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La Mon House Bombing

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he plans to meet the victims of the La Mon House bombing. [69670]

Mr. Hanson: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has agreed to meet the hon. Lady and the victims of the La Mon House bombing as soon as a meeting can be arranged.

MOT

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many vehicles were tested at each of the MOT test centres in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [71126]

David Cairns: The following table details all MOT tests undertaken in Northern Ireland in the last five years.

Centre	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Armagh	19,691	17,007	22,940	16,158	21,524
Ballymena	42,742	28,340	44,213	46,479	42,788
Belfast	59,954	44,794	59,697	47,194	63,188
Coleraine	28,384	34,049	39,058	41,261	45,121
Cookstown	30,470	35,003	37,397	36,827	41,238
Craigavon	31,833	31,016	36,459	25,182	30,291
Downpatrick	21,538	20,614	29,870	33,412	27,387
Enniskillen	22,993	16,548	25,827	25,648	28,988
Larne	11,852	20,570	25,616	23,002	26,031
Lisburn	22,033	34,578	35,711	26,790	34,724
Londonderry	31,431	27,802	35,516	26,585	38,159
Mallusk	50,943	61,200	37,978	41,109	49,934
Newry	33,326	41,446	31,505	28,410	44,541
Newtownards	50,833	53,761	56,540	56,517	64,286
Omagh	19,240	31,964	19,440	23,444	26,458
Total	477,263	498,692	537,767	498,018	584,658

New Build Housing Programme

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the legislative framework will be for the transfer of the management of the new build housing programme from the Department of Social Development to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. [68254]

Mr. Hanson: Consultation on the Housing (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 is currently under way and responses are due by 21 July 2006. On receipt of responses, amendments will be made to the order if necessary. Following on from this the appropriate legislative route will be followed and it is hoped that the legislation will be effective from April 2007.

Northern Ireland Civil Service

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many vacancies there are in the Northern Ireland civil service at (a) AO, (b) EOII,
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(c) EOI and (d) SO grades, broken down by parliamentary constituency. [68257]

Mr. Hanson: Details of vacancies in the Northern Ireland civil service at (a) AO, (b) EO11, (c) EO1 and (d) SO grades, broken down by parliamentary
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constituency are shown in the following table. These figures relate to vacancies for which Departments have current financial provision and are within the departmental headcount.

The table also shows identified surpluses for each grade.

Vacancies/surpluses in the Northern Ireland civil service broken down by parliamentary constituency at 2 May 2006
Parliamentary constituency	SO vacancies	SO surpluses	EO1 vacancies	E01 surpluses	E011 vacancies	E011 surpluses	AO vacancies	AO surpluses
Belfast East	24	—	4	—	21	4	16	2
Belfast North	4	—	4	—	27	—	10	—
Belfast South	38	—	27	3	78	4	44	3
Belfast West	3	—	1	—	22	—	—	14
North Down	6	—	1	—	6	—	6	2
Lagan Valley	—	—	1	—	1	—	2	1
Strangford	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	4
Fermanagh and South Tyrone	—	—	1	2	—	—	1	16
West Tyrone	2	—	1	1	2	1	11	10
Foyle	2	—	3	—	4	—	1	18
Newry and Armagh	1	—	1	1	—	—	—	6
South Down	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	8
North Antrim	2	—	1	—	2	—	1	8
South Antrim	—	—	—	—	1	2	9	11
Antrim Coast and Glens	—	—	—	—	—	5	—	2
East Londonderry	—	—	1	—	3	—	4	3
Mid Ulster	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2
Upper Bann	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10

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