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Privately run prisons costs per place
Establishment Occupancy Cost (£)

Altcourse

Male local

51,763

Ashfield

Male juvenile

48,669

Bronzefield

Female closed

44,490

Doncaster

Male local

26,417

Dovegate

Male category B

29,043

Forest Bank

Male local

28,420

Lowdham Grange

Male category B

25,981

Parc

Male local

39,976

Rye Hill

Male category B

24,538

Wolds

Male category C

20,855

(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 Service’s 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.

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Duchy of Lancaster

Delivery Unit

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 Minister’s 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

2001-02

1

2002-03

5

2003-04

8

2004-05

14

2005-06

14

2006-07

32

2007-08

4


In the past 12 months, PMDU has carried out the following joint reviews with

Departments:

Home Office

Education


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Health

Other projects

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 Minister’s 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

Senior civil service 2

3

Senior civil service 1

11

Cabinet Office Band A

22

Cabinet Office Band B2

5

Cabinet Office Band B2 (faststream)

3

Cabinet Office Band B1

2


The size of the unit and mix of grades at 31 March 2008 is in the process of being determined.

Departments: Consultants

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 Department’s 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.


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My Department does not hold a central record of the total value of consultancy contracts, therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost.

Departments: Marketing

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 (£)

2002-03

No activity

2003-04

Recruitment

Barkers

7,560

2004-05

Go In Stay In Tune In

WCRS

2,974,799

Fast stream Recruitment

McCann Erickson

7,712

2005-06

Directgov

WTCS/Naked

864,732

Recruitment

Barkers

13,414

2006-07

No activity


Energy

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.

General Practitioners: Working Hours

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 Minister’s Delivery Unit’s (PMDU) role is to monitor and report on delivery of the Prime Minister’s top delivery and reform priorities. Out-of-hours care is not one of the areas on which PMDU’s health team has worked, and PMDU has not conducted a joint review on it since 2001.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme

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]


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Mr. Bradshaw: The Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme’s (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 Majesty’s 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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