding to enhance squad facilities. For example, boxing has invested in improving and expanding training areas in the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield into one of the best amateur boxing centres in the world. Also, Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire has won the right to host the UCI Cross Country Mountain Bike World Cup based on its initial Olympic bid to be a games-time venue. Transport Aviation: Exhaust Emissions John McDonnell To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport when he last reviewed the processes used to (a) collect and (b) publish the annual emissions of carbon dioxide from domestic aviation; and if he will make a statement. Joan Ruddock I have been asked to reply. (a) We estimate the annual emissions of carbon dioxide from domestic aviation in accordance with the IPCC 1996 revised guidelines, as we are required to do under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These guidelines were reviewed and revised in 2006; however, the 2006 guidelines will not be implemented until after the 2008-12 Kyoto protocol commitment period. Full details of both the 1996 revised guidelines and the 2006 guidelines can be found on the IPCC website at the following link: http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/index.html (b) Estimates of UK carbon dioxide emissions from all sectors, including domestic aviation, covering the period 1990 to 2008 were published by DECC as National Statistics on 2 February 2010. These form part of the UK’s greenhouse gas inventory submission for 2008, and represent the latest available estimates. The statistics can be found at the following link: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/climate_change/gg_emissions/uk_emissions/2008_final/2008_final.aspx Aviation: Safety Mark Pritchard To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will hold discussions with aircraft manufacturers on the relative safety merits of aircraft black boxes and real time data transmitters. Paul Clark The responsibility for determining what equipment should be installed on aircraft registered in the EU now rests with the European Aviation Safety Agency. Departmental Contracts Mr. Touhig To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what criteria his Department uses in determining the award of contracts; and how much his Department and its predecessors spent on the advertisement of tenders for Government contracts since 1997. Chris Mole The Department for Transport is required to comply with the Public Contract Regulations 2006 which require contracts above the EU threshold to be awarded based on the “most economically advantageous tender” or “the lowest priced tender”. However, it is Government policy to award contracts on the basis of the most advantageous tender and the Department follows this policy in respect of its tender evaluations. The Department does not hold centrally information relating to the costs of advertising tenders and it could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, from the information that is available, the Department has spent £51,560 on advertisement of tenders since the Department was formed in May 2002. Departmental Plants David T.C. Davies To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on pot plants in 2009-10 to date. Chris Mole The requested information is as follows: (a) £13,724 (b) £57,514 The above expenditure typically relates to interior displays in the public reception areas of Department for Transport offices and in some cases includes maintenance costs. All expenditure was incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety. We need to provide an environment where people work well and the provision of plants contributes to this, but we recognise the figure is high. These costs will therefore be significantly reduced over the next year along with other efficiency savings. The data above exclude the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA). VOSA does not record the information requested and this can be provided only at disproportionate cost. Departmental Temporary Staff Grant Shapps To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport from which companies his Department sourced temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff his Department employed in each year; and what the monetary value of the contracts with each such company was in each such year. Chris Mole The Department for Transport and its executive agencies operate separate finance and human resource systems and there are no centralised records relating to the numbers of temporary staff employed or the value of contracts with suppliers used to source temporary staff. To search across the Department’s disparate finance and human resource systems to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost. Information relating to spend on temporary staff is published in the Department’s annual report. In the past three years these figures are: ------------------- | |£ million| ------------------- |2006-07|16.906 | ------------------- |2007-08|27.265 | ------------------- |2008-09|27.700 | ------------------- Where records are available, the numbers of temporary staff employed by the Department in the past three years are: ---------------- | |Number| ---------------- |2006-07|1,088 | ---------------- |2007-08|1,353 | ---------------- |2008-09|1,075 | ---------------- A table has been placed in the Libraries of the House showing the suppliers that the Department has used to source temporary staff between April 2007 and March 2009 and spend during this period. Government Car and Despatch Agency: Consultants Grant Shapps To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2010, Official Report, column 187W, on the Government Car and Despatch Agency, on which projects the agency engaged external consultants in each of those years. Paul Clark The Government Car and Despatch Agency engaged external consultants to work on the following projects in each of the years between 2004-05 and 2008-09 inclusive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Projects | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09|Government Mail Business Development | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Working Time Directive implementation | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |HR Support, including pay negotiations | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Maintenance and Award of ISO Management Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |IT Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08|Pay Award Negotiations | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Maintenance and Award of ISO Management Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Customer Satisfaction Survey | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Facilities Management | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |IT Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07|Development of Performance Management Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Customer Satisfaction Survey | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |IT Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Maintenance of ISO Management Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Government Mail Business Development | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Marketing | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06|Customer Satisfaction Survey | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Maintenance and Award of ISO Management Systems IT Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Marketing | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |HR support | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05|Customer Satisfaction Survey | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Maintenance and Award of ISO Management Systems Government Mail Business Development| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |HR support | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |IT Systems | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roads: Repairs and Maintenance Mr. Sanders To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have sufficient funding to undertake repairs and resurfacing work on roads for which they are responsible. Mr. Khan This Department has provided sustained levels of funding to local authorities to assist them to invest in their roads. Since the introduction of the Local Transport Plan (LTP) settlement in 2001-02 this Department has more than doubled annual capital funding to local authorities across England (outside London) for maintaining local roads. LTP capital funding for highway maintenance in 2009-10 is £736 million, up from £265 million in 2000-01. Funding in London is a matter for the Mayor. Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) through the Formula Grant, for maintaining their local highways. Neither of these funding sources is ring-fenced. It is for local authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide. In addition the Department has provided PFI funding to assist authorities to develop highway maintenance PFI schemes. Currently £2 billion PFI credits have been allocated for highways maintenance schemes. One project with allocated PFI credits of £121 million has been signed. In addition there are three projects in procurement with approved PFI credits of £1.5 billion. A further highway maintenance PFI project with approved funding of £365 million PFI credits is shortly to enter into procurement. The Department has also provided emergency funding to local authorities to assist them to carry out repairs to their highways arising from extreme weather events. We have also encouraged local authorities to adopt transport asset management plans. These will include inventories of highways assets, their existing condition, and the target condition based upon desired service levels. Knowledge of the condition of highways assets and the desired service level that an authority intends those assets to deliver, are key components in the process of deciding what expenditure is required. A Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy report in July 2008 concluded that £15 million would be necessary to assist local authorities in Great Britain to develop transport asset management. Last year this Department allocated £32 million to assist English local authorities take forward highway asset management. Roads: Snow and Ice Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what proportion of roads in each region were gritted following snowfall between November 2009 and February 2010. Mr. Khan The Highways Agency treated the whole of the Strategic Road Network in England throughout the period. Winter service on other roads is the responsibility of each local highway authority and this information is not collected centrally. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department takes to ensure roads are safe for drivers during periods of snowfall. Mr. Khan The Highways Agency through its service providers implements area-specific winter maintenance plans across the Strategic Road Network throughout the winter period. Snow ploughs are fitted as soon as snow is forecast. Salt is spread both in advance of and during snowfall, supplemented by ploughing as required to ensure that the network remains as safe as reasonably practicable. The agency also provides information and advice to road users using variable message signs, the internet and the media. Winter service on other roads is the responsibility of each local highway authority. The Department for Transport endorses the winter service guidance provided by the UK Roads Liaison Group in its highways maintenance code of practice, “Well-maintained Highways”. This makes clear that safety is a prime consideration for winter service. My Department wrote to each local authority last year with a leaflet “Are you ready for winter?”, when the winter service guidance was updated, encouraging authorities to review their winter service strategies. Roads: Speed Limits Norman Baker To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport on which (a) roads and (b) sections of road variable speed limits have been introduced in each of the last 10 years. Paul Clark The Department for Transport does not routinely collate information about the location of variable speed limits. For principal roads or if the speed limit is varied to 20 mph, local traffic authorities have powers to introduce variable speed limits without consent from the Secretary of State. On the Strategic Road Network, variable speed limits are located among other locations, on: M25—Junction 10 to Junction 16 M42—Junction J3A to Junction 7 M6—Junction 4 to Junction 5 M42—Junction 7 to Junction 9 M40—Junction 16 to M42 Junction 3A. Thameslink Railway Line Norman Baker To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps he is taking to ensure the availability in the medium term of sufficient rolling stock able to negotiate the Moorgate tunnel. Chris Mole The Department for Transport is in negotiation with First Capital Connect to provide additional capacity to the route. Defence Afghanistan: Armed Conflict Mr. Hancock To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's long-term strategy for its activities in Afghanistan is. Mr. Bob Ainsworth Our military strategy in Afghanistan is designed to set the security conditions for the success of a broader political strategy, led by the Afghans themselves, and supported by the international community. UK armed forces are operating in Afghanistan as part of the 44-nation international security assistance force (ISAF). ISAF forces are conducting security and stability operations throughout the country in support of the Afghan Government, and are supporting the growth in capacity and capability of the Afghan national security forces. Our armed forces, alongside our ISAF partners, also play an important role in facilitating improvements in governance and socio-economic development. Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations Ann Winterton To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much (a) aviation and (b) vehicle fuel for British forces in Afghanistan cost in each of the last five years. Mr. Quentin Davies The following table sets out the ground fuel and aviation fuel costs for Afghanistan for financial years (FYs) 2005-06 through to 2009-10, up to the end of January 2010. ------------------------------------------------------ |Financial year |Ground fuel|Aviation fuel| ------------------------------------------------------ |2009-10 (end January 2010)|41.122 |61.639 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2008-09 |48.890 |66.317 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2007-08 |40.182 |2.671 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2006-07 |5.447 |2.866 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2005-06 |1.180 |0.436 | ------------------------------------------------------ |Total |136.821 |133.929 | ------------------------------------------------------ Nick Harvey To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the budget is per person per day for meals for military personnel serving in Afghanistan. Mr. Bob Ainsworth I refer the hon. Member to the answer the Minister for Veterans (Mr. Jones) gave on 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 437, to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban). Nick Harvey To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his most recent assessment is of the tactical requirement for long-range patrol vehicles in the current military operation in Afghanistan. Mr. Bob Ainsworth Commanders in Afghanistan have stressed the importance of having a range of vehicles from which they can select the most appropriate for specific tasks, including patrol vehicles. The use by our armed forces of all vehicle types is kept under constant review to ensure that they continue to meet operational requirements. Air Force: Deployment Mr. Cameron To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average weekly flying time for a Royal Air Force pilot is. Bill Rammell Average weekly flying hours for RAF pilots are not recorded centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Aircraft Carriers Dr. Fox To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Government plan to exempt the Queen Elizabeth carrier programme from the upcoming Strategic Defence Review. Mr. Bob Ainsworth We have been very clear since the publication of the Defence Green Paper that everything other than Trident is included in the Strategic Defence Review. But unless the review takes us in a very radical new direction, aircraft carriers are likely to remain critical elements of our force structure. That is why we have signed the contracts and cut the steel. Army: Counselling Lembit Öpik To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will investigate the reason for the increase in spending by his Department between 2003 and 2008 on counselling services for new recruits or Phase 1 trainees to the Army; and if he will make a statement. Bill Rammell Following the Blake Report and the Government’s response in June 2006, the Army has striven further to ensure that the best welfare provision is in place for soldiers under training. We have made improvements in the level of welfare support available to new recruits, as well as in the way in which we monitor and report incidents. For example, the implementation of the Army’s Suicide Vulnerability Risk Management Policy represents a major stride, since the tragic events at Deepcut, in our drive to reduce the incidence of suicide in the Army. We have also improved the military complaints process and increased supervisory levels in establishments with new recruits. The Army’s efforts to improve the welfare support available to recruits and trainees are having an effect. According to the results of the 2009 tri-service Recruit Trainee Survey over 90 per cent. of recruits and trainees consider that they are well looked after and fully understand the support that is there should they require it. An Ofsted report in June 2009 found that the support and care provided to recruits and trainees was comprehensive and wide ranging. Bahrain: Military Bases Mr. Soames To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which UK military assets are based in Bahrain. Bill Rammell [holding answer 5 March 2010]: HMS Grimsby, HMS Pembroke, HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Atherstone are permanently based in Bahrain. Other Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels operating in the region routinely visit Bahrain but are not permanently based there. As Bahrain is within an operational theatre I am withholding information on other UK military assets which may be present because it would, or would be likely to, prejudice the efficiency, security and capability of the armed forces. Departmental Buildings Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on office refurbishments in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Bob Ainsworth The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Departmental Legal Costs Bob Spink To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent in (a) legal fees and (b) compensation on cases involving harassment of its employees in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Bob Ainsworth [holding answer 4 March 2010]: The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Departmental Pay Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was paid in reimbursable expenses to special advisers in his Department in each of the last five years. Mr. Bob Ainsworth Procedures for reimbursing staff expenses are set out in the Ministry of Defence policy manual and are in line with the provisions set out in the Civil Service Management Code. The code can be viewed at the following link: www.civilservice.gov.uk/iam/codes/csmc/index.asp As temporary civil servants, special advisers are subject to the same rules. The following table contains the total amount of reimbursable expenses claimed by MOD special advisers over the last five financial years. ----------------------------------- |Financial year|Total expenses (£)| ----------------------------------- |2004-05 |3,465.12 | ----------------------------------- |2005-06 |1,104.57 | ----------------------------------- |2006-07 |0 | ----------------------------------- |2007-08 |44.00 | ----------------------------------- |2008-09 |2,992.41 | ----------------------------------- Departmental Security Nick Harvey To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many valid civilian passes granting access to his Department's buildings have been issued to employees of private defence companies; (2) to which private defence companies civilian passes been issued since 1 January 2008. Mr. Kevan Jones The requested information is not centrally held and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Nick Harvey To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what purposes civilian passes are issued to employees of private defence companies. Mr. Kevan Jones Passes are issued to employees of defence companies in order that they may undertake contract-based activity and/or attend meetings with MOD customers. Departmental Temporary Employment Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Defence from which companies his Department sourced temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff his Department employed in each year; and what the monetary value of the contracts with each such company was in each such year. Mr. Kevan Jones The People Pay and Pensions Agency (PPPA) began providing a service to engage manpower substitutes for the Department in November 2006, which covered clerical and administrative grades only. In 2008, the PPPA expanded its service to cover interim professional grades, before the service was further expanded in 2009 alongside the launch of a service to engage agency workers to fill industrial and security guard posts. For other grades employed by the MOD, individual business units are still making their own arrangements to engage temporary staff in some circumstances. The numbers of temporary workers engaged via the PPPA in the last three years are as follows: ------------------------------- |1 March to 28 February|Number| ------------------------------- |2007-08 |1,471 | ------------------------------- |2008-09 |1,457 | ------------------------------- |2009-10 |2,499 | ------------------------------- In the past three years, the PPPA has obtained temporary staff from the agencies listed as follows: 1st Choice Recruitment, AACE Ltd., Abacus Recruitment Ltd., Able Recruitment, Acorn 4 Jobs Ltd., Adecco UK Ltd., Alpha Personnel, Atebion, Atos Origin UK Ltd., Aviation Requirements Ltd., Badenoch & Clark, Barbara Barnes Recruitment, Capita Resourcing, Champion Recruitment, Charterhouse Recruitment, Chiltern Recruitment, Classic Recruitment, Clemtech, Concept Staffing, Cooper Lomaz, COS Recruitment, Elite Personnel Ltd., E-Man Solutions, Energy Footprint Ltd., England Associates, Fresh Approach Solutions, G4S, Hays Int Prof, Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd., HR Go Recruitment, HRM Recruitment, J M Associates, Jennifer Griffiths Recruitment, JRA Aerospace, Kelly Services, Key Personnel, LA International, Macdonald + Company Freelance Ltd., Manpower UK Ltd., Methods Consulting, Military Medical Personnel, Morganblair, Morson International, Mountain HealthCare Ltd., MPI Aviation, MSB, NB Personnel, Office Angels, OfficeTeam, Paterson Accountancy, Personnel Selection, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership Ltd., Phoenix Strategic Ltd., Point Recruitment, Pro Active Personnel, Qinetiq Ltd., Recruitment Solutions (Folkestone) Ltd., Reed Accountancy, Reed Employment plc, Robert Half International, Royle Recruitment, Sally Hawke, SCOM, SIMS Catering Waitress Hire LLP, Storm Recruitment, Systems Consultants Services, Team Support Services, The Top Agency, The Venn Group, Turner Charles Ltd., Venus Office Staffing Recruitment, Vigilant, Wenbee Ltd., WendyB Employment Consultancy, Work Force. The monetary value of the contracts with each agency is commercially confidential. I am withholding the information as its disclosure would prejudice commercial interests. Royal Regiment of Scotland: Military Exercises Willie Rennie To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of his Department’s planned military training exercises for (a) the 1st Battalion, (b) the 2nd Battalion, (c) the 3rd Battalion, (d) the 4th Battalion and (e) the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland were cancelled before they took place in each of the last five years. Bill Rammell The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Trident Submarines Jeremy Corbyn To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on the maintenance, operation and re-fitting of Trident submarines in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Bob Ainsworth It is not possible to provide full costs for the maintenance, operation and refitting of the Vanguard class submarines over the whole of the last 10 years as some of the information is not held in the format requested or held centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The following table therefore shows the costs that are available in each of the last 10 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |1999-2000|2000-01|2001-02|2002-03|2003-04|2004-05|2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |External Contractor Costs |n/a |n/a |n/a |0.5 |4.3 |1.1 |1.8 |5.7 |7.1 |3.0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Estimated HM Naval Base Clyde Labour Costs|n/a |n/a |n/a |0.9 |7.7 |2.1 |3.4 |10.7 |10.7 |5.5 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |LOP(R) Planning and Long Lead Materials |0.0 |6.8 |45.4 |23.0 |32.6 |19.5 |18.8 |17.4 |27.2 |13.3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Vanguard Class LOP (R) |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |91.0 |60.3 |75.2 |76.6 |96.8 |60.3 |64.4 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Alterations and Additions |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |3.9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Maintenance and refit total |0.0 |6.8 |45.4 |115.3 |104.9 |97.9 |100.7 |130.6 |105.2 |90.8 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Vanguard Class Operational Manpower |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |44.2 |44.3 |46.3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Vanguard Class Stock |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |5.9 |6.9 |8.1 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Other costs across Vanguard Class |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |1.0 |1.2 |1.6 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Operation total |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |51.1 |52.3 |56.0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |n/a = Not available | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The columns may not add to the total given due to rounding. All years apart from 2008-09 have some data that are not available, so the totals provided are incomplete for those years. The Refit and Maintenance costs take account of the costs of delivering the ongoing Vanguard Class Long Overhaul Period (Refuel) (LOP (R)) programme, the costs of LOP(R) planning, and the procurement of long lead materials. The Refit and Maintenance costs do not include the D154 contract for the Submarine Refitting Facilities Upgrade at Devonport. For 2002-03 onwards, the costs for Refit and Maintenance include external contractor costs, known as Contracted Out Operational Support (COOPS) under the Warship Support Modernisation Initiative (WSMI), where these can be attributed to the Vanguard Class. The COOPS costs relate to the provision of specialist subcontractor support for propulsion systems, masts and sensors, and weapons systems. It is not possible to provide equivalent costs prior to 2002 as these are not held in the format requested. The COOPS figure for 2002-03 only covers the six months for which data are available. The figures given for the labour costs at Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde are estimated because, under WSMI, these costs are collected for HMNB Clyde as a whole, and are not attributed to specific classes of ships or submarines. The figures quoted are derived from the total WSMI costs using a standard methodology. Costs are not available prior to 2002 because the contract for WSMI did not commence until September 2002, and information prior to this is not held in the format requested. Alterations and Additions costs have been supplied only for 2008-09, which is the only year for which figures are available. Nuclear propulsion costs are not held in the format requested because they cannot be broken down by submarine class. These costs would include the supply of spares and maintenance of Nuclear Steam Raising Plant components, the costs of Technical Authority support for maintenance of the design intent and safety case, the independent nuclear safety advice for the plant, and the provision of new reactor cores at refits. They would also cover the provision of cores, spares and other materiel maintenance by the equipment suppliers. Operating costs prior to 2006-07 are not held centrally. The operating costs include manpower, stock (such as tools and hardware) and other costs such as travel and subsistence, and accommodation stores. Trident: Finance Nick Harvey To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his most recent estimate is of the level of (a) actual and (b) projected expenditure on the (A) nuclear deterrent programme, including the Atomic Weapons Establishment and the future submarine programme, (B) Atomic Weapons Establishment and (C) future submarine programme in the period covered by the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. Mr. Bob Ainsworth I will write to the hon. Member shortly. Unidentified Flying Objects Mr. Dai Davies To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons his Department plans a retention period of one month for reports of unidentified flying objects. Mr. Kevan Jones The long-term retention of UFO sighting reports delivers no benefit to defence and diverts resources from higher priority tasks. UFO sighting reports passed to the MOD are retained for 30 days to allow correspondents to request the return of their reports should they wish to do so and are then destroyed. