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Litigation

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have defended in (i) industrial tribunals and (ii) the courts in each year since 1997; how many were concluded in their favour; and what the total cost to his Department of litigation was in each year. [41109]

Dr John Reid: The Northern Ireland Office did not defend any industrial tribunal cases in the years concerned.

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The information in respect of court cases is not held in the format requested. However, between 1997 and 2002, 12 cases were defended, four of which were concluded in the Department's favour.

The return for Agencies is as follows:

Year	Cases Defended	Concluded in favour of Agency
Industrial Tribunals
1997	1	1
1998	3	3
1999	1	1
2000	–	–
2001	1	1
2002	–	–
Courts
1997	13	9
1998	22	20
1999	19	15
2000	30	19
2001	20	10
2002	–	–

Police Service

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 9 November 2001, Official Report, column 485W, in what manner the PSNI activity data collection will break down activities of the police; what the objectives and terms of reference for this exercise are; and in what way the results of such analysis will be made public. [29809]

Jane Kennedy: The PSNI activity analysis collection will break down activities in accordance with the ACPO National Police Activity Based Costing Model. This model is focused on the District/Basic Command Unit and encompasses the total cost of policing a given geographical area. It includes all of those policing services which are delivered by DCU staff, and includes contributions from Headquarters operational or organisational support units. The six core areas of policing activity to be analysed are crime, road traffic, public order, public reassurance, call management and prisoner handling. Each of these core areas are broken down into Incidents (and by association incident related activities) and Non-incident Related Activities. For example, Crime is broken down into Violence (sexual offences, robbery, violence against the person), Burglary (dwelling, other), Theft of or from a Motor Vehicle, Theft other (shoplifting), Criminal Damage, Drugs (Class A), Other Crime and Crime Desk/Telephone Investigation Bureau.

The objectives of the Activity Analysis/Activity Based Costing Project are as follows:

To provide complete, accurate and timely activity information through user friendly, on-line access to relevant systems;

To make transparent the full cost of providing policing services, including by way of activity based costing;

To assist in the delegation of operational and financial decision-making to the lowest level consistent with strategic direction and control;

To link Activity management with Corporate Planning, Performance, Best Value and Inspection and Review.

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The main outputs from the Project will be as follows:

Standard classification of policing activities linked to organisational objectives;

Develop and conduct activity analysis programmes;

Carry out research into other GB Forces' activity based costing and activity sampling systems and make appropriate recommendations;

Identification of overheads;

Development of overhead apportionment rules;

Develop interfaces with other PSNI systems as required;

Activity based costing extracted from existing computer systems;

Activity sampling;

Internal and external benchmarking;

Trading accounts for Administration Departments;

Costed Service Level agreements for Administration Departments.

The analysis will be made public to enable informed decisions to be made about the allocation of scarce resources. Activity analysis will also help inform future funding debates and make explicit how resources are allocated across core police functions.

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will break down the number of complaints received by the Police Ombudsman by (a) perceived community origin, (b) gender and (c) other recorded categories of complainant. [43890]

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Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many recipients there are of pensions paid (a) for their service and (b) by virtue of their husband's service in the Royal Irish constabulary including Auxiliaries. [44658]

Jane Kennedy: There are (a) no recipients of pensions paid to former officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary including Auxiliaries and (b) four recipients of pensions paid to widows by virtue of their husband's service.

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prosecutions are under way against members of the Police Service in respect of activity carried out by them in the course of their duties in the period up to May 1998. [43434]

Jane Kennedy: The Chief Constable has advised that there is no record of any prosecutions underway against members of the Police Service in respect of activity carried out by them in the course of their duties from 1996 to May 1998. Records prior to 1996 are held in a form which is not readily retrieved.

