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Welfare Tax Credits: Complaints
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what targets have been set for the time taken to respond to complaints about tax credits sent to (a) the Tax Credit Office and (b) Treasury Ministers. [181026]
Jane Kennedy: It is HM Revenue and Customs’ aim to reply to the majority of letters within three weeks.
Welfare Tax Credits: Hampshire
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the take-up rate for tax credits was in each constituency in (a) Hampshire, (b) Southampton and (c) Portsmouth in each of the last three years. [181027]
Jane Kennedy: Take-up rate estimates are not available at constituency level.
However, estimates of child and working tax credit take-up rates for 2003-04 and 2004-05, which are the latest available estimates, are published on the HMRC website at
Take-up rates for working families with children at country and regional level are shown in table 9.
Justice
Capita
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was paid by his Department and its predecessor to Capita Group plc and its subsidiaries in each financial year since 2000; which contracts were awarded by his Department to Capita Group plc in each year from 2000-01 to the most recent available date; what the cost was of each contract; what penalties
for default were imposed in contract provisions; what the length was of each contract; whether the contract was advertised; how many companies applied for the contract; how many were short-listed; what criteria were used for choosing a company; what provision was made for renewal without re-tender in each case; and if he will make a statement. [180699]
Maria Eagle: In the financial years from 2000-01 to 2006-07, the last full year for when figures are available, the Ministry of Justice and its predecessor Department and agencies’ expenditure with the Capita Group plc and its subsidiaries was as follows:
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The other information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Consultants
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what payments his Department has made to PricewaterhouseCoopers in the last 12 months; [180814]
(2) how much was spent by his Department on consultants in the last 12 months, broken down by consultancy; [180819]
(3) what the value of contracts between his Department and PricewaterhouseCoopers on private finance initiative projects was in the last 12 months. [180849]
Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice was established on 9 May 2007. Information for the last 12 months is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Expenditure figures are available for the six-month period from April 2007 until September 2007, covering the former Department for Constitutional Affairs and those bodies that were formerly part of the Home Office and which are now part of the Ministry of Justice. In that period, approximately £7 million was spent with external consultants, as detailed in the following table.
Expenditure with PricewaterhouseCoopers on consultancy in that period was £202,675.00
Expenditure with PricewaterhouseCoopers on private finance initiative projects in that period was £80,537.00
| Service provider | Actual expenditure April to September 2007-08 (£) |
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