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National Offender Management Service and Office for Criminal Justice Reform
The normal retirement age for staff is 65, but they have the option to take their pension and retire at the age of 60 and can, exceptionally, work until the age of 70 subject to certain conditions.
| Staff working beyond normal retirement age | |
| (1 )Female age 60 and male 65 (prior to October 2006)—Staff numbers for year 2005-06 is higher in comparison to other years. Prior to Cabinet Office Employment Equality Regulations October 2006 female retirement age was 60 and therefore are included in the calculation for year 2005-06. We're unable to provide data prior to 2005 because of data migration to a new system. | |
Fines: Surcharges
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much revenue from the victim surcharge was distributed in each year to 2007-08, broken down by Government Office region; and if he will make a statement. [214294]
Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice included the receipts collected from the Victims Surcharge, as an appropriation in aid, in its estimates for 2007-08. Under spending plans, funding was committed as follows:
£3 million to the then Department for Constitutional Affairs (now the Ministry of Justice) to fund Independent Domestic Violence Adviser Services. A breakdown by Government Office region of the grants made to individual organisations was given in a written answer by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice (Bridget Prentice) to the hon. Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) on 20 May 2008, Official Report, columns 272-75W.
£3 million to the Crown Prosecution Service as a contribution to the cost of providing Witness Care Units under the 'No Witness No Justice' initiative. There are 165 Witness Care Units across England and Wales, including all the Government Office regions, funded partly by the Crown Prosecution Service and partly by individual police forces from general budgets. It is not possible to indicate a specific allocation provided to each region from Victims Surcharge receipts as the allocation of funding has been made on a national basis.
£5.6 million through the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, to the Victim Support National Centre to fund the national roll-out of enhanced services to victims and witnesses under the Victim Support Plus initiative. This grant was used by Victim Support to implement the new service delivery model across their business as they saw fit. It is not possible to indicate a specific allocation provided to each region from Victim Surcharge receipts as the allocation of funding has been made on a national basis.
£1.75 million through the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, to the Victims Fund to support victims of sexual violence and abuse, homicide and hate crime. The tables show the distribution of that money in 2007-08.
| Victims fund— grants made in 2007-08 towards support for victims of homicide | |
| Government Office Region | £ |
| Victims f und—grants made in 2007-08 towards support for victims of hate crime | |
| Government Office Region | £ |
| (1 )Excess over £250,000 added from Home Office budget. | |
Judges: Official Residences
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent from the public purse on security measures at residences of judges in the last five years. [214031]
Maria Eagle: Over the last five full financial years, the money spent on security measures at the residences of judges is as set out in the following table. These figures are for the domestic residences of judicial office holders; they do not include judicial lodgings. Figures include VAT.
| £ | |
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