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The data provided by the previous NICS travel-booking provider cover the period 1 April 2003 to 31 October 2004 and travel to various destinations. This information is not available by financial year but is aggregated by Department over the period.
(b) The number of occasions and associated costs for air travel by staff from the Northern Ireland Office over the last financial year is in the following table.
| Table 3 | ||||
| Occasions First Class | Cost First Class (£) | Occasions Business Class | Cost Business Class (£) | |
Details in relation to previous years are not available.
Departmental Websites
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many websites there are within his responsibilities; and what the total cost of maintaining such websites was in the last year for which figures are available. [79065]
Mr. Hanson: The Northern Ireland Civil Service Departments and their Agencies and the Northern Ireland Office and its Agencies have a total of 88 websites. During the last financial year the total cost of maintaining these websites was approximately £1,362,399.
Dissident Republican Paramilitaries
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 19 April 2006, Official Report, column 723W, on dissident Republican paramilitaries, whether on 11 January he was in possession of any information to the effect that dissident Republican paramilitaries were engaged in a major recruitment drive in Northern Ireland. [69244]
Paul Goggins: In previous answers to this question (27 February, 16 March and 19 April 2006) the hon. Member was advised that the 8th IMC report published on 1 February 2006, indicated evidence that dissident Republican groups were attempting to recruit members. I can advise that the 10th IMC report published on 26 April 2006 repeats this earlier assessment that dissident Republican groups are attempting to recruit members.
Northern Ireland Memorial Fund
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what total amount has been paid out by the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund in each year since it was created; how many people received money from the fund in each year; and how much has been paid out by the fund to people from (a) the Unionist community and (b) the nationalist/republican community. [65327]
Mr. Hanson: The Northern Ireland Memorial Fund was established in 1999 to provide practical support to those bereaved and injured as a result of the troubles.
The total amounts paid out and the number of people benefiting in each year are as follows:
| Year ending | Amount (£) | Number of people |
Applicants are asked to provide details on how they meet the fund criteria in terms of bereavement or injury. The Northern Ireland Memorial Fund does not require details on community background and therefore cannot provide information relating to money paid in respect of either the Unionist or nationalist/republican community.
Prisons
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many escapes from (a) prisons and (b) young offender institutions in Northern Ireland there have been in each year since 1990. [78737]
Paul Goggins: The following table sets out the number of prison escapes since 1990. The Maze prison closed in 2000, Maghaberry and Magilligan are male adult prisons and Hydebank Wood is a young offender centre and female prison.
| Maze | Maghaberry | Magilligan | Hydebank wood | |
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prosecutions there have been for supplying illegal drugs in prisons in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [78739]
Mr. Hanson: The court proceedings and sentencing data sources do not include information on the circumstances surrounding the commission of an offence. While the total number of prosecutions for supplying illegal drugs is collated, those which occurred in prisons cannot be separately identified.
Rape
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average length of sentence in Northern Ireland for (a) rape and (b) serious sexual assault was in each of the last five years, broken down by whether the defendant pleaded guilty. [80028]
Mr. Hanson: Due to a change in the data source for prosecutions and sentencing data, information disaggregated by defendant plea is not available beyond 1999. The 1999 data is provided in the following table.
Table 1 also provides the number sentenced to immediate custody for rape (including attempts) and indecent assault in 2000 to 2003 and the average length of custodial sentence passed for each.
Figures beyond 2003 are not yet available.
| Table 1: Number sentenced to immediate custody( 1) and the average sentence length in months( 2) for rape, attempted rape and indecent assault 1999-2003 | |||||
| Rape( 3) | Indecent assault( 4) | ||||
| Plea | Number sentenced to immediate custody | Average sentence length (months) | Number sentenced to immediate custody | Average sentence length (months) | |
| (1) Figures include persons sentenced to prison, YOG, and custody probation. (2) Rounded to nearest whole number. (3) Includes attempts. (4) Indecent assault includes indecent assault on female, indecent assault on male, indecent assault on female child and indecent assault on male child. Note: Figures are based on principal offence rule. | |||||
Rates
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he proposes to freeze rates on industrial property at 25 per cent. for the period 2007-08. [80450]
Mr. Hanson: No. I will, however, reflect on the Assembly resolution.
Recycling
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what progress has been made in encouraging people in Northern Ireland to recycle. [80096]
David Cairns: The Department of the Environment, building on its “Wake up to Waste” programme, has continued to support the design, promotion and delivery of local waste awareness campaigns. This has made a major contribution to the dramatic increase in household waste recycling from 5 per cent. in 1999 to 23.4 per cent. in 2005.
The recently published “Waste Management Strategy” also contains policies and actions aimed at increasing resource efficiency through the promotion of recycling.
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