In addition, Youth Music (which distributes lottery funds on behalf of the Arts Council) has provided financial support to the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain as set out in the following table:
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
£
2003-04
100,000
2004-05
110,000
2005-06
120,000
2006-07
120,000
2007-08
123,000
Total
573,000
Departmental Freedom of Information
Mr. Hunt:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many freedom of information requests his Department received in each of the last three years; and in how many the information requested was (a) given within 20 working days, (b) given after more than 20 working days, (c) given in part within 20 working days, (d) given in part after more than 20 working days and (e) refused. [216523]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
Statistics relating to the handling of information requests received in 2007 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’), are contained in the 9 July 2008 : Column 1663W
Ministry of Justice Third Annual Report on the operation of the FOI Act in Central Government 2007, published on 18 June 2008.
The Ministry of Justice website contains links to similar published statistics for 2006 and 2005. These can be found respectively at (in relation to 2006):
In addition, the Ministry of Justice publishes a quarterly statistical bulletin on the implementation in central Government of the FOI Act 2000. The latest report for Q1 (January-March) 2008 was published on 30 June 2008. This also contains some historical data of some of the key statistics on a quarterly basis since 1 January 2006. The latest quarterly report can be found at:
The reports cover the implementation and operation of the Act in central Government. Statistical releases cover for each Department the numbers of requests received, timeliness of response, outcomes of requests, and usage of the Act’s appeal processes. The annual reports draw together the quarterly statistics for one year and analyses the longer term trends.
Departmental Pay
Bob Spink:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the average pay per hour worked by (a) permanent and (b) temporary staff in his Department in the last period for which figures are available, broken down by pay band. [212494]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The information is shown in the table.
£
DCMS staff
Agency staff
SCS pay band 3
70.40
—
SCS pay band 2 (includes 1a)
46.20
—
SCS pay band 1
29.60
—
Grade A upper
25.32
—
Grade A lower
21.29
—
Grade B
14.54
18.47
Grade C
10.74
14.45
Grade D
8.78
10.18
The average hourly rate for DCMS staff in the table has been calculated by taking the basic salary, dividing it by 52 and dividing by the gross conditioned hours (41). It does not include ERNIC and pension costs.
The average hourly rates for agency staff have been calculated from the rates provided by the two main agencies used, the rates will include an allowance for the agencies’ overheads and profit.
Departmental Sick Pay
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much sick pay to staff in his Department cost in the last five years for which figures are available. [211857]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The information is in the table.
9 July 2008 : Column 1664W
1 April to 31 March
Salary costs (£)
2003-04
214,581
2004-05
204,304
2005-06
255,571
2006-07
215,607
2007-08
159,011
The information provided shows the salary costs and excludes employers’ pension and national insurance contributions. These and other related information could be provided only at disproportionate costs.
Departmental Visits Abroad
Mr. MacNeil:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the cost of overseas visits by each Minister in his Department has been since 1997. [214646]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
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, Officials 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.
Costs for overseas visits by all Ministers for the period 1997 to 1999 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Food
Mr. Paice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how much was spent by his Department on (a) food and (b) food of British origin in each of the last five years; [214891]
(2) from which five countries of origin the greatest amount of food was procured by his Department in the last year for which figures are available; and what the (a) cost and (b) quantity procured was in each case. [214892]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The Department does not hold the management information required to answer this question.
Reaching Communities Scheme
Mr. Clifton-Brown:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding has been provided from the Reaching Communities Scheme in each constituency. [213452]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The Big Lottery Fund has supplied the following data on the funding provided to each constituency by the Reaching Communities programme.
Locational data are recorded by applicant post code and do not necessarily reflect the actual location of the project.
