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Post Office Ltd
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the service contracts in place between his Department and Post Office Ltd. [48730]
Mr. Plaskitt: The service contracts in place between the Department for Work and Pensions and Post Office Ltd are:
2. A contract to ensure that customers who are receiving payment by cheque can continue to receive payments in the event of disruption to normal delivery services.
Public Service Agreement Data
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the data to measure 2004 public service agreement target No. 2 are published. [29200]
Mrs. McGuire: The Department for Work and Pensions 2004 public service agreement target No. 2 is a joint target with the Department for Education and Skills. The target appears as target No. 1 in the Department for Education and Skills public service agreement.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided on 10 January 2006, Official Report, column 517W, by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Children and Families (Beverley Hughes).
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the data required to measure 2004 public service agreement target No. 3 are from consistent data sources. [29201]
Mrs. McGuire: The Department for Work and Pensions 2004 public service agreement target No. 3 is a joint target with the Department for Education and Skills. The target appears as target No. 2 in the Department for Education and Skills public service agreement.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided on 9 January 2006, Official Report, column 426W, by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Children and Families (Beverley Hughes).
Social Security Benefits
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what (a) identifiable administration costs and (b) Scotland's share of non-identifiable administration costs associated with the delivery of social security benefits in Scotland were in 2004–05; and what the (i) identifiable and (ii) non-identifiable costs were per benefit recipient of administration. [46144]
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Mr. Plaskitt: The administration budgets regime overseen by Treasury does not monitor country or regional administration costs separately. In addition administration costs are only reported at a strategic objective level.
Non-identifiable expenditure is deemed to be incurred on behalf of the UK as a whole.
The Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis published annually by Treasury contains information on country and regional analysis of departmental expenditure.
Statutory Instruments
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many statutory instruments introduced by his Department were (a) withdrawn, (b) amended by a further statutory instrument and (c) reprinted because of defective drafting in each session since 1997; and what steps he (i) is taking and (ii) plans to take to prevent further such instances. [33656]
Mrs. McGuire: The information is not available in the format requested. The Department for Work and Pensions was formed in June 2001 from the Department of Social Security and parts of the former Department for Education and Employment including the Employment Service. The information in this response relates to the DWP and the DSS. Since 1997, four draft statutory instruments have been withdrawn and 23 instruments issued free of charge because of an error or defect in an earlier instrument.
The Department lays in the order of 90 statutory instruments a year. We have a range of measures in place to provide expert advice and training to lawyers and officials involved in the process and aim to ensure that lessons are learned.
Vandalism
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the acts of vandalism which have been perpetrated (a) inside and (b) on the outside of his Department's buildings in the last 12 months. [49513]
Mrs. McGuire: This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.