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) full-time and (b) reserve members of the Police Service there were in each police division in Northern Ireland in each year since 1996. [43433]

Jane Kennedy: The numbers of regular and full-time reserve members of the Police Service in each police division in Northern Ireland in each year from 1996 to 2001, are as follows:

	1996		1997		1998		1999		2000		2001
	Reg	Ftr	Reg	Ftr	Reg	Ftr	Reg	Ftr	Reg	Ftr	Reg	Ftr
A	557	256	536	237	536	227	522	235	514	219	480	198
B	447	374	455	344	445	378	427	350	413	342	412	327
D	721	356	713	327	727	326	720	317	712	306	721	286
E	404	374	401	364	414	372	412	355	406	335	377	310
G	290	165	295	156	300	154	307	153	313	149	296	139
H	368	230	373	203	352	210	343	205	324	188	322	172
J	266	146	267	131	277	133	284	129	299	135	285	123
K	241	141	263	139	239	140	227	140	228	125	231	114
L	434	238	428	211	413	217	406	204	412	192	396	174
N	369	215	387	197	380	203	358	192	351	176	352	169
O	295	167	307	158	292	163	301	163	291	155	287	137
P	266	109	270	106	278	109	291	101	290	96	275	85
Total	465	277	469	257	465	263	459	254	455	241	443	223
	8	1	5	3	3	2	8	4	3	8	4	4

The numbers of regular and full-time reserve members of the Police Service in Northern Ireland in 2002, following the replacement of Divisions with District Commond Units (DCUs), are as follows:

	2002 (as at 15 March 2002)
	Ftr	Reg
N BMEN DCU	108	23
N BMON DCU	60	14
N COLE DCU	109	43
N FERM DCU	188	82
N FOYL DCU	223	83
N LARN DCU	68	22
N LIMA DCU	63	28
N MFEL DCU	88	54
N MOYL DCU	24	11
N OMAG DCU	118	41
N STRB DCU	100	56
S ARDS DCU	121	51
S ARMA DCU	124	62
S BANB DCU	80	29
S COOK DCU	84	37
S CRAI DCU	165	71
S DAST DCU	166	72
S DOWN DCU	153	85
S NEWM DCU	174	87
U ANTR DCU	99	54
U BELE DCU	196	126
U BELN DCU	334	109
U BELS DCU	276	142
U BELW DCU	254	205
U CFER DCU	70	52
U CREA DCU	104	72
U LISB DCU	197	112
U NABB DCU	129	26
U NDOW DCU	139	88
Total	4,014	1,925

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Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people identified as (a) Protestant and (b) Roman Catholic who have applied to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (i) were found to be suitably qualified and (ii) were not offered a position within the Police Service. [45756]

Jane Kennedy: In the first Police Service of Northern Ireland recruitment competition, 419 candidates identified as non-Catholic and 173 candidates identified as Catholic were found to be suitably qualified.

To date 245 candidates from the non-Catholic group have been informed that the Chief Constable cannot offer them an appointment, in accordance with Section 46 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000. No candidate in the Catholic group has to date been refused an appointment.

Mr. Donaldson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what expenditure has been made on the refurbishment of the police Land Rover fleet in Northern Ireland in each year since 1995; what tendering processes were held for the award of the contracts; and what the benefit to the public purse will be of using low cost substitute Land Rover components in the refurbishment work. [46032]

Jane Kennedy: The Chief Constable has advised me that expenditure made on the refurbishment of the Police Landrover fleet since 1995 is as follows:

Business Year	Expenditure & Number	Cost (New)	Saving
1995–96–97–98	0	0	0
1998–99	£1250k (50 x vehicles)	£2,250k	£1,000k
1,999–00	£1,300k (50 x vehicles)	£2,350k	£1,050k
2,000–01	£980k (35 x vehicles)	£1,645k	£665k
2001–021	£510k (15 x vehicles)	£900k	£390k
Totals	£4,040k (150 x vehicles)	£7145k	£3105k

1 Phase 3 TD5 Land Rover approved power-train conversion.

The refurbishment engineering programme was originally tendered through the Government Puchasing Agency and ratified via the Support Services Committee of the Police Authority.

Later programmes have been tendered through the Government Purchasing Unit and ratified via Police Transport Policy Committee.

The refurbishment programme includes the utilisation of discounted and approved Land Rover parts, which include a warranty period of 12 months. It is not possible to quantify separately the savings arising from the use of these component parts.

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