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Tobacco: Licensed Premises
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the Government have plans to remove cigarette vending machines from licensed premises. [211201]
Dawn Primarolo: The sale of tobacco from vending machines is a topic of consideration within the “Consultation on the future of tobacco control”. This consultation was published on 31 May 2008; copies are available in the Library and are available on the Department's website at:
The consultation will close on 8 September 2008.
The Government welcome responses from all interested stakeholders and will make decisions on further controls on tobacco vending machines in light of the responses to the consultation.
West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust : Vacancies
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS posts have been vacant for more than three months at (a) West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust and (b) South West Hertfordshire Acute Hospital Trust. [210134]
Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested. Information is available on national health service organisations' three month vacancy rates for vacancies that trusts are actively trying to fill that have lasted for three months or more. The latest available information shows the position at 31 March 2007.
There is no South West Hertfordshire Acute Hospital Trust and so information has been provided for West
Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which is based in the hon. Member's constituency. The following tables show the three-month vacancy rates and vacancy numbers at 31 March 2007 for West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
| NHS three month vacancies in West Hertfordshire PCT and West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, all non-medical staff groups and medical and dental staff (excluding doctors in training and equivalents) | ||
| Three month vacancy rates and numbers | ||
| Medical and dental staff (excluding doctors in training) | ||
| Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | |
| Three month vacancy rates and numbers | ||||||
| All nursing, midwifery and health , of which: | Qualified nursing, midwifery and health | Unqualified nursing, midwifery and health | ||||
| Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | |
| Three month vacancy rates and numbers | ||||||
| All scientific and therapeutic | Qualified allied health professionals | Qualified health care scientists | ||||
| Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | |
| Three month vacancy rates and numbers | ||||||
| Other qualified scientific | Unqualified scientific | Other non-medical staff | ||||
| Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | Three month vacancy rate (percentage) | Three month vacancy number | |
| Notes: 1. Vacancy data are from the Vacancies Survey 2007. 2. Three month vacancy information is as at 31 March 2007. 3. Three month vacancies are vacancies which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (full-time equivalents). 4. Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post. 5. Three month vacancy rates are calculated using staff in post from the September 2006 Non-Medical Workforce Census and Medical and Dental Workforce Census. 6. Vacancy numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number. 7. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. 8. Calculating the vacancy rates using the above data may not equal the actual vacancy rates. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Vacancies Survey March 2007 | ||||||
Home Department
Criminal Records Bureau: Internet
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on the website, www.crb.gov.uk, in each month since its inception; what the budget for the website is for 2008-09; how many staff are employed to maintain the website; and how many unique visitors there were to the website in each month since its inception. [200375]
Meg Hillier: The amount spent on the website, www.crb.gov.uk, in each year since its inception is detailed in the following table. The average monthly cost for each year is also shown. However, the exact monthly costs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
| Monthly figures—Visitors to CRB website | |
| Period | Number of visitors |
The budget for the website for 2008-09 is £44,500 which includes the cost of an upgrade in the web support software and a redesign of the website.
The CRB employs one person whose role is to maintain and update the website. However, this is only one aspect of their role and not the only task the person carries out.
The numbers of visitors to the website in each month since December 2005 are detailed in the following table. These figures date back to the point at which the CRB acquired the package that allows them to glean such statistical data.
The CRB cannot confirm the number of unique visitors as some individuals may have visited the website on several occasions.
| Website expenditure | ||
| £ | ||
| Annual cost | Average cost per month | |
Genetics: Databases
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children had their DNA recorded on police records (a) in England and (b) in Sussex in each of the last five years. [186768]
Meg Hillier: The following table gives numbers of subject profiles and the estimated number of individuals aged under 18, and under 16 years, sampled by police forces in England and in Sussex in each of the last five financial years. The figures show those currently under 18 or 16, not those who were that age at the time they were sampled. The fact that someone is sampled by a particular police force does not mean that the person lives in the force area. The number of profiles held on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) is not the same as the number of individuals. As it is possible for a profile to be loaded onto the NDNAD on more than one occasion, some profiles held on the NDNAD are replicates. This can occur, for example, if the person provided different names, or different versions of their name, on separate arrests, or because profiles are upgraded. At present, the replication rate is 13.3 per cent.
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