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Zimbabwe: Armed Forces

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps the Government has taken to prevent the Zimbabwean military increasing its arms capacity. [202526]

Dr. Howells [holding answer 1 May 2008]: We believe that, against a backdrop of increasing tension and state-sponsored violence against civilians, it is quite the wrong time for any arms sales to Zimbabwe. We have therefore, with our EU partners, been actively promoting the need for states to refrain from such sales. We raised this issue at the UN Security Council on 29 April. Our embassy in Beijing has also raised our concerns with the Chinese Government. We hope all states will be able to agree to a moratorium on arms sales to Zimbabwe until a democratic Government is in place.

Culture, Media and Sport

Conservation Areas

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of conservation areas in England at the latest date for which figures are available. [202838]


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Margaret Hodge: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him on 1 May, 2008, Official Report, column 663W, on conservation areas, by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Iain Wright).

Departmental Manpower

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff were employed in his Department in each year since 1997. [204144]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The table shows the staff in post in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on 1 April each year from 1997 to 2008.


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Staff in post

1997

352

1998

365

1999

359

2000

407

2001

403

2002

469

2003

488

2004

490

2005

525

2006

523

2007

527

2008

477


Staff in post rose significantly between 1 April 2001 and 1 April 2002 reflecting machinery of government changes and a resulting transfer of staff from the Cabinet Office and Home Office.

Departmental Pay

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what his Department spent on wages and salaries in each of the last three years, broken down by departmental division. [203097]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department’s expenditure on wages and salaries, analysed by divisions, in financial years 2005-06 to 2007-08 is set out in the table. The figures relating to financial year 2007-08 are subject to finalisation of annual accounts.

During the three years shown, there have been numerous transfers of functions, projects and other pieces of work between divisions. For instance, in 2005-06, Information Systems was part of Human and Business Resources before becoming a division on its own right. It should not, therefore, be inferred that changes in the levels of expenditure necessarily represent shifts in resources to or from a particular function.


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£
Division 2005-06 2006-07( 1) 2007-08

Director General Culture, Creativity and Economy

232,266.40

320,452.87

777,946.81

Director : Industry

230,408.17

258,741.79

186,279.64

Creative Industries

827,131.53

838,073.20

735,933.49

Tourism

1,232,875.47

1,243,611.32

1,156,568.64

Gambling and Lottery licensing

629,407.41

684,894.34

752,408.21

Lottery Distribution and Community

640,427.02

630,066.07

393,531.83

Broadcasting Policy

1,558,616.95

1,637,335.35

1,458,822.90

Active Generation

n/a

4,710.57

281,512.58

Director General Children and Young People

531,748.97

570,342.63

n/a

Director : Arts and Culture

394,673.34

293,311.14

273,690.44

Arts

797,209.16

860,177.06

864,344.58

Museums and Cultural Property

1,297,224.62

1,283,971.07

1,210,680.85

Government Art Collection

528,176.42

553,565.05

559,204.54

Architecture and the Historic Environment

1,280,254.15

1,325,700.07

1,245,157.18

Humanitarian Assistance

n/a

279,343.05

261,491.61

Local, Communities and International

1,011,508.79

725,577.75

707,462.24

Director : Sport

129,449.55

164,799.70

20,646.70

Sport

1,283,894.03

1,365,348.33

1,423,367.20

Director : Olympics

678,034.66

1,687,876.45

2,906,331.71

Director General: Chief Operating Officer

216,288.84

317,803.94

412,009.94

Director : Modernisation

251,274.10

n/a

n/a

Public Appointments, Honour and Modernisation

705,331.05

686,517.14

555,710.83

Strategy

1,310,172.09

1,360,607.88

1,167,115.78

Transformation Team

n/a

n/a

187,302.32

Human and Business Resources

1,601,738.93

1,081,145.88

1,113,099.48

Finance and Planning

695,058.47

686,852.10

734,342.25

Internal Audit

188,877.85

n/a

n/a

Secretary of State’s office

695,005.24

631,905.14

575,377.02

Minister Tourism. Film and Broadcasting

136,657.95

142,077.99

43,048.58

Minister for Culture

151,929.68

159,151.97

167,169.11

Parliamentary Branch

304,886.21

332,285.32

323,825.05

Permanent Secretary’s Office

381,581.32

345,129.25

373,183.91

Minister for Sport

172,679.39

185,090.43

167,971.70

Director : Strategic Communications

145,684.80

134,674.27

138,312.85

News and Communications—Information Centre

101,006.23

85,220.35

63,875.21

News and Communications—Promotion/Publicity

275,054.12

323,126.45

289,907.14

News and Communications—Press Office

579,152.50

827,712.48

769,875.01

Information Systems

n/a

717,359.72

724,640.13

Central Information Briefing Unit

n/a

436,261.28

489,077.74

Total

21,195,685.41

23,180,819.40

23,511,224.30

(i) (1)2007-08 figures subject to finalisation of annual accounts
(ii) All figures include wages, salaries, overtime, special bonus payments and inward secondee costs.

Departmental Public Participation

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of the funding provided to his Department by each of its non-departmental public bodies for (a) his Department’s joint research budget and (b) the Taking Part survey comes from (i) their departmental allocation and (ii) National Lottery income. [203096]

Margaret Hodge: Funding provided to the Department by each of the participating non-departmental public bodies for (a) the Department’s joint research budget and (b) the Taking Part survey is as follows:

£ million
2008-09
Body (a) Joint Research Budget (b) Taking Part Survey Total

Arts Council England

0.200

0.300

0.500

English Heritage

0.057

0.080

0.137

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

0.007

0.080

0.087

Sport England

0.036

0.600

0.636


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