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Local Government Finance

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much central Government funding was given to each council in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. [11776]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested is set out in the following tables:
Central Government funding for district councils 2000–01 to 2004–05 £

District council	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	Total
Antrim	1,221,962	1,142,009	1,394,288	1,957,613	2,046,893	7,762,765
Ards	2,001,608	2,140,099	2,925,295	2,898,836	2,985,496	12,951,334
Armagh	2,705,788	2,909,730	3,272,211	3,450,383	3,428,497	15,766,609
Ballymena	1,197,564	1,328,781	1,425,234	1,946,627	1,982,152	7,880,358
Ballymoney	1,598,125	1,828,984	1,630,693	1,857,095	1,806,545	8,721,442
Banbridge	1,660,844	2,307,511	2,086,536	2,326,236	2,381,570	10,762,697
Belfast	7,981,658	8,534,348	9,418,492	11,162,783	11,497,195	48,594,476
Carrickfergus	1,528,876	976,784	1,002,582	1,653,794	1,584,821	6,746,857
Castlereagh	1,142,769	1,146,245	1,328,465	1,413,861	2,051,104	7,082,444
Coleraine	630,185	869,973	798,026	1,163,980	1,960,715	5,422,879
Cookstown	1,401,333	1,641,757	1,817,692	2,192,382	2,386,276	9,439,440
Craigavon	3,027,700	3,327,577	2,815,392	3,559,153	4,557,348	17,287,170
Derry	3,152,200	2,832,151	3,449,096	3,909,602	5,031,597	18,374,646
Down	3,207,863	3,552,429	3,280,728	3,308,630	3,979,151	17,328,801
Dungannon	2,051,596	2,028,771	2,411,776	3,445,659	3,156,924	13,094,726
Fermanagh	1,744,347	1,743,813	2,143,569	3,228,336	3,002,245	11,862,310
Larne	537,289	558,689	872,430	1,324,920	1,019,840	4,313,168
Limavady	1,184,028	1,465,426	1,531,842	1,741,735	1,926,251	7,849,282
Lisburn	2,055,635	2,158,159	2,306,801	2,576,397	3,196,290	12,293,282
Magherafelt	1,939,720	2,012,192	2,162,024	2,536,305	2,599,786	11,250,027
Moyle	1,005,307	1,098,737	1,161,954	1,065,284	1,083,893	5,415,175
Newry and Mourne	4,720,991	5,772,130	4,640,469	4,891,645	5,424,034	25,449,269
Newtownabbey	1,685,346	1,736,238	2,227,015	2,718,824	3,154,124	11,521,547
North Down	909,992	921,596	840,847	1,414,936	1,555,362	5,642,733
Omagh	2,428,368	2,414,582	2,842,863	3,305,773	3,552,886	14,544,472
Strabane	2,323,684	2,551,162	2,638,544	3,131,768	3,671,719	14,316,877
Total	55,044,778	58,999,873	62,424,864	74,182,557	81,022,714	331,674,786

 
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In addition to the aforementioned figures, the following payments have been made to designated employer councils (responsible for distributing funding within their respective groups):
Construction products grants (DOE) £

District council	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Armagh	38,199	39,250	40,339	41,536	41,821
Ballymena	52,727	54,113	55,505	57,074	57,103
Belfast	35,583	36,059	36,515	37,009	36,446
Castlereagh	47,892	49,053	50,346	51,796	51,837
Omagh	34,599	35,525	36,295	37,585	37,793
Total	209,000	214,000	219,000	225,000	225,000

Food safety grants (DOE) £

District council	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Armagh	240,150	243,682	252,348	0	0
Ballymena	286,656	290,508	301,212	0	0
Belfast	231,240	231,613	236,438	0	0
Castlereagh	295,733	299,312	309,706	0	0
Omagh	201,221	203,885	210,296	0	0
Total	1,255,000	1,269,000	1,310,000	0	0

Lottery Funding

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much each district council in Northern Ireland received for projects from Lottery funding in each of the last five years. [14505]

Mr. Hanson: In the last five financial years the Lottery distributors have made the following awards to each of the district councils in Northern Ireland.

