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Departmental Refurbishment

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the companies to which his Department contracted out their construction and refurbishment work in each of the last three years; and what process his Department used to select each contractor. [18231]

Angela E. Smith: The award of contracts for all construction and refurbishment work by Northern Ireland Departments and their agencies is compliant with public procurement policy and EU Procurement Directives.

The names of the companies and the procedure used in each contract, with a de minimis value of £25,000, are set out as follows.
ContractorProcurement method
April 2002 to March 2003
Adair BrosCompetitive tender
Annvale ConstructionCompetitive tender
Bi Electrical ServicesCompetitive tender
Bradley ConstructionCompetitive tender
Greenline NI Ltd.OGC framework
Henry Bros. Magherafelt Ltd. x 2Competitive tender
Heron BrothersCompetitive tender
Irwin MetalcraftSingle tender action
J. and G. EngineeringCompetitive tender
J. D. McGeown Ltd.Competitive tender
J. H. Turkington and SonsCompetitive tender
Kone (NI) Ltd.Competitive tender
Litton GroupCompetitive tender
Lorne ElectricCompetitive tender
Maurice Stevenson Ltd.Competitive tender
O'Hare and McGovern x 3Competitive tender
Otis Ltd.Competitive tender
Rotary ServicesCompetitive tender
Sharpe Mechanical Services x 2Competitive tender
T. and A. KernoghanCompetitive tender
The McAvoy Grp.Competitive tender
OGC FrameworkCompetitive tender
The Saville Group Ltd.Competitive tender
Vaughan EngineeringCompetitive tender
Vis Security SolutionsCompetitive tender
WC Glazing ContractorsCompetitive tender
William DowlingCompetitive tender
April 2003—March 2004
Bradley ConstructionSingle action tender
David Patton and Sons NICompetitive tender
Gilbert-Ash NI Ltd. x 3Competitive tender
H. and J. Martin Ltd. x 3Competitive tender
Henry Bros. M'felt Ltd.Competitive tender
Litton GroupCompetitive tender
Mascott ConstructionCompetitive tender
McLaughlin and Harvey x 2Competitive tender
O'Hare and McGovernCompetitive tender
Portview Construction and McLaughlin and HarveyCompetitive tender
Radiocontact Ltd.Competitive tender
Sharpe Mechanical ServicesCompetitive tender
The McAvoy GroupSingle action tender
Vaughan Engineering x 3Competitive tender
Vis Security Solutions x 2Competitive tender
April 2004—October 2005
Cleary ContractingCompetitive tender
Fin EngineeringSingle tender action
H. and J. Martin Ltd. x 4Competitive tender
Henry Bros.Competitive tender
RadiocontactCompetitive tender
Sharpe Mechanical ServicesSingle tender action
Tectrol Ltd.Single tender action
Vale Gardenhouses Ltd.Competitive tender

 
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Diet

Dr. McCrea: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people there are in Northern Ireland who have been identified as suffering from malnourishment. [31054]

Mr. Woodward: Information is not available on the number of people in Northern Ireland who have been identified as suffering from malnourishment. However, information is available on the number of admissions to hospital where malnourishment has been diagnosed.

The following table provides figures on the number of admissions to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of malnourishment for each of the last five years for which figures are available. It should be noted that any individual could have been admitted to hospital more than once over the course of a year or over a number of years and would therefore be counted more than once in the table.
Number of admissions(9) to hospital with malnourishment
2004–05427
2003–04411
2002–03446
2001–02473
2000–01403


(9) Discharges and deaths are used as an approximation for admissions.


Disability Living Allowance

Dr. McCrea: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people have been claiming disability living allowance in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years. [30126]


 
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Mr. Hanson: The following table shows the number of people in Northern Ireland who have been claiming disability living allowance in each of the past five years.
Number of people
2001140,479
2002146,548
2003151,870
2004161,839
2005167,156

Down Lisburn Health Trust

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the community care funding allocated to Down Lisburn Health Trust. [29525]

Mr. Woodward: The Department allocates resources to Health and Social Services Boards. It is then the responsibility of each board to determine how it will allocate these resources to local areas and to specific programmes. The Department has not assessed the situation for community care separately, but based on the latest information on planned expenditure for the population of the Down Lisburn locality as a proportion of Northern Ireland expenditure, the level of funding, having adjusted for differences in need, is around the NI average.

Economic Development Strategy

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he has taken to introduce an economic development strategy for Northern Ireland; and what assessment he has made of regional disparities in (a) investment, (b) job creation and (c) wealth in Northern Ireland. [29497]

Angela E. Smith: Delivering the Economic Vision will require concerted action from both the public and private sectors on our stated economic priorities—the four productivity drivers of innovation, skills, enterprise and infrastructure. For its part Government will produce a Regional Economic Strategy that will set out the policy framework for delivering the Economic Vision. The strategy will also form our response to Government policy to progress against targets on regionally balanced economic growth across the UK.
 
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The Northern Ireland strategy is currently being drafted by DFP in collaboration with the other Government departments. The first draft will shortly be circulated to Ministers for consideration and will then issue for wider discussion.

Regional economic disparities within the UK, and Northern Ireland, are being analysed and illustrated within the evolving strategy. Particular attention is being paid to those disparities that impact on the four productivity drivers and the employment rate. With this in mind the current activities of government are also being analysed to gauge the extent to which they effectively contribute to promoting the four productivity drivers.

Economic Inactivity

Dr. McCrea: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland have been economically inactive in each year since 2000. [30128]

Angela E. Smith: The following table shows the number of people in NI classified as economically inactive in each July-September period since 2000. The table gives the number of economically inactive for both the population aged 16 and over and the population of working age.
Economically inactive people in NI (2000–05)

Thousand

Period

16 plus population
Working age population (16–59/64)(10)
July-September 2000522294
July-September 2001504273
July-September 2002510283
July-September 2003517281
July-September 2004542300
July-September 2005517277


(10) Working age is taken as ages 16 to 59 for females and 16 to 64 for males.
Source:
NI Labour Force Survey.




Education and Library Boards

Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were employed in each of the Education and Library Boards in each of the last three years. [29037]

Angela E. Smith: The information provided in the table below is in respect of staff employed in each of the five Education and Library Boards for the last three years. The figures are taken from the Education and Library Boards Annual Statistical Returns to the Department and relate to non-teaching school based and non-school based staff in each board. Figures are in respect of permanent and temporary staff in post at 30 September for each year.
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
Full-timePart-timeFull-timePart-timeFull-timePart-time
BELB1,4132,3221,5343,664(11)2,434 (FTE)Included in FTE figure
NEELB1,6025,1611,6434,6991,4614,981
SEELB1,5034,2371,5584,6031,5395,185
SELB1,2666,3391,2456,3771,3786,948
WELB1,7965,2731,7534,9381,9495,167


(11) BELB moved to a new HR/payroll system on a phased basis from April 2004 and the board is unable to provide a corresponding staff in post figure for 2004–05. The figure the board has provided is an overall full-time-equivalent (FTE) figure, taken over the period April 2004 to March 2005.



 
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