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Rural Development Grants
Mr. Livsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many Round 7 EAGGF Objective 5b rural development grants have to date received matched funding. [76302]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is currently considering applications for Round 7 EAGGF Objective 5B rural development grants. Applicants will be notified shortly of decisions on their bids.
In future, following the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.
Mr. Livsey:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales on what date (i) the Welsh Office Internal Review will be completed and (ii) rural development grants will be allocated. [76303]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones:
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is currently considering the allocation of Rural Development Grants. Applicants will be notified of the decisions on their bids shortly.
In future, following the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.
Mr. Livsey:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money has been allocated in rural development grants in each of the last four years. [76304]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones:
The rural development grant scheme started in the financial year 1996-97, since when £2.345m has been allocated to match projects funded
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under Rounds 1 to 6 of the EAGGF Objective 5b programme. The allocations for each of the years to date are:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Financial year | Allocation |
| 1996-97 | 911,353 |
| 1997-98 | 1,209,668 |
| 1998-99 | (3)224,184 |
(3) These projects were submitted under Round 6 and were given conditional approval in 1997-98.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has completed his consideration of the applications for Round 7 EAGGF Objective 5B rural development grants and applicants will be notified shortly of decisions on their bids.
In future, following the transfer of functions, this issue will be a matter for the National Assembly.
Foreign Workers (Rights)
Mr. Alan Simpson: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department what plans he has to introduce legislation restricting the rights of foreign workers to sue their employers in British courts; and what assessment he has made of the implications of such legislation in respect of trade and human rights obligations. [76998]
Mr. Hoon: The Government have no plans to introduce legislation restricting the rights of foreign workers to sue in the British courts.
Cabinet Office Expenditure
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to his answer of 17 December 1998, Official Report, columns 724-24, if he will list the expenditure not included in his answer incurred by (a) his agencies and non-departmental public bodies and (b) the Central Office of Information for relevant work carried out for his Department. [71030]
Mr. Hoon [holding answer 15 February 1999]: The information sought regarding the expenditure incurred by my agencies and non-departmental bodies is in the table.
On behalf of my Department, £422,000 has been expended with the Central Office of Information for the production of a lay magistrates' recruitment campaign which began on 15 March 1999. This sum included national media placement in newspapers and magazines.
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Publications and publicity expenditure agencies and non-departmental bodies
(1) The Court Service
(a) Nil
(b) This amount could only be provided at a disproportionate cost as staff recruitment is carried out within local budgets and therefore the overall cost is not readily available.
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil
(2) The Northern Ireland Court Service
(a) £10,000 (public opinion research)
(b) £14,844 (primarily staff recruitment--newspaper advertising)
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil
(3) The Public Trust Office
(a) £2,922 (public opinion survey on Charter standards)
(b) £6,874 (staff recruitment--newspaper advertising)
(c) Nil
(d) £68,823--see table
(e) Nil.
| Department | £ |
|---|---|
| Protection Division | |
| Printing of booklets (includes Handbook for Receivers, EPA booklet, Fees, Duties of Reciever etc) | 28,300.10 |
| Newsletter | 15,195.00 |
| 43,495.10 | |
| Receivership Division | |
| Printing of booklets (includes Charter Statement, Information for Nursing Homes etc) | 2,500 |
| 2,500 | |
| Trust Division | |
| Printing of Charter Statements | 2,063 |
| 2,063 | |
| Court Funds Office | |
| Printing of Charter Statements and Newsletter | 3,695 |
| 3,695 | |
| Corporate Publications | |
| Printing of Annual Report, Business Plan, Corporate Plan and How to Complain Leaflet | 12,069 |
| 12,069 | |
| Total | 63,823 |
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(4) The Public Record Office
(a) Nil
(b) £178,000 (of which £177,200 was expended for staff recruitment)
(c) £220 (mailing labels)
(d) £13,000
'Preserving our Common Past for our Children's Future' (£5,000)
Readers' Bulletin (£6,000)
Education leaflet (£2,000)
(e) Nil
(5) Her Majesty's Land Registry
(a) Nil
(b) £97,657 for newspaper advertising (of which £61,000 relates to staff recruitment)
(c) £9,988
(d) £328,800 (including exhibitions and video production)
(e) £38,640. A breakdown per item could only be provided at a disproportionate cost. However, £24,128 relates to the design and printing of literature (included in (d)) and £4,955 relates to advertising placed through the COI (included in (b)).
(6) The Legal Aid Board
(a) £11,197
public awareness survey of legal aid and of LAB franchising (£7,197)
survey of legal aid practitioners re: services provided by LAB (£4,000)
(b) £513,635
staff recruitment--newspaper (£481,937)
staff recruitment--radio (£868)
Franchising freephone number (£30,830)
(c) Nil
(d) £399,187 (see below)
(e) £2,177--for displaying legal aid information on videotaxt screens and the Internet.
Publicity expenditure £
General 1,196
Press Cuttings 3,878
Duty Solicitor Newsletter 868
Focus Newsletter to legal aid Practitioners (seven issues) 115,032
Leaflets/Posters:
'How to get free or low cost legal help'
'A practical guide to legal aid' 141,304
'Criminal legal aid at the police station and in court'
'What happens next?' leaflet 7,998
'Customer care--Legal Aid Board' leaflet 2,564
'Paying back the Legal Aid Board--the Statutory Charge' 3,429
'If you need this [LAB logo] look for this [franchising logo]' 36,017
Design of franchising logo 876
Posters and leaflets advertising the clinical negligence exclusive franchise launch 33,462
'Mediation--reaching agreements over divorce and separation' leaflet and poster 15,051
Conferences--national mediation launch 14,000
Regional Legal Services Committees--shaping the future of legal aid' 5,969
RLSC information pack 12,518
'Representations--what we do when you think legal aid should not be granted' leaflet 2,008
Duty Solicitors posters 3,017
Total 399,187
(7) The Law Commission
(a) £3,685 (public opinion survey on empirical research on aspects of the law of damages)
(b) £4,678 (staff recruitment--newspaper advertising)
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil
(8) The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC)
(a) Nil
(b) Nil
(c) Nil
(d) £2,560
'Guide to making an application' (£1,324)
'The Committee: It's work and it's membership' (£1,236)
(e) Nil
(9) The Judicial Studies Board
(a) Nil
(b) Nil
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil
(10) The Magistrates' Court Service Inspectorate
(a) Nil
(b) £8,994 (staff recruitment)
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil
(11) The Civil Justice Council
(a) Nil
(b) Nil
(c) Nil
(d) Nil
(e) Nil.
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