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IRA
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will hold discussions with the leaders of Sinn Fein following the forthcoming independent monitoring commission report on the timing of an announcement by the Army Council of the Provisional IRA that it is to cease to exist. [199261]
Mr. Woodward: I will continue to have discussions with representatives of Sinn Fein about a wide range of subjects. I believe that all paramilitary structures from Northern Ireland’s past have no place in the future of Northern Ireland.
Women and Equality
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities whether any of the Government Equalities Office's special advisers have outside appointments. [185340]
Barbara Follett: Special advisers are appointed under terms and conditions set out in the Model Contract and Code of Conduct for Special Advisers, copies of which are in the Library of the House.
The special adviser to the Minister for Women and Equalities does not have any outside appointments.
Wales
Electronic Government
Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether mechanisms are in place to monitor the extent to which his Department's (a) internal and (b) external (i) correspondence and (ii) distribution of publications is carried out electronically. [199200]
Mr. Paul Murphy: My Department’s systems are set up to receive and respond to external correspondence electronically sent to our central email address.
Our electronic records management system provides the archive of all correspondence to and from the office, whether originally in electronic or physical form. It reports correspondence by total and category, and does not analyse the percentage received or despatched in electronic or paper form.
Our departmental report is published in physical form, through the stationery office, as have been certain other major documents such as in 2005 the Government of Wales Bill, with its explanatory notes, and the like. All publications are posted to the Wales Office website. We have mechanisms now to monitor the number of publication pages viewed.
House of Commons Commission
Cromwell Green Entrance
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission when the Commission's review of lessons learned from the Visitor Reception Building project will be completed; and whether it will be published. [200626]
Nick Harvey: The review of lessons learned from the Visitor Reception Building project is expected to be completed by the summer. The main findings will be published in due course.
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) of 12 December 2007, Official Report, columns 246-7W, who was appointed as recovery project manager. [200774]
Nick Harvey: Mr. Roy Davis of Roy Davis Associates was appointed recovery project manager for the Visitor Reception Building project.
Drinking Water
Mr. Spellar: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) of 31 March 2008, Official Report, column 456W, on drinking water, when the House of Commons Commission expects the Administration Committee to reach a conclusion on the policy of the provision of drinking water in meetings. [200796]
Nick Harvey: I am informed that the Committee considered an update on provision of water in committee rooms at its meeting on 1 April, and agreed not to recommend any change to the current arrangements.
Meat
Mr. Spellar: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission whether the Refreshment Department purchases its (a) pork and (b) bacon from British sources. [200633]
Nick Harvey: In purchasing meat for use by its catering service, the House of Commons places high importance on animal welfare standards and requires full traceability, generally by ensuring that sources are approved under a recognised farm assurance scheme. All fresh pork, bacon and pork sausages are purchased from British sources. Currently, all fresh pork meat is supplied from free-range pigs reared and slaughtered in West Sussex; bacon is cured in East Anglia from animals reared and slaughtered in Norfolk; sausages are made from free range pork reared and slaughtered in North Yorkshire.
Culture, Media and Sport
Broadcasting: Standards
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what his timetable is for the implementation of the transmission standard DVB-T2. [201370]
Andy Burnham: The matter raised is the responsibility of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) as independent regulator for the communications sector. Accordingly, I have asked the chief executive of Ofcom to reply directly to the hon. Member. Copies of the chief executive’s letter will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding was provided to (a) museums, galleries and libraries, (b) the arts, (c) sport and (d) heritage from (i) the public purse and (ii) lottery funding in each year since 1997, expressed in 2007-08 prices. [197047]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The figures requested are given in the following tables.
| Museums, galleries and libraries funding at 2006-07 prices | ||
| £ million | ||
| Financial year | Museums, galleries and libraries funded through DCMS. | Museums, galleries and libraries HLF |
| (1) Plans (2) Figures not yet available. Note: DCMS funded data extracted from the audited, published, Appropriation Accounts and Resource Accounts | ||
The figures in the ‘Museum, galleries and libraries funded through DCMS’ column represents grant in aid funding of the 22 DCMS sponsored museums, the British Library and Public Lending Right and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council; in addition to the six independent bodies receiving grants. All figures are adjusted to 2006-07 prices and include both resource and capital spending.
The information in the lottery column represents the value of awards by the Heritage Lottery Fund to museums, galleries and libraries. This information has been supplied directly by the Heritage Lottery Fund and are not comparable to lottery figures for arts and sport which are drawn down from the National Lottery Distribution Fund. The figures are for the UK as a whole and are adjusted for 2006-07 prices.
| Arts funding for England in 2006-07 prices | ||
| £ million | ||
| Financial year | Arts funded through DCMS | Lottery drawdown |
| (1) Figures not yet available Note: DCMS funded data extracted from the audited, published, Appropriation Accounts and Resource Accounts | ||
The figures in the ‘Arts funded through DCMS’ column represent grant in aid to the Arts Council England and central departmental expenditure on the arts, adjusted for 20067-07 prices. They include spending under the Capital Modernisation Fund which represents £78.5 million (in cash terms) between 2002-03 and 2004-05.
The lottery data represent funding drawdown by the Arts Council for England only.
| Sport funding for England on 2006-07 prices | ||
| £ million | ||
| Financial year | Sport funded through DCMS | Lottery drawdown |
| (1) To date. (2) Figures not yet available. Note: DCMS funded data extracted from the audited, published, Appropriation Accounts and Resource Accounts. | ||
The figures in the ‘Sport funded through DCMS’ column represent DCMS grant in aid to Sport England, UK Sport and the Football Licensing Authority, and central departmental expenditure on Sports adjusted for 2006-07 prices. They include grants for School Sport from the Department for Children, Schools and Families which represents an additional £797.1 million (in cash terms) between 2002-03 and 2007-08.
The figures in the lottery column represent the value of grants awarded in England by Sport England only. These are derived from the Department's lottery grant database which uses information supplied by the lottery distributors.
They do not include the value of grants by the big lottery fund and its predecessor the new opportunities fund, under various sport related funding programmes.
| Heritage public expenditure for England | ||
| £ million | ||
| Financial year | Heritage funded through DCMS | Heritage lottery drawdown |
| (1) To date. (2) Figures not yet available. Note: DCMS funded data extracted from the audited, published, Appropriation Accounts and Resource Accounts | ||
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