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Privately run prisons costs per place | ||
Establishment | Occupancy | Cost (£) |
(1) Costs related to re-role from female to male establishments. Notes: 1. The prison place numbers used in calculating the costs per place are the Certified Normal Accommodation data. Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA), or uncrowded capacity, is the Prison Services own measure of accommodation. CNA represents the good, decent standard of accommodation that the Service aspires to provide all prisoners. 2. Establishments are categorised in these tables by their main role only. For this reason, performance of prisons within a category cannot necessarily be compared on a like for like basis. 3. Peterborough prison is not included as it was being brought into operation during 2005-06. |
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2007, Official Report, column 591W, on the Delivery Unit, whether joint reviews result in the drawing up of action points that departments are expected to take forward; [144496]
(2) pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2007, Official Report, column 591W, on the Delivery Unit, how many joint reviews the Delivery Unit has carried out in each financial year since 2001-02; [144497]
(3) pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2007, Official Report, column 591W, on the Delivery Unit, what the subject was of each of the joint reviews; [144498]
(4) what criteria are used to decide whether the Delivery Unit conducts a joint review with a department of a particular programme or area; [144526]
(5) whether the Delivery Unit produced guidance for its staff on procedures to follow when carrying out joint reviews with other Government departments. [144530]
Hilary Armstrong: Reports arising from joint reviews conducted by the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit and Departments are policy advice to the Prime Minister and Ministers. Reports contain advice including recommendations for actions to be carried out by Departments. It is for the Prime Minister and Secretary of State to decide how these should be taken forward.
Since its inception, PMDU has conducted joint reviews with Departments as follows:
Reviews | |
In the past 12 months, PMDU has carried out the following joint reviews with
Asset Recovery
Antisocial Behaviour
Reducing Reoffending,
Citizen Focused Policing
Respect Action Plans
High Crime Causing Drug Users
National Offender Management
Non-Custodial Sentences
New Asylum Model
Departments Capability Review.
Primary and Secondary School Standards National Strategy
Teenage pregnancy
Pupil attendance
Pupil behaviour
Targeted Youth Support
Building Schools for the Future
14-19 local delivery policy
Departments Capability Review
18 weeks
Choice of four providers
Practice-based commissioning
NHS reform programme
Childhood obesity
PCT Capability
Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health
Departments Capability Review
Access to the Arts
Review of Government Offices
Sustainable Procurement
Cross Government Delivery of Local Area Agreements
Decisions on whether to conduct a review are taken jointly by PMDU and the Department concerned in consultation with No. 10.
PMDU has produced guidance on conducting joint reviews for use in training staff.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many staff (a) were working in the Prime Ministers delivery unit on 31 March 2007 and (b) are expected to be working in the delivery unit on 31 March 2008, broken down by payband. [144529]
Hilary Armstrong: The unit is led at Permanent Secretary level, and its staffing profile at 31 March 2007 was 46 full-time equivalent staff, breaking down as the following mix of grades:
Number | |
The size of the unit and mix of grades at 31 March 2008 is in the process of being determined.
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much the Department spent on (a) management consultants and (b) other external consultants and advisers in each year since 2000; and which of these consultants undertook work for the Department with a total contractual value in excess of £10 million over this period. [146340]
Hilary Armstrong: For details of my Departments spend on consultancy in each year since 2000, I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) and the hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) on 29 November 2006, Official R eport, columns 767-08W.
My Department does not hold a central record of the total value of consultancy contracts, therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost.
Mrs. May: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which advertising and marketing campaigns were run by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years; which external agencies were involved; and what the cost was of each campaign. [144618]
Hilary Armstrong: The campaigns run by the Department and its agencies were as follows:
Campaign | External Agencies | Cost (£) | |
Alan Duncan: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the total cost was of producing and publishing the policy review document Building on progress: Energy and environment. [144830]
Hilary Armstrong: Final costs of producing and publishing this document are not yet available.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2007, Official Report, column 652W, on general practitioners: working hours, (1) what work the Delivery Unit has done on out-of-hours care since 2001; [144494]
(2) whether the Unit has conducted a joint review of out-of-hours care since 2001. [144495]
Hilary Armstrong: The Prime Ministers Delivery Units (PMDU) role is to monitor and report on delivery of the Prime Ministers top delivery and reform priorities. Out-of-hours care is not one of the areas on which PMDUs health team has worked, and PMDU has not conducted a joint review on it since 2001.
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what bodies are funded within the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme; how much each is due to receive over the next five years; what the administration cost is of each; and if he will make a statement. [145619]
Mr. Bradshaw: The Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programmes (BREW) funding is distributed to regional and national delivery bodies over three years (April 2005 to March 2008), with the amount increasing each year. We are now in Year 3, the final year, of the current Programme. Any future BREW Programme will depend on the outcome of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The current BREW delivery bodies are: the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, Envirowise, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, the Market Transformation Programme, the Regional Development Agencies, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, the Environment Agency, the Sustainable Supply Chain Group, the Carbon Trust, the Department for Trade and Industry Technology Programme and DEFRA. Funding for each of these bodies, for each year of the current programme, can be found on the DEFRA website.
One of the conditions from Her Majestys Treasury, for the BREW Programme funding, is that administration costs should be kept to a minimum and this requirement is carried through to all of the BREW delivery bodies.
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