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Afghanistan: Elections Mr. Hague To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the presidential decree regarding the Electoral Complaints Commission in Afghanistan on the likelihood of free and fair parliamentary elections in that country in 2010; and if he will make a statement. David Miliband The Electoral Complaints Commission is a key oversight body and the individuals appointed to its panel will be subject to close scrutiny and will need to be of the highest quality and integrity. As agreed at the London Conference, the Afghan Government will work closely with the UN to learn lessons from the 2009 elections and to deliver improvements to the electoral process in 2010 and beyond. We will continue, alongside international partners, to support Afghan and UN efforts. British Nationals Abroad: Prisoners Mr. Touhig To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate his Department has made of the number of British citizens imprisoned in overseas jurisdictions; and what support and assistance his Department provides to such people. Chris Bryant On 30 September 2009 we were aware of 2,582 British nationals detained overseas. This figure is calculated every six months. In April we will have the figure for 31 March 2010. The support we can offer is set out in the publication "Support for British Nationals Abroad: A Guide". This includes making contact with the detainee, visiting if they want us to, making contact with their family, again if they want us to, offering basic information about the local legal and prison systems and a list of local interpreters and lawyers. If appropriate, we will consider approaching the local authorities if a detainee is not treated in line with internationally-accepted standards, including if they are mistreated. Within certain limits, we can forward funds to the detainee. We can also help them contact non-governmental organisations who offer support, such as Prisoners Abroad and, where appropriate, Fair Trials International or Reprieve. Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed Conflict Mr. Sanders To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will take steps to (a) encourage the ending of links between the Rwandan authorities and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and (b) seek to ensure that the sanctions imposed by the United Nations in respect of the Democratic Republic of Congo are maintained. Mr. Ivan Lewis The Rwandan authorities are not linked to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR is an illegal militia group mainly comprising ex-genocidaires from the previous Rwandan regime. We welcome the rapprochement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and the co-operation between the two countries in tackling the FDLR. We take our obligations under sanctions very seriously and will not hesitate to support sanctions against any person or company against whom there is sufficient evidence. Departmental Languages Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. Chris Bryant One Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Minister, Lord Mervyn Davies, undertook language training in the past 12 months at a cost of £212.80. 370 FCO civil servants have received language training in the following 52 languages (in no particular order): French Danish Spanish Vietnamese Portuguese Russian Mandarin Japanese Nepali Norwegian Polish Dutch Turkish Arabic Dari Spanish LA Malay Italian Macedonian Cantonese German Farsi Pashto Albanian Uzbek Somali Urdu Bulgarian Bengali Swedish Montenegrin Portuguese (Brazilian) Hebrew Georgian Greek Amharic Bosnian Ukrainian Romanian Korean Hindi Indonesian Cantonese Mongolian Serbian Czech Sorani Kurdish Persian Thai Slovene Latvian Tagalog. The total spend by the FCO's Language Policy and Standards Team from 1 March 2009 to date is £2,591,016. (This figure includes administration, travel and examination expenses.) Government Hospitality: Wines Mr. Watson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2010, Official Report, column 835W, on Government hospitality: wines, from what wine merchants and producers his Department purchased wine in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. Chris Bryant During 2007 Government Hospitality purchased wines from the following suppliers: Corney and Barrow Ltd Justerini and Brooks Ltd Jereboams Berry Bros and Rudd Ltd Averys of Bristol Lea and Sandeman Ltd Mentzendorff Ltd John Armit Wines Waitrose O W Loeb Bibendum Wines Ltd Pol Roger Ltd Maisons, Marques et Domaines Ltd Hatch Mansfield Wines Ltd Denbies Three Choirs Vineyards English Wines Group Ridgeview Estate Breaky Bottom Vineyards Nyetimber Ltd During 2008 Government Hospitality purchased wines from the following suppliers: English Wines Group Denbies Averys of Bristol Berry Bros and Rudd Ltd Pol Roger Ltd Waitrose Maisons, Marques et Domaines Ltd Corney and Barrow Ltd Haynes Hanson and Clark Ltd O W Loeb Hatch Mansfield Wines Ltd Lea and Sandeman Ltd Justerini and Brooks Ltd Jereboams. Mr. Watson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of each of the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine's meetings in the last 12 months. Chris Bryant Copies of the minutes of the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine (edited to protect commercial confidentiality) are available through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Freedom of Information web pages. The Committee's annual report is already in the Library of the House. I will place copies of the minutes from 2009 in the Library of the House. Greece: Death Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance (a) the British Consulate in Corfu and (b) officials in his Department provided to the next of kin of Stephen Oliver; and if he will make a statement. Chris Bryant Consular staff both in Corfu and London provided consular assistance to Stephen Oliver's family throughout this tragic case. We advised Mr. Oliver's family of the practical procedures for dealing with a death of a British national in Corfu. As consular staff took immediate action to follow up concerns raised by the family about the behaviour of the local undertaker. We have since removed him from the embassy's list of approved undertakers in Greece. Consular staff are unable to accept personal belongings of British nationals. We tried on several occasions to make contact with Mr. Oliver's friends and the local undertaker in order to arrange for his personal belongings to be returned to the UK. Consular staff further assisted by arranging (for Mrs. Oliver during her visit to Corfu) meetings with the coroner's office and the local undertaker. Iran: Human Rights Mr. Peter Robinson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the imprisonment of Behzad Nabavi; and what his most recent assessment is of levels of political and civil freedom in Iran. Mr. Ivan Lewis Former Member of Parliament and Minister, Behzad Nabavi, was one of several notable figures arrested on 16 June 2009 following the disputed presidential elections in Iran. The EU raised concerns about these detentions on 3 August with the Iranian authorities in Tehran, and again in a declaration on 23 October. On 9 February Nabavi was sentenced to five years imprisonment for his role in the post election unrest. The Iranian authorities continue to suppress legitimate protest, restrict civil and political liberties and use the threat of violence, and even execution, to silence dissent. Despite this, many brave Iranians continue to demand their fundamental rights. We urge the Iranian authorities to heed their citizens’ calls, and to release all individuals detained for political offences. Mr. Peter Robinson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of the number of opposition figures (a) imprisoned and (b) executed in Iran since the most recent presidential election. Mr. Ivan Lewis While there are no official figures available on the numbers of opposition figures imprisoned since the June 2009 election, international estimates broadly agree that around 3,000 individuals have been arrested. Many have subsequently been released; however, others remain in detention or have stood trial. We are concerned that the whereabouts of many more remain unknown. We cannot confirm that any opposition figures have been executed for involvement in the post-election unrest; however, we are concerned that a number of individuals have been sentenced to death in televised show-trials which fell far short of international standards guaranteeing the right to a fair trial. On 28 January Iran executed Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani; both were sentenced to death for “enmity against God” following prosecution at show-trials. Mr. Peter Robinson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he plans to take to seek to ensure that Iran complies with international human rights conventions and laws. Mr. Ivan Lewis It is clear that the people of Iran are leading the charge for human rights and democracy. However, they need to know that their calls for basic rights and freedoms are supported by the international community. The Iranian Government have a duty to ensure that their actions live up to the human rights standards to which they have committed. The United Kingdom was one of many UN member states to draw attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on 15 February. The HRC is currently in session in Geneva, and we are seeking every opportunity to draw attention to the situation in Iran, both nationally and as the EU. My noble Friend Baroness Kinnock raised our concerns when addressing the Council on 2 March and we did so again in our response to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on 4 March. We raised concerns with the Iranian authorities on at least 70 occasions last year, either bilaterally or through the EU and UN. We will continue to work hard alongside partners, international non-governmental organisations and civil society to ensure that the Iranian regime is held to account over its appalling human rights record. Iran: Nuclear Power Mr. Peter Robinson To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the Government's latest assessment is of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Mr. Ivan Lewis The latest Iran report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General highlights that Iran has increased its stockpile of low enriched uranium to 2,065 kg in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions; is starting to enrich to higher levels when there is no civilian purpose and has announced plans for 10 new enrichment plants. Iran’s refusal to answer questions about possible military dimensions to its programme leads the IAEA to express concern about development of a nuclear payload. Israel: EU External Trade Bob Russell To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with his European counterparts on the provision of EU concessions to the State of Israel following the European Court of Justice ruling that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Ivan Lewis [holding answer 4 March 2010]: The European Court of Justice's recent ruling in the case of C-386/08 (Brita-Gmbh) concerned the procedures which a EU member state's customs authority should follow in a case where imported goods are shown as being of Israeli origin, and preferential customs tariff treatment is claimed under the EC-Israel Association Agreement, but where there is reason to suppose that the goods in question did in fact originate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). This ruling has no effect on the Government's policies, since the Court's ruling confirms the correctness of the policy already in place, and I have had no discussions. There are no inconsistencies between the Court's ruling and the technical advice concerning the labelling of produce grown in the OPTs that was issued by DEFRA on 10 December 2009. Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation Harry Cohen To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what negotiating position his Department has adopted for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in May 2010; and what objectives he has set for the outcomes of that conference. Mr. Ivan Lewis The United Kingdom is committed to working intensively with a wide range of international partners to establish consensus for strengthening the non-proliferation and disarmament regime. We want the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to produce a mandate or action plan, which is balanced across the three mutually-reinforcing NPT pillars of non-proliferation, disarmament and the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Spain: EC Presidency Miss McIntosh To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had in the General Affairs Council on the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. Chris Bryant I attended the General Affairs Council on 25 January 2010 where Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation presented the programme for the Spanish Presidency. We welcomed the Spanish Presidency's choice of priorities, in particular the focus on economic recovery with a low carbon, social agenda at its core. A more comprehensive overview was given in our Command Paper 7778 "Prospects for the European Union: The Spanish Presidency", laid before the House on 29 January 2010. Wales Referendums Mrs. Gillan To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which (a) individuals and (b) organisations will be consulted on the request made by the National Assembly for Wales for a referendum to be held under the provisions of the Government of Wales Act 2006. Mr. Hain These issues are currently being progressed. Mrs. Gillan To ask the Secretary of State for Wales by what date he is required to give a response to the request for a referendum from the National Assembly for Wales. Mr. Hain 17 June 2010. Welsh Language Lembit Öpik To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what recent discussions he has had with ministerial colleagues and the Welsh Assembly Government on the use of the Welsh language in Welsh politics; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Hain I discuss a range of issues with ministerial colleagues in Whitehall and with the First Minister including those relating to the Welsh language and the passage of the Welsh Language LCO. I also met the Welsh Language Group Mudiadau Dathlu'r Gymraeg last month. Culture, Media and Sport Camelot Mr. Whittingdale To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what discussions his Department has had with (a) the National Lottery Commission and (b) Camelot on Camelot's application to operate certain commercial services in addition to the National Lottery; and if he will make a statement; (2) what steps his Department is taking to ensure the National Lottery Commission consults stakeholders and other interested parties on the implications for its core National Lottery business and brand of Camelot's application to operate certain commercial services; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Sutcliffe My officials and I have regular meetings with both the National Lottery Commission and Camelot about the full range of National Lottery regulation issues, and the possibility of Camelot providing commercial services which are ancillary to the operation of the National Lottery has been discussed in that context. The approval of the National Lottery Commission is required before the National Lottery operator can undertake any ancillary activity and the commission is currently considering a proposal from Camelot to offer commercial services using National Lottery terminals. The commission will consider the proposal in light of its statutory duties and therefore will take into account issues such as the implications for the core National Lottery business and brand. The commission is currently consulting on the EU/competition law considerations which may arise from the proposal, as these are issues in which those already offering such services have a direct interest. The commission considers that it will have sufficient information to exercise its discretion properly, without consulting on the implications for the core National Lottery business and brand. Departmental Carbon Emissions Angus Robertson To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the total carbon dioxide emissions from his Department’s buildings in each year since 2005. Mr. Sutcliffe The estimate of carbon dioxide emissions from offices is as follows: ---------------------------------- | |Tonnes of carbon dioxide| ---------------------------------- |2006-07|4,615 | ---------------------------------- |2007-08|2,251 | ---------------------------------- |2008-09|1,760 | ---------------------------------- Information prior to 2006 is not available. Departmental ICT Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what information technology projects initiated by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. Mr. Sutcliffe No information technology projects have been cancelled prior to completion by my Department or its agency in the last 12 months. Departmental Marketing Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 103W, on departmental marketing, how much his Department and agencies have spent on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to the (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain’s Future themed campaign to date. Mr. Sutcliffe Both Real Help Now and Building Britain’s Future are cross-government campaigns. This Department spent £300 on a flyer for the Future Jobs Fund, as part of the Real Jobs Now campaign. We have not spent anything directly on Building Britain’s Future. Departmental Offices Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department spent on office refurbishments in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Sutcliffe The Department has spent the following on office refurbishments in each of the last 10 years. --------------------- | |£ | --------------------- |1999-2000|243,000 | --------------------- |2000-01 |0 | --------------------- |2001-02 |0 | --------------------- |2002-03 |0 | --------------------- |2003-04 |0 | --------------------- |2004-05 |0 | --------------------- |2005-06 |0 | --------------------- |2006-07 |8,700,000| --------------------- |2007-08 |0 | --------------------- |2008-09 |40,625 | --------------------- Departmental Plants David T.C. Davies To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has spent on pot plants in 2009-10. Mr. Sutcliffe The Department has spent £11,018 to date on pot plants in the financial year 2009-10. The Royal Parks has spent £545 to date on pot plants in the financial year 2009-10. National Lottery: Sports Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much National Lottery funding was spent on grass roots sports (a) in Poole and (b) nationally in each year from 1997 to 2009, expressed in real terms. Mr. Sutcliffe National Lottery funding for grass roots sports is delivered by two bodies, Sport England and the Big Lottery Fund (BIG). (a) Lottery funding to Poole channelled through Sport England from 1997 to 2009 is as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------- |Financial year |Sport England lottery funding Poole (£)| --------------------------------------------------------------- |1997-98 |9,735 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |1999-2000 |429,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2000-01 |225,938 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |497,716 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |60,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |60,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |277,074 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |188,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |814,801 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |2009-101 |15,850 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |2,578,114 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |1 To 31 December 2009| | --------------------------------------------------------------- (b) Total Lottery funding channelled through Sport England nationally from 1997 to 2009 is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------- |Financial year|Sport England lottery funding nationally (£)| ------------------------------------------------------------- |1997-98 |189,236,874 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |1998-99 |320,737,864 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |1999-2000 |145,594,539 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2000-01 |326,520,739 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2001-02 |470,613,280 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |239,418,750 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |160,389,252 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |188,274,936 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |157,199,588 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |126,031,063 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |106,495,643 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |103,483,937 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |2009-10 |252,700,764 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |2,786,697,229 | ------------------------------------------------------------- (a) The BIG Lottery Fund's actual expenditure (rather than awards made) comprises £830,604, distributed to a total of nine community sports projects where the beneficiaries are located in the Poole constituency. ------------------------------------------------- |Financial year|BIG amount distributed Poole (£)| ------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |15,965 | ------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |423,033 | ------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |391,611 | ------------------------------------------------- |Total |830,609 | ------------------------------------------------- (b) Total Lottery funding channelled through BIG and its predecessor bodies to England from 1997 to 2009, as actual expenditure (rather than awards made) on sports related projects, is as follows: --------------------------------------------------- |Financial year|BIG amount distributed England (£)| --------------------------------------------------- |2001-02 |11,400 | --------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |4,500,970 | --------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |23,957,471 | --------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |60,862,060 | --------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |197,754,894 | --------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |175,423,208 | --------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |100,153,903 | --------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |88,631,818 | --------------------------------------------------- |Total |651,295,724 | --------------------------------------------------- Children, Schools and Families Discipline Andrew Selous 15. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps his Department is taking to help teachers maintain discipline in schools. Mr. Coaker This Government have given teachers a range of powers to tackle poor behaviour including, for the first time, a clear statutory power to discipline pupils. We have also provided support, guidance and consultancy to schools on behaviour improvement. Our behaviour challenge launched last September, sets out a series of actions to drive behaviour standards higher—enabling all schools to be not simply satisfactory in their behaviour standards but good or outstanding. Free School Meals Mr. Vara 17. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the level of educational attainment of pupils eligible to receive free school meals; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Coaker Long-term trends show that the achievement of pupils eligible for free school meals is rising, and that gaps in attainment between those pupils and their more affluent peers are narrowing. To give just one example, between 2002 and 2009, the percentage of free school meals pupils achieving the equivalent of five or more good GCSEs rose by 25.9 percentage points (from 23 per cent. to 48.9 per cent.), in comparison with a 19.1 percentage point rise for non-free school meals pupils. UK Council for Child Internet Safety Mr. Whittingdale 19. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made in establishing the UK Council for Child Internet Safety; and if he will make a statement. Dawn Primarolo The UK Council for Child Internet Safety was established on 29 September 2008 and now has over 160 members from Government, law enforcement, the third sector and industry. In December last year, UKCCIS launched its first child internet safety strategy ‘Click Clever, Click Safe’. We believe this is the first such strategy of its kind anywhere in the world and represents a real step forward in the development of work to keep children safe online. Secondary Schools: Halton Derek Twigg 20. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the performance of secondary schools in Halton and the north-west. Mr. Coaker Between 1998 and 2008 the percentage of pupils in Halton achieving five good GCSEs, including English and maths, increased from 24.7 per cent. to 49.2 per cent. making it the sixth most improved local authority nationally over that period. Over the same period the results for the north-west region, on the same measure, improved from 32.9 per cent. to 47.4 per cent. The authority’s results dipped in 2009 and we are working closely with them through the National Challenge programme to provide additional support to those schools that need it. Academies Tony Baldry 21. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his latest assessment is of progress on the academies programme; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Coaker There are now 203 academies open in 83 local authorities with up to a further 100 opening in 2010. Evidence from independent reports by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ofsted and the National Audit Office show academies are working. For academies with results in 2008 and 2009 the increase in the proportion of pupils achieving at least five A*-C GCSEs including English and maths is 5.0 percentage points, an increase on last year’s academy improvement rate of 4.3 percentage points and double the average national increase. Building Schools for the Future Mr. Flello 22. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made on the Building Schools for the Future programme in Stoke-on-Trent. Mr. Coaker Stoke-on-Trent is in wave 1 of the Building Schools for the Future programme. The framework contract for construction agents is in place and OBC approval is imminent. The authority expects work to start on the first school in September 2010. Funding levels for all schools and academies, together with feasibility designs have been approved. Catch-up Support Andrew Miller 23. