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The period between registration and the award of a BREEAM certificate can take up to two years.
Noted from the above figures that a total of three schemes only have so far been awarded a certificate. Custodial property is currently reviewing this situation to establish the current status of the outstanding registrations with a view to achieving certification.
Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) new builds and (b) major refurbishments for a cost in excess of £0.5 million were completed by his Department and its predecessor in (i) 2005-06, (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08. [213748]
Mr. Wills: The number of new builds and major refurbishments with a value of excess of £0.5 million completed by the Ministry and its predecessor in (i) 2005-06 (ii) 2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08 is set out in the following table.
| New Builds | Major Refurbishments | |
The answer only takes account of bodies that are within the Ministry's accounting boundary. It therefore excludes NDPBs.
No new builds or major refurbishments with a value in excess of £0.5 million were completed in 2005-06, 2006-07 or 2007-08 in MOJ HQ, the Tribunals Service or the Office of the Public Guardian. There are no records held centrally by NOMS HQ and the National Probation Service on new builds/major refurbishments completed in 2005-06, 2006-07 and none were completed of that value in 2007-08.
Departmental Contracts
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 7 May 2008, Official Report, columns 979-80W, on departmental contracts, on what grounds GVA Grimley obtained a reduction in the rating valuation and business rates bills of those properties which were courts. [213579]
Maria Eagle: The following properties were previously reported as having benefited from a reduction in national non-domestic rating bills:
Barnet magistrates court;
Bristol Greyfriars;
Bury county court;
Cambridge magistrates court;
HMCS NE regional directors office;
Manchester county court;
Middlesex Guildhall Crown court;
N and W Greater Manchester MCC offices;
Northampton Bulk Issue Centre;
Nuneaton county court;
Royal Courts of Justice;
Stourbridge county court.
The following table lists those properties which were courts and the grounds for the reduction in rates bill:
Departmental Pay
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of staff in his Department received bonus payments in 2007; what the total amount of bonuses paid was; what the largest single payment was; and if he will make a statement. [213301]
Mr. Wills: The core Ministry of Justice employs staff previously employed on several sets of different terms and conditions, each with their own legacy arrangements for bonus payments.
The information provided as follows relates to former Department for Constitutional Affairs senior civil servants and grades below senior civil service level. For the years reported prior to 2007-08, the data exclude payments to magistrates courts staff (who became civil servants in this Department in April 2005, and whose terms and conditions did normally allow for payment of performance or special bonuses), staff in the Tribunals Service and those who joined the former DCA on 1 April 2006 from other Government Departments, about whom information is not available to us for years prior to 2007.
| Senior civil service bonuses received during the past five years for staff on former DCA terms and conditions | ||||
| Paid in calendar year | Staff receiving bonuses | Proportion receiving bonuses (percentage) | Total amount awarded (£) | Largest award (£) |
No bonuses have yet been paid to members of the SCS during 2008.
Bonus payments to staff below the SCS in the core Ministry of Justice are either ‘performance bonuses’ or ‘special bonuses’.
| Performance bonuses awarded during the past five years to staff on former DCA terms and conditions (not SCS) | |||||
| Awarded for performance in year | Paid in calendar year | Staff receiving bonuses | Proportion receiving bonuses (percentage) | Total amount awarded (£) | Largest award (£) |
| Notes: 1. Performance bonuses are paid to staff who are assessed to have performed over and above the standard expected from them over the course of the whole performance year. 2. Data referring to proportion of staff receiving bonuses refer only to staff on relevant terms and conditions (i.e. only include former DCA and Court Service staff but exclude staff on magistrates courts terms and conditions). 3. Information on performance bonus payments for 2008 is not yet available. These payments are implemented as part of the annual pay award which will be paid in August. 4. The information contained above excludes payments to staff on Home Office terms and conditions who transferred to the Ministry of Justice with the establishment of the Ministry in May 2007. Details of any payments to these staff are included in the answer provided to this question by the Home Office. | |||||
| Special bonuses received during the past five years for staff on former DCA terms and conditions (not SCS) | ||||
| Paid in financial year | Staff receiving bonuses | Proportion receiving bonuses (percentage) | Total amount awarded (£) | Largest award (£) |
| (1 )Reflects increased staff complement—see note 5. 1. Special bonuses are paid to staff ‘in year’ for exceptional contribution over and above that normally expected. 2. Data shown in the table shows payments for each financial year from 2002-03. Comprehensive information is not yet available for 2007-08. 3. Data covering largest award is not available prior to 2004 when the current recognition and reward scheme was launched. 4. Proportions refer to the number of staff eligible to be awarded special bonuses under their terms and conditions. 5. 2007-08 data covers from 1 April 2007 to 31 May 2008. From 1 August 2007 staff eligible for bonuses under this scheme included staff on former MCS terms and conditions and those staff who joined former DCA from the Tribunals Service. | ||||
HM Prison Service became an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice on 9 May 2007.
Information on the number and proportion of staff receiving special bonuses, the total amount of bonuses awarded and the largest payment in each year within the public sector Prison Service is contained in the following table. Payments made to staff as part of the normal staff appraisal system are not included.
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