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Green Transport

Mr. Moore: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will list the key buildings for which her Department (a) submitted and (b) did not submit green transport plans by March. [122619]

Mr. Stringer: In line with the target set in the Integrated Transport White Paper for the introduction of green transport plans for Government buildings, by 31 March 2000 we had completed a plan which covered all of the buildings occupied or owned by the Cabinet Office and its agencies, as follows:

Cabinet Office
Downing street, 70 Whitehall, Great Smith street, Admiralty House, 36 Whitehall, Government Offices Great George street, 53 Parliament street, 10 Great George street, 4 Matthew Parker street, Hepburn House, Queen Anne's Chambers, Ashley House (all central London), Grosvenor House (Basingstoke), Sovereign House (Norwich), St. Clement's House (Norwich).
Agencies
Civil Service College (Sunningdale and 11 Belgrave road, London), GCDA (Ponton road, London), CCTA (Rosebery Court, Norwich), TBA (Royal Liver Building, Liverpool), PACE (Trevelyan House, London; 28 Thistle street, Edinburgh;

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Lawnswood Park, Leeds; West Point, Manchester; 38 George road, Birmingham; Beaufort Court, Bristol; Steel House, London), plus the CoI (Hercules House, London).

On 1 April 2000, CCTA, TBA and PACE transferred to the Office of Government Commerce, and the Civil Service College was fully integrated into the Centre for Management and Policy Studies within the Cabinet Office.

Task Forces

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what has been the total cost to the Exchequer of Government task forces since May 1997. [121383]

Mr. Stringer: I refer the hon. Member to my answer to the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) on 9 December 1999, Official Report, column 634W.

Civil Servants

Dr. David Clark: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what was the average percentage increase in salaries of non-industrial civil servants, excluding members of the senior civil service, in her Department for 1999-2000; and to what extent the pay awards were staged. [121650]

Mr. Stringer: The headline pay settlement (excluding Agencies) was 2.5 per cent. on the paybill, together with the additional funds from staff turnover and staff in post received performance-related increases averaging 3.6 per cent. The increases were not staged.

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