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Railways: Standards
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with (a) Network Rail and (b) National Express East Anglia on disruptions caused by failures to the infrastructure on the line from Colchester to London Liverpool Street since 1 January 2008; and if she will make a statement. [211232]
Mr. Tom Harris: Department for Transport officials meet regularly with Network Rail and train operators, including National Express East Anglia, to discuss performance across the network.
Speed Limits: Cameras
Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average speed was of drivers successfully prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit in SPECS sites on the (a) M25 and (b) M11 in each of the last five years. [209808]
Mr. Coaker: I have been asked to reply.
This information is not collected centrally. Available information records the numbers convicted of speeding, not the speeds at which they were travelling.
Culture, Media and Sport
BBC: Internet
Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will direct the Competition Commission to review the BBC’s use of its resources in the development of on-line TV services in collaboration with commercial enterprises. [210526]
Andy Burnham: Investigations are referred to the Competition Commission by various authorities with responsibility under UK competition law, such as the Office for Fair Trading or independent regulators. I have no authority to refer work to the Commission.
Departmental Training
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) his Department and (b) its agency spent on training courses for staff in the last (i) 12 months and (ii) five years. [210566]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information is as follows:
(i)The Department for Culture Media and Sport has spent a total of £660,804 on learning and development for the financial year 2007-08. This figure includes spending from the L&D central and delegated divisional training budgets. It also includes learning and development events organised by DCMS and accessed by staff from the Royal Parks agency.
(ii) The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its agency has a total learning and development spend of £3,349,724 for the last five financial years.
In the last five financial years:
| Total spend (£) | |
All figures include external venue costs where these were required to deliver training events.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what training courses were (a) available to and (b) taken up by civil servants in his Department in the last 12 months. [210574]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The training undertaken by the civil servants in DCMS within the last 12 months are:
Advanced experimental design and analysis
Annual Conference for Non-executives on Civil Service Boards
Association of Chartered Accounts (Papers F2 -F9)
Certificate in Personnel Practice
CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting
CIPD Employment Electives and People Management Development
Clean language and Symbolic Modelling
CMS/FOI
Coaching
Constructive Conversations
Diploma (Supported Further Education)
Doctorate of Business Administration
Effective Briefing
Effective Ministerial Correspondence
Effective Minute Taking
Effective selection
Equality Impact Assessment wash up session
Essential writing skills for all Civil Servants
EU Decision-making process and problem solving
Executive Masters in Business Administration
Excel 2000 Levels 1 & 2
Finance for Purchasers
Financial Aspects of Sponsorship
Gateway Reviewer
Government Economic Service Annual Conference
Government Framework
GSS AS/StO induction Course
HNC (Supported Further Education)
How Brussels works
How Government works
How Parliament works
Induction
Influential Manager
Intermediate NVQ level 3 Open Flexible Learning (AAT)
Interviewee skills
Intro to Government Finance
Intro to Programme Management
Intro to Projects in DCMS
Introduction to Purchasing
IODA
ISEB
IT Surgery
JEGS Training
Leaders UnLtd
Leading and Influencing
MA—Various (Supported Further Education)
Making Policy that Happens
Management and Personal Development for Women
Managing for the first time
MBTI Step 1 Qualifying
Mentoring
Mind Mapping Techniques
Minute taking
NLP Master class Intensive CPD weekend
Outlook
Performance Management
Personal effectiveness
Persuading and Influencing Stakeholders
PowerPoint
Presentation Skills
Prince 2 for Practitioners
Procurement and Contract management
Project basis
Project management Essentials
Risk Management and Supply Chain Vulnerability
SCS Base Camp
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Stress Management
Succession planning and Talent Management Workshop
Team Awaydays
Time Management
Tourism Day—Using Evidence and Analysis
Use of Evidence and Analysis
Word
Young Public Sector Programme
Staff and managers identify any training requirements, including specialist, through personal development discussion. This is then submitted to learning and development for consideration that it meets the business, team and individual needs. Therefore the Department will provide any training that is relevant and has been requested.
Departmental Transport
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when each of his Department's and its agencies' green transport plans were introduced; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each such plan. [209413]
Margaret Hodge: The Department has not introduced a green transport plan. The Royal Parks, the Department's only executive agency, is developing one.
Football: World Cup
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what discussions the Minister for Sport has had with the Football Association (FA) on the constitution of the FA World Cup bid board; [211475]
(2) what discussions the Government's World Cup Ambassador has had with the Football Association (FA) on the constitution of the FA World Cup bid board. [211474]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The Government wholeheartedly support the Football Association's (FA) bid for the 2018 World Cup and we are working closely with them. I have met the FA Chairman and officials on a number of occasions, both accompanied by the Prime Minister's World Cup
Ambassador and not, to discuss all aspects of the bid, including the constitution of the bid company. I will continue to do so.
Libraries: Internet
Mr. Hepburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many public libraries in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the
North East and (d) England offered internet access to users in each year since 1997. [210832]
Margaret Hodge: The number of libraries with access to the internet in South Tyneside, the North-East and England as published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in Public Library Statistics are detailed in the table. There are no published figures for the number of libraries with internet access in the parliamentary constituency of Jarrow.
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