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Seaside and Country Homes Scheme

Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 3 March 2003, Official Report, column 875W, on the Seaside and Country Homes Scheme, if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued by HOMES. [103271]

Mr. McNulty: A copy of the Guidance will be placed in the Library of the House.

Social Exclusion Unit

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his written ministerial statement of 5 March 2003, Official Report, columns 82–83WS, on Social Exclusion Unit projects, whether he plans to publish the report on helping people into work in the most deprived areas in England before the end of 2003. [104532]

Mrs. Roche: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister expects that the final report of the Social Exclusion Unit project on employment and enterprise in deprived areas will be published in 2004.

Supporting People Partnership

Tim Loughton: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many staff work on the Supporting People Partnership helpline; how many staff in his Department work on administrating and implementing the Supporting People Partnership to local authorities and service providers; and at what cost. [89241]

Mr. McNulty: One and a half members of staff manage the Supporting People helpline, aided by other Office of the Deputy Prime Minister staff who are able to provide expert replies to specific points raised by the helpline questions. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has 19 members of staff working directly on the Supporting People programme and has engaged a further 35 people from different organisations and sectors, to help stakeholders engage fully with the new programme. Direct running costs for Supporting People are approximately £480,000.

Tunbridge Wells and Kent Councils

Mr. Norman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many public service agreements were entered into by (a) Tunbridge Wells borough council and (b) Kent county council; and what level of funding has been provided that is contingent on them in each of the past two years. [104691]

Mr. Raynsford: The Government have not entered into a Local Public Service Agreement with Tunbridge Wells borough council. The Government signed a Local Public Service Agreement with Kent in February 2001. During the financial year 2001–02 Kent were paid a grant

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of £1,000,050 and issued with Unsupported Credit Approvals of £5 million. No funding was provided during 2002–03.

Mr. Norman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many local partnerships were formed by (a) Tunbridge Wells borough council and (b) Kent county council to implement central Government initiatives; and what the level of funding for each was in each year since 1997. [104692]

Mr. Leslie: Tunbridge Wells borough council has not formed its own local strategic partnership to implement Government initiatives, however, in September 2001, it along with Tonbridge and Mailing and Sevenoaks Councils decided to work together to form an area partnership for the west Kent region, since many service providers and interest groups cover areas much larger than a single district.

Kent county council has developed a countywide strategic partnership as a forum to encourage cross tier partnership working. The county strategic partnership grew out of the Kent Association of Local Authorities.

Neither Tunbridge Wells borough council nor Kent county council are in receipt of Neighbourhood Renewal Funding—the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's funding programme that supports the development of strategic partnerships. There are only 88 areas in England that qualify to receive this specific funding, by virtue of being especially deprived as ranked by ward on the Government's Indices of Deprivation. Those 88 areas contain 82 per cent. of the most deprived wards in England, none of which fall in the Kent county council area.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

Bail Records

Mr. Watts: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will make a statement on her plans to link the courts' computer systems in order to improve past bail records information. [104109]

Yvette Cooper: Links between the police and the Magistrates courts case management systems already exist in some areas. The implementation of NSPIS Case Preparation system (the police's new case management application), together with the implementation of a standard national software application in Magistrates' courts will extend these links across England and Wales over the next three years.

We plan to join together the existing and developing IT systems in a staged development, using an 'information walkway' known as the Criminal Justice Exchange to link individual systems. It will enable the

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courts and other criminal justice agencies to share case data—including information relating to bail—electronically.

This is part of a major IT and business change programme over the next three years for which £834 million of new money has been provided in the SR2002 settlement for the CJS as a whole.

External Reports

Mr. Maude: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will list (a) the title and subject, (b) the total cost to the Department

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and (c) the commissioned author or organisation of each external report commissioned by the Department in each year since 1997. [103720]

Ms Rosie Winterton: I have understood "external report" to mean a report produced at the request of my Department by a person, group or organisation external to my Department, and which is publicly available. This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, information on completed reports commissioned and published by LCD Research Unit is set out in the following table. The costs quoted exclude in-house publication costs and incidental LCD staff time in assisting the researchers and managing the contracts.

