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Westminster City Council
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what grants were made by his Department to Westminster City Council in each year since 2000; and for how much in each case. [210010]
Mr. Thomas: The former Department of Trade and Industry made a grant of £3,363.75 to Westminster city council in July 2007, under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment regulations.
Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Saville inquiry is due to report; and what his most recent estimate is of the cost of the inquiry. [209230]
Mr. Woodward: Lord Saville recently confirmed that the tribunal hopes to submit its report to me by the end of this year or shortly thereafter. I am advised that the cost of the Bloody Sunday inquiry is £183 million as at end April 2008. Based on estimates by the inquiry and the Ministry of Defence, the total cost is expected to be £188 million.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what (a) salary and (b) travel and subsistence monies were paid to staff in his Department in each of the last 10 years, broken down by grade. [207746]
Mr. Woodward: The Department's financial system can report only on total salaries and corresponding travel and subsistence paid to staff back to 2002-03 (agencies and executive NDPBs are excluded). Details are shown in the following table.
| £ | ||
| Salaries | Travel and subsistence | |
Driving Offences
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were convicted for (a) motoring offences that resulted in a fatality and (b) careless driving in each of the last three years. [211356]
Paul Goggins: Table 1 gives the number of convictions for motoring offences causing death, while table 2 gives convictions for careless driving.
Data cover the calendar years 2004-06 (the latest available years) and are collated on the principal offence rule; so only the most serious offence with which an offender is charged is included.
| Table 1: Number of convictions for motoring offences causing death 2004-06 | |
| Convictions | |
| Table 2: Number of convictions for careless driving 2004-06( 1,2) | |
| Convictions | |
| (1) Data do not include careless driving offences causing death. (2) Data do not include reckless driving, furious driving or dangerous driving. | |
Fairtrade Initiative
Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 18 February 2008, Official Report, column 132W, on the Fairtrade initiative, what Fairtrade products are (a) available for purchase at his Department's staff catering facilities and (b) offered at official departmental meetings and engagements. [209022]
Mr. Woodward: There are no mandatory policy requirements in place for the procurement of Fairtrade products by central Government Departments. However the Government are committed to improving market access to producers in developing countries through increased participation in fair and sustainable supply chains. Each Government Department is responsible for making its own decisions on such products, against the background of the Government's value for money policy, the EC procurement rules and the Department's objectives.
My Department operates only one small staff catering facility; no Fairtrade products are currently sold there.
We have used Fairtrade tea, coffee, and fruit at official engagements. When supply contracts are renewed we are looking to extend the range of goods available.
Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 18 February 2008, Official Report, column 132W, on the Fairtrade initiative, in which departmental buildings (a) Fairtrade products are provided at official meetings and functions and (b) Fairtrade products are not made available for official meetings and functions. [209023]
Mr. Woodward: My Department is responsible for catering at Stormont House and Hillsborough Castle; Fairtrade products are available at both locations.
Offensive Weapons
Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people under the age of 18 years were the victim of knife crime in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. [210726]
Paul Goggins: The following table outlines the number of recorded violent crimes where a knife was used for victims under the age of 18 years for 2003-04 to 2007-08.
A number of initiatives have been introduced since the last amnesty and are now in operation across Northern Ireland to reduce the level of knife crime. PSNI have rolled out the use of metal detectors and also introduced a stop and search policy. New legislation has been introduced to make it more difficult to obtain knives by raising the minimum age limit for purchase to 18. Last month, it became illegal in Northern Ireland to manufacture, sell, hire or import samurai swords. The recent Criminal Justice (NI) Order contains powers which double the penalties for possessing a knife in public and also for selling/manufacturing/marketing knives to under 18’s.
Knife disposal bins have been retained on site at civic amnesty locations and PSNI education officers continue to raise awareness in schools on a number of key issues, including the dangers of carrying a knife.
| Number of violent crimes where a knife was involved in the incident and where the victim was under 18 2003-04 to 2007-08( 1,2,3) | |
| Number | |
| (1 )Data are provisional and may be subject to revision. (2) The figures relate to offences where a knife was involved in the incident—it is not known how the knife was actually used. (3) Figures have been provided only in relation to violent crime. Analysis of crime by age of victim is routinely carried out for violent crime offences (offences against the person, sexual offences and robbery) and also for domestic burglary offences. Analysis by age of victim for other crime types is not carried out, as the number of records where the victim age is not available is too high to allow analysis to be meaningful. A small proportion of data are missing for each of the listed years. Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNI | |
Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many crimes involving a knife took place in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area. [210741]
Paul Goggins: The following table outlines the number of recorded crimes involving a knife broken down by district council area for 2003-04 to 2007-08.
| Number of offences where a knife was involved in the incident by district council area 2003-04 to 2007-08( 1,2) | |||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| (1) Data are provisional and may be subject to revision. (2) The figures relate to offences where a knife was involved in the incident—it is not known how the knife was actually used. Source: Central Statistics Unit, PSNT | |||||
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