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has for the future provision of catch-up support for children in literacy and numeracy. Ms Diana R. Johnson The Government's commitment to the future provision of catch-up support in literacy and numeracy is encapsulated in the Pupil Guarantees, which set out entitlements to support for children who are not making good progress in mathematics or English at key stages 1, 2 and 3. The guarantees are underpinned by programmes including Every Child a Reader, Every Child a Writer and Every Child Counts, in addition to the one-to-one tuition programme and secondary programmes such as Literacy Plus and Study Plus. Bullying John Robertson 24. To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent estimate he has made of the number of children subject to bullying in schools; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Coaker The annual TellUs survey provides information on this. According to TellUs 4 (2009), 46 per cent. say they have been bullied in school, of these 53 per cent. were bullied in the last year. There was a 24 percentage point improvement on the number of young people who felt their school dealt effectively with bullying. Overall, 28.8 per cent. of young people surveyed said they had been bullied at some time during the last year, either in or out of school. NEETs Simon Hughes To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training. Mr. Charles Kennedy To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Iain Wright We published “Investing in Potential” in December 2009 setting out the decisive steps we are taking to reduce the proportion of young people who are not in education, employment or training. Through our September and January Guarantees, we are offering 16 and 17-year-olds a place in learning. The Young Person’s Guarantee will ensure that 18 to 24-year-olds still unemployed after six months will be guaranteed access to a job, training or work experience. Education: Charities Peter Bottomley To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether any additional changes to arrangements for registration of educational charities have been agreed with the Charity Commission since the publication of the protocol on academies in 2009. Mr. Coaker There have been no changes on the registration of educational charities since the publication of the protocol on academies in 2009. Officials are in discussions with the Charity Commission on the ways in which academy trusts can be better supported through the process of registration as charities. The Secretary of State has agreed in principle to become the principal regulator for voluntary and foundation schools, subject to agreement on the details of the associated responsibilities. GCSE: Poole Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils resident in the Poole unitary authority area sat a GCSE in (a) history, (b) physics, (c) chemistry and (d) biology in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2009. Mr. Coaker Information about whether a pupil has entered GCSEs in history, physics, chemistry and biology has only been available on the National Pupil Database since the 2003/04 academic year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Poole unitary authority |2003/04|2008/09| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Number of students1, 2 entered for | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |History GCSE |464 |481 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Physics GCSE |224 |328 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Chemistry GCSE |221 |328 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Biology GCSE |223 |336 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Data for 2003/04 are based on pupils aged 15 on 31 August 2003 and data for 2008/09 are based on pupils at the end of key stage 4.2 Students attending maintained schools only, including city technology colleges and academies3 Based on students with a valid postcode in that academic year.Source:National Pupil Database (2003/04 final data, 2008/09 amended data).| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Curriculum Tests Mrs. Maria Miller To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of children achieved at least level 2 in each subject at Key Stage 1 in each year since the introduction of such assessments. Mr. Coaker [holding answer 22 February 2010]: The information requested is in the following tables. --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |78 |— |33 | --------------------------------- |1996 |78 |— |30 | --------------------------------- |1997 |80 |— |26 | --------------------------------- |1998 |80 |62 |26 | --------------------------------- |1999 |82 |66 |29 | --------------------------------- |2000 |83 |68 |28 | --------------------------------- |2001 |84 |69 |29 | --------------------------------- |2002 |84 |69 |30 | --------------------------------- |2003 |84 |69 |28 | --------------------------------- |20042|85 |71 |29 | --------------------------------- |2005 |85 |72 |27 | --------------------------------- |2006 |84 |71 |26 | --------------------------------- |2007 |84 |71 |26 | --------------------------------- |2008 |84 |71 |25 | --------------------------------- |20094|84 |72 |26 | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |466,500|— |199,600| --------------------------------- |1996 |464,600|— |176,600| --------------------------------- |1997 |489,500|— |160,300| --------------------------------- |1998 |500,800|389,000 |163,600| --------------------------------- |1999 |513,000|412,000 |184,300| --------------------------------- |2000 |504,600|409,200 |168,900| --------------------------------- |2001 |505,700|413,600 |174,400| --------------------------------- |2002 |495,700|405,000 |177,200| --------------------------------- |2003 |487,900|401,300 |162,200| --------------------------------- |20042|499,100|415,700 |168,000| --------------------------------- |2005 |484,800|411,500 |153,500| --------------------------------- |2006 |474,500|400,600 |143,900| --------------------------------- |2007 |458,300|388,900 |141,300| --------------------------------- |2008 |450,600|382,800 |135,900| --------------------------------- |20094|449,900|383,400 |138,200| --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |80 |— |15 | --------------------------------- |19961|79 |— |6 | --------------------------------- |1997 |80 |— |6 | --------------------------------- |1998 |81 |48 |7 | --------------------------------- |1999 |83 |53 |8 | --------------------------------- |2000 |84 |57 |9 | --------------------------------- |2001 |86 |59 |9 | --------------------------------- |2002 |86 |60 |9 | --------------------------------- |2003 |81 |62 |16 | --------------------------------- |20042|82 |62 |16 | --------------------------------- |2005 |82 |62 |15 | --------------------------------- |2006 |81 |60 |14 | --------------------------------- |2007 |80 |59 |13 | --------------------------------- |2008 |80 |58 |12 | --------------------------------- |20094|81 |60 |12 | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |477,300|— |88,200 | --------------------------------- |19961|474,600|— |36,700 | --------------------------------- |1997 |490,200|— |36,900 | --------------------------------- |1998 |507,800|304,000 |45,200 | --------------------------------- |1999 |519,600|335,400 |51,000 | --------------------------------- |2000 |511,000|341,900 |53,400 | --------------------------------- |2001 |515,800|353,100 |57,100 | --------------------------------- |2002 |506,100|351,200 |55,800 | --------------------------------- |2003 |471,000|358,700 |93,400 | --------------------------------- |20042|480,900|362,900 |93,500 | --------------------------------- |2005 |469,200|351,100 |85,800 | --------------------------------- |2006 |457,300|339,100 |78,300 | --------------------------------- |2007 |439,300|321,500 |69,000 | --------------------------------- |2008 |429,800|314,000 |65,300 | --------------------------------- |20094|431,100|318,100 |65,900 | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |79 |— |19 | --------------------------------- |1996 |82 |— |19 | --------------------------------- |1997 |84 |— |20 | --------------------------------- |1998 |84 |61 |19 | --------------------------------- |1999 |87 |64 |21 | --------------------------------- |2000 |90 |73 |25 | --------------------------------- |2001 |91 |75 |28 | --------------------------------- |2002 |90 |76 |31 | --------------------------------- |2003 |90 |73 |29 | --------------------------------- |20042|90 |75 |28 | --------------------------------- |2005 |91 |74 |23 | --------------------------------- |2006 |90 |73 |21 | --------------------------------- |2007 |90 |74 |22 | --------------------------------- |2008 |90 |74 |21 | --------------------------------- |20094|89 |74 |21 | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |1995 |470,700|— |116,200| --------------------------------- |1996 |491,500|— |114,300| --------------------------------- |1997 |512,700|— |124,400| --------------------------------- |1998 |529,000|382,500 |118,400| --------------------------------- |1999 |544,000|399,000 |134,000| --------------------------------- |2000 |542,900|440,800 |153,000| --------------------------------- |2001 |546,100|454,300 |166,700| --------------------------------- |2002 |531,900|445,100 |184,200| --------------------------------- |2003 |523,300|426,000 |169,400| --------------------------------- |20042|531,500|443,600 |165,700| --------------------------------- |2005 |518,000|421,900 |130,400| --------------------------------- |2006 |507,300|410,600 |120,400| --------------------------------- |2007 |491,800|404,200 |120,500| --------------------------------- |2008 |481,500|395,600 |114,400| --------------------------------- |20094|476,900|392,400 |112,700| --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| --------------------------------- |2005 |90 |— |25 | --------------------------------- |2006 |89 |— |24 | --------------------------------- |2007 |89 |— |23 | --------------------------------- |2008 |89 |— |22 | --------------------------------- |20094|89 |— |22 | --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Level 2|Level 2B3|Level 3| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005 |510,500|— |142,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |501,400|— |133,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007 |486,100|— |125,200| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |476,300|— |118,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |20094 |473,800|— |116,700| 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writing changed in 1996 and is not comparable to earlier years2 Figures prior to 2004 are based on task/test assessments.Figures for 2004 are based on a combination of task/test assessment in non-pilot schools and new post-2004 teacher assessment arrangements in pilot schools.Figures for 2005 onward are based on post-2004 teacher assessment arrangements. There were no test/task reporting arrangements for science, therefore data prior to 2005 are not available.Figures from 2004 onwards are not directly comparable with those prior to 2004, and care is needed in interpreting trends in the data.3 Prior to 1998 data on sub-levels are not available.Science data are not reported at sub-level therefore figures for 2B are not available.4 All figures are based on final data, with the exception of 2009 which is based on provisional data.Notes:Numbers are rounded to nearest 100.Percentages are rounded to nearest percentage point.| | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pearson Group John Penrose To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what discussions on what topics he has had with senior personnel at Pearson in the last 12 months. Mr. Iain Wright The Secretary of State and other Ministers have had a number of meetings with senior personnel from Pearson, including its subsidiary Edexcel, over the last 12 months. These meetings covered a range of topics including the establishment of Ofqual, Diplomas and other 14 to 19 qualifications issues. Personal Social and Health Education Robert Key To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what plans he has to provide specialist teacher training to (a) teachers and (b) trainee teachers to deliver sex and relationships education within the personal, health, social and economic curriculum; (2) how many teachers he expects to be trained to teach sex and relationships education under the personal, social, health and economic education provisions proposed in the Children, Schools and Families Bill. Mr. Coaker The majority of schools have been teaching personal, social, health and economic education (PSHEE)—which includes sex and relationships education (SRE)—as a non-statutory subject for many years, through a mix of specialist PSHEE teachers, as well as form tutors. In general, budgets for teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) are devolved to individual schools and no central records are kept on how much of this money is spent on CPD for individual subjects. However, in recognition of the sensitive and varied topics covered in PSHEE, additional central funding for a national CPD programme has been available to schools for a number of years. This has resulted in around 8,000 teachers having been trained and a further 1,800 are currently in training this year. When PSHEE becomes compulsory in the national curriculum from September 2011, we would expect most of the teaching to continue to come from existing teachers who will receive supplementary training, either through the national programme identified above, or from locally sourced training paid for from schools' local budgets. However, in recognition that PSHEE will be compulsory from September 2011, we are working with the Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA), to develop a route through initial teacher training (ITT) to become a specialist PSHEE teacher. From September 2010, we anticipate that 200 trainee teachers a year will be trained to deliver PSHEE as an enhancement to their main subject area. To enhance PSHEE coverage in all ITT, we are changing the guidance so that providers of ITT will need to ensure that all of their trainees are familiar with the National Curriculum guidance on PSHEE that is relevant to the age ranges they will teach. Pupils: Per Capita Costs Paul Holmes To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent per pupil (a) in each local authority area in the East Midlands and (b) on average in England since 1997. Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 February 2010]: The available information on how much has been spent per pupil in East Midlands and in England since 1997 is shown in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |England|Derbyshire|Derby |Leicestershire|Leicester City|Rutland| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1997-98 |Pre-Primary and Primary Education|1,740 |1,580 |1,670 |1,660 |1,740 |1,890 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |2,360 |2,300 |2,550 |2,290 |2,320 |0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |9,830 |10,290 |8,890 |12,760 |9,680 |0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,080 |1,900 |2,000 |1,990 |2,080 |1,900 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1998-99 |Pre-Primary and Primary Education|1,870 |1,730 |1,850 |1,810 |1,910 |2,130 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |2,450 |2,370 |2,680 |2,400 |2,540 |0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |10,110 |10,450 |8,980 |13,270 |10,570 |0 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,190 |2,020 |2,160 |2,130 |2,280 |2,120 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1999-2000|Primary Education |2,010 |1,820 |1,940 |1,930 |2,130 |2,160 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Pre-Primary and Primary Education|2,050 |1,840 |1,990 |2,000 |2,150 |2,190 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |2,610 |2,430 |2,690 |2,500 |2,920 |2,680 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |10,900 |11,760 |9,430 |11,490 |9,120 |11,960 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,390 |2,150 |2,340 |2,280 |2,560 |2,450 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |2,370 |2,140 |2,320 |2,240 |2,550 |2,430 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000-01 |Primary Education |2,210 |2,020 |2,170 |2,080 |2,390 |2,260 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Pre-Primary and Primary Education|2,280 |2,040 |2,330 |2,160 |2,460 |2,320 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |2,830 |2,590 |2,910 |2,720 |3,230 |2,920 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |11,860 |12,460 |10,170|11,550 |12,340 |14,890 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,620 |2,340 |2,650 |2,460 |2,920 |2,650 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |2,590 |2,330 |2,550 |2,420 |2,870 |2,620 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001-02 |Primary Education |2,480 |2,250 |2,610 |2,260 |2,640 |2,570 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Pre-Primary and Primary Education|2,570 |2,290 |2,840 |2,420 |2,730 |2,680 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |3,150 |2,870 |3,310 |2,970 |3,560 |3,130 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |13,030 |13,210 |11,540|12,140 |16,810 |16,820 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,940 |2,610 |3,120 |2,730 |3,280 |2,950 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |2,900 |2,590 |2,990 |2,640 |3,220 |2,890 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03 |Primary Education |2,530 |2,350 |2,430 |2,190 |2,520 |2,540 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |3,230 |3,000 |3,180 |2,930 |3,380 |3,100 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |12,820 |13,360 |11,340|12,640 |15,870 |18,840 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |2,950 |2,700 |2,840 |2,600 |3,070 |2,870 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04 |Primary Education |2,750 |2,480 |2,730 |2,420 |2,760 |2,840 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |3,550 |3,270 |3,520 |3,270 |3,680 |3,500 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |14,050 |14,050 |12,990|13,950 |14,760 |21,700 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |3,230 |2,910 |3,140 |2,890 |3,320 |3,230 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05 |Primary Education |2,910 |2,630 |2,940 |2,580 |2,990 |2,950 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |3,800 |3,480 |3,810 |3,440 |3,960 |3,650 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |15,110 |14,830 |15,310|15,620 |15,280 |25,140 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |3,450 |3,100 |3,460 |3,070 |3,570 |3,370 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |Primary Education |3,150 |2,900 |3,190 |2,860 |3,210 |3,130 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |4,070 |3,750 |4,030 |3,630 |4,260 |3,850 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |16,430 |17,420 |17,550|16,390 |16,220 |25,570 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |3,720 |3,380 |3,710 |3,320 |3,830 |3,570 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |Primary Education |3,360 |3,150 |3,420 |3,010 |3,410 |3,370 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |4,320 |4,030 |4,270 |3,890 |4,600 |4,120 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |17,480 |18,930 |18,840|17,460 |18,160 |29,960 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |3,950 |3,660 |3,930 |3,540 |4,110 |3,840 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |Primary Education |3,580 |3,340 |3,590 |3,220 |3,820 |3,530 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |4,620 |4,320 |4,590 |4,140 |4,920 |4,370 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |18,650 |20,900 |22,700|18,370 |20,270 |34,230 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |4,210 |3,900 |4,200 |3,780 |4,500 |4,040 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |Primary Education |3,780 |3,450 |3,810 |3,430 |3,750 |3,600 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Secondary Education |4,890 |4,580 |4,690 |4,460 |5,160 |4,390 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Special Schools |19,790 |20,750 |25,650|17,840 |18,910 |47,110 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |4,460 |4,080 |4,410 |4,040 |4,550 |4,080 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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| | |Pre LGR Nottinghamshire|Nottinghamshire|City of Nottingham|Lincolnshire|Northamptonshire| 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|1997-98 |Pre-Primary and Primary Education |1,720 |— |— |1,680 |1,580 | 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| |Secondary Education |2,380 |— |— |2,510 |2,250 | 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| |Special Schools |13,290 |— |— |9,230 |8,140 | 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| |Total (including Pre-Primary) |2,070 |— |— |2,070 |1,930 | 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|1998-99 |Pre-Primary and Primary Education |— |1,810 |1,950 |1,740 |1,720 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |2,390 |2,580 |2,500 |2,360 | 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| |Special Schools |— |13,530 |12,330 |9,500 |8,310 | 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| |Total (including Pre-Primary) |— |2,130 |2,250 |2,110 |2,060 | 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|1999-2000 |Primary Education |— |2,010 |2,090 |1,870 |1,910 | 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| |Pre-Primary and Primary Education |— |2,030 |2,120 |1,870 |1,930 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |2,540 |2,760 |2,540 |2,540 | 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| |Special Schools |— |13,520 |13,890 |10,320 |9,940 | 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| |Total (including Pre-Primary) |— |2,330 |2,460 |2,250 |2,290 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |2,320 |2,440 |2,250 |2,280 | 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|2000-01 |Primary Education |— |2,220 |2,260 |1,990 |2,160 | 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| |Pre-Primary & Primary Education|— |2,240 |2,310 |2,000 |2,180 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |2,710 |3,040 |2,690 |2,790 | 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| |Special Schools |— |13,340 |13,600 |10,970 |10,910 | 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| |Total (including Pre-Primary) |— |2,520 |2,680 |2,400 |2,560 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |2,510 |2,650 |2,400 |2,540 | 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|2001-02 |Primary Education |— |2,410 |2,800 |2,070 |2,340 | 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| |Pre-Primary & Primary Education|— |2,430 |2,860 |2,090 |2,390 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |2,970 |3,640 |2,850 |2,940 | 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| |Special Schools |— |14,420 |15,900 |11,930 |10,990 | 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| |Total (including Pre-Primary) |— |2,750 |3,260 |2,540 |2,740 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |2,740 |3,230 |2,530 |2,710 | 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|2002-03 |Primary Education |— |2,500 |2,930 |2,260 |2,280 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |3,030 |3,720 |3,070 |2,900 | 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| |Special Schools |— |13,770 |16,300 |12,260 |10,730 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |2,810 |3,350 |2,740 |2,660 | 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|2003-04 |Primary Education |— |2,740 |3,260 |2,450 |2,600 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |3,340 |4,180 |3,380 |3,370 | 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| |Special Schools |— |16,040 |16,500 |13,510 |12,730 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |3,100 |3,720 |3,000 |3,040 | 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|2004-05 |Primary Education |— |2,900 |3,410 |2,600 |2,720 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |3,590 |4,430 |3,620 |3,700 | 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| |Special Schools |— |17,180 |17,550 |14,150 |13,620 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |3,320 |3,940 |3,220 |3,270 | 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|2005-06 |Primary Education |— |3,150 |3,720 |2,820 |2,880 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |3,890 |4,710 |3,870 |3,840 | 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| |Special Schools |— |18,450 |18,050 |15,380 |15,000 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |3,600 |4,250 |3,480 |3,430 | 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|2006-07 |Primary Education |— |3,240 |3,910 |3,050 |3,020 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |4,080 |4,890 |4,140 |4,110 | 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| |Special Schools |— |19,690 |19,250 |16,560 |15,680 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |3,740 |4,430 |3,750 |3,630 | 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|2007-08 |Primary Education |— |3,430 |4,030 |3,280 |3,230 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |4,400 |5,270 |4,420 |4,400 | 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| |Special Schools |— |20,940 |20,980 |17,530 |17,160 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |4,000 |4,660 |4,020 |3,890 | 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|2008-09 |Primary Education |— |3,690 |4,230 |3,430 |3,320 | 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| |Secondary Education |— |4,710 |5,700 |4,720 |4,520 | 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| |Special Schools |— |22,760 |21,520 |18,380 |17,740 | 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| |Total (excluding Pre-primary) |— |4,290 |4,940 |4,250 |4,000 | 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|Notes:1. The financial information used in the answer to this PQ is taken from the Department’s s52 data collection.2. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by CLG to the Section 52 form from the DCSF. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. The change in sources is shown by the blank rows.3. Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending maintained establishments within each sector and are drawn from the DCSF Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.4. Local government reorganisation (LGR) took place during the mid to late 1990s.5. Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 for financial year 1999-2000.6. School based expenditure in LA maintained nursery schools was not recorded in 2002-03 and comparable figures are not available for 2003-04 onwards.7. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 22 February 2010.| | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schools: Northampton Ms Keeble To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much per head was spent on education for (a) primary school children and (b) secondary school children in Northampton in (i) 1997, (ii) 2001 and (iii) 2009. Mr. Coaker Figures are not available for the parliamentary constituency of Northampton, North as data are collected at a local authority level. The available information on how much was spent per head in Northamptonshire local authority is shown in the following table. The Department is due to collect the section 251 outturn data relating to the 2009-10 financial year later this year. 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|Pre-primary & primary education|Secondary education|Primary education|Pre-primary & primary education|Secondary education|Primary education|Secondary education| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |England |1,740 |2,360 |2,480 |2,570|3,150|3,780|4,890| 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|2,250 |2,340 |2,390|2,940|3,320|4,520| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. The financial information used in the answer to this PQ is taken from the Department’s s52 data collection.2. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the CLG to the Section 52 form from the DCSF. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of consistent financial reporting (CFR) and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables.3. Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending maintained establishments within each sector and are drawn from the DCSF annual schools census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.4. Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 (now section 251) for financial year 1999-2000.5. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 5 March 2010.| | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cabinet Office Children: Essex Mr. Amess To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many children of school age there have been in (a) Essex and (b) Southend in each year since 1997. Angela E. Smith The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010: As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many children of school age there have been in (a) Essex and (b) Southend in each year since 1997 (320603). The attached table shows the number of children aged 5-16 inclusive, calculated for each mid-year from 1997 to 2008, which are the latest population estimates available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Essex |Southend on Sea| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1997 |193,800|24,100 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1998 |194,000|24,300 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1999 |197,500|24,400 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000 |199,500|24,300 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001 |200,900|24,400 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002 |202,100|24,400 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003 |203,400|24,300 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004 |203,700|24,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005 |203,400|23,800 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |202,400|23,400 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007 |201,400|23,100 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |200,100|23,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Ages five to 16 inclusive.Source:Office for National Statistics| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communications Electronic Security Group Mr. Maude To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 26 January 2010, Official Report, column 825W, on Communications Electronic Security Group, for what reason the group has not published an annual report since 2006; and whether Ministers approved the decision not to publish an annual report. Chris Bryant I have been asked to reply. As an efficiency measure, Communications Electronic Security Group (CESG) have not published an annual report since 2006. There is no statutory requirement for CESG to produce such reports, therefore ministerial approval was not required. Departmental Recruitment Mr. Hurd To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much (a) her Department, (b) the Charity Commission and (c) the Central Office of Information spent on external recruitment consultants in the last year for which figures are available. Tessa Jowell No expenditure was incurred in Cabinet Office. I have asked the chief executives of the Central Office of Information (COI) and the Charity Commission to write to the hon. Member. Letter from Andrew Hind, dated 5 March 2010: As the Chief Executive of the Charity Commission, I have been asked to respond to your written Parliamentary Question (315210) on how much the Charity Commission spent on external recruitment consultants in the last year for which figures are available. In the financial year 2008/09, the Charity Commission spent £445,380 on recruitment broken down as follows: ------------------------------------- | |£ | ------------------------------------- |Reed Staffing Services Ltd |11,750 | ------------------------------------- |Hays Accountancy Personnel |11,809 | ------------------------------------- |Hudson Global Resources Ltd|4,113 | ------------------------------------- |Recruitactive |14,138 | ------------------------------------- |Red Snapper Recruitment |43,689 | ------------------------------------- |Badenoch and Clark |12,013 | ------------------------------------- |Artis Recruitment Ltd |14,603 | ------------------------------------- |Shi Group Ltd |9,246 | ------------------------------------- |TMP(UK) Limited |126,862| ------------------------------------- |Bernard Hodes Group |197,157| ------------------------------------- |Total |445,380| ------------------------------------- Within the time available, it has not been possible to produce a straightforward correlation between exact posts and expenditure. In 2008/09, we undertook a number of major recruitment campaigns. These were related to filling posts resulting from decisions to strengthen our compliance function and to make strategic changes in our organisational structure as a result of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. Many of the posts had specialist requirements and consultants were engaged to help us source the candidates with the right skills and experience. The majority of expenditure with TMP (UK) Limited and Bernard Hodes Group relates to advertising space in the media: the agencies contract directly with the press for placing job advertisements and then the Commission reimburses the agencies for the costs they incurred. Only a small proportion of the expenditure, therefore, will be the agencies’ fee. A complete analysis of the split between agency fees and the cost of job advertisements is not readily available. A further aspect of the expenditure with the Bernard Hodes Group was investment in a dedicated careers website, which has enabled the Commission to reduce its recruitment budget for 2009/10 to £200,000. The Commission forecast for the current financial year shows that it expects expenditure on recruitment to remain within that budget. I hope this is helpful. Letter from Mark Lund, dated 4 February 2010: As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question [315210] asking for the total spent on external recruitment consultants in the last year for which figures are available. The Central Office of Information spent £49,995 on external recruitment consultants for the financial year 2008/9. Government Departments: Publicity Mr. Maude To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what unsolicited Government publications have been mailed directly to households in England in the last six months; at what cost in each case; and what such mailings are planned between now and June 2010. Tessa Jowell This information is not collected centrally. Each Government Department, agency and NDPB is responsible for setting its own communications priorities and outputs, and each Secretary of State is responsible to Parliament. Sleeping Rough: Statistics Mr. Stewart Jackson To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent discussions the Office for National Statistics has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on that Department’s methodology for counting rough sleepers. Angela E. Smith The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010: As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what recent discussions the ONS has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on that Department’s methodology for counting rough sleepers. (319637) As part of the planning of the field operation for the 2011 Census, ONS officials have been in contact with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to discuss the counting of rough sleepers, and in September 2008, were invited to observe a count of rough sleepers in Westminster. However there have not been recent discussions. Local authorities are required to conduct their own annual counts if they have more than ten rough sleepers, and so we have been in touch with local authorities to learn how they carry out their counts to see whether any successful procedures used by them could be used or modified for the 2011 Census. We are also planning to liaise directly with local authorities for information about particular sites where rough sleepers might be found, as well as to obtain information on any local homeless charities. We have had a useful meeting with Homeless Link which represents and supports a number of organisations working with the homeless and are planning to meet them again. Young People: Southend on Sea Mr. Amess To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people aged 17 years and under were resident in Southend in each year since 1995. Angela E. Smith The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010: As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people aged 17 years and under were resident in Southend in each year since 1995 (320602). The attached table shows the number people aged 17 and under, calculated for each mid-year from 1995 to 2008, which are the latest population estimates available. ------------------------------------------------ |Southend on Sea |Thousand| ------------------------------------------------ |1995 |35,900 | ------------------------------------------------ |1996 |36,100 | ------------------------------------------------ |1997 |36,700 | ------------------------------------------------ |1998 |36,500 | ------------------------------------------------ |1999 |36,500 | ------------------------------------------------ |2000 |36,200 | ------------------------------------------------ |2001 |36,000 | ------------------------------------------------ |2002 |36,000 | ------------------------------------------------ |2003 |35,600 | ------------------------------------------------ |2004 |35,300 | ------------------------------------------------ |2005 |35,000 | ------------------------------------------------ |2006 |34,800 | ------------------------------------------------ |2007 |35,100 | ------------------------------------------------ |2008 |35,300 | ------------------------------------------------ |Source:Office for National Statistics| | ------------------------------------------------ Health Abortion Anne Milton To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 29 October 2009, Official Report, column 577W, on abortion, how many repeat abortions women aged (a) under 20, (b) 20 to 24, (c) 25 to 29, (d) 30 to 34 and (e) 35 years old and over had in (i) each primary care trust area and (ii) England in each of the last 10 years. Gillian Merron The information requested is not readily available. However, as soon as this information can be produced, a copy will be placed in the Library. Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence Chris Grayling To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many recorded incidents of assaults against NHS accident and emergency staff where alcohol or drug use was thought to be a significant contributing factor, and where the offender was aged 16 years old or under, took place in each of the last five years; (2) how many recorded incidents of assaults against NHS accident and emergency staff, where alcohol or drug use was thought to be a significant contributing factor, took place in each of the last five years. Ann Keen The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Information on the number of reported physical assaults against national health service staff in England is contained in the ‘Tables Showing Number of Reported Physical Assaults on NHS Staff from 2004-05 to 2007-08, Broken Down by NHS trust/PCT’ and ‘Tables Showing Number of Reported Physical Assaults on NHS Staff in 2008-09, Broken Down by NHS trust/PCT’ which have already been placed in the Library. The NHS Security Management Service (SMS) can assist employers through guidance on assessing risks and acting to protect staff from assaults and, where incidents do occur, on taking action against offenders. The NHS SMS also works with stakeholders, including the Social Partnership Forum, to promote the safety and security of NHS staff. Blood: Contamination Mr. Hunt To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the cost of compensation to people who have contracted (a) HIV, (b) hepatitis C and (c) other infections from NHS-supplied contaminated blood. Gillian Merron The Government currently make ex-gratia payments to those infected with HIV by contaminated national health service blood and blood products through the Macfarlane and Eileen Trusts (in 2010-11 the two Trusts became MFET Ltd), and to those infected with hepatitis-C by contaminated NHS blood and blood products through the Skipton Fund. Based on expenditure in 2009-10, it is estimated that £5.13 million will be made available for non-discretionary payments through MFET Ltd, and £2.47 million will be made available for discretionary payments through MFET Ltd in 2010-11. It is estimated that £5 million will be made available for payments through the Skipton Fund, in 2010-11. To date, nearly £150 million has been paid out through these mechanisms. Compensation to all those infected with variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD), including those who are thought to have been infected by contaminated blood transfusions, is provided through the vCJD Trust. The size of the Trust fund has been fixed at £67.5 million to compensate the first 250 patients and their families. Up to 5 April 2009, the vCJD trust has disbursed approximately £38 million. Cancer: Nurses Mr. Lansley To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2010, Official Report, (1) column 755W, on cancer: nurses, how many specialist cancer nurses there are; and how many new posts will be funded from the £20 million expenditure in 2011-12; (2) column 743W, on cancer: nurses, how long he estimates it will take to provide training to the additional workforce. Ann Keen There are about 2,300 specialist cancer nurses at present. We are investing £20 million in 2011-12 to work with Macmillan to introduce more specialist cancer nurse posts. In terms of the number of new posts this will fund, we will be looking at possible new models of care, which will have an impact on the number of new nurses needed, but we are likely to need a significant increase in the specialist cancer nurse workforce. Our plan is to build up the service over a five-year period and our detailed workforce assessment will include reviewing the current provision of training against the differing models and levels of support identified by our work. We will then be able to identify gaps in current provision and work towards appropriate solutions. Cancer: Palliative Care Rosie Cooper To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the progress report on the implementation of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer to be published. Ann Keen An evaluation to assess whether full implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults guidance has been achieved is under way. The Cancer Networks have returned their self-assessment information, and there will now be a series of face-to-face interviews with the network nurse directors and strategic health authority cancer leads. We expect the report to be published by the end of June 2010. Dementia Mr. Stephen O'Brien To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the ratio is of patients on the Quality Outcomes Framework registers to the expected numbers of people with dementia as set out in EuroDem statistics in each region; and what change there has been in that ratio since the publication of the National Dementia Strategy. Phil Hope This information is not available as EuroDem data are not produced or commissioned by the Department. Dental Services Mike Penning To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of the population in each strategic health authority (SHA) area had access to NHS dental services (a) immediately before the introduction of the 2006 dental contract and (b) at the latest date for which information is available; and what percentage of the population in each SHA area will need to be able to access NHS dentistry in March 2011 in order for primary care trusts to fulfil their duty placed upon them to provide access to all who seek it; (2) what his Department's latest estimate is of the level of unmet demand for NHS dental services in each strategic health authority area; (3) what steps his Department is taking to assist primary care trusts to measure levels of unmet demand for NHS dental services; (4) what discussions he has had with NHS managers and health professionals on progress in fulfilling the duty placed upon primary care trusts to provide access to NHS dental services for all who seek it; (5) how many primary care trusts (a) have conducted a baseline mapping exercise and (b) have formulated a delivery plan to deliver access to NHS dental services for all who require it by 2011. Ann Keen The proportion of the population registered with a national health service dentist in England, as at 31 March, 1997 to 2006 is available in Annex B of the “NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report, England: 31 March 2006”. Information is provided by primary care trust (PCT) and by strategic health authority (SHA) where appropriate. This information is based on the old contractual arrangements which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report, published on 23 August 2006, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at: www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dwfactivity Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with an NHS dentist to receive NHS care. The closest equivalent measure to “registration” is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services (“patients seen”) over a 24-month period. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years. Information on the number of patients seen in the previous 24 months as a percentage of the population, in England, is available in Table D2 of Annex 3 of the “NHS Dental Statistics, Quarter 2: 30 September 2009” report. Information is available at quarterly intervals, from 31 March 2006 to 31 December 2009, and is provided by PCT and SHA. This report, published on 23 February 2010, has been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at: www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0910q2 The commitment to delivering access to NHS dental care for all who actively seek it by March 2011 was set by the NHS in January 2009. It is for each PCT to determine local levels of unmet demand and ensure that sufficient services are commissioned to ensure that they are able to meet the commitment. This commitment is reflected in the NHS Operating Framework. The Department's Performance Delivery Team have regular reviews with SHAs on progress against all the priorities, including the 2011 dental goal, set out in the NHS Operating Framework. The Dental Access Programme, set up to support the NHS in delivering the 2011 goal, works closely with PCTs to support them in commissioning and managing dental services most appropriately and effectively. All PCTs have estimated the number of people who would use NHS dental care if it was available and have delivery plans in place to ensure demand is met by, at the latest, March 2011. In the first quarter of 2010-11 the national GP Patient survey will include questions on whether individuals have sought NHS dental care and if so whether they were successful in getting an appointment. The results of the survey will be available later this summer to allow PCTs to refine their plans as necessary. They will be published in July. Dental Services: Southend on Sea Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have registered with a dental surgeon in Southend in each year since 1997. Ann Keen The number of people registered with a national health service dentist in England, as at 31 March 1997 to 2006 is available in Annex A of the “NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report, England: 31 March 2006”. Information is provided by primary care trust (PCT) and by strategic health authority (SHA). This information is based on the old contractual arrangements which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report, published on 23 August 2006, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at: www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dwfactivity. Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with an NHS dentist to receive NHS care. The closest equivalent measure to “registration” is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services (“patients seen”) over a 24-month period. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years. Information on the number of patients seen in the previous 24 months, in England, is available in Table D1 of Annex 3 of the “NHS Dental Statistics, Quarter 2: 30 September 2009” report. Information is available at quarterly intervals, from 31 March 2006 to 31 December 2009 and is provided by PCT and SHA. This report, published on 23 February 2010, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at: www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0910q2. Departmental Advertising Mr. Crausby To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent by his Department on advertising in weekly and regional newspapers in each of the last three years. Phil Hope The information requested is shown in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------ |Financial year |Total spend (£)| ------------------------------------------------------ |2006-07 |779,200 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2007-08 |847,327 | ------------------------------------------------------ |2008-09 |991,686 | ------------------------------------------------------ |Source:Central Office of Information| | ------------------------------------------------------ Departmental Buildings Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on office refurbishments in each of the last 10 years. Phil Hope In each of the last 10 years the Department's expenditure on refurbishment has been: --------------------- | |£ | --------------------- |1999-2000|1,453,483| --------------------- |2000-01 |1,652,456| --------------------- |2001-02 |550,000 | --------------------- |2002-03 |788,000 | --------------------- |2003-04 |1,113,565| --------------------- |2004-05 |963,974 | --------------------- |2005-06 |5,033,305| --------------------- |2006-07 |3,520,407| --------------------- |2007-08 |2,628,819| --------------------- |2008-09 |627,404 | --------------------- Departmental Temporary Employment Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Health from which companies his Department sourced temporary staff in each of the last three years; how many temporary staff his Department employed in each year; and what the monetary value of the contracts with each such company was in each such year. Phil Hope The Department uses the services of a range of suppliers for its temporary workers, through a number of framework agreements. These frameworks include the following, from which the majority of temporary workers are sourced: 1. Buying Solutions Temporary Clerical and Administrative framework. This framework comprises the following companies: Brook Street (UK) Ltd., Hays Specialist Recruitment, Kelly Services (UK) Ltd., Office Angels Ltd., Reed Specialist Recruitment, Northern Recruitment Group and Employment Plus Ltd. 2. Buying Solutions Specialist Contractors (Project and Programme Management) framework. This framework comprises the following companies: Acumen Consortium (AMTEC), Badenoch and Clark Ltd., Elan Computing Ltd., Hays Information Technology, Hays Specialist Recruitment, LA International Computer Consultants Ltd., Methods Consulting, NES IT, NetworkersMSB, Parity, Reed Personnel Services plc, SmartSourcing plc and Technology Project Services. 3. Department of Health Clerical and Administrative Communications framework. This framework comprises the following companies: Badenoch and Clark, Hays, Morgan Hunt, Step Ahead, Stop Gap and Venn Group. 4. Department of Health Information Services Flexible Resource Pool framework. This framework comprises one company, Sapient Ltd. In 2008-09, the average number of whole-time equivalent temporary workers employed in the Department, comprising agency workers, contractors and consultants, was 215. Prior to 2008-09, temporary workers were not recorded on the Department’s human resources system, therefore this information is not held centrally. To provide the monetary value of contracts with the suppliers of temporary workers in the last three years would incur disproportionate cost. Drugs: Rehabilitation Mr. Burrowes To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) between 18 and 21 years old were prescribed (i) methadone, (ii) subutex and (iii) other synthetic opiates by health professionals in the latest period for which figures are available. Gillian Merron Data on numbers of under-18s and 18 to 21-year-olds prescribed methadone, buprenorphine and other synthetic opiates are not collected centrally. However there are data on the numbers of young people receiving specific treatment interventions for substance misuse, including pharmacological treatment. The latest national statistics on young people in drug treatment show that in 2008-09 there were the following numbers of under-18s receiving pharmacological interventions and combinations of this with other interventions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Number| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Young people specialist pharmacological interventions only |36 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Psychosocial and pharmacological interventions only |113 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Psychosocial and family work and pharmacological interventions only |14 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Psychosocial and harm reduction and pharmacological interventions only|85 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pharmacological interventions are interventions which include prescribing for detoxification, stabilisation and symptomatic relief of substance misuse as well as prescribing of medications to prevent relapse. These would include methadone, buprenorphine and other synthetic opiates. In total, only 1 per cent. of under-18s in drug treatment are receiving pharmacological interventions. Data on adult treatment interventions do not record ages and so data for 18 to 21-year-olds are unavailable. General Practitioners: Southend on Sea Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have registered with general practitioners in Southend in each year since 1997. Mr. Mike O'Brien Information is not held in the format requested. However, the following data show the number of general practitioners (GP)-registered patients in South East Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) from 2002 to 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Number of GP-registered patients| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002 |348,369 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003 |350,132 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004 |352,536 | 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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |348,056 | 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South East Essex PCT was created on 1 October 2006 from a complete merger of Castle Point and Rochford PCT and Southend-on-Sea PCT.2. Figures prior to 2006 are an aggregate of these predecessor organisations. It is impossible to map workforce figures for these organisations prior to the creation of the PCTs in 2002.3. Figures provided show numbers of patients registered with a GP as at 30 September each year. Data on patient transactions or newly registered patients are not available on the annual GP census.Source:The NHS Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics.| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health Services: Overseas Visitors Mr. Andrew Turner To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of (a) emergency and (b) non-emergency treatment of people from (i) each EU member state, (ii) Jersey and (iii) the Isle of Man in each of the last five years. Gillian Merron Figures relating to the cost to the national health service of treating people from Jersey, the Isle of Man and Guernsey are not recorded centrally. Claims made by the UK for recovering the cost of treatment provided to people from other European Economic Area (EEA) countries are shown in the following table. The claims cannot be broken down by treatment type. 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|Claim against: |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 |2009 | 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|Austria |637,046 |626,820 |229,422 |253,174 |20,738 | 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|Belgium |1,733,938 |1,728,295 |322,508 |384,497 |4,641 | 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|Bulgaria |— |— |418 |2,507 |— | 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|Cyprus |— |— |382 |4,515 |— | 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|Czech Republic |2,424 |6,685 |7,520 |9,780 |103,278 | 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|Finland |— |— |148 |— |1,873 | 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|France |3,442,555 |4,476,592 |2,436,334 |2,468,923 |— | 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|Germany |1,180,174 |1,231,044 |1,095,501 |1,272,535 |198,099 | 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|Greece |594,325 |52,286 |123,989 |681,455 |1,008,298 | 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|Hungary |— |— |10,658 |8,219 |37,558 | 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|Iceland |— |— |— |24,942 |— | 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|Ireland |18,827,803|18,145,976|20,681,774|22,348,347|28,882,678| 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|Italy |4,831,422 |4,928,362 |147,251 |708,649 |1,005,645 | 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|Lithuania |— |— |— |1,880 |— | 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|Luxembourg |— |— |— |6,323 |7,495 | 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|Netherlands |2,670,533 |1,126,454 |6,691 |41,428 |19,024 | 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|Norway |968 |— |— |— |— | 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|Poland |2,424 |10,445 |21,099 |45,862 |53,169 | 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|Portugal |460,030 |358,320 |22,914 |172,331 |33,626 | 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|Slovenia |45,790 |183,600 |— |5,991 |61,434 | 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|Spain |2,551,006 |3,024,577 |117,857 |132,504 |124,249 | 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|Sweden |1,016,313 |1,012,241 |252,351 |294,953 |82,454 | 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|Switzerland |62,204 |70,608 |56,194 |53,478 |— | 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|Notes:1. Under European Union regulations claims relate to calendar years.2. Due to the nature of the EU claims process member states (including the UK) may submit claims in arrears, often several years in arrears, and the settlement process for any one claim may extend over several years. Smaller supplementary claims may also be made, sometimes several years after main claims. Claims totals given are therefore a snapshot based on the current position, and are subject to change.3. Totals for UK claims will include formula—based claims for temporary visitor costs under bilateral arrangements which provide for reimbursement linked to tourist numbers.4. UK claims under those bilateral arrangements for years 2007 and later have yet to be submitted. These will be submitted following the publication by the European Commission of the UK’s average costs for those years, as data from those average costs are used in the calculation of claims. However, in some cases advance claim payments may be made under bilateral arrangements prior to the submission of the claim. Such advance claim payments will be reflected in the totals included in the table.| | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Health Services: Young People Mr. Leech To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidance his Department has provided on the implementation of the proposal in his Department's strategy for children and young people's health that all children with complex health needs should have an individual care plan by 2010; and if he will make a statement; (2) what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the proposals in his Department's strategy for children and young people's health that all children with complex health needs should have an individual care plan by 2010; what estimate he has made of the number of children with complex health needs who have been given such a plan; and if he will make a statement. Ann Keen Guidance for commissioners on how to commission personalised care planning for adults and children with long-term conditions was issued in January 2009. The care planning commitment for children with complex needs was affirmed in ‘Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures’ which emphasises the need to ensure high quality, timely and accessible support and sets out a clear expectation that children's trust partners will provide children and families with accessible and comprehensive information about the services, advice and support available. Progress is being sustained through the Long Term Conditions programme which includes work to support and accelerate implementation of care planning; elements of which are a Primary Care Service Specification to support commissioners and to incentivise delivery in primary care, and a leaflet for families explaining the benefits of care planning. Assessing the demand and providing for individual care plans for children with complex conditions is for local decision based on local assessment of need. Infant Mortality: Methadone Mr. Burrowes To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many newborn baby deaths were related to the use of methadone by the mother in the latest period for which figures are available. Gillian Merron These data are not available in the format requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the Department supports the national programme for substance abuse deaths (npSAD), currently run by the International Centre for Drug Policy at St. Georges, University of London. This programme collects and analyses data on drug related deaths in the United Kingdom, and can be found at the following website at: www.sgul.ac.uk/about-st-georges/divisions/faculty-of-medicine-and-biomedical-sciences/mental-health/icdp/our-work-programmes/national-programme-on-substance-abuse-deaths Languages Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. Phil Hope The Department does not hold a central record of the information requested. A survey to gather the necessary information from the Department's directorates would incur disproportionate cost. NHS: Private Sector Norman Lamb To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of an entitlement for a patient to be treated privately if not treated within 18 weeks in the first year of operation of such an entitlement. Mr. Mike O'Brien As detailed in the impact assessment www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_108091.pdf relating to the consultation on new patient rights, the proposals are largely cost neutral. If the proposed right is brought forward we would expect any alternative providers to provide services at the national health service tariff. A copy of the assessment has already been placed in the Library. Prescriptions: Fees and Charges Dr. Richard Taylor To ask the Secretary of State for Health what timetable has been set for the publication of Professor Ian Gilmore’s report on prescription charges for those with long-term conditions. Mr. Mike O'Brien Professor Gilmore has submitted his report on exempting people with long-term conditions from prescription charges to the Department. The recommendations are being considered, and we intend to publish our response shortly. Primary Care Trusts John Mann To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts there were in 2005. Mr. Mike O'Brien There were 303 primary care trusts in 2005. This number reduced to 152 from 1 October 2006. Private Finance Initiative Angus Robertson To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department will have to provide to fund all existing private finance initiative and public-private partnership contracts in each of the next 10 years. Mr. Mike O'Brien There are many hundreds of contracts negotiated annually between national health service bodies and private sector suppliers for a full range of services and equipment that involve elements of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Information is collected centrally for the three major areas of PPP contracts—private finance initiative (PFI) schemes, local improvement finance trusts (LIFT) and independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs). The following table shows the unitary and lease payments for PFI and LIFT schemes respectively for the next 10 financial years in nominal terms (i.e. uprated annually for retail prices index inflation of 2.5 per cent.; these are only approximate profiles as the LIFT payments are collected by calendar year not financial). From the information collected centrally it is not possible to express the ISTC payments on an annualised basis over the same period, but from a calculation of the total mean monthly payments, ISTC contract payments in 2010 will total approximately £469 million. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |PFI payments (by financial year|LIFT lease payments (by calendar year)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2010-11|1,249 |206 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2011-12|1,306 |211 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2012-13|1,407 |217 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2013-14|1,579 |222 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2014-15|1,619 |228 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2015-16|1,659 |233 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2016-17|1,700 |236 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2017-18|1,743 |245 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2018-19|1,748 |251 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2019-20|1,831 |257 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As total NHS planned resources for 2010-11 are £105.8 billion, PFI payments will represent approximately 1.2 per cent. of the total, LIFT approximately 0.2 per cent. and ISTCs 0.4 per cent. As payments rise with the rate of inflation, as demonstrated by the tables, we expect that NHS PPP/PFI contributions will remain at the level of less than 2 per cent. of the total budget for the life of the contracts. The phase 1 ISTC schemes have reached, or are reaching the end of their contracted periods and are being renegotiated. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust Jane Kennedy To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he expects to make a decision on the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust’s building project; and if he will make a statement; (2) what recent representations he has received on the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust’s proposed building project; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Mike O'Brien The Outline Business Case (OBC) for the £453 million private finance initiative proposal to redevelop Royal Liverpool University Hospital is currently with the Department for approval. Subject to approval by departmental officials and Ministers the OBC will then go to the Treasury for approval. Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital Jane Kennedy To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he expects to make a decision on the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital building project; and if he will make a statement; (2) what recent representations he has received on the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital building project; and if he will make a statement. Mr. Mike O'Brien Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust went to the market for its (approximately) £200 million private finance initiative scheme for a new children’s hospital through the launch of a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on 14 January 2010. This is the beginning of the procurement phase to select a preferred bidder to work with, sign a contract and proceed to construction, subject to appropriate approvals. Syringes Mr. Burrowes To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many young people aged (a) under 18 and (b) between 18 and 21 years old have been provided with needle exchange services in the latest period for which figures are available. Gillian Merron Information on the number of people supplied with clean needles is not collected centrally, by either the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse or the Department. Whittington Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments Jeremy Corbyn To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with London North Central Health Authorities on the future provision of accident and emergency services at Whittington Hospital; and what information has been provided to him on the future of the service. Mr. Mike O'Brien I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave him on 26 February 2010, Official Report, column 807W. International Development Departmental Buildings Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department spent on office refurbishments in each of the last 10 years. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) recorded spend on office refurbishments and security upgrades by calendar year from 2002 until 2008, from which time this information has been recorded by financial year. Amounts spent on refurbishments and security upgrades for both UK and overseas offices, since 2002, are provided in the following table: --------------------------- | |£ | --------------------------- |Calendar year | | --------------------------- |2002 |3,061,033 | --------------------------- |2003 |10,970,347| --------------------------- |2004 |4,533,262 | --------------------------- |2005 |2,625,477 | --------------------------- |2006 |2,257,548 | --------------------------- |2007 |1,753,239 | --------------------------- |2008 |1,090,392 | --------------------------- | | | --------------------------- |Financial year| | --------------------------- |2008-09 |1,186,205 | --------------------------- |2009-10 |1,482,968 | --------------------------- Information on spend prior to 2002 cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate costs. Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings Barry Gardiner To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) disciplinary and (b) capability procedures have been (i) initiated and (ii) completed in his Department in each of the last five years; how much time on average was taken to complete each type of procedure in each such year; how many and what proportion of his Department's staff were subject to each type of procedure in each such year; and how many and what proportion of each type of procedure resulted in the dismissal of the member of staff. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has initiated and completed one capability procedure in the last five years. To provide further information on this procedure would breach confidentiality. Details of the number of disciplinary procedures which have been initiated and completed; the number and proportion of staff subject to disciplinary procedures; and the number and proportion of disciplinary procedures which resulted in the dismissal of the member of staff in each of the last five years are provided in the following table. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Procedures initiated|Number of staff|Proportion of staff (Percentage)|Procedures completed1|Number of dismissals|Proportion of disciplinary cases resulting in dismissal (Percentage)| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |21 |20 |0.70 |13 |5 |25 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007 |31 |29 |1.10 |24 |9 |31 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008 |23 |23 |0.90 |16 |5 |22 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2009 |18 |18 |0.70 |11 |3 |17 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |20102 |3 |3 |0.10 |1 |0 |0 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Disciplinary procedures that have not been completed are either ongoing cases; cases that have been dropped due to there being no case to answer; or cases which did not result in formal action under the disciplinary procedures. 2 To date.| | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average time taken to complete these disciplinary procedures was 46 days. The procedure is initiated when the individual is issued with the invitation to attend a disciplinary meeting and includes any appeal process that may take place. Departmental ICT Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what information technology projects initiated by his Department were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has not cancelled any information technology projects prior to completion in the last 12 months. Departmental Marketing Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 103W, on departmental marketing how much his Department and agencies have spent on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to the (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain's Future themed campaign to date. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has not spent any money on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to Real Help Now or Building Britain's Future. DFID has no agencies. Departmental Pay Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much was paid in reimbursable expenses to special advisers in his Department in each of the last five years. Mr. Michael Foster This information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate costs. Fairtrade Initiative Miss McIntosh To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what contribution his Department is making to Fairtrade Fortnight. Mr. Thomas I refer the hon. Lady to the oral answer provided by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander on 3 March 2010, Official Report, column 930. Anne Main To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what contribution his Department has made to Fairtrade Fortnight. Mr. Thomas I refer the hon. Lady to the oral answer provided by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander on 3 March 2010, Official Report, column 930. Haiti: Earthquakes Mr. Touhig To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent steps his Department has taken together with British charities to co-ordinate the provision of assistance to Haiti. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) maintains a close relationship with British non-governmental organisations. Since the earthquake in Haiti I have had four meetings with civil society groups to discuss how the UK can best provide assistance. One of the meetings was also attended by Sir John Holmes, United Nations Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, who is leading the co-ordination of the international relief effort in Haiti. Illegal Immigrants Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many staff his Department and its agencies have appointed who were later discovered to be illegal immigrants since 2005. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has not appointed any staff members who were later discovered to be illegal immigrants. Languages Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has not funded foreign language coaching for a Minister in the last 12 months. DFID does not hold a central record of the number of staff who have received coaching in a foreign language. Requirements for language training are assessed by individual Departments and overseas offices and are funded by departmental training budgets. It is not possible to provide this information without incurring disproportionate costs. Overseas Aid: HIV Infection Mr. Lancaster To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to his Department's announcement of 4 November 2009 on funding for HIV prevention, whether the £220 million for HIV and neglected diseases health research was part of the £6 billion allocation for health systems announced as part of its HIV/AIDS strategy. Mr. Michael Foster The £220 million for HIV and neglected diseases health research announcement on 4 November 2009 is part of the £6 billion allocation for health systems announced in the Department for International Development's (DFID's) HIV/AIDS strategy. Mr. Lancaster To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to his Department's announcement of 4 November 2009 on funding for health research into HIV and neglected diseases, how much of the sum committed has been spent to date; and on which projects. Mr. Michael Foster To date, the Department for International Development (DFID) has committed a total of £115 million to the following projects for the period 2008-13: £40 million to the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); £20 million to the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM); £18 million to the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi); £18 million to the TB Alliance (TBA); £19 million to Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). Of this total committed, £35.5 million has been spent so far. Somalia: Overseas Aid Harry Cohen To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the extent of starvation in refugee camps at Afgooye, Somalia; and what steps his Department is taking to provide humanitarian assistance. Mr. Thomas The United Nations estimates that 366,000 internally displaced people (IDP) are living in refugee camps at Afgooye and that one in four children in these camps are affected by high rates of chronic malnutrition. The Department for International Development (DFID) will spend at least £11.5 million on humanitarian assistance in Somalia in the current financial year. DFID is a major contributor to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund which disbursed £16.9 million to Somalia in 2009, and to the European Community Humanitarian Office which disbursed £19.6 million in 2009. Trade Unions Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many days staff of his Department spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has one member of full-time staff allocated to undertake trade union activities. The salary of that staff member is in the range from £30,000 to £35,000 a year. In addition, all trade union members are allowed a reasonable amount of time to attend official union meetings. DFID does not hold a central record of the total time spent on such activity. Trades Union Congress Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding his Department and its agencies have given to the Trades Union Congress since 1997-98; and for what purposes. Mr. Michael Foster The Department for International Development (DFID) has provided £2.58 million to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the period from 2002-03 to date. This support was made available on the basis that it would be used solely for development assistance purposes as defined in the International Development Act (2002) and has enabled the TUC to work with unions abroad in support of basic political freedoms in countries such as Iraq and Zimbabwe. Information prior to this is not held on current financial systems and cannot be retrieved without incurring disproportionate costs. Work and Pensions Baptist Union of Great Britain Mr. Vaizey To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if she will meet representatives of the Baptist Union of Great Britain to discuss the effects of section 75 of the Pension Act 2004 on their organisation; (2) when she intends to reply to the letters dated 15 January and 9 February 2010 from the hon. Member for Wantage about the effect of section 75 of the Pension Act 2004 on the Baptist Union of Great Britain; (3) if she will make an assessment of the effects of section 75 of the Pension Act 2004 on the Baptist Union of Great Britain; and if she will make a statement. Angela Eagle I replied to the hon. Member on 6 March 2010. Where an employer ceases to participate actively in a multi-employer defined benefit pension scheme, section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995 provides that it may be required to pay an “employer debt”. This is a sum of money payable to the pension scheme. The policy behind the employer debt requirements is to provide protection for pension scheme members after a sponsoring employer ceases to participate. The Baptist Union of Great Britain has particular concerns about the way that section 75 applies to their pension scheme. I have therefore asked my officials to meet representatives of the Baptist Union to discuss their concerns. They will report to me about the outcome of the meeting. Cold Weather Payments: Highlands of Scotland Danny Alexander To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cold weather payments have been made and how much has been paid out to households in the Highlands in winter 2009-10. Helen Goodman [holding answer 4 March 2010]: The information requested is not available for the Highlands. Cold weather payment information is available only by weather station. There are a number of weather stations that cover the Highlands area and some of these also cover areas that are not part of the Highlands. For winter 2009-10, for Great Britain, to 1 March an estimated 11.8 million cold weather payments worth an estimated £295 million have been authorised. Payments authorised have not necessarily already been paid. Source: DWP records of triggers to weather stations up to and including 1 March 2010 and estimates of potential qualifiers by weather station. Departmental Advertising Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much her Department has spent on (a) print, (b) online, (c) television and (d) radio advertising in each of the last five years; how much has been spent on advertising in 2009-10 to date; and what percentage of advertising expenditure in each year was managed by the Central Office of Information. Jim Knight Government policies and programmes affect the lives of millions of people and in order for them to work they must be communicated effectively. However, this has also to be done with cost efficiency in mind and there are strict rules to ensure value for money on Government advertising. The Department for Work and Pensions provides services for over 20 million people, from helping the most vulnerable pensioners to getting people back to work, and communications activity is designed to raise awareness of these vital services. Advertising spend within the DWP covers both campaign advertising and recruitment advertising. For 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 data are only available to confirm overall media spend by the Department via COI. For 2008-09 data are only available to confirm media spend via COI and by direct advertising. Fully audited figures for spending on advertising for 2009-10 are not available at this time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |COI |Direct| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06 |11.211|1— | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |6.579 |1— | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |9.179 |1— | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |9.542 |2.785 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Data unavailable or not held centrally for these specific years and it would incur disproportionate cost in the gathering of these data.Note:All costs are exclusive of VAT, COI fees, advertising rebates and audit adjustments and are for media spend only. They also exclude the cost of creative work, research, production of supporting materials or launch events.| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Departmental Contracts Mr. Stephen O'Brien To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many bids have been made for work choice programmes; and in how many of those bids sub-contractors have been streamlined. Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 2 March 2010]: A total of 120 invitation to tender bids for the work choice programme have been submitted by 23 organisations. The supply chain associated with these submissions comprises of 91 organisations from the public sector, 46 organisations from the private sector and 92 organisations from the third sector. Mr. Stephen O'Brien To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether her Department holds for benchmarking purposes information on the operation of the Prime Contractor model in (a) Australia and (b) the Netherlands. Jim Knight [holding answer 2 March 2010]: The Department does not use information on the prime contractor models in Australia or the Netherlands to carry out systematic benchmarking exercises. Information on these and other models is referred to on an ongoing basis to inform the implementation and evaluation of the DWP Commissioning Strategy. Departmental Drinking Water Bob Spink To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much her Department spent on bottled drinking water in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. Jim Knight Because bottled water for meetings was previously sourced from a variety of contracts, and not accounted for separately, the amount spent in earlier years could be provided only at a disproportionate cost. The Department stopped the provision of brought in bottled water for meetings in July 2008. Since then the Department has been using an on-site system in three large sites, which bottles tap water and uses re-usable bottles. The cost of this system from July 2008 to March 2009 was approximately £18,000. Departmental Energy Andrew Stunell To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in her Department and its agencies in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if she will make a statement. Jonathan Shaw The following table gives the amount of total energy consumed (electricity, fossil fuels and gas), the cost of that energy for each of the years 1999-2009 and the total electricity consumed (standard and renewable), for the Department for Work and Pensions and its Executive agencies, as reported in the Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE) annual reports, and their predecessors. Figures are only available from 1999-2000—the baseline year for the current carbon reduction targets. The first full year of DWP operations was 2002-03, following its creation in June 2001. Figures for earlier years are not available. The term renewable energy refers only to electricity, which is shown as a percentage of the total electricity used in the following table. During the last year the proportion of renewable energy procured decreased due to increasing demand across the energy sector. