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March 2005
PCs Laptops Servers Printers Scanners Copiers Fax

Appeals Agency (inc Tribunal non Departmental Public Bodies)

1,358

233

47

706

7

4

81

Jobcentre Plus

65,310

1,552

1,084

11,336

116

404

27

Child Support Agency

12,830

835

151

1,350

14

43

27

Corporate Centre

20,702

3,657

3,699

3,579

131

35

10

Disability and Carers

8,020

263

161

1,739

14

4

0

Pensions

18,915

2,874

148

2,802

61

13

1

Health and Safety Executive, Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Laboratory

981

270

56

131

22

132

27

Rent Service

908

235

161

333

25

39

90

Disability Rights Commission

314

82

43

51

14

7

9

Independent Living Funds

250

33

17

54

0

4

9

Pensions Protection Fund

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Health and Safety Commission(1)

Pensions Regulator

400

60

65

42

6

5

12

Remploy Limited

800

900

123

1,600

200

120

300

Disability Employment Advisory Committee(2)

Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Industrial Injuries Advisory Council

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

National Employment Panel

39

10

0

13

1

0

1

Social Security Advisory Committee

6

2

0

2

0

0

1

Office Pensions Ombudsman

43

2

1

14

1

2

1

Motability

120

15

11

15

4

6

3

Independent Review Service and Social Fund Commissioner

211

5

6

51

3

5

12

Pensions Advisory Service

44

4

3

16

1

3

2

EDS owned equipment

44,975

4,553

1,900

12,757

121

0

0

Total

176,231

15,585

7,659

36,591

741

826

613

(1) Included in House (2) Included in Corporate Centre Note: Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board has no equipment.

17 July 2006 : Column 239W

Official Visits

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on how many occasions he has visited each region in an official capacity in the last 12 months. [83907]

Mrs. McGuire: In the last 12 months the Secretary of State has made the following number of official visits to each region:

Number

East

1

East Midlands

5

London

3

North East

1

North West

2

Northern Ireland

1

Scotland

2

South West

1

West Midlands

1

Yorkshire and Humber

1


All visits were conducted in accordance with the ministerial code. The official visits figures do not include speeches in London or departmental visits without an external dimension.

Outsourcing

Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what administrative functions for which his Department is responsible are outsourced overseas; and what assessment he has made of the merits of outsourcing further such functions overseas. [81550]

Mrs. McGuire: None of the administrative functions for which the Department for Work and Pensions is responsible are outsourced overseas.

Currently the Department has no intention to locate administration functions overseas, therefore no assessment has been made of the merits.


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Pension Credit

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his estimate is of the (a) number and (b) proportion of pensioners receiving pension credit in (i) 2020, (ii) 2030, (iii) 2040 and (iv) 2050 on the basis of the proposals made by the Pensions Commission; and if he will make a statement. [70294]

James Purnell: The Pensions Commission made no projections of receipt of pension credit in its second report “A New Pension Settlement for the Twenty-First Century”, giving figures for eligibility instead. These are shown in figure 6.42 on page 294.

Public Appointments

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many public appointments are within his patronage; what (a) salary and (b) other emoluments are attached to each; and what the comparable figures were in (i) 1976, (ii) 1986 and (iii) 1996. [83167]

Mrs. McGuire: Details of the public appointments to public bodies sponsored by The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can be found in “Public Bodies”, copies of which are in the Library. “Public Bodies” has been published annually since 1980 and the most recent edition provides figures for 2005. Each edition of “Public Bodies” contains details on the number of public appointments and remuneration details for that particular year. DWP was established in June 2001 and stewardship of those of its public bodies in existence before this time sat within its predecessor Departments. Comparable information for 1976, 1986 and 1996 in respect of DWP public bodies could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Details of the latest remuneration for each of the 130 public appointments to the bodies sponsored by DWP are set out in the following table:


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