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National Lottery

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish the report of the departmental study group on the impact on churches and others opposed to gambling of reliance of the voluntary and community sector on lottery-based funding. [13278]


 
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Mr. Hanson: The Voluntary and Community Unit of the Department of Social Development commissioned research jointly with the Community Relations Council to assess the level of access to lottery funds by religious groups and the impact on groups with religious objections to applying for lottery funding. The Department and the Council are in the process of preparing a summary publication of the research for general release later in the year when the research report will be placed on the DSD website.

Pensions

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people are in receipt of state retirement pensions in each (a) constituency, (b) council area and (c) postcode area in Northern Ireland. [11981]

Mr. Hanson: The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Parliamentary constituencyTotal RP recipients
Belfast East16,437
Belfast North15,364
Belfast South14,426
Belfast West11,823
East Antrim14,339
East Londonderry13,605
Fermanagh and South Tyrone13,288
Foyle12,465
Lagan Valley16,813
Mid Ulster11,728
Newry and Armagh14,605
North Antrim18,096
North Down17,153
South Antrim15,097
South Down15,719
Strangford16,624
Upper Bann16,017
West Tyrone11,607
Postcode missing(71)3,146
Total268,352


(71) Constituency is assigned using the claimant's postcode, if the postcode is missing it is not possible to assign a constituency.
Note:
All data are taken at 4 June 2005.





District councilTotal RP recipients
Antrim6,870
Ards12,834
Armagh8,241
Ballymena10,742
Ballymoney4,563
Banbridge6,504
Belfast45,840
Carrickfergus6,355
Castlereagh12,677
Coleraine9,688
Cookstown4,571
Craigavon12,644
Derry12,465
Down10,135
Dungannon6,931
Fermanagh8,091
Larne5,501
Limavady3,917
Lisburn16,222
Magherafelt5,423
Moyle2,791
Newry and Mourne11,937
Newtownabbey13,729
North Down14,928
Omagh6,328
Strabane5,279
Postcode missing(72)3,146
Total268,352


(72) Council area is assigned using the claimant's postcode, if the postcode is missing it is not possible to assign a council area.
Note:
All data are taken at 4 June 2005.





 
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Postcode districtTotal RP recipients
BT169
BT2111
BT3(73)
BT45,144
BT57,859
BT65,874
BT71,761
BT84,855
BT93,756
BT102,182
BT115,099
BT123,856
BT134,664
BT144,845
BT154,936
BT162,776
BT173,144
BT182,844
BT196,206
BT205,891
BT211,782
BT223,245
BT238,235
BT242,727
BT251,950
BT261,570
BT274,010
BT285,601
BT291,259
BT304,732
BT311,045
BT323,452
BT331,956
BT347,651
BT355,044
BT367,005
BT374,865
BT386,565
BT393,558
BT404,595
BT415,430
BT425,990
BT433,741
BT443,516
BT454,231
BT461,267
BT477,422
BT486,302
BT492,846
BT513,987
BT522,560
BT533,852
BT541,303
BT551,590
BT561,376
BT57828
BT603,995
BT612,473
BT624,580
BT632,914
BT64101
BT65558
BT664,865
BT672,683
BT68153
BT69339
BT702,377
BT714,605
BT72(73)
BT73(73)
BT742,711
BT75542
BT76317
BT77175
BT783,951
BT793,103
BT803,074
BT811,138
BT823,348
BT84(73)
BT89(73)
BT922,104
BT931,403
BT942,017
BT95(73)
BT99(73)
Postcode missing(74)1,852
Total268,352


(73) Denotes where there are less than 5 claimants in any one geographical area. Due to customer confidentiality, it is the Department for Social Development's policy not to disclose such information.
(74) Postcode district is assigned using the claimant's postcode, if a postcode is missing it is not possible to assign a postcode district.
Note:
All data are taken at 4 June 2005.





 
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Personal Care

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what response he plans to make to the report submitted by the inter-departmental group on personal care to the Northern Ireland Executive on 8 August 2002. [11621]

Mr. Woodward: I have asked officials to update the findings of the report submitted to the Northern Ireland Executive on 8 August 2002. I shall then consider the revised costed options in the context of other Budget priorities before making any response.
 
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Police Service

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many typist posts there were within the Police Service Northern Ireland on 1 January; and how many are anticipated to be required at (a) 1 January 2006, (b) 1 January 2007 and (c) 1 January 2008, broken down by district command unit area. [11234]

Mr. Woodward: The following table provides the number of typist posts within the PSNI as of the 1 January 2005 to 2008. Unfortunately, the individual area figures for 2007 and 2008 are not yet available and will be determined by workload and staff modelling in the preceding years.
Location1 January 20051 January 20061 January 20071 January 2008
HQ Departments96.25103(75)(75)
Antrim DCU94.75(75)(75)
Ards DCU7.55.25(75)(75)
Armagh DCU44(75)(75)
Banbridge DCU5.253.5(75)(75)
Belfast East DCU117.25(75)(75)
Belfast North DCU14.2511.25(75)(75)
Belfast South DCU17.513,25(75)(75)
Belfast West DCU11.758(75)(75)
Ballymena DCU7.254.75(75)(75)
Ballymoney DCU3.752.75(75)(75)
Carrickfergus DCU4.252.75(75)(75)
Coleraine DCU95.25(75)(75)
Cookstown DCU43.25(75)(75)
Craigavon DCU10.757.75(75)(75)
Castlereagh DCU6.254(75)(75)
Dungannon DCU6.54.5(75)(75)
Down DCU85.5(75)(75)
Fermanagh DCU55(75)(75)
Foyle DCU8.58.25(75)(75)
Lame DCU43(75)(75)
Limavady DCU3.753(75)(75)
Lisburn DCU8.758.25(75)(75)
Maghaerafelt DCU3.52.25(75)(75)
Moyle DCU11(75)(75)
Newtownabbey DCU6.255.25(75)(75)
North Down DCU7.755(75)(75)
Newry and Mourne DCU96.25(75)(75)
Omagh DCU6.254(75)(75)
Strabane DCU63.75(75)(75)
Urgan Region1.751.75(75)(75)
Rural Region4.53(75)(75)
TOTAL312.25260.5246.75233


(75) To be modelled



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