9 July 2008 : Column 1665W
Reaching Communities England—Grants by constituency
MP Constituency
Value (£)
Number of awards
Altrincham and Sale West
360,911
1
Amber Valley
305,807
2
Arundel and South Downs
36,808
1
Ashfield
589,915
4
Ashford
151,900
1
Ashton under Lyne
932,468
4
Barnsley Central
615,244
3
Barnsley East and Mexborough
369,546
2
Barnsley West and Penistone
362,857
4
Barrow and Furness
417,733
2
Basildon
844,785
4
Basingstoke
497,621
1
Bassetlaw
1,170,932
4
Battersea
847,151
3
Bedford
481,077
4
Belfast North
959,751
2
Belfast South
3089,828
7
Belfast West
213,359
1
Berwick-upon-Tweed
561,622
3
Bethnal Green and Bow
2,093,667
8
Billericay
283,591
1
Birkenhead
813,307
3
Birmingham, Edgbaston
693,804
3
Birmingham, Erdington
376,109
1
Birmingham, Hall Green
124,181
1
Birmingham, Hodge Hill
47,000
1
Birmingham, Ladywood
2,917,845
9
Birmingham, Perry Barr
723,001
2
Birmingham, Selly Oak
430,668
3
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath
819,060
4
Birmingham, Yardley
115,550
1
Bishop Auckland
318,604
2
Blackburn
568,878
3
Blackpool South
416,221
1
Blyth Valley
151,037
3
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
94,962
1
Bolsover
476,523
1
Bolton North East
975,145
3
Bolton South East
26,237
1
Bootle
871,579
3
Boston and Skegness
227,870
1
Bosworth
421,647
4
Bournemouth East
250,552
2
Bournemouth West
52,270
1
Bracknell
295,608
2
Bradford North
1,066,904
4
Bradford South
187,870
1
Bradford West
1,106,253
5
Braintree
30,000
1
Brent East
949,329
4
Brent North
251,372
1
Brent South
880,425
4
Brentford and Isleworth
318,878
2
Bridgwater
619,581
3
Brigg and Goole
948,096
3
Brighton, Kemptown
474,125
3
Brighton, Pavilion
1,874,701
7
Bristol East
1,054,240
5
Bristol North West
358,642
3
Bristol West
1,308,400
5
Bromley and Chislehurst
50,000
1
Bromsgrove
180,000
7
Broxbourne
387,723
2
9 July 2008 : Column 1666W
Broxtowe
107,676
1
Buckingham
48,000
1
Burnley
1,334,829
5
Burton
819,994
3
Bury St. Edmunds
203,016
2
Camberwell and Peckham
424,533
3
Cambridge
1,171,313
7
Cannock Chase
360,532
3
Canterbury
1,111,582
5
Carlisle
666,720
3
Carshalton and Wallington
147,796
1
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
516,348
2
Charnwood
39,300
1
Chatham and Aylesford
347,225
1
Chesterfield
1,071,387
3
Chichester
713,331
4
Chorley
938,032
5
Cities of London and Westminster
1,985,149
10
City of Chester
33,779
1
City of Durham
57,846
2
City of York
785,584
3
Colchester
690,297
5
Colne Valley
439,513
2
Copeland
849,411
3
Corby
661,948
2
Cotswold
252,712
2
Coventry South
1,613,796
6
Crawley
156,001
1
Crewe and Nantwich
562,864
3
Croydon Central
261,676
2
Dagenham
387,194
2
Darlington
158,215
1
Dartford
445,572
2
Daventry
71,761
2
Denton and Reddish
405,460
1
Derby North
218,994
1
Derby South
1,489,805
5
Devizes
326,130
4
Dewsbury
625,203
2
Don Valley
65,215
1
Doncaster Central
1,110,457
6
Doncaster North
615,340
2
Dover
381,047
2
Dudley North
423,223
3
Dudley South
385,450
2
Dulwich and West Norwood
365,534
2
Ealing North
115,490
2
Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
383,135
1
Ealing, Southall
335,892
3
Easington
1,384,268
7
East Devon
337,379
1
East Ham
1,318,926
3
East Hampshire
85,480
1
East Londonderry
934,785
2
East Worthing and Shoreham
51,040
1
East Yorkshire
50,923
1
Eastbourne
77,178
2
Eastleigh
387,857
1
Eccles
370,801
2
Eddisbury
574,047
3
Edmonton
741,215
2
Elmet
239,660
2
Eltham
185,569
2
Enfield North
370,099
1
9 July 2008 : Column 1667W
Epsom and Ewell
163,645
2
Esher and Walton
14,632
1
Exeter
588,502
3
Falmouth and Camborne
81,845
2
Fareham
482,659
2
Faversham and Mid Kent
812,882
3
Feltham and Heston
263,859
1
Finchley and Golders Green
680,341
2
Folkestone and Hythe
86,951
1
Forest of Dean
20,256
1
Foyle
491,926
1
Gainsborough
50,000
1
Gateshead East and Washington West
130,130
1
Gillingham
153,116
1
Gloucester
70,000
1
Gosport
183,856
2
Grantham and Stamford
50,000
1
Gravesham
731,284
