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Table 2: Home Office average ‘national pay’ rates by grade (non-permanent or contract staff)
Grade description Hourly average rate (£)

AA HO National

6.05

Non Exec. DIR.

6.31

Sandwich Course Student Lon

6.37

AA HO London

6.43

Sandwich Course Student Nat

6.49

AO HO National

6.88

CRB3

6.91

Passport Offr 3 UKPA Nat

6.94

Sandwich Course Student Sandri

6.95

AO HO London

7.52

SGB 1 HO National

7.69

Passport Offr 1 UKPA Lon

7.99

Personal Secretary HO Lon

8.42

EO HO National

8.81

Personal Secretary HO Nat

9.09

EO HO London

9.59

Asst Scientific Off Sandridge

10.11

Research Offr National

10.64

Assist Information Off HO Lon

11.35

Research Offr London

11.64

Economic Assistant HO

11.70

HEO HO London

11.82

Higher Scientific Officer L/S

13.49

Senior Res Off HO Lon

15.08

SEO HO National

15.18

SEO HO London

16.66

SEO Sandridge

17.50

Senior CS (OS) Pay Band

18.73

Grade 7 HO National

21.58

Grade 7 HO London

23.27

Grade 6 National

25.21

Grade 6 London

29.66

Senior CS Pay Band 1

41.36

Senior CS Pay Band 2

43.42

Senior CS Pay Band 1

46.72

H.M Insp Constab

80.46


Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will review salary negotiations for public-sector employees in organisations within her Department's responsibility to reflect the rise in the consumer prices index to a point above 3 per cent. [214551]


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Mr. Byrne: The Government's pay policy is guided by the following principles.

Public sector pay settlements should be consistent with maintaining the necessary levels of recruitment, retention and staff engagement needed to support service delivery; ensuring that total pay bills represent value for money and are affordable within Departments' overall expenditure plans; and consistent with the achievement of the inflation target. Timing of pay decisions for a particular work force depends on pay-setting arrangements for that work force.

Departmental Visits Abroad

Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of overseas visits by each Minister in her Department has been since 1997. [214653]

Mr. Byrne: Since 1999, the Government have published the total cost of all overseas travel by Ministers and a list of all overseas travel by Cabinet Ministers costing over £500. Information for the last financial year was published on 25 July 2007, Official Report, column 1112W. Details for the financial year 2007-08 will be published before the summer recess and will include details of overseas visits undertaken by all Ministers. All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the “Ministerial Code”.

Information in respect of overseas visits by all Ministers for the period 1997 to 1999 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Deportation: EU Nationals

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many EU nationals were deported from the UK in each of the last five years. [212750]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 20 June 2008]: Information prior to April 2006 is not available owing to known data quality issues. The UK Border Agency deported or removed over 4,200 foreign national prisoners in 2007, 525 of whom were European economic area nationals.

Deportation: Zimbabwe

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on the deportation to Zimbabwe of (a) members of the Movement for Democratic Change and (b) those with strong links to the Movement for Democratic Change. [215268]

Mr. Byrne: We have no current plans to enforce returns to Zimbabwe.

Driving Under Influence: Testing

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) breathalyser and (b) drug tests were carried out on drivers in each police force in each of the last three calendar years for which figures are available. [214751]


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Mr. Coaker: Data held by the Ministry of Justice relate only to the number of screening breath tests taken for alcohol and the number positive or refused. The available information is given in the following table. Information is not collected centrally on subsequent evidential tests for alcohol.

Tests for drug driving can only be taken using a device of a type approved by the Secretary of State. No type-approved devices are yet available. Figures are not collected centrally on the tests which police carry out for impairment which may be due to a drug. These tests do not involve the use of specialist equipment.


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The number of screening breath tests by period and police force area, England and Wales
Total number of tests
Police force area 2004 2005 2006

Avon and Somerset

27,300

22,000

15,800

Bedfordshire

7,800

6,700

3,100

Cambridgeshire

12,300

12,500

12,500

Cheshire

20,200

22,000

35,700

Cleveland

8,100

10,800

11,300

Cumbria

8,400

13,600

13,800

Derbyshire

31,000

17,700

16,000

Devon and Cornwall

10.700

10,400

13,600

Dorset

7,000

7,900

8,700

Durham

6,100

7,700

6,900

Essex

25,300

34,200

28,400

Gloucestershire

7,100

9,100

10,100

Greater Manchester

19,900

18,900

18,100

Hampshire

38,400

38,300

34,800

Hertfordshire

7,300

11,900

12,700

Humberside

5,600

5,700

10,000

Kent

32,000

31,200

31,700

Lancashire

10,200

13,000

16,400

Leicestershire

(1)15,800

14,400

10,000

Lincolnshire

11,300

11,400

10,600

London, City of

700

1,100

1,600

Merseyside

5,000

8,000

10,600

Metropolitan Police

61,500

67,500

65,000

Norfolk

4,800

10,400

7,800

Northamptonshire

3,200

5,200

4,300

Northumbria

9,800

9,300

7,900

North Yorkshire

8,600

9,300

10,100

Nottinghamshire

8,200

7,900

7,200

South Yorkshire

6,500

13,700

10,300

Staffordshire

13,700

14,300

12,700

Suffolk

10,600

8,900

9,100

Surrey

9,500

9,600

8,300

Sussex

15,200

18,000

18,700

Thames Valley

15,400

14,600

13,500

Warwickshire

5,500

4,800

4,500

West Mercia

8,000

8,800

11,300

West Midlands

6,600

6,900

6,200

West Yorkshire

16,900

15,400

18,000

Wiltshire

7,400

7,200

8,700

Dyfed-Powys

6,700

6,900

7,300

Gwent

1,600

2,000

1,700

North Wales

24,200

21,800

19,600

South Wales

16,700

16,300

17,100

Total

578,000

607,400

601,600

(1) Revised since publication of ‘Motoring Offences and Breath Test Statistics, England and Wales, 2004’ bulletin.
Note:
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.

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