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Only one recruitment competition was held in 2007, hence the reduction in the number of applicants. In previous years, two competitions were held.
The reason the percentages quoted for Catholic and non-Catholic appointees are not exactly 50:50 when represented in this way, is that the 50:50 provisions are applied to each recruitment competition and not to each calendar year.
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Training
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent by the Police Service of Northern Ireland on equality and human rights training in each financial year since 2002-03; and what percentage this represented of the total training budget. [168534]
Paul Goggins: Human Rights and Diversity training has been embedded across all aspects of the PSNI training programme. For example, all lessons delivered within the college would have been audited for human rights compliance and officers involved in firearms training would also receive twice yearly training on human rights. Therefore, a breakdown of costs for individual aspects of training courses is not readily accessible. To collate the figures would require a manual trawl of records and this could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Sexual Offences: Prisoners Release
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many sex offenders were released on licence under Article 26 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 in each year since the legislation came into operation; and how many were (a) fined and (b) recalled to prison for breach of their licence conditions under Article 27 of that Order in each year. [168490]
Paul Goggins: The information requested is set out in the following table. The first year that people were released under Article 26 was 2000.
| Released on licence (Article 26) | Breach of licence | Recall to custody | Fine | |
Wales
Delivery Services
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services. [170176]
Mr. Hain: The Wales Office have mail service contracts with Royal Mail and Government Car and Despatch Agency.
Departmental Data Protection
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what plans his Department has to review the practices involved in transporting data; whether his Department (a) uses and (b) plans to continue to use TNT to transport data; and what plans it has to put the transportation of confidential data out to tender. [169382]
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many confirmed data security breaches there have been in his Department in the last 36 months; and what action was taken after each occurrence. [170243]
Mr. Hain: I refer the hon. Members to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 21 November 2007, Official Report, column 1179. The review by the Cabinet Secretary and security experts is looking at procedures within Departments and agencies for the storage and use of data. A statement on Departments’ procedures will be made on completion of the review.
Departmental Marketing
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will place in the Library a copy of the guidelines issued to staff maintaining his Department’s and its agencies’ corporate identity; and what the estimated cost of (a) producing and (b) complying with such guidelines is. [170224]
Mr. Hain: The Wales Office does not issue staff guidelines on corporate identity and subsequently does not incur costs against this.
Advice is provided on a case-by-case basis by the Communications team as and when necessary.
Education: Wrexham
Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many students entered (a) further education and (b) higher education in each ward in Wrexham in the last 10 years. [168898]
Mr. Hain: The following table shows data available from the Health Education Statistics Agency illustrating Wrexham domiciled first year undergraduate and further education enrolments at UK higher education institutions by level of study and electoral ward. These are derived from unitary local authority returns. These do not provide comparisons over the period requested, but only since 2003, and currently until 2005-06.
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