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Departmental Organisation
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will instruct his officials to develop a criminal justice, immigration and mental health flow chart to identify the different routes that offenders follow and to assist in identifying and resolving gaps in the system. [83893]
Mr. Sutcliffe: As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary made clear in his written statement of 23 May 2006, Official Report, columns 78-81 WS, there have never been systematic arrangements in place for collecting information on the nationality of mentally disordered offenders, referring them to the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and considering them for deportation. He has tasked officials to construct arrangements for considering deportation where appropriate for people in this group taking account of their very specific circumstances. This work is ongoing and as part of this, appropriate pathways are being developed for the management of mentally disordered offenders.
Departmental Pay and Pensions
Mr. Benton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of his Department’s Pay and Pensions Service staff (a) are attending and (b) are due to attend the Dale Carnegie training courses, broken down by grade. [84732]
Mr. Byrne: The Investment in Teamworking Programme is run on behalf of HOPPS by Dale Carnegie Training. The programme is compulsory for all HOPPS staff. HOPPS is spilt in to three business areas; Pay Service, Pensions Service and Business Support Section. Staff from Pay Service and Business Support have either already attended the programme or have been allocated to the next round of sessions which begin on 20 July.Staff from Pensions Service will be allocated places on the Programme in the autumn. The breakdown of past and anticipated future attendance is as follows.
| Grade | Attended | Due to attend |
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the pension liability of his Department over the next 30 years. [75278]
Mr. Byrne: I refer the hon. Member to Her Majesty’s Treasury technical Note, which was placed in the Library following an oral statement in Parliament by the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 2 March 2006, Official Report, columns 388-90.
Pension liabilities are not estimated for individual departments, but are estimated for individual pension schemes. The breakdown of liabilities for individual schemes is shown in Table 1 of the technical Note.
Departmental Publications
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in date order (a) Green and (b) White Papers produced by his Department since October 2005. [81310]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is in the following table.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the unnumbered Command papers produced by his Department in each session since 1976; by what means (a) hon. Members and (b) members of the public can (i) inspect and (ii) obtain copies; and if he will make a statement. [81320]
Mr. Byrne: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my Department on 18 July 2005. No unnumbered Command Papers have been produced since the end of June 2005 although the Department has published a number of departmental publications as well as several numbered Command Papers through TSO. The list on the website of the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), www.opsi.gov.uk, of Command Papers from 2001 onwards continues to be updated and allows searching by Department or numerically. All Command Papers presented to the House are recorded in the Commons Journal and are available in the Library of the House.
Departmental publications that are still in print in paper form may be obtained through the Home Office public inquiry unit. TSO bookshops sell Command Papers and other priced publications. The Home Office website www.homeoffice.gov.uk provides access to many recent publications in electronic formats.
Copies of most Home Office departmental publications since 1976 have been sent to the deposit libraries under the legislation in force at the time and will be available to hon. Members and the public in accordance with the conditions of use of each library. Many public library authorities are able to obtain copies of Home Office publications that they do not already stock through long-established inter-lending arrangements.
Departmental Report
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Home Office 2006 Departmental Report, how the £97 million of criminal assets was distributed. [88651]
Mr. Coaker: £26 million was allocated to police forces under the police asset recovery incentive scheme. £9.1 million was allocated to the Crown Prosecution Service for proceeds of crime work. £13.5 million was provided to increase front line asset recovery capacity and activity, including £9.4 million for five multi-agency Regional Asset Recovery Teams. A further £2.6 million was made available to fund additional financial investigators in police forces. In addition, £1.5 million was used to fund a Confiscation Enforcement Task Force. The remainder was used by the Home Office in recognition of its broader responsibility for crime reduction, and contributing towards delivery of our crime and community safety objectives.
Departmental Staff
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in his Department at (a) executive officer level or equivalent and (b) higher executive officer level or equivalent are employed on temporary contracts. [59911]
Mr. Byrne: The available figures are in the following table.
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of staff in his Department are making additional voluntary contributions to their pension. [73022]
Mr. Byrne: A total of 552 Home Office staff currently contribute to Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVC) schemes to supplement their Civil Service Pension. This represents 0.65 per cent. of all employees on the Home Office payroll.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people, and at what grades, are employed in his Department to work on criminal justice aspects of drugs and alcohol misuse. [83923]
Mr. Byrne: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 15 March 2006, Official Report, column 308W.
The breakdown by grade is set out in the following table. This is the most recent available data and differs from the information provided in March.
| Grades | Drugs | Alcohol |
| (1)
Staff joining recently or in
transit. (2) Figure used in 15 March PQ difference is due to time. | ||
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of senior managers within the (a) Serious and Organised Crime Agency, (b) National Offender Management Service, (c) Immigration and Nationality Directorate, (d) Identity and Passport Service, (e) Criminal Records Bureau and (f) Forensic Science Service are (i) female and (ii) male; and if he will make a statement. [88648]
Mr. Byrne: The available figures are set out in the table. The definitions of senior management differs in some areas and figures are for Senior Civil Service grades except for the Prison Service, and Serious Organised Crime Agency where they list senior managers at Grade seven and above, and for Criminal Records Bureau which list their senior managers at Senior Executive Officer and above. Data is at 30 June 2006 except for National Offender Management Service staff in HQ and for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate which is for 31 March 2006. In addition the data for the National Probation Service was only available as at the end of 2005. As a result it has not been possible to provide a consistent figure for the total staff in NOMS. Forensic Science Service ceased to be a Home Office Agency and became a government limited company (Govco) in December 2006. Its figures are for the five SCS equivalent staff.
| Percentage | ||
| Female | Male | |
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff vacancies there are in (a) the probation service, (b) the Prison Service and (c) the immigration and nationality directorate. [88951]
John Reid: The number of staff vacancies for the probation service, the Prison Service and the immigration and nationality directorate are detailed as follows.
(a) In the probation service on the 31 March 2006 there were 977.32 full-time equivalent (FTE) active vacancies in the NPS, and active vacancies accounted for 5.30 per cent. of the available posts in the organisation.
(b) In the Prison Service on 30 June 2006 within the public sector Prison Service there was a variation of 874 between operational staffing requirement and staffing availability. Staffing availability includes the contribution made by officers working contract supplementary hours and agency workers as well as permanent and casual members of staff.
(c) In the immigration and nationality directorate there is no precise figure for vacancies, the level of which will vary depending on a number of factors including volumes of business, forecasts of future staff turnover and assessments of affordability. As an indication, the difference between the number of staff in post at the end of March and the planned average strength for 2006-07 was around 400.
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