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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 constituency | Total RP recipients
|
Belfast East | 16,437
|
Belfast North | 15,364
|
Belfast South | 14,426
|
Belfast West | 11,823
|
East Antrim | 14,339
|
East Londonderry | 13,605
|
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 13,288
|
Foyle | 12,465
|
Lagan Valley | 16,813
|
Mid Ulster | 11,728
|
Newry and Armagh | 14,605
|
North Antrim | 18,096
|
North Down | 17,153
|
South Antrim | 15,097
|
South Down | 15,719
|
Strangford | 16,624
|
Upper Bann | 16,017
|
West Tyrone | 11,607
|
Postcode missing(71) | 3,146
|
Total | 268,352
|
(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 council | Total RP recipients
|
Antrim | 6,870
|
Ards | 12,834
|
Armagh | 8,241
|
Ballymena | 10,742
|
Ballymoney | 4,563
|
Banbridge | 6,504
|
Belfast | 45,840
|
Carrickfergus | 6,355
|
Castlereagh | 12,677
|
Coleraine | 9,688
|
Cookstown | 4,571
|
Craigavon | 12,644
|
Derry | 12,465
|
Down | 10,135
|
Dungannon | 6,931
|
Fermanagh | 8,091
|
Larne | 5,501
|
Limavady | 3,917
|
Lisburn | 16,222
|
Magherafelt | 5,423
|
Moyle | 2,791
|
Newry and Mourne | 11,937
|
Newtownabbey | 13,729
|
North Down | 14,928
|
Omagh | 6,328
|
Strabane | 5,279
|
Postcode missing(72) | 3,146
|
Total | 268,352
|
(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 district | Total RP recipients
|
BT1 | 69
|
BT2 | 111
|
BT3 | (73)
|
BT4 | 5,144
|
BT5 | 7,859
|
BT6 | 5,874
|
BT7 | 1,761
|
BT8 | 4,855
|
BT9 | 3,756
|
BT10 | 2,182
|
BT11 | 5,099
|
BT12 | 3,856
|
BT13 | 4,664
|
BT14 | 4,845
|
BT15 | 4,936
|
BT16 | 2,776
|
BT17 | 3,144
|
BT18 | 2,844
|
BT19 | 6,206
|
BT20 | 5,891
|
BT21 | 1,782
|
BT22 | 3,245
|
BT23 | 8,235
|
BT24 | 2,727
|
BT25 | 1,950
|
BT26 | 1,570
|
BT27 | 4,010
|
BT28 | 5,601
|
BT29 | 1,259
|
BT30 | 4,732
|
BT31 | 1,045
|
BT32 | 3,452
|
BT33 | 1,956
|
BT34 | 7,651
|
BT35 | 5,044
|
BT36 | 7,005
|
BT37 | 4,865
|
BT38 | 6,565
|
BT39 | 3,558
|
BT40 | 4,595
|
BT41 | 5,430
|
BT42 | 5,990
|
BT43 | 3,741
|
BT44 | 3,516
|
BT45 | 4,231
|
BT46 | 1,267
|
BT47 | 7,422
|
BT48 | 6,302
|
BT49 | 2,846
|
BT51 | 3,987
|
BT52 | 2,560
|
BT53 | 3,852
|
BT54 | 1,303
|
BT55 | 1,590
|
BT56 | 1,376
|
BT57 | 828
|
BT60 | 3,995
|
BT61 | 2,473
|
BT62 | 4,580
|
BT63 | 2,914
|
BT64 | 101
|
BT65 | 558
|
BT66 | 4,865
|
BT67 | 2,683
|
BT68 | 153
|
BT69 | 339
|
BT70 | 2,377
|
BT71 | 4,605
|
BT72 | (73)
|
BT73 | (73)
|
BT74 | 2,711
|
BT75 | 542
|
BT76 | 317
|
BT77 | 175
|
BT78 | 3,951
|
BT79 | 3,103
|
BT80 | 3,074
|
BT81 | 1,138
|
BT82 | 3,348
|
BT84 | (73)
|
BT89 | (73)
|
BT92 | 2,104
|
BT93 | 1,403
|
BT94 | 2,017
|
BT95 | (73)
|
BT99 | (73)
|
Postcode missing(74) | 1,852
|
Total | 268,352
|
(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.
Location | 1 January 2005 | 1 January 2006 | 1 January 2007 | 1 January 2008
|
HQ Departments | 96.25 | 103 | (75) | (75)
|
Antrim DCU | 9 | 4.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Ards DCU | 7.5 | 5.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Armagh DCU | 4 | 4 | (75) | (75)
|
Banbridge DCU | 5.25 | 3.5 | (75) | (75)
|
Belfast East DCU | 11 | 7.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Belfast North DCU | 14.25 | 11.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Belfast South DCU | 17.5 | 13,25 | (75) | (75)
|
Belfast West DCU | 11.75 | 8 | (75) | (75)
|
Ballymena DCU | 7.25 | 4.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Ballymoney DCU | 3.75 | 2.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Carrickfergus DCU | 4.25 | 2.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Coleraine DCU | 9 | 5.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Cookstown DCU | 4 | 3.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Craigavon DCU | 10.75 | 7.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Castlereagh DCU | 6.25 | 4 | (75) | (75)
|
Dungannon DCU | 6.5 | 4.5 | (75) | (75)
|
Down DCU | 8 | 5.5 | (75) | (75)
|
Fermanagh DCU | 5 | 5 | (75) | (75)
|
Foyle DCU | 8.5 | 8.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Lame DCU | 4 | 3 | (75) | (75)
|
Limavady DCU | 3.75 | 3 | (75) | (75)
|
Lisburn DCU | 8.75 | 8.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Maghaerafelt DCU | 3.5 | 2.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Moyle DCU | 1 | 1 | (75) | (75)
|
Newtownabbey DCU | 6.25 | 5.25 | (75) | (75)
|
North Down DCU | 7.75 | 5 | (75) | (75)
|
Newry and Mourne DCU | 9 | 6.25 | (75) | (75)
|
Omagh DCU | 6.25 | 4 | (75) | (75)
|
Strabane DCU | 6 | 3.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Urgan Region | 1.75 | 1.75 | (75) | (75)
|
Rural Region | 4.5 | 3 | (75) | (75)
|
TOTAL | 312.25 | 260.5 | 246.75 | 233
|
(75) To be modelled