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Expenditure: Brunswick
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what payments have been made by her Department to (a) Brunswick Arts International and (b) the Brunswick Group in each of the last five years. [104696]
Mr. Lammy: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has made no payments to (a) Brunswick Arts International and (b) the Brunswick Group in each of the last five years.
Freedom of Information: Sport England
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she expects to respond to the Freedom of Information request, reference 53289, on the Chair of Sport England submitted on 18 October 2006. [107841]
Mr. Caborn: In line with the Freedom of Information Act, I wrote to the hon. Gentleman on 27 November enclosing information relevant to his request. This followed receipt of his letter of 9 November clarifying the scope of his information request.
Official Visits: Australia
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many officials are accompanying the Minister for Sports on his trip to Australia; what the estimated cost of the visit is; and whom he intends to meet. [104689]
Mr. Caborn: I was accompanied by an assistant private secretary and a press officer. The estimated total cost of the trip was £20,050.
I held meetings with Richard Brading (Principal Solicitor, Betsafe), Brian Farrell (Casino Control Authority), Michael Foggo (Commissioner NSW Office of Liquor and Gaming), hon. Nick Xenophon (SA Legislative Council member) and hon. Paul Caica MP (SA Minister responsible for Gambling) to discuss problem gambling and gambling regulation. I discussed Olympic legacy issues at meetings with Ron Walker (Chair Melbourne 2006), hon. Sandra Nori MP (NSW Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation), hon. Michael Wright MP (SA Minister for Sport) and Bob Adby (NSW Department for Arts, Sport and Recreation). In addition, I met with SA Premier hon. Mike Rann MP and ex-Premier John Brennan, hon. Ian McLachlan (Chairman Adelaide Oval), Percy Sonn (ICC President), Creagh O'Connor (Chairman Cricket Australia) to discuss sport and cricket matters.
Publicly Owned Art
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has made of the percentage of publicly owned art which is held in London. [106375]
Mr. Lammy: No such estimate has been made, either by number of works of art or by value.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate her Department has made of (a) the quantity and (b) the value of art held by publicly owned galleries that is not on display. [106569]
Mr. Lammy:
It is generally estimated that there are 200 million objects in registered or accredited museums
in the UK. It is estimated that, at any one time, approximately 90 per cent. of museum and gallery collections are not on display. There is no separate estimate, either by number or value, solely for works of art in publicly owned galleries.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has made of the value of art sold by local authorities in each year since 1997. [106570]
Mr. Lammy: The occurrence of local authorities selling art from their museums and galleries is rare. No central record is kept at national level, but any such sales should have taken place in accordance with disposal policies designed to protect the collection.
Recruitment
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much her Department spent on recruitment advertising in each of the last three years. [107743]
Mr. Lammy: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s expenditure on external recruitment in the last three years was as follows, £70,786 in 2003-04, £34,931 in 2004-05 and £130,980 in 2005-06. It is not possible to separate the costs of advertising from the other costs associated with external recruitment, e.g. sifting, interviewing etc.
Renaissance in the Regions
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much her Department has spent administering the Renaissance in the Regions scheme. [106372]
Mr. Lammy: The Renaissance in the Regions programme is administered by a small central team at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). The total cost of the MLA's administration team to date has been less than 1 per cent. of the Renaissance programme budget. Details are set out in the following table.
| Renaissance administration costs | ||
| Number of staff | Total administration cost (£) | |
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what measures the Government are taking to encourage London galleries to loan works of art to galleries outside the capital. [106374]
Mr. Lammy: The Department encourages national museums to loan collection pieces by means of a specific performance indicator incorporated into funding agreements. This measures
“all venues to which objects from the collection are loaned”.
Our consultation document “Understanding the Future: Priorities for England’s Museums”, published on 23 October suggests that new collaborative approaches to sharing and developing collections should be created over the next decade. This will build on the strong base of partnership working, which already exists.