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Total energy (kWh)|Cost (£ million)|Total electricity (kWh)|Renewable electricity (percentage)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002-03|715,753,818 |19.1 |290,690,818 |20.7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003-04|730,615,118 |20.4 |329,573,118 |33.1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004-05|757,031,312 |24.5 |328,376,312 |60.5 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005-06|702,573,363 |29.6 |327,460,763 |62.9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07|720,001,384 |32.7 |328,992,384 |63.0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08|598,909,215 |29.7 |287,936,215 |79.7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09|583,484,876 |38.0 |274,867,356 |48.4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Department will continue to work, in conjunction with its estates partners and other key stakeholders, to reduce its energy consumption and achieve its carbon budget. It will continue to source renewable energy as part of the pan-government energy procurement contracts which currently require 10 per cent. of energy from renewable sources coupled with 15 per cent. of energy from good quality combined heat and power. Dan Rogerson To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps her Department plans to take to participate in the Earth Hour event on 27 March 2010. Jonathan Shaw DWP pays particular attention to any out-of-hours consumption of energy and we have registered to take part in this year's Earth Hour event, as we did in 2009. We will be working with our Estates Partner to ensure that the lights are off in our buildings from 8.30 pm on Saturday 27 March for one hour. We will also promote this event internally to our staff. Departmental Internet Grant Shapps To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for her Department’s websites in each of the last three years; and what budget has been allocated for such activities in 2009-10. [Official Report, 29 March 2010, Vol. 508, c. 5MC.] Jim Knight Websites managed within the Department include: DWP Corporate Jobcentre Plus The Pension Service (this site closed September 2009) Child Support Agency Directgov (cross government site) Now Let’s Talk Money Independent Living Funds NDDP Job Broker Search Office for Disability Issues European Social Fund Ethnic Minority Employment Task force The Pensions Advisory Service Industrial Injuries Advisory Council Social Security Advisory Committee Personal Accounts Delivery Authority Working for Health CMEC CM Options Remploy Pension Protection Fund The Pensions Ombudsman Pensions Protection Fund Ombudsman Pensions Regulator Independent Case Examiner Health and Safety Executive Ongoing creation, development and maintenance of websites managed by the Department is mainly carried out by the Department’s own in-house digital media team and in-house maintenance team. It is not possible for us to extract and quantify previous or forecast costs for the all the categories requested, in particular strategy and content provision, because in most cases, staff working across these areas are engaged in more than one role and/or website. Similarly, our hosting and infrastructure costs form part of a wider departmental IT contract. We can provide figures for the redevelopment of the DWP website and the Office for Disability Issues website as we ran separate projects with separate budgets within the last three years. The costs quoted are for design and build work only and are not an annual cost. -------------------------------------------------- | |Website |Cost (£000)| -------------------------------------------------- |2008-09|DWP Corporate |216 | -------------------------------------------------- |2007-08|Office for Disability Issues|147 | -------------------------------------------------- There are no plans to spend money on design and build in 2009-10 for these two websites. Figures available for testing and evaluation are: -------------------------------------------------------- | | |Cost (£000)| -------------------------------------------------------- |Website | | | -------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |The Pension Service |21 | -------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |Jobcentre Plus |20 | -------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -------------------------------------------------------- |Planned spend| | | -------------------------------------------------------- |2009-10 |The Pension Service |19 | -------------------------------------------------------- |2009-10 |Jobcentre Plus |13 | -------------------------------------------------------- |2009-10 |DWP Corporate |3 | -------------------------------------------------------- |2009-10 |Office for Disability Issues|6 | -------------------------------------------------------- There is no separate Directgov budget for the elements specified. We are working with Cabinet Office to implement a standardised method for quantifying website costs across Government in line with Central Office of Information guidelines. This is in response to a Public Accounts Committee recommendation. These costs will be available from April 2010 onwards as per the timetable. Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many full-time equivalent staff of each grade are employed by her Department to assist special advisers. Jonathan Shaw There are two full-time equivalent staff employed to assist the special advisors, one executive officer and one higher executive officer. Departmental Paper Martin Horwood To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what (a) suppliers and (b) brands of (i) paper and (ii) paper products her Department uses; and what her Department's policy is on the procurement of those materials. Jonathan Shaw Either directly or through their subcontractors—Xerox (UK) Ltd. provide DWP with the following paper and paper products: Core print—forms and leaflets Configurable print—letterheads, complement slips etc. Marketing and publicity—promotional posters, campaign support products Secure print—girocheques and payable orders Cut paper—photocopier and printer paper (to support desk top, local and bulk copying) Stationery products—e.g. diaries, envelopes, notebooks etc. At present, cut sheet papers are branded primarily by Banner, M Real, Steinbeis, Datacopy, Hewlett Packard and Xerox. From April 2010, DWP will move to a single brand of 100 per cent. recycled cut paper—Xerox Recycled. The majority of DWP forms are currently produced on a 100 per cent. recycled paper branded Releaf. To maximise value for money, the Department's policy is to use only products through the Xerox contract. Other paper products are provided through other central contracts: Letters to DWP customers and other internal documentation are provided by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services (HPES). The sourcing of the paper products under this arrangement is determined by HPES and not the Department. Additional promotional products (outwith the Xerox arrangements) are provided through COI and range of communications framework suppliers. Under these arrangements, the suppliers are responsible for the sourcing of their own paper and paper products. Employment and Support Allowance Mr. Harper To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of claimants of employment and support allowance had attended their first interview with a Jobcentre Plus personal adviser before attending their first appointment with a medical professional working for ATOS in the latest period for which information is available. Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 2 March 2010]: The information requested is not publicly available and could be made so only at disproportionate cost. Mr. Harper To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what her latest assessment is of the administrative efficiency of the referral process for incapacity benefit or employment and support allowance claimants to Pathways to Work providers; whether it is the practice of Jobcentre Plus that its staff may not send client referral information electronically to providers; and what discussions she has had on introduction of IT arrangements to assist Jobcentre Plus with the administration of referrals to Pathways to Work providers. Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 2 March 2010]: When provider led Pathways to Work was first introduced the Department did not have a system in place which allowed the secure electronic transfer of customer data to external organisations. The Department ensures that safeguards are built into the process to protect personal customer details by restricting the number of individual customer details. In some areas, Jobcentre Plus conducts the initial interview on provider premises. Where this happens the referral is immediately handed to the provider. The Department is now in the process of rolling out a more efficient and secure IT based solution to refer customers from Jobcentre Plus to external providers for all commercial employment programmes. The Provider Referrals and Payments (PRaP) System began operating in October 2009 in support of the flexible new deal programme. At the point of contract award or renewal it is intended that all commercial employment programmes will adopt the PRaP IT solution both for referring individual customers and to make the associated payments to providers. Employment Schemes Paul Rowen To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when all prime contractors for the new Work Choice contracts will be informed of the outcome of their bid; what recent progress has been made in negotiations with potential Work Choice subcontractors; and if she will make a statement. Jim Knight [holding answer 3 March 2010]: Following the completion of the invitation to tender stage of the procurement exercise for this programme, the intention is to notify all those organisations designated as preferred bidders by 5 March. Unsuccessful bidders will be notified during week commencing 15 March. The sourcing team responsible for the procurement of Work Choice will be taking forward post tender discussions with the designated preferred bidders with the intention of agreeing and awarding contracts by 30 April 2010. Although we evaluate the subcontractor supply chains, we do not directly get involved in subcontractor negotiations. Paul Rowen To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether she has set a target time in which participants in the Work Choice programme move into unsupported employment; whether an individual target direction is determined for each programme participant; and in what ways a participant's individual circumstances are taken into account in Work Choice programme timetables. Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 3 March 2010]: There are no individual time constraints in which Work Choice participants are expected to move into unsupported employment. We will expect providers to focus on helping customers progress into sustainable open employment, wherever possible. Support provided by Work Choice will be tailored to the individual needs of the customer. We want customers who need supported employment to get more consistent, quality support that helps them progress at work and ultimately into unsupported employment, where appropriate. Work Choice providers and employers will work with the customer and agree an individual development plan, which is at the heart of their relationship. It is a living document, which will be reviewed regularly and adapted to the changing needs of the customer over what may be a long-term relationship, in order to help them progress in their career and stay in work. Housing Benefit: Travelling People Mr. Stewart Jackson To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will make it her policy that the absence of planning permission is taken into account when awarding housing benefit to those residing in dwellings on Traveller sites. Helen Goodman Housing benefit is available to secure the occupation of a person's home by providing help towards the rent that person is liable to pay on it. Where that home is a caravan or mobile home it is possible that a person may have two separate liabilities to pay rent, one for the caravan or mobile home and one for the site on which it stands. Help from benefit is available toward both. As long as the person has a properly enforceable liability to pay rent for their caravan or mobile home, a claim for benefit would be dealt with in the normal way. This would be less clear cut if a charge was being made for a pitch fee where the site has no planning permission. It might be that without planning permission the pitch fee would be unenforceable and therefore would not be eligible for housing benefit. If that is the case then no help would be given toward any pitch fee that may be charged. Jobseeker’s Allowance Jim Cousins To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the results were of occupational analysis of the jobseeker's allowance claimant count undertaken by her Department in (a) 2006 and (b) 2009. Angela E. Smith I have been asked to reply. The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck: As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for occupational analysis of the jobseeker's allowance undertaken in (a) 2006 and (b) 2009. (319336) The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is taken from the Jobcentre Plus administrative system. Analysis is published each month on the number of claimants of JSA by the claimant's usual occupation and sought occupation. Occupations are defined following the Standard Occupational Classification 2000. A table showing the number of people claiming JSA by the usual and sought occupation of claimants in December 2006 and December 2009 has been prepared. As the information requested is quite extensive, a copy has been placed in the House of Commons Library. National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at: http://www.nomisweb.co.uk Pension Credit: Hampstead Glenda Jackson To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners applied for pension tax credit in Hampstead and Highgate constituency up to 2008; and how many such applications have been refused. Angela Eagle Information about the total number of claims including unsuccessful claims is not available. The information that is available is shown in the following table: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |Number of successful new claims (Thousand)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2003 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |3.28 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2004 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February |0.19 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.23 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |August |0.18 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |0.16 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February |0.11 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.11 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |August |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February |0.07 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |August |0.09 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |0.08 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2007 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February |0.08 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.09 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |August |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2008 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.09 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |August |0.08 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |November |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2009 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |February |0.07 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |May |0.10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding, and exclude some short-term flows not captured by the relevant scans. 2. The successful new claims is the total number of awards of benefit that commenced within the quarter. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.| | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pension Service: Torbay Mr. Sanders To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will make it her policy to ensure that her Department continues to offer face-to-face Pension Service advice surgeries in Torquay and Paignton. Angela Eagle PDCS Local Service provides a face to face service for vulnerable pension age and disabled customers who are unable to access services through the normal channels such as by telephone or post. Local Service operates in the community across all of England, Scotland and Wales, and provides home visits to customers for information and advice, and help with applications to benefits and other complementary services. Local Service works closely with partners, such as local authorities and voluntary sector organisations to improve customer service delivery within local communities, through the creation of designated alternative offices, under the Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003, and appointment based information points in community locations. Age Concern in Torquay is a designated alternative office. In addition to the advice and information service offered to pensioners by Age Concern they are also able to accept claims from people aged 60 or over for social security benefits, or from a person under age 60 for disability and carers benefits. With the opening of a ‘Community One Stop hub’ in Paignton in the autumn, which will offer joined up services from a number of stakeholders, Local Service will work with partners to offer this as an alternative appointment venue for vulnerable customers. By working in partnership in the community Local Service will continue to provide face to face services to vulnerable customers in the community of Torbay. Personal Accounts Delivery Authority: Tata Consultancy Services Mr. Garnier To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many bidders other than Tata Consultancy Services there were for the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority contract for scheme administration services; and how much her Department will pay to Tata Consultancy Services under the contract. Angela Eagle Following publication of the contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union in January 2009, the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) received 56 expressions of interest. Following receipt of pre-qualification questionnaires, four organisations were invited to participate in competitive dialogue. As the competitive dialogue progressed, three of these bidders decided to withdraw. This left Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., which had progressively demonstrated during the competition that it was a strong bidder. This was confirmed by its final bid, which after a rigorous evaluation was found to fully meet PADA’s delivery requirements at a good price for NEST’s future members. Any payments due under the contract will be met by PADA, until the organisation is wound up on 5 July 2010. Payments will then be made by the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST). NEST will be self-financing in the long-term. This means that ultimately, all of the costs of establishing and operating NEST, including all payments due under this contract, will be met by NEST’s members. Social Security Advisory Committee: Finance Mr. Harper To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Social Security Advisory Committee spent on (a) remuneration for (i) the Chairman and (ii) Committee members, (b) travel expenses, (c) subsistence, (d) accommodation and (e) hospitality in (A) 2005-06, (B) 2006-07, (C) 2007-08 and (D) 2008-09; and how much she expects to be spent by the Committee for such purposes in 2009-10. Jim Knight [holding answer 30 November 2009]: Information is not available in the format requested. Such information1 as is available is in the table. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |SSAC expenditure |2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09|2009-10 estimate| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Chairman’s salary |20,500 |21,000 |21,500 |21,900 |22,200 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Members’ fees |2— |46,600 |56,300 |78,100 |86,300 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Travel expenses3 |21,400 |19,700 |25,500 |26,800 |28,800 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Subsistence |43,900 |52,800 |51,800 |52,700 |2,400 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Accommodation |4— |1,500 |1,200 |2,100 |4,200 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Hospitality |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 All figures except hospitality rounded to the nearest £100.2 Cost of members’ fees cannot be disaggregated from other elements of SSAC’s running costs.3 Includes the chairman’s, members’ and staff travel costs.4 Includes the chairman’s, members’ and staff subsistence and accommodation costs.5 Includes subsistence costs for the chairman, members’ and staff.| | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security Benefits: Angus Mr. Weir To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Angus constituency are in receipt of (a) attendance allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) jobseeker’s allowance; and what the average weekly amount received is in each case. Jonathan Shaw Attendance allowance provides an important non-contributory, non-income-related and tax free cash contribution towards the extra costs of severely disabled people. The Government are committed to providing real help to disabled people, particularly through the early stages of economic recovery. This is why the Chancellor announced in the December 2009 pre-Budget report that attendance allowance would be increased by 1.5 per cent.—bringing forward help when it is most needed. Without this commitment, the recent negative growth in the retail prices index would have meant that this benefit would not have increased in 2010. From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot. The information requested is in the table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Number of cases in payment|Average weekly amount paid (£)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Attendance allowance |2,360 |61.20 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance |2,370 |93.59 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Jobseeker’s allowance |1,540 |63.08 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. Benefit recipients are rounded to the nearest 10.2. Average weekly amounts are rounded to the nearest penny.3. Benefit recipients receiving more than one of these benefits will be counted under each benefit.4. Attendance allowance totals exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.5. These data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 20086. All data refer to benefit recipients and therefore will exclude credits only cases.Source:Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security Benefits: Dundee Stewart Hosie To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Dundee East constituency are in receipt of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) jobseeker's allowance; and what the average weekly payment to such people is in each case. Jonathan Shaw From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, as well as what they cannot. The information requested is in the following table: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Benefit |Number of cases in payment|Average weekly amount paid (£)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance |2,790 |94.43 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Jobseeker's allowance |1,900 |62.64 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes: 1. Number of cases in payment rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Average weekly amount paid is rounded to the nearest penny. 3. Claimants receiving more than one of these benefits are counted under each benefit. 4. The data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 2008. 5. All data refer to benefit recipients and will therefore exclude credits only and nil payment cases. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security Benefits: Fraud Steve Webb To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Yorkshire East of 10 November 2009, Official Report, columns 303-04W, on social security benefits: fraud, when she expects her Department to publish the results of its voice risk analysis pilot schemes; and when she expects to decide whether to roll-out such schemes nationally. Helen Goodman Department analysts are currently evaluating the Voice Risk Analysis pilot results. Work is expected to be completed in the next few months. Next steps will be considered once the evaluation has been completed. Danny Alexander To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in respect of how many people allegations of benefit fraud were investigated in (a) Scotland, (b) the Highlands and (c) England and Wales in each of the last three years; how many such people were subsequently (i) cautioned and (ii) prosecuted and convicted of such offences in each such year; and how many of those convicted in each such year received a (A) custodial sentence, (B) community sentence and (C) discharge. Helen Goodman The available information is in the tables: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |National|Scotland|England and Wales| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |128,443 |— |— | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |194,549 |— |— | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |156,089 |14,574 |141,515 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes: 1. The number of people investigated and cautioned was collected on a national basis only for 2006-07 and 2007-08 and cannot therefore be provided for Scotland, the Highlands, England and Wales. 2. The information requested is available for 2008-09. However, figures for the Highlands cannot be separated out and are included within those for Scotland. Source: Fraud and Error by Sector (FIBS) and Fraud Referral and Intervention Management system (FRAIMS).| | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |National|Scotland|England and Wales| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |11,976 |— |— | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |12,821 |— |— | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |14,320 |1,738 |12,582 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes: 1. The number of people investigated and cautioned was collected on a national basis only for 2006-07 and 2007-08 and cannot therefore be provided for Scotland, the Highlands, England and Wales. 2. The information requested is available for 2008-09. However, figures for the Highlands cannot be separated out and are included within those for Scotland. Source: Fraud and Error by Sector (FIBS) and Fraud Referral and Intervention Management system (FRAIMS).| | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Conviction|Custodial sentence|Community sentence|Discharge| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |6,756 |613 |2,387 |1,732 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |7,628 |511 |2,703 |2,202 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |6,581 |463 |2,442 |1,516 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes: 1. The number of people convicted and receiving a custodial/community sentence and discharge cannot be broken down for England and Wales. 2. The figures provided for convictions do not necessarily relate to the investigations undertaken in the years mentioned above because of the time taken to progress cases through the courts. Source: Sol Prosecution's Division Computerised Information System.| | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Conviction|Custodial sentence|Community sentence|Discharge| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |105 |3 |28 |2 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |117 |11 |77 |5 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |119 |4 |65 |0 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note: In Scotland, responsibility for prosecutions lies with the Procurator Fiscal. The figures represent cases where information on outcomes has been provided by the Procurator Fiscal to the Department for Work and Pensions and recorded on our systems. Consequently, they may not be complete. The figures for the Highlands cannot be separated out and are included within those for Scotland. Source: Fraud and Error by Sector (FIBS) and Fraud Referral and Intervention Management system (FRAIMS).| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security Benefits: Moray Angus Robertson To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Moray constituency are in receipt of (a) attendance allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) jobseeker's allowance; and what the average weekly payment is in each case. Jonathan Shaw Attendance allowance provides an important non-contributory, non-income-related and tax free cash contribution towards the extra costs of severely disabled people. The Government are committed to providing real help to disabled people, particularly through the early stages of economic recovery. This is why the Chancellor announced in the December 2009 pre-Budget report that attendance allowance would be increased by 1.5 per cent., bringing forward help when it is most needed. Without this commitment, the recent negative growth in the retail prices index would have meant that this benefit would not have increased in 2010. From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot. The information requested is in the table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Number of cases in payment|Average weekly amount paid (£)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Attendance allowance |1,910 |60.00 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance |2,140 |93.66 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Jobseeker's allowance |1,070 |63.44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. Benefit recipients are rounded to the nearest 10.2. Average weekly amounts are rounded to the nearest penny.3. Benefit recipients receiving more than one of these benefits will be counted under each benefit.4. Attendance allowance totals exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital.5. The data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 2008.6. All data refer to benefit recipients and therefore will exclude credits only cases.Source:Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.| | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security Benefits: Na h-Eileanan an Iar Mr. MacNeil To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were in receipt of incapacity benefit in Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the average weekly payment made in such benefit was in that constituency in that period. Jonathan Shaw From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot. The information requested is in the following table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Number of cases in payment|Average weekly amount paid (£)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance |800 |94.33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. Benefit recipients are rounded to the nearest 10.2. Average weekly amounts are rounded to the nearest penny.3. The data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 2008.4. All data refer to benefit recipients and will therefore exclude credits only and nil payment cases.Source:Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study| | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trade Unions Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many days staff of her Department and its agencies spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. Jonathan Shaw The information is as follows: 1. The Corporate Employee Relations Framework for the Department for Work and Pensions and its agencies, which was introduced in August 2003, sets out the maximum amount of time off we will allow for trade union representatives to undertake their trade union activity. 2. The Department and its agencies allows a total resource of 0.2 per cent. of the Department’s overall whole time equivalent staffing headcount as at the 1 April each year. Out of a total of 21,134,300 staff days this was 42,460 days for the year commencing 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2010. 3. Information on the annual cost to the public purse of such activity is not available. Work Capability Assessment Anne Main To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of employment and support allowance were required to take a work capability assessment in each of the last six months. Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 3 March 2010]: From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, as well as what they cannot. The available information is in the following table. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Month |Total assessed| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2009 |34,200 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October 2009 |35,200 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November 2009 |33,200 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Notes:1. November 2009 is the latest month for which data is available.2. A small number of employment and support allowance claims have been assessed more than once. Repeat assessments are excluded from these figures.3. The data are published online at:http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/workingage/esa_wca/esa_wca_19012010.pdfSource:Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment Statistical Release: January 2010| | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justice Bail Accommodation and Support Service Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many places are to be provided under his Department's contract with Stonham for the Bail Accommodation and Support Service; (2) how much has been paid to Clearsprings Ltd in respect of the Bail Accommodation and Support Service in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10. Mr. Straw The contract with Stonham for the Bail Accommodation and Support Service requires an initial provision of a maximum of 740 bed spaces. However, directors of Offender Management will review demand in their region from time to time. The amount paid to ClearSprings for the bail accommodation and support service for 2007-08 was £4.5 million and for 2008-09 was £5.8 million. In the current financial year until the end of December 2009, £4.5 million has been paid. Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings Barry Gardiner To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) disciplinary and (b) capability procedures have been (i) initiated and (ii) completed in his Department in each of the last five years; how much time on average was taken to complete each type of procedure in each such year; how many and what proportion of his Department’s staff were subject to each type of procedure in each such year; and how many and what proportion of each type of procedure resulted in the dismissal of the member of staff. Mr. Wills In the Ministry of Justice, disciplinary and capability procedures are devolved to a local line management. Therefore, records of procedures initiated and completed, and the length of time taken, are not held centrally. Obtaining the data would involve asking each individual office to conduct a search of their local records, and this would incur a disproportionate cost. The Ministry does record centrally the number of dismissals under its disciplinary and capability procedures. The figures and the proportion of total staff involved (as a percentage) are set out in the following table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Year1 |Conduct|Percentage of total staff|Capability|Percentage of total staff| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-08 |261 |0.3 |211 |0.2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2008-09 |172 |0.2 |313 |0.4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2009-102 |159 |0.2 |275 |0.3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Data are given from the inception of the Ministry of Justice2 Up to 31 January 2010| | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Departmental ICT Mr. Maude To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost has been of the Heavy Hitter Programme Delivery Director service deployed in his Department; on which IT projects each consultant contracted under that service worked; and what payments have been made to each such consultant for work undertaken in connection with the programme. Mr. Straw The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not deployed a Heavy Hitter service. Senior ICT appointments within the Ministry are agreed by the Chief Information Officer in conjunction with other senior management, as appropriate. The Ministry was established in May 2007 and prior to that responsibility for information technology rested with the predecessor Departments, including the Department for Constitutional Affairs, parts of the Home Office, and the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. In October 2005 an appointment was made (by the Home Office) under the Heavy Hitter service to the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Youth Justice Board (YJB), now an MoJ sponsored NDPB. The individual continued in the CIO role until November 2009 and since then has supported work to identify how information management flows can improve efficiency and public safety in the adult criminal justice system. The YJB (as employer) ends the contract on 31 March 2010. The costs incurred over the period October 2005 to March 2010, are £1,436,344.60. This includes agency fees, VAT and work related expenses. Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information technology projects initiated by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. Mr. Wills There have been no information technology projects cancelled prior to completion within the last 12 months. Departmental Languages Mr. Philip Hammond To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. Mr. Wills The Ministry does not provide coaching in foreign languages centrally, and does not hold any records on this matter. To obtain the information requested would involve identifying and contacting sources of information in many different locations and would therefore incur disproportionate cost. Departmental Marketing Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip Northwood of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 103W, on departmental marketing, how much his Department and agencies have spent on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to the (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain’s Future themed campaign to date. Mr. Wills The Ministry of Justice has not engaged in advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to Real Help Now and Building Britain’s Future themed campaigns. Driving Offences: Mobile Phones Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions there have been of people of each sex in each age group in (a) England and Wales, (b) Essex and (c) Southend for the offence of driving whilst using a hand-held mobile telephone since the creation of that offence. Claire Ward The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts for offences of using a hand held mobile telephone while driving, by sex and age group, in England and Wales and the Essex police force area, from 2004 (the offence came into force on 1 December 2003) to 2008 (latest available) is given in the following table. Court proceedings data are not available at town or parliamentary constituency level. Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010. 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|Aged 21 and over |429 |1,008|1,282|9,282 |22,800 | 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|Sub-total |445 |1,039|1,309|9,656 |23,649 | 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|Aged 20 and under |3 |3 |5 |70 |165 | 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|Aged 21 and over |34 |126 |137 |1,185 |3,179 | 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|Aged 20 and under |19 |34 |32 |444 |1,018 | 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|Aged 20 and under |2 |1 |— |14 |57 | 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|Aged 21 and over |3 |5 |7 |69 |274 | 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|Aged 20 and under |3 |1 |— |23 |67 | 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|1 Statute: Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986—R.110(1), R.110(2) and R.110(3). Introduced 1 December 2003.Offence description:R.110(1) use of a hand held mobile phone while driving;R.110(2) causing or permitting the use of a mobile phone while driving a motor vehicleR.110(3) using a mobile phone while supervising the holder of a provisional driving licence to drive a motor vehicle on the road.2 The figures given relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.3 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.4 Tough new penalties for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving and for failing to have proper control of a vehicle came into effect on 27 February 2007.5 Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008.6 The gender of a defendant proceeded against may not have been reported. These data have been included in the persons only totals. Therefore, the males and females age group totals and sub-totals may not agree with the totals given under personsSource:Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.| | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Immigrants Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff his Department, its predecessor Department and its agencies have appointed who were later discovered to be illegal immigrants since 2005. Mr. Wills People employed to work in Government Departments and their agencies, either directly or through a contractor, are required to satisfy requirements on identity, nationality and immigration status prior to the offer of employment. There has been one occasion within the last five years where compliance checks found an illegal immigrant to be working for the Ministry of Justice in 2007. The individual was subject to a criminal prosecution for using false identification documentation and given a prison sentence. Industrial Diseases: Compensation John Mann To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what discussions he has had with the Office for Legal Complaints on agreements made by the Legal Complaints Service with solicitors in respect of the repayment of fees related to work on compensation for miners. Bridget Prentice We are currently in the process of establishing the Office for Legal Complaints, which is on course to meet the timetable set by Parliament of becoming fully operational by late 2010. As part of this process, the OLC has been ensuring that it understands the landscape of the legal services market, including any possible areas which may generate significant amounts of complaints. The OLC has had discussions with the Law Society, Ministry of Justice and Department of Energy and Climate Change to make sure the lessons learnt from handling complaints such as coal health compensation claims benefit the new system of complaints handling, so that the new service is responsive to any demands that might be made of it. Under current proposals, the OLC will not be handling any complaints raised in the old system. As such, it will remain the responsibility of the LCS to ensure agreements made with solicitors in respect of miners’ compensation fees are met. The LCS has received a total of 6,454 complaints relating to deductions. As a result of action taken by the LCS, including the project to work with firms to contact former clients, a total of £5,078,652.47 has been paid to former miners. This work is ongoing and the figure will therefore increase. During the period in which the LCS is closing down, the Legal Services Board, as part of its responsibilities as the new oversight regulator of the legal sector, will be seeking to ensure that there is no detriment to consumers and the profession. The Ministry of Justice will seek regular updates from the LCS and LSB. The Government continue to support the work of the Law Society in their work to recover deductions not yet paid. Judges: Public Appointments Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many judges have been appointed in each year since 1997. Mr. Straw The number of salaried judges appointed in each calendar year since 1997 is as set out in the following table: ------------------------------- | |Courts|Tribunals| ------------------------------- |1997 |78 |8 | ------------------------------- |1998 |120 |18 | ------------------------------- |1999 |107 |68 | ------------------------------- |2000 |135 |25 | ------------------------------- |2001 |125 |21 | ------------------------------- |2002 |109 |61 | ------------------------------- |2003 |92 |59 | ------------------------------- |2004 |147 |43 | ------------------------------- |2005 |104 |17 | ------------------------------- |2006 |69 |17 | ------------------------------- |2007 |112 |41 | ------------------------------- |2008 |105 |13 | ------------------------------- |2009 |99 |65 | ------------------------------- |2010 to date|24 |12 | ------------------------------- Members: Correspondence Mr. Baron To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Billericay of 19 January 2010 on his constituent Mr Ron Capes. Claire Ward I replied to the hon. Member on 25 February. I apologise for the delay. National Offender Management Institute Chris Huhne To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent assessment he has made of the merits of establishing a National Offender Management Institute. Maria Eagle The Ministry of Justice keeps under regular review the arrangements for carrying out research on offender management. Our priority is to ensure that the research we commission provides good value for money and answers key questions about the most effective practice. We have received a number of proposals seeking funding for setting up an Offender Management Institute. We have assessed these and, while we believe they have some merit, we are not convinced that the time is right to change existing arrangements. Currently, a wide range of research on offender management is being carried out in different parts of the Department. National Offender Management Service Chris Huhne To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what mechanisms are in place to (a) evaluate the (i) effectiveness and (ii) cost-effectiveness of offender management interventions and (b) provide information on such evaluations. Claire Ward The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has three major longitudinal cohort studies under way aimed at generating evidence on the link between interventions received by offenders and reoffending outcomes. One covers adult prisoners, one adult offenders on community orders, and the other examines juvenile offenders. The MoJ is also overseeing the Unit Cost in Criminal Justice (UCCJ) project which is generating information on the costs of interventions targeted at adult and young offenders. When combined with evidence from the cohorts studies, this will enable the Ministry of Justice to develop further understanding of the cost-effectiveness of interventions. The findings from these projects will be published on the MoJ website as they become available. Initial results from the prisoner cohort study can be found on the MOJ website at: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/problems-needs-prisoners.htm National Offender Management Service: Finance John McDonnell To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the projected underspend in the National Offender Management Service’s budget is for 2009-10; and if he will make a statement. Maria Eagle At the end of January 2010, the National Offender Management Service forecast a resource ‘near cash’ year-end underspend of £18 million (0.4 per cent.) of its ‘near cash’ Resource budget of £4,003 million. Of this expected underspend, the majority is forecast to come from the change programme with the balance coming from business as usual activities. ‘Near cash’ resource is principally cash but also includes adjustments for goods and services received but for which invoices have not yet been paid. National Offender Management Service: Manpower John McDonnell To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people employed in the National Offender Management Service head office and regional offices (a) have a probation background, (b) have a prison background and (c) are career civil servants. Maria Eagle The prison and probation services operate within the framework of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Agency. For historical reasons the two services have different employment structures. Prison service staff are civil servants and are directly employed by the NOMS Agency. Probation service staff are not civil servants and are employed by a probation board or trust. Information on the career histories of National Offender Management Service Headquarters (NOMS) staff does not include National Probation Service (NPS) experience. It is therefore not possible to provide figures of how many NOMS headquarters staff have a NPS background. Career history information that is available shows that 1,776 NOMS headquarters staff have previous experience in Prison Service establishments and are considered to have a prison background, although not all would have worked with offenders. All NOMS headquarters staff other than those seconded from the NPS are civil servants. On 31 December 2009 there were 4,375 directly employed civil servants in national and regional offices and the Shared Service Centre. Offences Against Children Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer of 13 May 2009, Official Report, column 833W, on offences against children, what proportion of offenders aged 21 years or over convicted of offences related to sexual activity with a child under 13 received (a) immediate custody, (b) a suspended sentence, (c) a community sentence, (d) a fine, (e) a conditional or absolute discharge and (f) other treatment in 2008. Mr. Straw The requested information is shown in the following table. The proportion of those given various disposals is shown as a percentage of those sentenced. Data held by the Ministry of Justice record the age of the offender at the time of sentencing, the figures show all offenders aged over 21 and over at that point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |% Discharged|% Fined|% given community sentence|% given Suspended sentence|% given immediate custody|% Otherwise dealt with|Total persons sentenced| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |2008 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Familial sexual offences with a child under 13 |0.0 |0.0 |21.7 |4.3 |73.9 |0.0 |23 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Rape or attempted rape of a child under 13 |0.9 |0.0 |3.6 |0.0 |93.8 |1.8 |112 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Abuse of a position of trust - sexual activity with a child under 13 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |100.0 |0.0 |2 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sexual activity with a child under 13 |1.6 |0.0 |17.1 |10.1 |68.2 |3.1 |129 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Child prostitution offences - child under 13 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |100.0 |0.0 |2 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sexual assault of a female child under 13 |0.7 |0.3 |10.7 |8.0 |78.2 |2.1 |289 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sexual assault of a male child under 13 |0.0 |0.0 |22.7 |6.8 |65.9 |4.5 |44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |All above |0.8 |0.2 |12.0 |6.7 |78.0 |2.3 |601 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |1 Due to rounding rows may not sum to exactly 100 per cent.Notes:1. These data are based on the principal offence. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed; where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.2. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording systemSource:OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice| | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parliamentary Standards Authority Mr. Dai Davies To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what account the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority took of the level access for hon. Members to its offices when determining its permanent location. Mr. Straw The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is an independent body and the new location of the Authority is wholly a matter for them. Until a suitable mechanism is set up for answering parliamentary questions on the IPSA, the hon. Member may wish to contact IPSA directly. Police Cautions Mr. Burns To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cautions were issued in (a) Essex and (b) the Mid-Essex division of Essex constabulary area for (i) violence against the person, (ii) theft and handling stolen goods, (iii) sexual offences, (iv) criminal damage, (v) robbery and (vi) fraud and forgery in each year since 2005. Claire Ward The number of offenders issued with a caution for violence against the person, theft and handling stolen goods, sexual offences, criminal damage and robbery and fraud and forgery as reported by the Essex police force area, 2005 to 2008 (latest available) is shown in the following table. Court proceedings data are not available at separate divisions within a police force area. Data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010. 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|2008 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Violence against the person |1,342|2,754|3,127|645 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Sexual offences |40 |87 |67 |36 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Robbery |10 |26 |21 |2 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Theft and handling stolen goods |1,903|3,023|3,615|2,117| 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|284 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Criminal damage |40 |56 |63 |47 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 The cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence. 2 From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and warnings. These are included in the totals. 3 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services in the Ministry of Justice.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prison Accommodation Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of prison cells reckoned as (a) certified normal and (b) operational capacity accommodation in each of the next five years. Mr. Straw By the end of 2009 the total useable operational capacity of the prison estate was 85,986. The Government are currently planning to increase overall net capacity to 96,000 places by 2014. There are two substantial programmes to deliver new places, the Core Capacity Programme and the New Prisons Programme. The Core Capacity Programme aims to deliver 12,500 additional places by 2012 (for which 9,500 places had been announced prior to the Carter Report of December 2007). Places are being provided through the building of new prisons as well as expansions at existing ones and more effective use of the estate. The following table shows the approximate number of additional places currently planned for delivery between 2010 and 2012 under this programme (may be subject to change): ----------------------- | |Number of places| ----------------------- |2010|3,650 | ----------------------- |2011|1,400 | ----------------------- |2012|2,600 | ----------------------- In addition, under the New Prisons Programme it is intended to build up to five new prisons with a total of 7,500 places and, as part of this programme it is currently planned to close up to 5,500 worn out, inefficient places in the current estate. The Ministry of Justice does not hold official estimates for future useable operational capacity. Operational capacity figures will also be affected by the impact of maintenance programmes, which will vary over time. The precise numbers and delivery timings of new prison places will also depend on construction schedules and prioritisation within the prison estate. Prison Sentences Mr. Burns To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many indeterminate sentences for public protection handed down (a) between 14 July and 31 December 2008 and (b) in 2009 were given with tariffs of fewer than 24 months. Maria Eagle I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 9 February 2010, Official Report, columns 944-45W. Table 1 in that answer shows the number of offenders who have received an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP), if they are over 18 years of age, or a detention for public protection (DPP), if they are under 18 years of age, with a tariff of two years or less, as calculated from date of sentence to the date of tariff expiry. The figures shown are as notified to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) at 5 February 2010. The figures in that answer were taken from the Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD) in NOMS, and, as with any large scale recording system, it is subject to possible errors arising from either data entry or processing. The PPUD is a live database, updated on a regular basis. As a result, snapshots taken in consecutive days will contain differences reflecting updates. Mr. Burns To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection have been in prison three or more years beyond their tariff; and how many of those prisoners are in an open prison. Maria Eagle As at 4 March 2010, there were 95 of prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection who have been in prison three or more years beyond their tariff. Of these, 10 were in open conditions. These figures include those prisoners being held within the juvenile and female estates. The fact that a prisoner is held in custody past-tariff does not mean that he is being detained in custody unfairly. The tariff is the minimum period for punishment and deterrence which must be served before an indeterminate sentence prisoner may be considered for release. However, whether the Parole Board will direct the release of tariff-expired indeterminate sentence prisoners depends on whether the board determines that it is no longer necessary, on the grounds of public protection, for that offender to be detained in custody. The figures to answer each question were taken from the Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD) in the National Offender Management Service, and, as with any large scale recording system, it is subject to possible errors arising from either data entry or processing. The PPUD is a live database, updated on a regular basis. As a result, snapshots taken