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Departmental Staff (Working Hours)
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many persons in her Department worked in excess for 48 hours per week in any of the last 52 weeks; and what percentage of the staff employed this represents. [21582]
Mr. Sproat: The number of staff recorded as being paid for overtime which took their hours worked to over 48 hours in a week is 65, which represents 18 per cent. of the Department's staff.
No records are held centrally, however, of the hours worked either by senior staff not eligible for paid overtime or other staff who choose not to claim overtime, or those on flexible working schemes.
Sports Grounds (Taylor Report)
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what estimate she has made of the total cost of implementing the Taylor committee's recommendations on safety in sports grounds over the period 1990 to 2000. [21223]
Mr. Sproat: From 1990 to the end of 1994-95, it is estimated that around £400 million was committed to implementing improvements at league football grounds related to the recommendations of the Taylor report into the Hillsborough disaster. In 1993, it was estimated that, between 1995-96 and 1999-2000, a further £295 million would be needed to complete this work. The latest estimate by the Football Trust is that likely costs will be £358 million. To date, the Football Trust has contributed some £135 million towards the league clubs' costs, funded from a special 2.5 per cent. reduction in pool betting duty that will continue until 2000. A further 0.5 per cent. reduction in pool betting duty was announced in the last Budget, effective from May 1996, which it is estimated will generate an extra £2.5 million to £3 million a year for the Football Trust to grant aid Taylor-related works.
Princess of Wales (Accommodation)
Mr. Alan Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage, pursuant to his answer of 12 March, Official Report, column 557, what the Princess of Wales's apartment consists of; what her staff's accommodation consists of; and what accommodation is available in other occupied royal palaces for the princess and her staff. [21360]
Mr. Sproat: Her Royal Highness's apartment at Kensington palace comprises five reception rooms, three principal bedrooms and bathrooms and three ancillary rooms, together with nine staff bedrooms, four bathrooms and shower rooms, five general staff rooms, three offices, and kitchen and utility areas.
Self-contained residential accommodation for Her Royal Highness's staff comprises one flat with a kitchen, bathroom living room and three bedrooms and one flat with a kitchen, bathroom, living room and one bedroom.
The Princess of Wales and her staff have no residential accommodation on the occupied royal palaces estate other than that referred to.
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Mr. Alan Williams:
To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage, pursuant to his answer of 12 March, Official Report, column 557, what the Prince of Wales's apartment consists of; what non-self-contained residential accommodation is available for His Royal Highness's staff; and what accommodation is available in other occupied royal palaces for His Royal Highness and his staff. [21361]
Mr. Sproat:
His Royal Highness's apartment in St. James's palace comprises three reception rooms, one principle bedroom and two staff bedrooms, together with ancillary accommodation.
Accommodation for His Royal Highness's staff comprises three flats and one house at Kensington palace. Two flats have one bedroom and one reception room and one has one bedroom and two reception rooms. The house has four bedrooms, three reception rooms and ancillary rooms.
The Prince of Wales and his staff have no residential accommodation on the occupied royal estate other than that referred to.
Dr. John Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many works of art from the Government art collection are currently on loan to each Government Department or office. [20564]
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley:
The figures given relate to the core holding only. All works on loan to the Government art collection from public and private collections, all works owned by other Government Departments which the GAC includes on its computerised database to facilitate their administration and care, all works currently on public display in exhibitions and all reproductions are excluded. So too are all works at GAC headquarters--these include works in temporary storage during Government rebuilding projects, works awaiting conservation, photography or framing, works reserved pending transport and installation, as well as those available for reselection. Excluding works in those categories, the current figures for loans to Government Departments and offices from the Government art collection are as follows:
| Number | |
|---|---|
| Agriculture and Food Council | 2 |
| British Library | 1 |
| Cabinet Office | 102 |
| Central Statistical Office | 7 |
| Charity Commission | 2 |
| Civil Service Commission | 1 |
| Commonwealth Secretariat | 32 |
| Crown Estate Office | 8 |
| Customs and Excise | 21 |
| Department for Education and Employment | 82 |
| Department of the Environment | 91 |
| Department of Health | 78 |
| Department of National Heritage | 154 |
| Department of Social Security | 67 |
| Department of Trade and Industry | 97 |
| Department of Transport | 47 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | 3 |
| English Heritage | 1 |
