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Secondments

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in his Department have been on attachment (a) from and (b) to biosecurity companies in the last three years, broken down by company. [20503]

Mr. Charles Clarke: Attachments are part of the Interchange initiative, which promotes the exchange of people and good practice between the civil service and other organisations—public, private and voluntary. Interchange provides opportunities for civil servants to learn new skills, widen their experience and develop their ideas. It also brings in skills and experience from other sectors. There have been no staff in the Home Department on attachment to or from biosecurity companies in the past three years.

Secure Training Centres

Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions young people have been handcuffed in each of the secure training centres in each of the last six months. [22303]

Fiona Mactaggart: The information requested is given in the table.
Number of occasions young people handcuffed in STCs

	Hassockfield	Oakhill	Medway	Rainsbrook
April	1	2	0	0
May	2	2	0	0
June	1	1	0	0
July	11	4	0	0
August	10	6	0	0
September	4	2	0	0

Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many secure training centres were included in the review of restraint in secure training centres. [22305]

Fiona Mactaggart: The review involved the Prison Service national instructors in Physical Control in Care visiting all three of the centres then in operation (Hassockfield, Medway and Rainsbrook) and producing proposals for change to a review panel of independent experts.

Senior Officers (Transport)

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many senior officers are provided with transport for (a) business and (b) private use, broken down by rank, in each police force in England and Wales. [23935]

 
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Hazel Blears: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Serious Fraud Office

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 11 July 2005, Official Report, column 631W, on the Serious Fraud Office, whether all parties have now agreed the revised version of the memorandum of understanding; and if he will make a statement. [22783]

Paul Goggins [holding answer 28 October 2005]: The revised version of the memorandum of understanding is still to be finally agreed by all parties. The Home Office is co-ordinating this task and expects the revised version to be agreed shortly. The current version of the MOU is available on request, and the revised version will be placed in the Library.

Terrorism Act

Ms Butler: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he collates on terrorist suspects. [21722]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The police and security service are responsible for collecting information on terrorist suspects. The Home Office do not routinely collect detailed information on all terrorist cases, but does keep some records, particularly regarding individuals subject to criminal, immigration, extradition or other judicial action and to facilitate work with other departments. Statistics on arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the report published by the reviewer of the Terrorism Act 2000 are available on the Home Office website.

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the organisations, causes, or movements that each of the people so far convicted of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 were associated with. [19402]

Mr. Charles Clarke: Most offences in the Terrorism Act 2000 do not rely on a link with a proscribed organisation. Such a link is necessary only in respect of the offences in sections 11 to 13, and even in such cases, the particular proscribed organisation involved is not expressly reflected in the indictment. Accordingly, the information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Violent Incidents

Dr. Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the number of violent incidents which resulted in injuries caused by glasses or glass bottles in 2004–05. [23559]

Hazel Blears: Estimates of the proportion of violent incidents that involve use of a glass or bottle based on the 2004–05 British crime survey (BCS) will be published shortly. However, available data from the 2003–04 BCS indicates that a glass or bottle is used as a weapon in 5 per cent. of violent incidents.
 
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Volunteering

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much of the Volunteer Recruitment Fund remains unallocated; and if he will make a statement. [21973]

Paul Goggins: None of the Volunteer Recruitment Fund remains unallocated. The total allocation in 2004–05 and 2005–06 is £3,985,861.

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many volunteering positions his Department has offered in each of the last five years. [17875]

Mr. Charles Clarke: These figures are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the publication Think Smart . . . Think Voluntary Sector; and if he will make a statement. [21974]

Paul Goggins: The cost of printing Think Smart . . . Think Voluntary Sector was £5,182. The publication promotes good practice in contractual arrangements with the voluntary and community sector.

The Government are committed to a strong and thriving voluntary and community sector, and ensuring its role in public service reform. Think Smart . . . Think Voluntary Sector aims to highlight the value of and opportunities for working with the sector. It also addresses the barriers it can face in dealing with public sector bodies. A better funding relationship will help voluntary and community sector organisations to be more effective and achieve better value for money.

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the impact of the 2005 Year of the Volunteer campaign; and if he will make a statement. [21968]

Paul Goggins: The Year of the Volunteer 2005 has been a successful celebration of the contribution made by volunteers, with over 1,000 events organised during the Year so far. The Year has been led by the voluntary and community sector and early indications are that the sector plans to repeat the 'Environment' and 'Health' theme months in 2006. We are commissioning an
 
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independent research organisation to conduct a review of the Year which we hope will be completed by March of next year.

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visitors have visited the 2005 Year of the Volunteer campaign website www.yearofthevolunteer.org, broken down by month; what the cost has been of this website; and if he will make a statement. [21970]

Paul Goggins: 260,735 people have visited the Year of the Volunteer 2005 website during the year. The details are given in table one. The figures reflect, in particular, the very popular Special Constables recruitment campaign in the spring and the launch of the 'Billion Minutes' campaign in the summer. The total cost of the website (projected to 31 December 2005) is approximately £67,400.
Table 1: Breakdown of page views, visits and visitors to the Year of the Volunteer 2005 website, broken down by month

Date	Page views	Visits	Visitors
2005
January	24,545	11,922	11,240
February	75,664	22,612	21,051
March	238,376	66,340	62,542
April	103,448	27,716	26,093
May	87,417	23,011	21,725
June	111,491	32,435	30,527
July	128,833	35,423	33,285
August	176,678	30,456	28,592
September	156,118	27,085	25,680
Total	1,102,570	277,000	260,735
Average	122,508	30,778	28,971

Note:
One single review shows you how often visitors look at specific pages on your website, in how many visits and by how many visitors.

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the expenditure by his Department was on the 2005 Year of the Volunteer campaign; and if he will make a statement. [21971]

Paul Goggins: The Home Office expenditure for the Year of the Volunteer 2005 is £7.1 million The details of how this has been allocated is given in the table. Volunteering is a devolved issue and expenditure listed is England-wide only.

The Home Office expenditure for the Year of the Volunteer follows at table 1.
Table 1: Home Office investment into YV05

	Amount invested by the Home Office (£)	Policy initiatives
Community Service Volunteers	1,000,000	Principal Voluntary Sector partner delivering a range of activities, events, promotional materials and press and media coverage
Community Service Volunteers	500,000	To deliver a government employee volunteering scheme
Volunteering England	1,000,000	Principal Voluntary Sector partner working with a consortium to deliver a range of activities, events, promotional materials and press and media coverage
Volunteering England	3,000,000	To increase the capacity of local volunteer centres throughout England
Volunteering England	250,000	Small grants programme for other stakeholders who can contribute to achieving the objectives of YOV 2005
Marketing/Communications Support	250, 000	Research and branding, publicity, partnership marketing and the YOV 2005 website (www.yearofthevolunteer.org)
Website and YOV 2005 evaluation support	100,000	To develop and enhance www.yearofthevolunteer.org and manage project evaluation
Media Trust	1,000,000	For high-profile, multi-media consumer marketing campaign which aims to supercharge the year, raise awareness of volunteering and drive registrations of new volunteers
Total	7,100,000

 
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