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Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisors
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the office costs for his Department’s special advisers for 2007-08 are expected to be, including costs of support staff; and how many full-time equivalent civil servants work in support of such special advisers. [164934]
Kevin Brennan: Three civil servants support the special advisers in the Department. They provide administrative support of a non-political nature in accordance with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Office costs will be accounted for in the 2007/08 departmental annual report and accounts.
Departmental Orders and Regulations
Alan Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many regulations his Department and its predecessors (a) made and (b) revoked in the last 12 months. [167080]
Kevin Brennan: The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and its predecessor, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), in as much as DfES covered areas of work now covered by DCSF, made 97 regulations and revoked 55 in the 12 months which ended on 27 November 2007.
Departmental Property
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent by his Department and its predecessor on renovation and refurbishment of its properties in each of the last five years. [164378]
Kevin Brennan: The information is as follows:
| Amount (£) | |
Departmental Public Participation
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will place in the Library copies of each document prepared for each of his Department’s citizens’ juries. [164857]
Jim Knight: The Department for Children, Schools and Families has conducted five citizens’ juries, one in Bristol on 6 September and four other deliberative debates in London, Leeds, Portsmouth and Birmingham all held on 29 September. Copies of the programmes, including questions debated and other relevant material from these juries have been placed in the House Library as requested.
Departmental Secondment
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many secondments of staff were made (a) to and (b) from his Department in each year since 1997; which organisations staff were seconded (i) to and (ii) from; how many staff were seconded in each year; for how long each secondment lasted; and what the cost was of each secondment in each year. [167280]
Kevin Brennan: The Department came into being as part of the Machinery of Government changes on 28 June 2007. The following tables therefore apply to the current year only. A total of (a) 81 staff are seconded to the Department and (b) 38 from the Department, with the specific numbers and organisations listed in the following tables.
Secondments are normally for a period of between three months and three years. The Department normally meets the costs of inward secondees, with the host organisations meeting outward secondee costs. Details of specific individual placement costs could be provided only at disproportionate cost, but as a
guideline all of the secondments listed are at standard civil service grades from administrative assistant to Grade 6.
| Organisation | Number of inward secondees 2007 |
| Organisation | Number of outward secondees 2007 |
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