Rugby
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the RFU’s Community Club Development Programme during its first three years of operation; and if she will make a statement. [107483]
Mr. Caborn [holding answer 4 December 2006]: £100 million of Community Club Development Programme (CCDP) funding is available to 19 National Sports Governing Bodies.
Since 2003, the Rugby Football Union has awarded £10.6 million of CCDP funding to over 160 sports facility projects.
Early findings from Sport England’s monitoring and evaluation of CCDP indicate average linked increases in participation rates (31 per cent.); club membership (28 per cent.); coaching (64 per cent.); and number of volunteers (64 per cent.).
Home Department
Asylum Seekers
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost per week was of section 4 support for a failed asylum seeker in the latest period for which figures are available. [101780]
Mr. Byrne: The average cost per week for support of a failed asylum seeker on section 4 support was last calculated in 2005 as approximately £129 per week.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed asylum seekers were receiving section 4 support on 30 September (a) 2006, (b) 2005 and (c) 2004. [101783]
Mr. Byrne: The number of failed asylum seekers receiving section 4 support is only available from March 2005. The number of failed asylum seekers in receipt of section 4 support is published on a quarterly and annual basis. The latest publication covering the third quarter of 2006 is available on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those given community service orders were failed asylum seekers in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [104543]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not available centrally.
Bluewater
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what police presence is located at the Bluewater shopping mall estate; and whether any police on duty at the estate are armed; [106495]
(2) how quickly the local police force can arrive at the Bluewater shopping centre in the event of a large scale event. [106765]
Mr. McNulty: The chief constable is responsible for the day to day operational management of the force.
British Crime Survey
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether specific information about a crime obtained during a British Crime Survey may be passed to the police by the person carrying out a survey. [103133]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 23 November 2006]: Data collected during the British Crime Survey is done so in accordance with Market Research Society protocols on data confidentiality and protection.
Cautions
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cautions have been issued in each of the last five years; for what categories of offences cautions were issued; and whether cautions can be repeated for the same offence. [104491]
Mr. Coaker: Data on cautions issued in the last five years by offence type are presented in Table 3.1 of Criminal Statistics 2005 which can be found at the following web site link: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimstats05.html
Guidance on the use of the Simple Caution for adult offenders is set out in Home Office circular 30/2005. The police (and CPS where appropriate) will consider whether a caution is appropriate to the offence and the offender and whether it is likely to be effective in the circumstances. If the suspect has previously received a caution, a further caution should not normally be considered. However, if there has been a sufficient lapse of time to suggest that a previous caution has had a significant deterrent effect (two years or more), a caution can be used.
In the case of those aged 10-17 cautions were replaced by the Final Warning Scheme under Sections 65 and 66 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which introduced reprimands and final warnings. Depending on the seriousness of the offence, a reprimand is normally given for a first offence and a final warning for a second offence. If a young person who has been given a final warning commits a further offence he or she must be charged (the only exception is where it is at least two years since the previous warning and the offence is not so serious as to require a charge, in which case a further warning can be given).
C-NOMIS IT Project
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the C-NOMIS IT project is (a) on budget and (b) on schedule. [101492]
John Reid: The C-NOMIS project is currently on schedule to meet its next milestone, to implement its first release in the HM Prison Service designated early adopter, HMP Albany on 10 December 2006.
The final decision to go live in Albany will be taken by the NOMIS Programme Board on 6 December 2006 on the basis of the outcome of the User Acceptance Test and the operational readiness of the prison to accept implementation.
Progress on further releases and implementation is the subject of a detailed review planned to report by the end of January 2007. This will be considered along with any feedback from implementation in HMP Albany to finalise the way forward and timing.
The project is currently within allocated funds. The business case for the project is regularly reviewed and more than meets the criteria for return on the investment proposed.
Community Support Officers
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there are per hundred thousand of population in each police force in England and Wales. [107662]
Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the table.
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