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Electoral Register: Warrington
Helen Jones: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what percentage of the qualifying population are registered as electors in (a) each local authority in the north-west and (b) Warrington. [212308]
Mr. Watson: The information falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 19 June 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your questions asking what percentage of the qualifying population are registered as electors in (a) each local authority in the North West and (b) Warrington. (212308).
Table 1 gives the number of people who are registered to vote in the local/European elections as a percent of the “estimated usually resident population” age 18 and over, for each local authority in the North West (and Warrington), for 2006.
These percentages provide the closest available approximation to the registration rates that you requested. However they should not be interpreted as the percentage of the eligible population who are registered to vote. Not everyone who is usually resident is entitled to vote, for example foreign citizens from outside of the EU and Commonwealth are not eligible.
The figures used are for the local/ European electorate because the eligibility criteria are closer to the definition of the usually resident population than those for the parliamentary electorate (EU citizens are included and UK citizens resident abroad are excluded).
For some areas rates exceed one hundred per cent as figures for the registered electorate may be inflated. People who have more than one address may register in more than one place (e.g. students may register at parental and term-time addresses and electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or died).
The limitations described above affect areas in different ways. This limits comparability of these figures across local authorities.
The figures provided are for the most recent year that estimates of the usually resident population are available. Electoral statistics for December 2007 are available at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme other/UK_Electoral Statistics_2007.xls
Fairtrade Initiative
Mr. Moore: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 13 March 2008, Official Report, column 592W, on the Fairtrade initiative, how much his Department spent on refreshments for official departmental meetings and engagements in each of the last three financial years; and what percentage of this total was spent on Fairtrade products. [211566]
Phil Hope: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Government Departments: Procurement
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the Cabinet Office's policy is on requiring purchase orders to be submitted before expenditure is made. [210856]
Phil Hope: The Cabinet Office's purchasing policy requires that purchase orders are submitted before expenditure is made for purchases over £500.
Heads of Government Summit
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the attendees of the Heads of Government summit held on 5 April. [211793]
Meg Munn: I have been asked to reply.
The Heads of Government and international organisations who attended the Progressive Governance Summit on 5 April were:
The right hon. Gordon Brown—Prime Minister
His Excellency Kevin Rudd—Prime Minister, Australia
His Excellency Alfred Gusenbauer—Chancellor, Austria
Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet—President, Chile
His Excellency Mr. Dimitris Christofias—President, Cyprus
His Excellency Mr. John Kufuor—President, Ghana
His Excellency Romano Prodi—Prime Minister, Italy
Her Excellency Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf—President, Liberia
His Excellency Mr. Gediminas Kirkilas—Prime Minister, Lithuania
Her Excellency Helen Clark—Prime Minister, New Zealand
His Excellency Jens Stoltenberg—Prime Minister, Norway
His Excellency Mr. Robert Fico—Prime Minister, Slovakia
His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki—President, South Africa
The right hon. Peter Mandelson—European Commissioner for Trade
His Excellency Mr. Javier Solana—EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy
The hon. Bill Clinton—Clinton Foundation
Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn—International Monetary Fund
Mr. Antonio Guterres—UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Mr. Kemal Dervis—UN Development Programme
Mr. Pascal Lamy—World Trade Organisation
Dr. Donald Kaberuka—African Development Bank.
A final comprehensive list of all audience members who attended the summit is not available.
Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 27 March 2008, Official Report, column 351W, on ministerial policy advisers, to which former special advisers the Cabinet Office has (a) granted and (b) withheld approval to take up an outside appointment on leaving post in (i) the Prime Minister's Office and (ii) the Cabinet Office since May 2005. [211104]
Edward Miliband:
Personal information about the applications submitted by special advisers, and other Crown servants, is made public only in accordance with
the principles and practices followed in the operation of the Business Appointment Rules. This information, which includes details of the appointments of the most senior staff and statistical data about cases at the more junior levels, is published on the website of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (www.acoba.gov.uk) and in its reports.
Political Office: Manpower
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many staff have worked in the Downing Street Political Office in each year since 1996-97. [210874]
Mr. Watson: Staff in the Political Office are not employees of the Cabinet Office and therefore records of staff numbers are not held.
Public Bodies
Mr. Maude:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the written ministerial statement
of 27 March 2008, Official Report, column 18WS, on Public Bodies 2007, for what reason the latest edition of Public Bodies does not publish detailed information on the size and expenditure of each individual non-departmental public body. [211075]
Mr. Watson: The Cabinet Office publication “Public Bodies” continues to provide headline information on the size, expenditure and membership of the non-departmental public bodies (NDPB) sector. It is now the responsibility of individual sponsor Departments to publish detailed information on their NDPBs on an annual basis.
Television
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 20 March 2008, Official Report, column 1308W, on television, in what room in Downing street the television purchased was installed. [210962]
Phil Hope: The television was installed in Downing street Offices.
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