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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Recycling

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what measures he has put in place to ensure that his Department meets the quick win targets set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ensure that all copying paper bought by the Department is 100 per cent. recycled with a minimum of 75 per cent. post-consumer waste content. [166662]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: All contracts issued in respect of DFID stipulate that the copying paper provided is to be 100 per cent. recycled with a minimum of 75 per cent. post-consumer waste content.
 
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Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of copying paper used by the Department in 2002–03 was from recycled sources; and how much post-consumer waste this paper contained. [166663]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: 100 per cent. of the copying paper used in DFID came from recycled sources. It is not possible to say how much post-consumer waste this contained. Our current recycled paper is made up from at least 75 per cent. post-consumer waste.

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what measures he has put in place to ensure that his Department meets the quick win targets set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ensure that all paper for printed publications bought by the Department is 60 per cent. recycled, of which a minimum is 75 per cent. post-consumer waste. [166664]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: The Department for International Development (DFID) routinely requires that the designers and printers under contract to produce DFID publications source paper that has a minimum of 75 per cent. recycled content.

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of paper for printed publications used by the Department in 2002–03 was from recycled sources; and how much post-consumer waste this paper contained. [166665]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: The Department for International Development does not hold this information centrally, and due to disproportionate cost we cannot supply this information.

However, DFID routinely requires that the designers and printers under contract to produce DFID publications source paper that has a minimum of 75 per cent. recycled content.

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when his Department expects to implement in full the quick win targets set by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to ensure that (a) all copying paper bought by the Department is 100 per cent. recycled with a minimum of 75 per cent. post-consumer waste content and (b) all paper for printed publications bought by the Department is 60 per cent. recycled, of which a minimum is 75 per cent. post-consumer waste. [166666]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: DFID has already met the quick win targets set by DEFRA in that all of our copying paper is 100 per cent. recycled with at least 75 per cent. post-consumer waste content.

DFID routinely requires that the designers and printers under contract to produce DFID publications source paper that has a minimum of 75 per cent. recycled content. We are in the process of amending design and print contracts, and are investigating joining the Department for Transport framework agreement for purchasing recycled paper, ensuring that we meet the quick win target for paper in printed publications.

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will list the Department's
 
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main suppliers of (a) copier paper, (b) stationery, (c) envelopes and (d) paper for reports, in each case stating (i) the name of each paper used and (ii) the post-consumer recycled content of each paper. [166667]

 
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Mr. Gareth Thomas: The information in the following table shows the details of the main suppliers to my Department for paper (separate suppliers for the two headquarter locations), stationery and envelopes.

Type	Supplier	Comment
Copier Paper (DFID London)	David John Papers Ltd. Unit 1A Middlegreen Trading Estate Middlegreen Road Langley Slough Berks SL3 7BL	Diplomat Recycled Paper. A4 80gsm 100 per cent. recycled of 100 per cent. post-consumer waste.
Copier Paper (DFID, Scotland)	Glenmore Dunfermline Business Park Rosyth Fife KY 2RN	Evolve Business Paper. 100 per cent. recycled. Minimum of 75 per cent. post-consumer waste.
Stationery	Banner Business Supplies PO Box 560St. Crispins Duke Street Norwich NR3 1SQ	No paper products supplied, only stationery.
	Guilbert Guilbert House 68–72 St John's Road Corstorphine Edinburgh EH12 SAT	No paper products supplied, only stationery
Envelopes	Banner Business Supplies Ltd. PO Box 560 St Crispins Duke Street Norwich NR3 1SQ	Banner Envelopes. 60–85 per cent. post consumer waste.
Paper for Reports (AH)	Glenmore Dunfermline Business Park Rosyth FIFE KY11 2RN	Evolve Business Paper. 100 per cent. recycled. Minimum of 75 per cent. post-consumer waste.
Paper for Reports (PS)	David John Papers Ltd. Unit 1A Middlegreen Trading Estate Middlegreen Road Langley Slough Berks SL3 7BL	Diplomat Recycled Paper. A4 80gsm. 100 per cent. recycled of 100 per cent. post-consumer waste
Paper for reports		The Department for International Development does not procure paper for its reports directly from paper merchants. However we routinely require the designers and printers of DFID publications to source paper that has a minimum of 75 per cent. recycled content.

St. Helena

Mr. MacDougall: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether a new constitution for St. Helena has been agreed. [165508]

Mr. Rammell: I have been asked to reply.

A new constitution for St. Helena has not yet been agreed. Discussions are ongoing between Foreign and   Commonwealth Office officials and St. Helena Councillors with a view to having a new constitution in place in time for the next dissolution of the Legislative Council in July 2005.

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

Libraries (Digitisation)

Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money has been spent on the digitisation of content in libraries in Manchester, Gorton since 1997. [167345]

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money has been spent on the digitisation of content in libraries in Burnley since 1997. [167902]

Estelle Morris: This information is not held centrally.

The New Opportunities Fund £50 million Digitisation of Learning Materials Programme has delivered 150 projects across the UK to enable resources which support learning of all kinds held in libraries as well as museums, archives and other public-sector institutions, to be made available online through the People's Network and the National Grid for Learning. This initiative has created a body of material containing over 2 million images, tens of thousands of sound and video clips and documents and over 1,000 learning packages. All projects can be accessed via the EnrichUK portal at http://www.enrichuk.net.

Information on grants awarded to individual local authorities and their expenditure can be obtained from the relevant authority.

New Opportunities Fund (Wigan)

Mr. Neil Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money from the New Opportunities Fund was allocated to Wigan in each year since 1997. [169308]

 
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Estelle Morris: The New Opportunities Fund began making grants in 1999. The awards to Wigan are shown in the table.

Financial year	Amount (£)
1999–2000	1,363,608
2000–01	602,721
2001–02	2,204,979
2002–03	1,510,710
2003–04	1,345,981

The information is freely available from the Department's searchable Lottery award database at www.lottery.culture.gsi.gov.uk, which uses information supplied by the Lottery distributors.

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