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UK Sport: Finance

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will break down the £30,000 allocated by UK Sport to the 2008 Legacy Lives Conference in Barbados by main budget heading; how many UK representatives are planned to attend the conference and at what cost per head; and how many of such representatives are expected to be UK Sport officials. [177947]

Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 14 January 2008]: The £30,000 allocated by UK Sport to the 2008 Legacy Lives Conference is an award made to support the overall running costs of the event.

As the UK's lead agency for world class events, UK Sport has made this award from its international directorate budget as part of its ongoing strategy to promote greater knowledge and debate about the legacy benefits that arise from public investment in major sporting events. UK Sport aims to be a world leader in legacy benefits and its ambition is to influence event owners worldwide as to the importance of harnessing this element of major sporting events.

Two representatives will attend from the UK, both from UK Sport, following invitations to be a keynote speaker and a workshop moderator. As well as giving a keynote address, John Scott is also attending meetings in Barbados with colleagues from the Association of National Anti-Doping Organisations, of which he is vice-president.

The cost per head is approximately £1,500 and this has been met entirely from resources within the original £30,000 investment.

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate UK Sport has made of the cost of sending a British baseball team to the final 2008 Olympics qualification event in Taiwan. [177948]


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Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 14 January 2008]: UK Sport's current investment strategy does not provide funding to baseball and has therefore made no estimate of the cost of sending a British baseball team to the final 2008 Olympics qualification event in Taiwan.

The sport will not receive world class funding in the future as it is not on the competition programme for London 2012.

Northern Ireland

Burglary: Businesses

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many burglaries were reported in business premises and how many persons were convicted in each Police Service of Northern Ireland District Command Unit in each of the last 10 years. [174859]

Paul Goggins: Table 1 shows the number of offences of non-domestic burglary recorded from 2001-02 to 2006-07 by District Command Unit. As the DCU structure was only in place from 2001-02 figures are not provided prior to this financial year.

Non-domestic burglaries include burglaries which have occurred at locations which are not business premises, for example vacant houses, hotel rooms let
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out on short-stay basis, holiday homes/caravans not in use at the time, and also other buildings such as schools, halls etc. which may not be considered to be businesses. A manual trawl of each record would be required to establish whether the non-domestic burglary related to a business premises.

The number of recorded non-domestic burglaries fell by 3,296 (41.5 per cent.) between 2001-02 and 2006-07.

It is not possible to give the total number of convictions for burglary of a business as the court prosecution and conviction datasets do not contain information in relation to the type of dwelling involved. It is only possible to give the number of convictions for those offences, which refer to a non-dwelling. These are documented in Table 2.

Data are collated on the basis of principal offence; this means that only the most serious offence with which an offender is charged is included.

It is not possible routinely to reconcile recorded crime data from PSNI with prosecution and conviction data. Data from PSNI relate to the number of offences whereas data on prosecutions and convictions relate to the number of offenders brought before the courts. In addition, PSNI data denote each offence as it has been initially recorded and this may differ from the offence for which a suspect or suspects are subsequently proceeded against in the courts, therefore prosecution and conviction statistics should not be compared with the number recorded.


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Table 1: Number of recorded offences of non-domestic burglary
DCU 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07

Antrim

213

244

257

190

142

141

Ards

325

393

346

266

208

157

East Belfast

403

518

358

283

217

161

North Belfast

454

426

389

294

213

228

South Belfast

736

877

659

899

636

486

West Belfast

246

197

132

132

135

151

Carrickfergus

120

105

84

51

48

41

Castlereagh

275

239

235

137

106

116

Down

351

474

421

264

275

333

Lisburn

389

477

413

266

251

230

Newtownabbey

344

459

392

345

266

246

North Down

346

277

239

204

177

135

Urban Region

4,202

4,686

3,925

3,331

2,674

2,425

Armagh

199

171

179

153

151

130

Ballymena

273

322

222

183

162

145

Ballymoney

135

123

78

49

52

43

Banbridge

151

129

128

119

99

131

Coleraine

331

378

348

366

366

301

Cookstown

119

127

112

105

156

80

Craigavon

603

702

607

300

257

221

Dungannon and S Tyrone

196

191

146

125

138

137

Fermanagh

233

228

243

184

165

144

Foyle

450

339

413

291

373

195

Larne

100

134

72

82

81

64

Limavady

130

105

128

102

120

120

Magherafelt

112

88

72

47

51

32

Moyle

61

91

77

39

53

61

Newry and Mourne

329

298

344

353

401

262

Omagh

192

174

137

88

102

85

Strabane

107

123

86

48

71

54

Rural Region

3,721

3,723

3,392

2,634

2,798

2,205

Total

7,926

8,409

7,317

5,965

5,472

4,630


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