District council	2004–05	2003–04	2002–03	2001–02	2000–01
Antrim	210,732	11,845	305,000	—	—
Ards	—	—	—	—	—
Armagh	—	—	1,086,500	4,449	—
Ballymena	—	—	—	—	4,441,000
Ballymoney	173,050	—	—	—	50,000
Banbridge	—	—	3,970	53,000	—
Belfast	517,218	—	—	100,000	—
Carrickfergus	—	5,000	—	695,500	—
Castlereagh	—	—	18,400	18,315	—
Coleraine	—	—	—	1,387,875	—
Cookstown	40,367	9,750	—	—	12,056
Craigavon	372,271	—	1,427,276	—	109,000
Derry	180,254	—	1,480,000	—	—
Down	57,969	819,000	97,250	20,000	—
Dungannon	—	5,000	—	—	500,000
Fermanagh	384,789	—	100,000	—	—
Larne	19,628	200,000	604,500	269,976	—
Limavady	—	—	—	—	15,000
Lisburn	35,301	38,000	542,500	79,564	—
Magherafelt	—	—	—	—	—
Moyle	587,215	—	—	—	—
Newry and Mourne	—	1,500,000	70,000	90,000	—
Newtownabbey	221,350	—	—	—	506,500
North Down	198,948	—	66,120	—	—
Omagh	—	—	—	—	—
Strabane	248,000	108,000	771,200	—	—

 
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Management Consultants

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which five management consultancies received the highest value of contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last three years; and what the total value was of the contracts awarded to each. [12577]

Angela E. Smith: Information about the value of management consultancy contracts awarded by individual Departments in Northern Ireland is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Information on management consultancy contracts awarded by the Central Procurement Directorate on behalf of Departments in Northern Ireland is held by that directorate and is set out as follows.

Management consultancies	Contract values at the time of award (£)
2002–03
PricewaterhouseCoopers	3,202,892
Deloitte & Touche	799,568
Helm Corporation	427,894
BDO Stoy Hayward	318,806
Capita	243,026
2003–04
PricewaterhouseCoopers	3,024,158
Deloitte & Touche	1,273,258
Capita	627,585
Helm Corporation	472,900
FPM Chartered Accountants	265,609
2004–05
Deloitte & Touche	2,034,602
PricewaterhouseCoopers	1,795,149
BDO Stoy Hayward	495,181
Helm Corporation	475,389
ASM Howarth	359,791

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his Department's total spending on management consultants has been in each of the last three years. [13144]

Angela E. Smith: The following outlines the expenditure by the 11 Departments of the Northern
 
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Ireland administration and the Northern Ireland Office excluding agencies and non-departmental public bodies:

	Management consultants(117)
2002–03	4,410,990
2003–04	4,853,689

⁽¹¹⁷⁾Defined as management advisory consultancy work relating to policy appraisal and review, strategic management, organisational development and performance measurement.

Figures for 2004–05 are not currently held centrally however details will be forwarded to my hon. Friend as soon as they are available.

Maternities

Dr. McCrea: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many young women in Northern Ireland in each age cohort from 12 to 18 years gave birth in each year since 2000–01 [15264]

Angela E. Smith: The following table gives the number of maternities ¹ registered by age of mother in Northern Ireland for each calendar year from 2000 to 2004.
Number of maternities by age of mother, 2000–04

	Registration year
Age of mother	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004(119)
12	0	0	0	0	0
13	1	1	2	0	3
14	10	4	3	4	2
15	47	37	32	29	34
16	163	127	113	122	133
17	311	278	304	268	271
18	481	489	491	469	467
12–18	1,013	936	945	892	910

⁽¹¹⁸⁾Maternities are defined to be the number of pregnancies ending in stillbirth or live births with multiple births counting only once.
⁽¹¹⁹⁾Data for 2004 are provisional.

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