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Nigerian Citizens

Mr. Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Nigerian citizens have been compulsorily returned to Nigeria since November 1995, and what reports he has received of their present situation. [40283]

Mr. Kirkhope: The statistics available relate to the total number of Nigerian citizens removed from the United Kingdom to all countries. Some 350 Nigerians were refused leave to enter and removed from the United Kingdom in the period November 1995 to July 1996. In addition, 290 Nigerians were removed as illegal entrants or persons subject to deportation action; this figure includes persons who departed voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated. I have received no reports of their present situation.

Casinos

Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many registered casinos there are in England and Wales; and if he will list them. [40117]

Mr. Kirkhope: On March 31 1996, there were 107 licensed casinos in England and Wales. They were, by area:


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Internet

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures his Department is taking to outlaw the downloading and publication of obscene material from the Internet which would be illegal if produced in printed form. [40548]

Mr. Sackville: I will write to the hon. Member.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER

Millennium Exhibition

Mr. Dowd: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the companies which have so far stated their intention to contribute to the millennium site. [40198]

The Deputy Prime Minister: The companies which have so far publicly stated their intention to contribute to sponsorship of the millennium exhibition are Abbey National, Amec, BAA, Barclays bank, British Aerospace, British Airways, British Telecommunications, BSkyB, British Petroleum, General Electric Company, Hanson Energy, Lloyds bank, London Electricity, Marks and Spencer, Midland bank, National Westminster bank, Reuters and Siemens. The Corporation of London has also pledged support.

Ministerial Accommodation

Mr. Allen: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what nursery accommodation is available to Her Majesty's Ministers in their Departments. [40265]

The Deputy Prime Minister: Departments and agencies have delegated responsibility to establish nursery and childcare schemes for children of civil servants. Departments wishing to establish a workplace nursery must be able to justify it in terms of value for money and contain the cost within existing running costs. Parents

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wishing to use any of these schemes are normally required to make a contribution to the costs, comparable to private sector schemes.

Ministers of the Crown are able to make use of a departmental nursery on the same basis as civil servants.

Nationally, 53 civil service nurseries have been established and 120 holiday play schemes run during school holidays. In addition, the civil service is in partnership with other organisations in 23 nurseries and buys places in 16 others.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Publicity

Ms Hodge: To ask the Attorney-General what is his Department's budget in 1996-97 for consultants to assist with information, publicity, press and media, specifying separately the Solicitor-General's staff. [39347]

The Attorney-General: No separate budget is held for this purpose.

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Ms Hodge: To ask the Attorney-General (1) what is the cost budgeted for staff employed full time or part time to provide information and publicity in 1996-97 in his Department and that of the Solicitor-General; [39446]

The Attorney-General: The information is shown in the table.

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1993-941994-951995-961996-97
Crown Prosecution ServiceNot available (7+1 part-time)£283,800 (10+1 part-time)£288,800 (11+1 part-time)£277,700 (11+1 part-time)
Serious Fraud Office£69,000 (3)£79,500 (4+2 part-time)£80,000 (4+1 part-time)£93,000 (4)
Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers(10) Treasury Solicitor's Department------£14,800 (1)
Government Property Lawyers--------

Figures before the brackets indicate the costs

(7) of staff engaged in providing information, publicity, press and media services.

(8) Figures in brackets indicate the numbers of staff so engaged.

(9)

(10) These figures comprise salary, superannuation (estimated where precise figure is unknown), ERNIC payments and allowances. CPS costs for 1993-94 are not available.

(11) It is not possible to distinguish between these categories of services since in practice they overlap and are provided by the same staff.

(12) These figures do not include staff providing these services incidentally to, or inseparably from, other functions.

(13) No separate costs are incurred in relation to the Solicitor-General.

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