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David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of staff in his Department are (a) male, (b) female, (c) registered disabled and (d) aged 55 or over. [143915]
Mr. Byrne: The department publishes annual Diversity and Equal Opportunity Monitoring Reports that includes comprehensive employment data on gender, disability and age. These can be accessed through the following link:
Departments: Older Workers
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) over 55 years of age and (b) over 60 years of age have been recruited by his Department in each of the last three years; and what percentage in each case this is of the number of new recruits in each year. [145703]
Mr. Byrne: The available figures are as set out in the tables.
Within the Criminal Records Bureau, these data are not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
| A vailable figures for Central Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency | ||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | ||||
| Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | |
| (1) Number given is new entrants aged over 55, it therefore excludes those in (b). | ||||||
An earlier PQ 143915 asked for staff numbers in the category ‘55 and over’ figures supplied there are larger than the sum of (a) and (b) above as they include those at 55 years of age.
The figures have been taken from records held on the Home Office personnel system called ADELPHI.
| Recruits into public sector Prison Service aged (a) over 55 and (b) over 60 | ||||||
| 2006 - 07 | 2005 - 06 | 2004 - 05 | ||||
| Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | |
| Note: New entrants in (b) are also included in (a). The figures include staff who are either 55 or 60 years of age or older respectively on the day of joining the Prison Service | ||||||
| IPS | ||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | ||||
| Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | Number | Percentage of new entrants | |
Departments: Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by his Department on staff pay in each year since 1997-98; and how many staff were employed in each year. [120383]
Mr. Byrne: The Home Office Departmental Report (2004-05) contains outturn information on staffing numbers from 1999 to 2003 for the core department, Prison Service, Forensic Science Service, Fire Service College and United Kingdom Passport Agency (now Identity and Passport Service). The staff numbers are in tables 6.9 and 6.10 (pages 130 and 131). The report can be found on the Home Office website using this link:
Since 2004, the Department has published consolidated Resource Accounts, which detail staff costs and staff numbers for the core department, National Probation Service, HM Prison Service, identity and Passport Service and Criminal Records Bureau. The total staff costs from the Resource Accounts, for the last four financial years, are shown as follows. The costs comprise wages and salaries, social security costs and other pension costs. Resource accounts figures for previous financial years are not available on the same basis.
| Cost (£000) | |
For further information, the Home Office Resource Accounts can be accessed via the Home Office website using the following links.
2004-05 (pages 43 and 44 refer):
2005-06 (pages 67 and 68 refer):
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/resource- accounts_0506?version=1.
Departments: PFI
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the value is of the unitary payments of each private finance initiative scheme overseen by his Department over the lifetime of the contract expressed in 2007-08 prices and discounted to present value. [145732]
Mr. Byrne: Details of each private finance initiative scheme overseen by the Home Department with information on estimated unitary charges for 2007-08 is available on HM Treasury’s website at:
The estimated unitary charge is based on 2006-07 actual charges and is not simply repayments for capital
value of the project but frequently include other factors such as inflation, service provision, capital repayments and major refurbishment.
To provide information on the unitary payments over the lifetime of the contract expressed in 2007-08 prices and discounted to present value would incur disproportionate costs. On average an appropriate discount rate to use for providing an Net Present Value (NPV) total would be as set out in the Green Book as real discount rate of 3.5 per cent.
The signed deals list covers unitary charges up until 2033-34 and to update the figures to cover the duration of the contract would incur disproportionate cost.
Departments: Written Questions
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many ordinary written questions to his Department from hon. Members have been waiting for a substantive reply for more than (a) one month and (b) two months; and what the subjects are of those questions. [144586]
Mr. McNulty: As of 27 June, the Department had 15 questions that were overdue to either the House of Commons or the House of Lords by one month or more. Of these, 13 were overdue by more than two months. These questions concern a range of subjects relating to departmental business and policy responsibilities.
Emergency Calls
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many emergency telephone operators were employed by police in each of the last 10 years, broken down by police force area. [139483]
Mr. McNulty: The available data relate to the number of individuals primarily employed in the function of control room (call handlers). This function includes those staff who are predominately employed as control room operatives, or those who support such individuals, in either force or area control rooms including officers employed as telephonists.
The available data for police officers are from 2002-03 onwards, and the available data for police staff are from 2004-05 onwards, both are given in the tables.
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