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Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the value was of annual private finance initiative payments made by his Department from (a) capital and (b) revenue budgets in each of the last five years. [137841]

Mrs. McGuire: The value of annual private finance initiative payments made by the Department is as follows:


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£000
Financial year (a) From capital budgets (b) From revenue budgets

2001-02

Nil

329,489

2002-03

Nil

550,668

2003-04

Nil

738,378

2004-05

1,325

1,045,903

2005-06

3,062

753,313


Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what value of annual private finance initiative payments by his Department was classified as (a) identifiable and (b) non-identifiable in each of the last five years, broken down by project. [137842]

Mrs. McGuire: The value of annual private finance initiative payments made by the Department:

(a) Classified as identifiable by-project:

£000
Financial year 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02

Provision of IT services with EDS

80,647

221,009

38,269

2,041

0

Pensions Forecasting System (PFS)

2,986

0

0

0

0

Wide Area Network Services (WAN)

28,781

27,234

18,456

15,087

0

Logica

23,264

23,987

17,680

16,951

0

Bootle accommodation

2,172

0

0

0

0

PRIME

517,671

479,621

339,299

251,418

329,489

Strategic Outsourcing Business Allocation (SOBA)

71,757

206,998

239,367

251,411

0

New Tax Credits (NTC)

4,842

12,862

16,425

700

0

Advanced Telephony Business Allocation (ATBA)

21,193

17,876

13,137

0

0

Child Support Reform (CSR)

0

53,290

50,570

8,916

0

Rebus

0

3,026

5,175

4,144

0

HSE Health and Safety Laboratories, Buxton

3,062

1,325

0

0

0

Total

756,375

1,047,228

738,378

550,668

329,489


(b) Classified as non-identifiable—by project

The Department is unaware of any non-identifiable annual private finance initiative payments made.

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what value of annual private finance initiative (PFI) payments by his Department was (a) to repay capital and (b) expenditure on other parts of each PFI contract in each of the last five years, broken down by project. [137843]

Mrs. McGuire: The value of annual private finance initiative payments made by the Department:


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(a) To repay capital—by project:

£000
Financial years 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02

HSE Health and Safety Laboratories Serviced Accommodation at Harpur Hill, Buxton

3,062

1,325

0

0

0


(b) Expenditure on other parts of each PFI contract—by project:

£000
Financial years 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02

Provision of IT services with EDS

80,647

221,009

38,269

2,041

0

Pensions Forecasting System (PFS)

2,986

0

0

0

0

Wide Area Network Services (WAN)

28,781

27,234

18,456

15,087

0

Logica

23,264

23,987

17,680

16,951

0

Bootle Accommodation

2,172

0

0

0

0

PRIME

517,671

479,621

339,299

251,418

329,489

Strategic Outsourcing Business Allocation (SOBA)

71,757

206,998

239,367

251,411

0

New Tax Credits (NTC)

4,842

12,862

16,425

700

0

Advanced Telephony Business Allocation (ATBA)

21,193

17,876

13,137

0

0

Child Support Reform (CSR)

0

53,290

50,570

8,916

0

Rebus

0

3,026

5,175

4,144

0

Total

753,313

1,045,903

738,378

550,668

329,489


Employment Schemes: Bedfordshire

Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what funding is available to organisations assisting (a) long-term unemployed and (b) disabled people into work in (i) Luton and (ii) Bedfordshire. [139985]

Mr. Jim Murphy: The information is not available in the form requested.

Employment Schemes: Urban Areas

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 6 December 2006, Official Report, column 524W, on city strategy partnerships, what the formula is for distributing the savings for his Department arising out of city strategy partnerships. [139488]

Mr. Jim Murphy: We are committed to paying reward funding to high-performing pathfinders to encourage them to innovate, and to ensure that they have a stake in, and are able to share in, the success they have in helping people into work.


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We have announced that at least £5 million of reward money will be available, and we are continuing to work on a mechanism for allocating these funds.

Financial Assistance Scheme

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many former Allied Steel and Wire workers are forecast to receive (a) 80 per cent., (b) 65 per cent. and (c) 50 per cent. of their (i) expected occupational pension and (ii) core pension under the Financial Assistance Scheme; and if he will make a statement. [136633]

James Purnell: As FAS payments commence at age 65, (except in special circumstances where early access to payments can be applied for by scheme trustees for terminally ill qualifying members or the survivor of a qualifying member), under the current scheme no one would be expected to start receiving payments at the rate of 65 per cent. or 50 per cent. until at least 15 May 2011 or 15 May 2015 respectively. However, our announcement of increased funding for FAS means that by then all will receive 80 per cent.

At 65 all members will receive at least 80 per cent. of their expected core pension (subject to the cap).

There are two qualifying Allied Steel and Wire schemes for FAS purposes.


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