Completed reports commissioned and published by LCD Research Unit: by year of Publication

Title/Subject Research Costs £ Report Date Researcher/ Author Details

1997

Monitoring the rise in the small claims limit: litigants' experiences of different forms of adjudication. 24,789 December 1997 John Baldwin—University of Birmingham

Delay in the Criminal Justice System 4,498 December 1997 Satnam Choongh—University of Warwick

Resolving Civil Disputes: choosing between out-of-court schemes and litigation 5,564 December 1997 Tamara Goriely and Tom Williams—TPR Social and Legal Research

Law And Economics: State of the Art and Questions for the Future 4,000 December 1997 Anthony Ogus and Rachel Ammas—University of Manchester

Regulating Legal Services 9,000 December 1997 Robert Baldwin—London School of Economics and Political Science

Judicial Appointments Commissions: The European and North 2,250 December 1997 Kate Malleson—London School of Economics

American Experience and the possible implications for the United Kingdom 8,400 December 1997 Cheryl Thomas—Wolfson College, Oxford University

The Division of Marital Assets Following Divorce with Particular Reference to Pensions 4,900 December 1997 Antony Dnes—University of Hertfordshire

Legal Aid Delivery Systems: which offer the best value for money in mass casework? A Summary of International Experience 1,750 December 1997 Tamara Goriely—TPR Social and Legal Research

Ethnic Monitoring of Defendatns Appearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court in 1995 3,100 December 1997 Home Office and Professor Philip Bean—Loughborough University

1998

Rationing and Cost-Containment in Legal Services 8,000 March 1998 Robert Dingwall, Paul Fenn and Jackie Tuck—University of Nottingham

The Empirical Analysis of Litigation: a Survey of the Economics Literature 8,000 March 1998 Neil Rickman—University of Surrey

Contracting for Legal Services under different Costs Rules 6,200 March 1998 Gwyn Bevan—London School of Economics and Political Science Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Neil Rickman—University of Surrey

Costing Fast Track Procedures Through Hypothetical Studies 96,000 June 1998 Tamara Goriely, Farah Butt and Avrom Sherr—Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

The Central London County Court Pilot Mediation Scheme 23,152 July 1998 Hazel Genn—University College London

An Economic Analysis of a Proposal to Reform the Discretionary Approach to the Division of Marital Assets in England and Wales 4,000 September 1998 Antony W. Dnes

A Study of the services provided under the Otton Project to Litigants In Person at the Citizens Advice Bureau at the Royal Courts of Justice 10,693 September 1998 Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson—Consultants in Management, IT and the Law

1999

Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law: individualism and obligation 71,906 February 1999 Jane Lewis—University of Nottingham

High Divorce Rates: the state of the evidence on reasons and remedies 79,150 February 1999 One plus One Marriage and Partnership Research

Reducing delay in the Criminal Justice System—the views of the Defence Lawyers 15,200 March 1999 Lee Bridges and Marc Jacobs—University of Warwick

An Empirical Analysis of Standard Fees in Magistrates court Criminal Cases 6,000 August 1999 Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray –Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey

A regional study of local authority and court processes in homelessness cases 30,989 September 1999 Trevor Buck—University of Leicester

Children and Civil Litigation 24,654 December 1999 Judith Masson—University of Warwick

2000

Assumptions about Lawyers in Policy Statements 11,075 February 2000 Phillip Lewis –Wolfson College, Oxford University

Factors affecting the decision to apply for Silk and Judicial Office 9,652 June 2000 Kate Malleson—London School of Economics Fareda Banda—School of Oriental and African Studies

The Effects on Magistrates of Learning that the Defendant has a Previous Conviction 33,940 December 2000 Sally Lloyd-Bostock—University of Birmingham

2001

The introduction of a question on ethnic background into the Civil Justice System 41,076 October 2001 Sara Candy and Vanessa Stone—BMRB

