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Water and Sanitation Goals

Mrs. Helen Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much of the Departmental Expenditure Limits agreed up to 2007–08 will be spent in pursuit of the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals targets (a) directly and (b) indirectly through (i) budget support and (ii) other programmes which require access to safe water and sanitation to be fully effective. [186127]

Mr. Gareth Thomas: DFID's support for the water sector is predominantly through our country programmes and support to multi-lateral institutions. This includes direct water sector activities, improvements attributed through assistance to other sectors such as health and education, as well as through our poverty reduction budget support, where expenditure reflects developing countries' own priorities and our assistance is coordinated with that of other donors. DFID works to assist countries to use their budgets to make the biggest impact on reducing poverty. DFID's Water Action Plan published in March 2004 and available on our website: www.dfid.gov.uk emphasises the importance of water and sanitation in all aspects of development.

DFID does provide significant support to the water sector; DFID's bilateral expenditure alone was estimated at £87 million in 2001–02. DFID is currently undertaking work to update it's estimates and project our likely expenditure on water-related activities through to 2007–08, both bilaterally and multilaterally, including the results of DFID's initial resource allocation round in autumn 2004.

Critically, during 2005, the international community will be reviewing progress against all the MDGs, including the water and sanitation targets, and there will be a special UN General Assembly discussion. Leading up to that, the UK and other parties will be reviewing what further action needs to be taken on water and sanitation at the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in April 2005.

HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION

Summer Recess Visitors

37. Mr. Pike: To ask the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission how many people visited the House during the summer recess. [187678]

Sir Archy Kirkwood: Up to and including 1 September, a total of 72,450 people had visited Parliament during the summer recess; 67,757 were on public (paying) tours and 4,693 were on Members' tours.

The total number of people who have pre-booked and paid for tours on 2, 3 and 4 September and during the conference recess is 6,795. Another 2,161 people have pre-booked, but not yet paid for tours.

Crèche Facilities

Harry Cohen: To ask the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the need for crèche facilities to be made available for people attending official meetings with hon. Members in the House.(187677)

Sir Archy Kirkwood: It is important that visitors are made to feel welcome on the Parliamentary Estate. However, the Commission has not made any assessment of the need for crèche facilities to be made available for people attending official meetings with hon. Members. I should point out that very little use is made of the baby care and changing facilities we already provide, and that the reception desks have no record of any request for crèche facilities for visitors.

HOME DEPARTMENT

Advertising

Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money was spent on advertising and promotional literature for his Department's initiatives, broken down by year since 1997. [183807]

 
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Fiona Mactaggart: The amount spent by the Home Office on advertising and publications over this period is set out as follows. Printing and publishing costs were not centralised within the Home Office until 1999–2000 and it is not possible to produce spending figures prior to this. The figures for publications include all Home Office publications including command papers and other policy documents, as well as campaign related literature.

1996–97

Advertising spend was £5.23 million in a total communication budget of £8.328 million. Communication spend represents 0.13 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £6,416 million Campaigns included car crime, recruitment of special constables, fire safety and electoral registration.

1997–98

Advertising spend was £1.4 million in a total communication budget of £3.372 million. Communication spend represented 0.05 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £6,747 million. Campaigns included recruitment of special constables, fire safety, absent voting and electoral registration.

1998–99

Advertising spend was £1.8 million in a total communication budget of £4.194 million. Communication spend represents 0.00005 per cent. of total Home office public expenditure of £7,608,178 million.

Campaigns included smoke alarms, recruitment of special constables, crime partnerships and electoral registration.

1999–2000

Advertising spend was £5.65 million in a total communication budget of £10.08 million which included £2.626 million on publications. Communication spend represents 0.000012 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £7,996,184 million. Campaigns included chip pan safety, fire safety, recruitment of special constables, European parliament elections and electoral registration.

2000–01

Advertising spend was £28.36 million in a total communication budget of £35.637 million which included £3.128 million on publications. Communication spend represents 0.00039 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £9,068,695 million. Campaigns included fire safety, vehicle crime and the recruitment of police officers.
 
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2001–02

Advertising spend was £14.4 million in a total communication budget of £25 million which included £2.995 million on publications. Communication spend represents 0.00023 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £10,820,813 million. Campaigns included fire safety, vehicle crime, internet child protection, drugs, recruitment of police officers and special constables, and postal voting.

2002–03

Advertising spend was £9.9 million in a total communication budget of £18.3 million which included £2.493 million on publications. Communication spend represented 0.00013 per cent. of total Home office public expenditure of £13,493,081 million. Campaigns included vehicle crime, internet child protection, drugs, the firearms amnesty and the recruitment of police officers.

2003–04

Advertising spend was £12.487 million in a total communication budget of £22,083 million which included £2.986 million on publications. Communication spend represents 0.00017 per cent. of total Home Office expenditure of £12,605,526 million. Campaigns included vehicle crime, internet child protection, drugs, recruitment of police officers and domestic violence.

Note:

Please note that the total public expenditure figures for 1996–97 and 1997–98 were compiled under a different accounting system to later years—and are therefore not directly comparable.

Antisocial Behaviour Orders

Mr. Tony Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been served in Northampton in each year since their introduction. [186467]

Ms Blears: By 31 March 2004, as notified to the Home Office, one antisocial behaviour order has been issued within the Northampton borough council local government area. This was issued in June 2003.

Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were (a) applied for and (b) granted in the County of Durham in the last 12 months for which figures are available, broken down by magistrates court. [186439]

Ms Blears: The available information is given in the following table.
Number of ASBOs, as notified to the Home Office, for all courts in the County of Durham, by complainant and type of court, 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004

	By application
		Applications by complainant
Type of court	Total applications	Local authority	Police	On conviction(1)	Total issued
Magistrates court
North Durham PSA	8	4	4	2	10
South Durham PSA	3	—	3	—	3
Crown court
Durham CC				1	1
County court	—	—	—	—	—
Total	11	4	7	3	14

⁽¹⁾ Type of applicant not applicable.





 
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Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in (a) the constituency of Bury St. Edmunds and (b) Suffolk since their introduction. [187192]

Ms Blears: The available information is given in the following table.
Number of ASBOs, as notified to the Home Office, for all courts in Suffolk, by area, 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2004

Area	Total issued
Suffolk	45
From 1 April 1999 to 31 May 2000 by pfa(2)	3
From 1 June 2000 to 31 March 2004 by local authority area	42
of which:
Mid Suffolk DC	—
St. Edmundsbury BC	2

⁽²⁾ Between 1 April 1999 to 31 May 2000 data are available by police force area (pfa) only.
Note:
The constituency of Bury St. Edmunds comprises 16 wards of the District of Mid Suffolk and 14 wards of the Borough of St. Edmundsbury.

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