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Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number and value of access fund allocations made by education and library boards and higher education institutions since their introduction. [37211]
Mr. Ancram: The information requested is given in the table.
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1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | ||||||
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Number | Expenditure | Number | Expenditure | Number | Expenditure | Number | Expenditure | Number | Expenditure | |
£000 | £000 | £000 | £000 | £000 | ||||||
Institution/ Board | Academic year | Financial year(32) | Academic year | Financial year(32) | Academic year | Financial year(32) | Academic year | Financial year(32) | Academic year | Financial year(32) |
Queen's University | 2,230 | 173 | 2,196 | 191 | 1,964 | 186 | 1,882 | 228 | 1,807 | 229 |
University of Ulster | 1,185 | 150 | 1,583 | 151 | 1,252 | 152 | 1,575 | 193 | 1,727 | 215 |
Stranmillis College | 6 | 4 | 48 | 12 | 81 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 38 | 9 |
St. Mary's College | 153 | 14 | 269 | 23 | 350 | 23 | 52 | 15 | 50 | 14 |
Belfast Board | 79 | 24 | 154 | 85 | 135 | 77 | 160 | 81 | 161 | 88 |
North-Eastern Board | 25 | 8 | 93 | 35 | 103 | 52 | 163 | 59 | 141 | 74 |
Southern Board | 67 | 25 | 182 | 55 | n/a(33) | 65 | 35 | 72 | 153 | 91 |
South-Eastern Board | 32 | 23 | 79 | 48 | 43 | 38 | 106 | 47 | 110 | 75 |
Western Board | 175 | 28 | 209 | 59 | 181 | 62 | 343 | 68 | 215 | 83 |
(32) Figures for universities and colleges relate to their financial year i.e. August to July while figures for boards relate to the Government financial year.
(33) The records are not available.
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Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a list showing the number, nature and value of contracts award by his Department to Coopers and Lybrand, KPMG, Price Waterhouse, Ernst and Young, Deloitte and Touche, Arthur Andersen, Grant Thornton, BDO Stoy Hayward, Pannel Kerr Forster, and Robson Rhodes and their subsidiaries and associates, during 1995 and 1996. [37322]
Sir John Wheeler: The total value of contracts awarded by the Northern Ireland Office and the Departments of Economic Development, of Education, of the Environment and of Finance and Personnel to all the companies listed and their subsidiaries and associates in 1995-96 was £1,962,095. The information is not available in the form requested in the Departments of Agriculture and of Health and Social Services. However, these Departments paid £474,326 to these companies and their subsidiaries in 1995-96. The value of contracts awarded and payments made to individual companies cannot be provided for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
Company | Number | Nature of contracts |
---|---|---|
Coopers and Lybrand | 53 | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | ||
Information and Control systems | ||
Evaluation Projects | ||
Training | ||
Project Research/Review | ||
Investment Appraisal | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
KPMG | 9 | Management Consultancy |
Projects | ||
Surveys | ||
Market Testing | ||
Marketing | ||
Price Waterhouse | 12 | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | ||
Production Management | ||
Ernst and Young | 7 | Financial Appraisal |
Deloitte and Touche (including Touche Ross) | 23 | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | ||
Evaluation Projects | ||
Investment Appraisal | ||
Market Testing | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
BDO Stoy Hayward | 4 | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | ||
Market Testing | ||
Pannel Kerr Forster | 1 | Prior Options Study |
Information on the number of contracts awarded in the Department of Health and Social Services is not available. However, the nature of contracts awarded is as follows:
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Company | Nature of Contracts |
---|---|
Coopers and Lybrand | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | |
Project Research | |
KPMG | Financial Consultancy |
Price Waterhouse | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | |
Evaluation Projects | |
VFM study | |
Ernst and Young | Financial Consultancy |
Deloitte and Touche (including Touche Ross) | Management Consultancy |
Financial Consultancy | |
Evaluation Projects |
Arthur Andersen, Grant Thornton and Robson Rhodes were not awarded any contracts.
Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the current annual expenditure by (a) Department of Education and (b) each other education administrative body in Northern Ireland; and what percentage this constitutes of expenditure on education. [37219]
Mr. Ancram: The administrative and other running costs are as follows:
1996-97 | |
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£(000) | |
DENI | 16,047 |
Council for Catholic Maintained Schools | 1,450 |
Education and Library Board: | |
Belfast | 3,935 |
North-Eastern | 5,239 |
South-Eastern | 3,897 |
Southern | 4,312 |
Western | 3,775 |
NI Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment | 1,751 |
NI Council for Integrated Education | 378 |
Staff Commission for Education and Library Boards | 194 |
40,978 |
This represents 2.92 per cent. of overall expenditure on the relevant areas of education. The figures given are estimates for the 1996-97 financial year and those for the education and library boards exclude the costs of earmarked initiatives which formerly were included as part of headquarters administration costs and which in 1994-95 amounted to £4.1 million. The administrative costs of DENI relate not only to the services provided by the other bodies listed but to higher education, the museum service, the arts and sport.
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Mr. William Ross:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the next NFFO order is due to be published. [38619]
Mr. Ancram:
Consideration of the composition of a second non-fossil fuel obligation order is nearing completion. An announcement is likely to follow within the next two weeks.
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Mr. Worthington:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list student loan take-up rates in Northern Ireland since their introduction expressed by institution, sex, and age group. [37214]
Mr. Ancram:
Available information is given in the table. Information by sex and age could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Institution | 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 |
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Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education | 19 | 35.5 | 61.25 | 78.3 | 100 |
East Antrim Institute of Higher and Further Education(34) | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 20 |
Fermanagh College | Nil | Nil | 20 | 5 | 40 |
Greenmount College of Agriculture | Nil | 6 | 14 | 10 | 24 |
Lisburn College | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 25 |
Loughrey College of Agriculture and Food Technology | 8 | 12 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
Newry and Kilkeel College of Further and Higher Education | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 70 |
North-Down and Ards Institute of Further and Higher Education | 6 | Nil | 25.0 | 32.5 | 100 |
North-East Institute of Further and Higher Education(35) | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | 90 |
Northern Ireland Hotel and Catering College, Portrush | 2 | 2 | 12.5 | 14.3 | 29.3 |
North-West Institute of Further and Higher Education | 22 | 26 | 12 | 14.6 | 19.2 |
Portadown College(36) | 8 | 16 | 24 | 30 | 20 |
Queen's University, Belfast | 22.8 | 34 | 42.9 | 49.6 | 55 |
St. Mary's College, Belfast | 7.8 | 24 | 35.7 | 44.6 | 49.9 |
Stranmillis College, Belfast | 7.6 | 10.6 | 14.1 | 20.4 | 25.6 |
University of Ulster | 21.3 | 30.6 | 37.1 | 37.8 | 54.8 |
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Mr. Robert McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the offences in Northern Ireland law which are analogous to those covered by the proposals on address registration in the Home Office consultation paper "Sentencing and Supervision of Sex Offenders"; how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted of those offences over the last three years; of those how many received a custodial sentence; and of those so gaoled, how many were convicted of crimes which did not involve minors and an absence of consent. [36661]
Sir John Wheeler: I have placed in the Library a list of Northern Ireland sexual offences, analogous to those included at annexe A of the Home Office consultation paper "Sentencing and Supervision of Sex Offenders".
Total convicted of sex offences | Total given immediate custody | |
---|---|---|
1993 | 125 | 65 |
1994 | 147 | 61 |
1995 | 179 | 77 |
Total | 451 | 203 |
(34) The statistics relate to convictions where the sex offence was the principal offence.
Statistics are not collated on those convicted of crimes which do not involve minors and an absence of consent and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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