2002

Court-based ADR Initiatives for Non-Family Civil Disputes: The Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal 19,500 March 2002 Hazel Genn—University College London

A Civil Justice Audit 57,515 March 2002 Joanna Shapland—University of Sheffield

Judges' Case Management Perspectives: The Views of Opinion Formers and Case Managers 12,500 April 2002 Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson—Consultants in Management, IT and the Law

Professionalising Lay Justice: The Role of the Court Clerk in Family Proceedings 39,507 April 2002 Joan Hunt—Wolfson College, Oxford University

It's Only Parking, but.... Report of a Research Project on the Applicability to other Adjudicative Settings of Organisational Arrangements at the London Parking Appeals Service 25,246 May 2002 John Raine and Stephanie Snape—University of Brimingham

The impact of conditional fees on the selection, handling and outcomes of personal injury cases 48,354 August 2002 Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray—Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey And Howard Carrier—University of Nottingham

The impact of sources of finance on personal injury litigation: An empirical analysis 43,800 August 2002 Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray—Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey

The Lay and Judicial Perspectives on the Expansion of the Small Claims Regime 21,000 Septemebr 2002 John Baldwin—University of Birmingham

The Impact on Courts and the Administration of Justice of the Human Rights Act 1998 42,298 October 2002 John Raine—Univesity of Birmingham And Clive Walker—University of Leeds

Safety and Child Contact: An analysis of the Role of Child Contact Centres in the context of Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Concerns 41,434 December 2002 Rosemary Aris, Christine Harrison and Cathy Humpreys—University of Warwick

Housing Possession Cases in the County Court: Perceptions and Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Defendants 83,735 December 2002 Sarah Blandy, Caroline Hunter, Diane Lister and Judy Nixon—Sheffield Hallam University

2003

Significant Harm: Child Protection Litigation in a Multi-Cultural Setting 210,834 February 2003 Julia Brophy—University of Oxford

Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts: perceptions of fairness and equality of treatment 208,675 March 2003 Roger Hood—University of Oxford And Stephen Shute—University of Birmingham

Title/Subject	Research Costs £	Report Date	Researcher/ Author Details
1997
Monitoring the rise in the small claims limit: litigants' experiences of different forms of adjudication.	24,789	December 1997	John Baldwin—University of Birmingham
Delay in the Criminal Justice System	4,498	December 1997	Satnam Choongh—University of Warwick
Resolving Civil Disputes: choosing between out-of-court schemes and litigation	5,564	December 1997	Tamara Goriely and Tom Williams—TPR Social and Legal Research
Law And Economics: State of the Art and Questions for the Future	4,000	December 1997	Anthony Ogus and Rachel Ammas—University of Manchester
Regulating Legal Services	9,000	December 1997	Robert Baldwin—London School of Economics and Political Science
Judicial Appointments Commissions: The European and North	2,250	December 1997	Kate Malleson—London School of Economics
American Experience and the possible implications for the United Kingdom	8,400	December 1997	Cheryl Thomas—Wolfson College, Oxford University
The Division of Marital Assets Following Divorce with Particular Reference to Pensions	4,900	December 1997	Antony Dnes—University of Hertfordshire
Legal Aid Delivery Systems: which offer the best value for money in mass casework? A Summary of International Experience	1,750	December 1997	Tamara Goriely—TPR Social and Legal Research
Ethnic Monitoring of Defendatns Appearing at Leicester Magistrates' Court in 1995	3,100	December 1997	Home Office and Professor Philip Bean—Loughborough University

