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Table 2: Reductions in Staffing from 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006 | |||||||
Jobcentre Plus | The Pension Service | Child Support Agency | Disability and Carers Service | The Rent Service | Appeals Service | Other Departmental Units | |
Note: Figures are full time equivalent (rounded) |
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the change has been in his Departments IT workforce since the Gershon Review; and how many of the IT posts have been outsourced. [109515]
Mrs. McGuire: In July 2004, when the Gershon Review was published the number of staff in the Departments central IT function was 1,232. There are now around 420. There has been no outsourcing of any IT posts.
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions he has had with EU partners on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking. [104781]
Mr. Plaskitt: No discussions have taken place between myself and any of our EU partners in regard of trafficking, as this is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the (a) costs and (b) liabilities are relating to his Departments Private Finance Initiative contract with Land Securities Trillium; and if he will make a statement. [109514]
Mrs. McGuire: The forecast cost and liabilities for the Departments Private Finance Initiative contract with Land Securities Trillium between 1998 and 2018 is £11.517 billion including rates and utilities. The capital values for the contracts are £455 million. The Unitary Charge element, based on actual cash payments to date plus estimated payments to the end of the contract is estimated to be £9.7 billion. The balance between the £11.5 billion and the £9.7 billion is accounted for by rates and utility pass through costs.
The NAO report of 1998-99 estimated that this contract cost 22 per cent. less than continued public sector ownership and management of the estate.
Danny Alexander:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of single under 25-year-old claimants in the local housing allowance pathfinder areas subject to the shared room rate
restriction face a shortfall between their eligible and contractual rent; and what the average size is of that shortfall. [104865]
Mr. Plaskitt [holding answer 7 December 2006]: In February 2006, 69 per cent. of claimants who were single and under 25 years of age in the local housing allowance pathfinders areas subject to the shared room rate restriction faced a shortfall between their eligible and contractual rents. For this group, the average shortfall was £27 per week.
Single claimants under the age of 25 in the private rented sector who are living with one or more non-dependants, are in receipt of a severe disability premium or are a care leaver aged under 22 have been excluded from the analysis provided, in line with the definition of those claimants eligible for the share room rate under the local housing allowance.
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of single claimants under 25 in the local housing allowance pathfinders faced a shortfall between their eligible and contractual rents; and what the average size was of the shortfall they faced (a) at baseline and (b) at 15 months. [104861]
Mr. Plaskitt: At baseline, 68 per cent. of claimants who were single and under 25 years of age in the local housing allowance pathfinder areas faced a shortfall between their eligible and contractual rents. The average shortfall for these claimants was £30 per week.
At May 2005,15 months into the local housing allowance evaluation, 69 per cent. of claimants who were single and under 25 years of age in the pathfinder areas faced a shortfall. The average shortfall for these claimants was £27 per week.
Note:
Those local housing allowance claimants who are single and under 25 years of age but who are living with one or more non-dependants, in receipt of a severe disability premium, or are care leavers aged under 22 years old are excluded from the figures above, as they are not affected by the Shared Room Rate.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which datasets held by his Department have been identified as suitable for use in the National Identity Register database. [103192]
Mr. Plaskitt: Work is still ongoing and decisions have not yet been made on which datasets held by DWP will be suitable for use in the National Identity Register.
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