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Departmental Publications
Mr. David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance is issued to members of her Department on the authorship and publication on the internet of material relating to their official duties; and if she will make a statement. [196751]
Mr. Byrne: The Civil Service Code, the Civil Service Management Code and Propriety Guidance on Government Communications, all provide guidance to staff on the publication of material relating to their official duties. Copies of each of these are in the Libraries of the House. They are also available on the Cabinet Office website at:
Departmental Sustainable Development
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her Department is on course to meet the sustainable operations on the Government estate targets (a) to source at least 10 per cent. of its electricity from renewables by 31 March 2008 and (b) to increase recycling figures to 40 per cent. of waste by 2010. [198045]
Mr. Byrne: I direct the right hon. Member to the 2007 Sustainable Development in Government report, a copy of which is held in the House of Commons Library.
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her Department is working towards an accredited certified environmental management system (a) for its whole estate and (b) in some of its buildings. [198048]
Mr. Byrne: My Department’s facilities supplier has implemented an accredited ISO 14001 environmental management system in our 2 Marsham Street headquarters building. My Department is also working toward accredited certified environmental management systems in some of its other buildings within the framework of a corporate environmental management system.
Deportation: EU Countries
Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will raise in the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council the procedures for notifying other member states when a member state deports an EU national from another state following conviction for a serious criminal offence; and if she will make a statement. [197671]
Mr. Byrne: The UK Border Agency may disclose information to a foreign Government regarding an individual’s criminal conviction provided the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and Human Rights Act 1998 are met.
Domestic Violence
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications have been made under the domestic violence rule; and how many have included children in the last three years. [199963]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 21 April 2008]: The number of applications received under the domestic violence rule in the last three years is 3,505. Of these 3,505 applications, 570 included one or more children as part of the application.
Entry Clearance: Employment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 1048W, on entry clearances: employment, if she will give a breakdown by nationality of those receiving leave to (a) enter and (b) remain under the International Graduate Scheme. [181145]
Mr. Byrne: The information is provided in the following tables:
The difference in total from that previously indicated is that the figures provided are up to 31 December 2007.
(b) Leave to remain in Table B
The figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
| Table A: Leave to enter | |
| Nationality | Number of people |
| (1) Indicates one or two | |
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