1998
Rationing and Cost-Containment in Legal Services	8,000	March 1998	Robert Dingwall, Paul Fenn and Jackie Tuck—University of Nottingham
The Empirical Analysis of Litigation: a Survey of the Economics Literature	8,000	March 1998	Neil Rickman—University of Surrey
Contracting for Legal Services under different Costs Rules	6,200	March 1998	Gwyn Bevan—London School of Economics and Political Science Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Neil Rickman—University of Surrey
Costing Fast Track Procedures Through Hypothetical Studies	96,000	June 1998	Tamara Goriely, Farah Butt and Avrom Sherr—Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
The Central London County Court Pilot Mediation Scheme	23,152	July 1998	Hazel Genn—University College London
An Economic Analysis of a Proposal to Reform the Discretionary Approach to the Division of Marital Assets in England and Wales	4,000	September 1998	Antony W. Dnes
A Study of the services provided under the Otton Project to Litigants In Person at the Citizens Advice Bureau at the Royal Courts of Justice	10,693	September 1998	Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson—Consultants in Management, IT and the Law

1999
Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law: individualism and obligation	71,906	February 1999	Jane Lewis—University of Nottingham
High Divorce Rates: the state of the evidence on reasons and remedies	79,150	February 1999	One plus One Marriage and Partnership Research
Reducing delay in the Criminal Justice System—the views of the Defence Lawyers	15,200	March 1999	Lee Bridges and Marc Jacobs—University of Warwick
An Empirical Analysis of Standard Fees in Magistrates court Criminal Cases	6,000	August 1999	Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray –Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey
A regional study of local authority and court processes in homelessness cases	30,989	September 1999	Trevor Buck—University of Leicester
Children and Civil Litigation	24,654	December 1999	Judith Masson—University of Warwick
2000
Assumptions about Lawyers in Policy Statements	11,075	February 2000	Phillip Lewis –Wolfson College, Oxford University
Factors affecting the decision to apply for Silk and Judicial Office	9,652	June 2000	Kate Malleson—London School of Economics Fareda Banda—School of Oriental and African Studies
The Effects on Magistrates of Learning that the Defendant has a Previous Conviction	33,940	December 2000	Sally Lloyd-Bostock—University of Birmingham

2001
The introduction of a question on ethnic background into the Civil Justice System	41,076	October 2001	Sara Candy and Vanessa Stone—BMRB

2002
Court-based ADR Initiatives for Non-Family Civil Disputes: The Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal	19,500	March 2002	Hazel Genn—University College London
A Civil Justice Audit	57,515	March 2002	Joanna Shapland—University of Sheffield
Judges' Case Management Perspectives: The Views of Opinion Formers and Case Managers	12,500	April 2002	Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson—Consultants in Management, IT and the Law
Professionalising Lay Justice: The Role of the Court Clerk in Family Proceedings	39,507	April 2002	Joan Hunt—Wolfson College, Oxford University
It's Only Parking, but.... Report of a Research Project on the Applicability to other Adjudicative Settings of Organisational Arrangements at the London Parking Appeals Service	25,246	May 2002	John Raine and Stephanie Snape—University of Brimingham
The impact of conditional fees on the selection, handling and outcomes of personal injury cases	48,354	August 2002	Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray—Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey And Howard Carrier—University of Nottingham
The impact of sources of finance on personal injury litigation: An empirical analysis	43,800	August 2002	Paul Fenn—University of Nottingham Alastair Gray—Wolfson College, Oxford University Neil Rickman—University of Surrey
The Lay and Judicial Perspectives on the Expansion of the Small Claims Regime	21,000	Septemebr 2002	John Baldwin—University of Birmingham
The Impact on Courts and the Administration of Justice of the Human Rights Act 1998	42,298	October 2002	John Raine—Univesity of Birmingham And Clive Walker—University of Leeds
Safety and Child Contact: An analysis of the Role of Child Contact Centres in the context of Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Concerns	41,434	December 2002	Rosemary Aris, Christine Harrison and Cathy Humpreys—University of Warwick
Housing Possession Cases in the County Court: Perceptions and Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Defendants	83,735	December 2002	Sarah Blandy, Caroline Hunter, Diane Lister and Judy Nixon—Sheffield Hallam University

2003
Significant Harm: Child Protection Litigation in a Multi-Cultural Setting	210,834	February 2003	Julia Brophy—University of Oxford
Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts: perceptions of fairness and equality of treatment	208,675	March 2003	Roger Hood—University of Oxford And Stephen Shute—University of Birmingham

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