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Departments: Older Workers
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of staff in his Department were over 60 years of age in each of the last three years. [145685]
Paul Goggins: The percentage of staff in the Northern Ireland Office aged 60 years or over in the last three years is detailed in the following table.
| Percentage of staff aged 60 or over | |
Departments: Pay
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department and its agencies in each year between 1997 and 2006; and what the total cost of those bonuses was. [146423]
Paul Goggins: Bonuses are used to reward excellent performance and to drive continuous improvement in the NIO. A new performance management system was introduced in 2002 for the senior civil service. As part of this system, a non-consolidated bonus pot was established which the Cabinet Office has increased incrementally year on year. The information set out in the following table relates to the annual performance bonuses paid to NIO staff at senior civil service level between 2002 (based on the 2001-02 reporting year) and 2007 (based on the 2006-07 reporting year).
| Number of senior civil service staff who received a bonus | Total cost (£) | |
All of these bonus payments are non-consolidated and non-pensionable and therefore do not have associated future costs for paybill.
Departments: Publications
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many copies of the Northern Ireland Office publication Peacemaking in Northern Ireland: A Model for Conflict Resolution were produced; what the cost was of producing the document; and to whom it was distributed. [145752]
Mr. Hain: 6,000 copies of the publication ‘Peacemaking in Northern Ireland: A Model for Conflict Resolution’ were produced.
The production cost for the document was £3,950 and it was distributed to a wide range of individuals and organisations locally, nationally and internationally and has been well received.
Departments: Remploy
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what (a) services and (b) products his Department has procured from Remploy in the last 12 months; and at what cost. [143790]
Mr. Hain: The Northern Ireland Office (NIO), excluding its agencies and NDPBs, uses the Ministry of Justice procurement systems and the Office of Government Commerce on line call off procurement services. To date Remploy have not featured in either of those sources. We are aware of the services they offer and subject to our value for money and sustainable development criteria being met would consider a Remploy tender via those procurement channels.
Departments: Sick Leave
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of sick leave taken by staff in his Department was stress-related in each of the last three years. [145980]
Paul Goggins: The percentage of working days lost within the Northern Ireland Office due to stress related illness in the last three years is as follows:
| Percentage | |
These figures have been taken from information supplied by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
The Department takes all absences, in particular stress related illness, very seriously and is currently examining any underlying reasons.
Prisoners Release: Northern Ireland
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prisoners released early on licence in Northern Ireland have had their licences revoked in each of the last three years; and what the reasons were for the revocation in each case. [145751]
Paul Goggins: The power to revoke the licences of prisoners released early under the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 lies with the Sentence Review Commissioners (SRC). The exercise of this power follows the suspension of the licences of those persons by the Secretary of State. The numbers of licence suspensions and revocations in each of the last three years are as follows:
| Number suspended | Number revoked | |
All the persons whose licences have been suspended were believed to have become a danger to the public. In addition, four individuals were also believed to have become concerned again in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism—the single 2004 suspension, two of the 2005 suspensions and one of the 2006 suspensions. Furthermore, in one of the 2005 suspension cases the individual concerned was believed to have again become a supporter of a specified organisation.
The 2006 revocation decision by the SRC in one of these cases was in confirmation of the belief that that person had become a danger to the public. Determination by the SRC remains outstanding on seven of the other
nine cases referred to above. Of the two other cases one licence was reinstated and the other individual died in custody.
Robert McCartney
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what progress has been made in the investigation into the murder of Robert McCartney. [145475]
Paul Goggins: The person charged with the murder of Mr. McCartney remains on remand. A file has been sent to the Public Prosecution Service for consideration.
PSNI advise that this remains an active investigation, with particular emphasis on the need for witnesses to come forward.
Speed Limits: Cameras
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many mobile speed traps operated in (a) each constituency and (b) each council area in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years. [142634]
Paul Goggins: The PSNI have advised that the information is not collated in the format requested. Information is available by district command unit which is co-terminus with council area.
| District command unit (DCU) | 2004 (April( 1) -December) | 2005 (January-December) | 2006 (January-December) |
| (1) Figures were not collated centrally until April 2004. Notes: 1. To date Strabane has no camera safety sites and therefore nil return. 2. Larne DCU had no site in 2004 and 2005. 3. In Down DCU the vehicle was defective from November 2005 to July 2006. 4. In Fermanagh and Omagh DCUs the vehicle was defective from April 2006 to October 2006. | |||
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