| Foreign Office: 284 Locations Abroad | 4,722 |
| Foreign Office: UK Locations | 463 |
| Government Actuary's Department | 1 |
| Government Conference Centre: Lancaster House | 29 |
| Government Hospitality | 9 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury | 189 |
| Her Majesty's Treasury: Location Abroad | 6 |
| High Court of Justiciary | 42 |
| Historic Royal Palaces | 66 |
| Home Office | 101 |
| Inland Revenue | 17 |
| Land Registry | 1 |
| Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers | 28 |
| Lord Advocate's Department | 17 |
| Lord Chancellor's Department | 592 |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | 41 |
| Ministry of Defence | 267 |
| Ministry of Defence: Locations Abroad | 118 |
| Monopolies and Mergers Commission | 24 |
| Museums and Galleries Commission | 10 |
| National Audit Office | 16 |
| National Gallery | 1 |
| National Heritage Memorial Fund | 7 |
| National Investment and Loans Office | 1 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 116 |
| Office of Fair Trading | 4 |
| Office of the National Lottery | 5 |
| Office of Population Censuses and Surveys | 5 |
| Office of Public Service and Science | 12 |
| Office for Standards in Education | 7 |
| Office of Telecommunications | 5 |
| Office of Water Service | 5 |
| Overseas Development Administration | 18 |
| Palace of Westminster | 6 |
| Patent Office | 1 |
| Parliamentary Commissioners | 7 |
| Parliamentary Council | 28 |
| Prime Minister's Office | 164 |
| Privy Council Office | 48 |
| Property Holdings: Admiralty House | 4 |
| Public Record Office | 10 |
| Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre | 16 |
| Royal Armouries | 4 |
| Royal Fine Arts Commission | 3 |
| Register of Friendly Societies | 8 |
| Royal Hospital | 14 |
| Royal Mint | 8 |
| Scottish Courts Administration | 4 |
| Special Commissioners of Income Tax | 2 |
| Scottish Home and Health Department | 5 |
| Scottish Land Court and Lands Tribunal | 8 |
| Scottish Office | 37 |
| Council on Tribunals | 5 |
| Treasury Solicitors' Department | 7 |
| Government Whips' Office | 28 |
| Welsh Office | 79 |
| Total | 8,237 |
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Dr. Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage (1) if she will list by Government Department or office how many works of art on loan from the Government art collection are considered to have been (a) missing and (b) stolen for (i) less than five years and (ii) more than five years; [20562]
- (2) if she will list by Government Department or office the number of works of art on loan from the Government art collection that are considered to be (a) missing and (b) stolen. [20563]
Mrs. Bottomley: The Government art collection, under different aliases, has existed since 1898 but it was not until after the second world war that a retrospective, and necessarily inaccurate, manual record of accessions was created. The first project to computerise the accession records and the current locations of works began in 1981. Given the distribution of the collection in, at the peak, around 600 different buildings in 300 cities across the world, computerisation was not completed until 1993. Tracing the consecutive history of individual works throughout the century, using inconsistent and incomplete manual records, has not always been possible and the fate of some may never be established. Thus, numerical accounts of works which have been long lost can only be approximate in that they reflect records which cannot be reconciled rather than actual lost works.
| Government department | Missing | Missing | Stolen | Stolen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defunct organisations in square brackets | 1991-96 | 1898-1991 | 1991-96 | 1898-1991 |
| [British Maritime Technology] | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Cabinet Office | 1 | 5 | - | -- |
| Civil Service Commission | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Crown Prosecution Service | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Customs and Excise | -- | 18 | -- | -- |
| [Department of Education and Science] | -- | 6 | -- | -- |
| [Department for Employment] | -- | 4 | -- | -- |
| [Department of Energy] | -- | 4 | -- | 1 |
| Department of the Environment | 1 | 48 | -- | 4 |
| [Department of Health and Social Security] | -- | 18 | -- | -- |
| Department of Trade and Industry | -- | 22 | -- | -- |
| Department of Transport | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Foreign Office Abroad: 356 buildings | 10 | 196 | 1 | 1 |
| Emergency evacuations of Embassies | 6 | -- | -- | -- |
| In transit and at contractors abroad | -- | -- | -- | 20 |
| Foreign Office UK | -- | 14 | 3 | -- |
| Her Majesty's Stationery Office | -- | 5 | -- | -- |
| Her Majesty's Treasury | -- | 7 | -- | -- |
| Home Office | 3 | 9 | -- | -- |
| Inland Revenue | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Lord Chancellor's Department | 2 | 9 | -- | 9 |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | -- | 4 | 1 | -- |
| Ministry of Defence UK | 2 | 53 | 1 | 12 |
| Ministry of Defence abroad | 2 | 6 | -- | 5 |
| Northern Ireland Office | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Overseas Development Administration | -- | 3 | -- | -- |
| [Property Services Agency] | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre | -- | -- | 4 | -- |
| Scottish Home and Health Department | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Department Unknown | -- | 3 | -- | -- |
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