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Departments: Overseas Workers
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many of his Department’s staff are based overseas on an (a) temporary and (b) permanent basis; if he will list their locations; and if he will make a statement. [161763]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has no staff based overseas on (a) a temporary basis or (b) a permanent basis.
Departments: Public Expenditure
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on what dates his Department breached its (a) resource, (b) near-cash, (c) administration and (d) capital budget since 2001; what the value of each breach was; and what the reason was for each breach. [160313]
Margaret Hodge: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has not breached any of the budgets in question since 2001.
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in which financial years since 2001 his Department's outturn for its capital budget at
the end of the year was less than planned at the beginning of the year; and what the (a) value and (b) reason for the under spend was in each case. [160332]
Margaret Hodge: The National Audit Office measures spending performance against plans by comparing outturns against final provision following Supplementary Estimates—rather than against plans at the start of the year—as plans can change during the year for a number of reasons, such as machinery of government and classification changes. The definitive figures for final provision and provisional outturn are published each year in the Public Expenditure Outturns White Paper. Changes to plans arising in-year are published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, as are differences between provisional and final outturns.
In 2001-02 the Capital outturn for DCMS was £48 million less than planned expenditure. The under spend was due in the most part to the slow start to the Capital Modernisation Fund project “Spaces for Sport and Art”. The unspent funds were drawn down in subsequent years and the project was successfully completed in 2004-05.
Departments: Public Participation
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many citizens' juries have been arranged by his Department since June 2007; which organisations were commissioned to conduct each citizens' jury; and what the estimated cost is of each exercise. [159496]
Margaret Hodge: My Department has not arranged any citizens' juries since June 2007.
Departments: Retirement
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many employees in (a) his Department and (b) each executive agency funded by his Department applied to continue to work beyond state retirement age in the latest year or part thereof for which figures are available; and how many of those applications were successful. [161283]
Mr. Sutcliffe: All permanent staff in the Department for Culture; Media and Sport (DCMS) and The Royal Parks Agency (RPA) may continue to work up to the normal departmental/agency retirement age of 65, subject to the general health, efficiency and attendance standards. In the current year only one employee in DCMS has applied to defer retirement and continue to work beyond the departmental retirement age. The application was successful. No employees in RPA have applied to defer their retirement.
Departments: Standards
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what public service agreement targets have been set for (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies for which his Department has responsibility since May 1997; and whether each target has been met. [161375]
Margaret Hodge: Public service agreements (PSAs) apply only to Government Departments. The Department published its first set of PSAs in December 1998 and agreed a measurement methodology in March 1999. Since then we have agreed new PSAs with HM Treasury as part of each subsequent spending review (SR). We publicly report progress against these targets in our departmental annual report (DAR) and autumn performance report (APR) each year, copies of which can be found in the House Library. A full list of our PSAs and their outcomes is given as follows:
| SR period | No. | Indicative title | Outcome |
Further details of each PSA can be found in the relevant DAR or APR.
English Heritage: Finance
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what contribution English Heritage was projected to make to departmental savings as part of the Lyons Review; and what proportion of those savings have been realised. [159536]
Margaret Hodge: English Heritage projected that 255 posts would be moved from London and the South East. To date 61 have moved from London. English Heritage are planning further moves to buildings in Swindon after refurbishment work to the buildings is completed by summer 2008.
English Heritage: Greater London
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what consideration English Heritage has given to the use of London office space available through the Office of Government Commerce. [159537]
Margaret Hodge: In choosing where to relocate its permanent headquarters from Savile Row, English Heritage considered nine Office of Government Commerce buildings. The building it chose, 1 Waterhouse Square, was one of these.
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what projections were made of the number of staff of English Heritage who would move to 1 Waterhouse Square, London. [159541]
Margaret Hodge: English Heritage planned for 71 members of staff to relocate to 1, Waterhouse Square, London by June 2006, and for this figure to increase to 245 by March 2007.
By March 2007 254 staff were located in Waterhouse Square. Waterhouse Square is also being used for an interim period to support the phased relocation of staff to Swindon. This means that numbers will fluctuate as the project proceeds.
Gaming Machines
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans he has to review the number of category B3 machines permitted in adult amusement centres. [161396]
Mr. Sutcliffe: From 1 September 2007 adult gaming centres were, for the first time, entitled to a maximum of four category B3 machines. B3 gaming machines have a maximum stake of £1 and a maximum prize of £500.
There are no plans to review the number of category B3 machines that adult gaming centres can make available.
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