in consecutive days will contain differences reflecting updates. Prisoners Release Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the size of the prison population in each month up to the end of 2015 following ending of the End of Custody Licence Scheme. [Official Report, 30 March 2010, Vol. 508, c. 7MC.] Mr. Straw The Ministry of Justice produces annual projections of the prison population in England and Wales, most recently in August 2009. These project the prison population under three different scenarios, based on different assumptions about future sentencing trends. Other impacts included in the projections, such as those of legislation and processes, are applied equally to all scenarios. These cover the anticipated impacts of policy and process initiatives that have agreed implementation timetables. These assumptions and anticipated impacts have remained unchanged since 2008 projections. End of Custody Licence (ECL) was introduced on 29 June 2007. Under this scheme a prisoner who was given a determinate custodial sentence between four weeks and four years can be released on licence up to 18 days before the end of their sentence. Because there was no agreed timetable for its conclusion, its effect was included throughout the projection period. In the second half of 2009, the caseload of prisoners on ECL has been between 1,000 and 1,200: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/endofcustodylicence.htm The scheme ends on 12 March this year as was recently announced. As result of this, it is expected that by the end of March 2010, the prison population will be 1,000 to 1,200 higher than was anticipated in the current published prison population projections. This effect will carry on from March 2010 estimates onwards. Here are last year's projections plus 1,200: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |High |Medium|Low | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2010 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |86,000|85,400|84,700| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |86,200|85,600|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |86,200|85,500|84,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |86,900|86,100|85,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |July |87,800|86,900|85,900| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |August |87,600|86,700|85,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September |87,900|86,900|85,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October |88,000|86,900|85,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November |88,500|87,300|86,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December |86,800|85,600|84,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2011 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January |87,700|86,400|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |February |88,000|86,600|84,900| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |89,000|87,600|85,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |88,900|87,300|85,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |89,200|87,500|85,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |89,800|88,100|86,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |July |90,400|88,600|86,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |August |90,400|88,500|86,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September |90,500|88,600|86,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October |90,600|88,600|86,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November |90,800|88,700|86,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December |88,600|86,400|84,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2012 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January |89,700|87,500|85,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |February |90,600|88,300|85,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |90,800|88,500|85,900| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |90,900|88,500|85,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |91,200|88,700|85,900| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |91,400|88,900|86,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |July |91,900|89,200|86,300| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |August |91,800|89,100|86,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September |91,900|89,100|86,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October |91,900|89,100|86,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November |92,000|89,000|85,900| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December |88,500|86,700|83,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2013 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January |89,500|87,700|84,300| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |February |90,400|88,500|85,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |90,600|88,600|85,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |90,600|88,500|85,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |90,900|88,700|85,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |91,100|88,800|85,200| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |July |91,500|89,200|85,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |August |91,400|89,000|85,200| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September |91,500|89,000|85,100| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October |91,500|89,000|85,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November |91,600|89,000|85,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December |89,400|86,700|82,600| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2014 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January |90,500|87,700|83,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |February |91,400|88,600|84,300| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |91,700|88,800|84,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |91,800|88,800|84,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |92,000|89,000|84,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |92,400|89,200|84,700| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |July |92,800|89,600|85,000| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |August |92,800|89,500|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September |92,900|89,600|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |October |93,000|89,600|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |November |93,200|89,700|84,800| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |December |90,900|87,400|82,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2015 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January |92,000|88,400|83,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |February |93,000|89,300|84,200| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March |93,300|89,500|84,300| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |April |93,400|89,500|84,300| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |May |93,600|89,700|84,400| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |June |93,900|89,900|84,500| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note: These figures will be revised in this year (2010) publication.| | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More details on the projections may be found in the latest published bulletin, "Prison Population Projections 2009-15" Ministry of Justice Statistics Bulletin, 28 August 2009. This is available at the following web page: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/prisonpopulation.htm Prisoners Release: Poole Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders were released on the End of Custody Licence scheme in Poole in 2008-09. Claire Ward The home addresses for prisoners released on ECL are not recorded centrally and cannot be provided without manual checking of prisoner records which would breach cost limits. The total number of releases by offence group, sentence length, age, gender, ethnicity and prison establishment has been published on the Ministry of Justice website for the first week of the scheme, the remainder of July, and every subsequent month since then. However, there are no prisons in Poole so there are no ECL data to report. For the financial year 2008-09 the total number of prisoners released on ECL was 31,150. The monthly published figures can be found on separate links under the following main link: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/endofcustodylicence.htm Prisoners: Death Mr. Burns To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many deaths of prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection were recorded in each year since 2005; how many of those deaths were classified as self-classified as self-inflicted in each such year; and how many incidents of self-harm by prisoners serving such a sentence were recorded in each such year. Maria Eagle Indeterminate sentences for public protection (IPP) were introduced in 2005. Prisoners serving such sentences account for 6 per cent. of the average prison population. Since 2005 there have been a total of 13 self-inflicted deaths involving prisoners with IPP status. These numbers are detailed in the following tables: -------------------------------------------- |Type of death |2005|2006|2007|2008|2009| -------------------------------------------- |All deaths |174 |153 |186 |164 |168 | -------------------------------------------- |Homicide |3 |— |2 |3 |0 | -------------------------------------------- |Natural causes |88 |83 |92 |99 |105 | -------------------------------------------- |Self-inflicted |78 |67 |92 |60 |60 | -------------------------------------------- |Other non-natural|5 |3 |— |2 |3 | -------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------- |All IPP deaths |0 |2 |7 |9 |7 | -------------------------------------------- |Homicide |— |— |— |1 |— | -------------------------------------------- |Natural causes |— |— |3 |4 |4 | -------------------------------------------- |Self-inflicted |— |2 |4 |4 |3 | -------------------------------------------- ---------------- |Percentage | ---------------- | |2005|2006|2007|2008|2009| ---------------- |All IPP deaths|0|1|4|5|4| ---------------- |Homicide |—|—|—|33|—| ---------------- |Natural causes|—|—|3|4|4| ---------------- |Self-inflicted|—|3|4|7|5| ---------------- The number of self-harm incidents involving IPP sentenced prisoners is as follows: ------------------------------------------------------- | |2005 |2006 |2007 |2008 | ------------------------------------------------------- |Total population |75,979|78,127|80,216|83,194| ------------------------------------------------------- |Total self harm incidents|23,776|23,395|22,875|24,686| ------------------------------------------------------- |Total IPP population |24 |1,079 |2,859 |4,461 | ------------------------------------------------------- |IPP Self-harm incidents |59 |160 |267 |326 | ------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Percentage | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |2005|2006|2007|2008| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |IPP self-harm incidents as percentage of all self-harm |0.2|0.7|1.2|1.3| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |IPP population as percentage of total population |0.03|1.4|3.6|5.4| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Note: Figures for 2009 remain subject to verification and are not yet available.| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any death in prison custody is a tragic event. The Government, Ministry of Justice and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is committed to learning from such events and reducing the number of self-inflicted deaths in prison custody. NOMS has a broad, integrated and evidence-based prisoner suicide prevention and self-harm management strategy that seeks to reduce the distress of all those in prison. This encompasses a wide spectrum of prison and Department of Health work around such issues as mental health, substance misuse and resettlement. Any prisoner identified as at risk of suicide or self-harm is cared for using the Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork procedures. Prisoners: Reoffenders Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of all released prisoners were subsequently convicted for offences committed in the first 18 days after release in the last 12 months for which figures are available. Mr. Straw The data are provided from the 'Reoffending of Adults: Results from the 2007 cohort' publication, in which data are only based on the first quarter of each year. Figures for the total number of offenders cannot be aggregated up to full year figures because there is no evidence that the first quarter is representative of the full year. Of the 12,810 adult offenders who were discharged from custody in the first quarter of 2007, 1,113 (9 per cent.), reoffended within 18 days of release. These offenders were all discharged from custody before the End of Custody Licence (ECL) scheme began on 29 June 2007. Had the ECL scheme been in place at the time of release, only a proportion of these offenders would have been eligible to be released under the scheme. Data on alleged reoffending by prisoners on ECL are given separately in the monthly bulletins. Between the inception of the ECL scheme on 29 June 2007 and 31 December 2009 1,166 prisoners had allegedly reoffended while on ECL, 1.5 per cent. of the total released. Further information on the one year rates of reoffending can be found in http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingofadults.htm Further statistics relating to the End of Custody Licence scheme can be found in http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/endofcustodylicence.htm Rape: Sentencing Mr. Grieve To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many persons convicted of rape received (a) a determinate prison sentence, (b) a life sentence, (c) an indeterminate sentence for public protection and (d) any other disposal in each of the last five years; and what the average (i) determinate sentence length and (ii) tariff for (A) life and (B) indeterminate sentences was. Mr. Straw The requested information is shown in the following table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |2004|2005|2006|2007|2008| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a female under 16 | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |275 |233 |219 |236 |239 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |6 |6 |3 |3 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |267 |224 |215 |231 |233 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |1 |3 |1 |2 |3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |8.3 |8.0 |7.8 |9.0 |9.2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |16 |15 |15 |7 |14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |1 |11 |28 |21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a female 16 or over | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |325 |341 |383 |372 |381 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |2 |0 |1 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |1 |2 |1 |0 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |1 |0 |1 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |319 |333 |376 |368 |372 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |3 |4 |5 |3 |6 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |6.5 |6.9 |6.7 |6.5 |6.7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |34 |33 |40 |21 |10 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |8 |72 |94 |84 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a male under 16 | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |28 |32 |15 |23 |14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |4 |4 |1 |2 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |24 |28 |14 |20 |13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |0 |0 |0 |1 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |7.0 |7.0 |6.8 |7.4 |8.4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |2 |2 |5 |5 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |0 |2 |3 |4 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a male 16 or over | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |10 |15 |20 |16 |12 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |10 |14 |19 |16 |11 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |0 |1 |1 |0 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |8.4 |5.8 |6.4 |8.3 |6.3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |2 |0 |1 |1 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |2 |5 |6 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a female child under 13 by a male | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |5 |58 |85 |91 |141 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |0 |1 |1 |3 |1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |1 |9 |16 |10 |13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |1 |0 |4 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |4 |45 |67 |73 |124 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |0 |2 |1 |1 |3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |4.8 |4.9 |6.3 |6.1 |8.1 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |0 |4 |2 |2 |3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |0 |19 |14 |29 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rape of a male child under 13 by a male | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total sentenced |1 |14 |32 |38 |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Discharged |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Fined |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Community sentence |1 |4 |11 |8 |9 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Suspended sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Immediate Custody |0 |10 |19 |28 |22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Otherwise dealt with |0 |0 |2 |2 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Average custodial sentence length (years)1 |— |4.2 |4.0 |4.2 |6.2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Life sentence |0 |0 |3 |1 |2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Indeterminate sentence for public protection |— |0 |3 |9 |7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Average custodial sentence length (years) excludes life/indeterminate sentences.Notes:1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.2. These data have been taken from the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database. These data are presented on the principal offence basis. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe.Source:Justice Statistics—Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice| | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ |Sentence date|Total|Average tariff years| ------------------------------------------ |2005 |19 |3.6 | ------------------------------------------ |2006 |147 |3.9 | ------------------------------------------ |2007 |190 |4.4 | ------------------------------------------ |2008 |163 |4.5 | ------------------------------------------ |2009 |157 |5.1 | ------------------------------------------ |Totals |676 |4.3 | ------------------------------------------ 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|Sentence date |Total|Average tariff years| 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|2004 |62 |6.3 | 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|2005 |61 |5.7 | 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|2006 |69 |6.2 | 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|2007 |47 |6.6 | 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|2008 |27 |7.7 | 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|2009 |17 |7.3 | 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|Totals |283 |6.6 | 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|1 Indeterminate sentences for public protection introduced from 2005.Notes:1. There were a total of 959 sentences of Rape Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, Rape (section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956) and Rape of a Child Under 13 (section 5 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003) reported to NOMS and recorded on PPUD from the period 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2009.2. There are a total of eight tariffs unavailable because they have not been set yet, the warrant is not available or the offender received a whole life tariff. These relate to four IPPs and four life sentenced prisoners.3. These are included in figures to show how many were sentenced in each financial year but have been removed for the purpose of the tariff calculation.4. The figures were taken from the Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD) in the National Offender Management Service, and, as with any large scale recording system, it is subject to possible errors arising from either data entry or processing. The PPUD is a live database, updated on a regular basis. As a result, snapshots taken in consecutive days will contain differences reflecting updates.| | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robbery: Poole Mr. Syms To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each age group in Poole were convicted of robbery in each year since 1997. Claire Ward Information showing the number of persons found guilty of robbery in the Dorset police force area, by age group, from 1997 to 2008 (latest available) is shown in the following table. Court proceedings data are not available at parliamentary constituency level, therefore data have been provided in the table for the Dorset police force area in which the constituency of Poole is situated. Data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010. 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|Persons |1997|1998|1999|2000|2001|2002|2003|2004|2005|2006|2007|2008| 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|10 to 17 |6 |10 |7 |16 |7 |17 |8 |9 |7 |15 |6 |9 | 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|18 to 20 |5 |5 |5 |6 |4 |10 |11 |6 |8 |7 |6 |7 | 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|21 and over |12 |22 |15 |17 |15 |27 |25 |22 |15 |18 |16 |21 | 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|Total |23 |37 |27 |39 |26 |54 |44 |37 |30 |40 |28 |37 | 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|1 Includes robbery and assaults with intent to rob under the Theft Act 1968 S.8. 2 The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. 3 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services - Ministry of Justice.| | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home Department 62 South Eaton Place Mr. Stewart Jackson To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the evidence given to the Home Affairs Select Committee by Mr. Sebastian Conran, Home Office Design and Technology Alliance on 2 February 2010, if he will commission a home security assessment to include in the home information pack for the sale of the Government House, South Eaton Place. Mr. Woolas There is no requirement for a home security assessment to be included in a home information pack. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Dr. Evan Harris To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of completed applications for representation on form EEA1 were dealt with within service standards in each month since January 2009. Mr. Woolas The percentage (rounded to the nearest whole number) of complete EEA applications decided within the service standard for each month since January 2009 was as follows: January 2009: 5 per cent. February 2009: 4 per cent. March 2009: 4 per cent. April 2009: 12 per cent. May 2009: 33 per cent. June 2009: 91 per cent. July 2009: 82 per cent. August 2: 79 per cent. September 2009: 33 per cent. October 2009: 46 per cent. November 2009: 46 per cent. December 2009: 56 per cent. Please note that these are not national statistics. It should be noted that UKBA's Case Information Database does not differentiate between single EEA1 applications and those linked to a related EEA2 (family member) application, the figures above include all linked EEA2 cases. Alcoholic Drinks: Young People Chris Grayling To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of those convicted of an offence of selling alcohol to a minor received (a) a fine, (b) a community sentence, (c) a custodial sentence and (d) an alternative punishment in England and Wales in each year since 1998; and what the (i) lowest, (ii) highest and (iii) average fine was in each such year. Alan Johnson The disposals for those convicted of an offence selling alcohol to a minor are set out within Table 1. The average, maximum and minimum fines in relation to sales to a minor are set out in Table 2. 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| |1998|1999|2000|2001|2002|2003|2004|2005|2006|2007 |2008| 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|Sale of alcohol to person under 181 | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Total sentenced |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |15 |21 |317 |479 |320 | 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|Discharge |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2 |4 |36 |50 |27 | 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|Fine |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |13 |17 |278 |425 |287 | 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|Community sentence |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0 |0 |0 |4 |0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0 |0 |3 |0 |6 | 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|Proportion | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Discharge |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |13.3|19.0|11.4|10.4 |8.4 | 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|Fine |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |86.7|81.0|87.7|88.7 |89.7| 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|Community sentence |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.8 |0.0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0.0 |0.0 |0.9 |0.0 |1.9 | 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|Allowing sale of alcohol to person under 183 | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Total sentenced |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0 |0 |11 |6 |16 | 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|Discharge |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |1 |0 |2 | 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|Fine |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |10 |6 |14 | 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|Community sentence |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0 |0 |0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0 |0 |0 | 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|Proportion | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Discharge |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |9.1 |0.0 |12.5| 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|Fine |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |90.9|100.0|87.5| 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|Community sentence |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |2— |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 | 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|Selling etc. intoxicating liquor to persons under 18 for consumption on the premises4,5 | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Total sentenced |157 |115 |56 |53 |105 |416 |590 |742 |526 |40 |23 | 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|Discharge |28 |20 |10 |11 |25 |62 |65 |77 |85 |3 |0 | 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|Fine |129 |95 |46 |42 |80 |353 |519 |662 |438 |37 |21 | 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|Community sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |1 |6 |3 |3 |0 |2 | 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|Proportion | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Discharge |17.8|17.4|17.9|20.8|23.8|14.9|11.0|10.4|16.2|7.5 |0.0 | 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|Fine |82.2|82.6|82.1|79.2|76.2|84.9|88.0|89.2|83.3|92.5 |91.3| 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|Community sentence |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.2 |1.0 |0.4 |0.6 |0.0 |8.7 | 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|Wholesaler selling intoxicating liquor to a person under 186 | | | | | | | | | | | | 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|Total sentenced |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 |3 |3 |9 |0 |0 |0 | 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|Discharge |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |3 |1 |3 |0 |0 |0 | 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|Fine |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |2 |6 |0 |0 |0 | 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|Community sentence |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | 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|Otherwise dealt with |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------