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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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