2
Great Grimsby
281,101
2
Great Yarmouth
362,704
3
Greenwich and Woolwich
1,599,282
9
Guildford
799,345
3
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
211,769
3
Hackney South and Shoreditch
1,626,213
7
Halton
1,483,579
5
Hammersmith and Fulham
1,973,230
5
Hampstead and Highgate
307,449
1
Harborough
270,000
1
Harlow
706,950
4
Hartlepool
809,974
4
Harwich
222,370
2
Hastings and Rye
362,000
1
Havant
367,157
2
Hayes and Harlington
280,480
2
Hazel Grove
542,858
2
Hemel Hempstead
37,730
1
Hendon
218,795
1
Hereford
153,168
1
Hertford and Stortford
150,681
1
Hexham
84,280
1
Heywood and Middleton
25,000
1
High Peak
377,513
2
Holborn and St. Pancras
1,591,473
7
Hornsey and Wood Green
585,087
2
Houghton and Washington East
355,050
1
Hove
834,446
3
Huddersfield
925,009
3
Hyndburn
1,903,493
6
Ilford North
905,965
3
Ilford South
894,576
4
Ipswich
315,911
1
Isle of Wight
806,679
3
Islington North
1,589,821
8
Islington South and Finsbury
5,873,322
19
Keighley
211,992
2
Kensington and Chelsea
186,313
2
Kettering
758,231
2
Kingston and Surbiton
781,276
3
Kingston upon Hull East
547,924
2
Kingston upon Hull North
1,192,674
3
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
544,403
2
Kingswood
467,671
2
9 July 2008 : Column 1668W
Knowsley North and Sefton East
177,055
1
Knowsley South
1,192,170
3
Lancaster and Wyre
285,777
1
Leeds Central
1,231,182
9
Leeds East
248,058
1
Leeds North East
1,753,071
6
Leeds North West
189,987
1
Leeds West
354,693
2
Leicester South
799,512
4
Leicester West
1,121,052
3
Leominster
664,190
3
Lewes
850,661
3
Lewisham East
74,376
1
Lewisham West
287,866
2
Lewisham, Deptford
978,851
6
Leyton and Wanstead
743,383
2
Lichfield
117,570
1
Lincoln
1,212,420
5
Liverpool, Riverside
3,848,168
14
Liverpool, Walton
487,931
1
Liverpool, Wavertree
83,596
1
Loughborough
233,812
2
Ludlow
363,418
2
Luton South
484,115
1
Maldon and East Chelmsford
125,460
1
Manchester, Central
3,852,891
13
Manchester, Gorton
529,800
2
Manchester, Withington
138,115
1
Mansfield
517,905
3
Medway
259,975
2
Meriden
600,938
3
Middlesbrough
680,093
7
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
570,271
2
Mole Valley
404,874
1
Morecambe and Lunesdale
35,000
1
Morley and Rothwell
30,000
1
New Forest West
480,435
2
Newark
472,688
1
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
1,611,887
7
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
52,944
1
Newcastle-under-Lyme
254,850
1
Normanton
234,723
2
North Cornwall
98,000
2
North Devon
480,464
3
North Dorset
204,143
1
North Durham
688,881
4
North East Bedfordshire
25,000
1
North East Cambridgeshire
157,594
1
North East Hampshire
41,925
1
North East Hertfordshire
172,963
2
North Norfolk
596,362
2
North Shropshire
614,261
2
North Southwark and Bermondsey
3,097,342
11
North Thanet
210,935
1
North Tyneside
580,128
3
North Warwickshire
458,448
3
North West Durham
293,991
1
North West Hampshire
131,243
1
North West Leicestershire
83,589
1
North West Norfolk
482,019
1
North Wiltshire
478,669
3
Northampton South
184,467
1
9 July 2008 : Column 1669W
Norwich South
623,779
2
Nottingham East
789,416
3
Nottingham South
1,757,521
6
Nuneaton
278,438
1
Old Bexley and Sidcup
165,867
1
Oldham West and Royton
1,244,004
4
Oxford East
1,071,118
5
Oxford West and Abingdon
743,160
2
Pendle
816,820
4
Penrith and The Border
169,867
2
Peterborough
690,381
3
Plymouth, Devonport
233,460
1
Plymouth, Sutton
892,963
2
Poole
412,191
2
Poplar and Canning Town
628,768
3
Portsmouth North
182,230
1
Portsmouth South
527,276
3
Preston
2,140,312
6
Pudsey
37,607
1
Reading East
301,502
2
Redcar
811,633
3
Redditch
462,259
1
Regent's Park and Kensington North
553,944
4
Richmond (Yorks)
549,747
4
Richmond Park
362,375
3
Rochdale
796,739
4
Rochford and Southend East
688,727
5
Romford
561,981
3
Rossendale and Darwen
545,198
2
Rotherham
766,873
4
Ruislip-Northwood Rushcliffe
520,285
2
Rutland and Melton
98,172
2
Ryedale
390,265
1
Salisbury
203,092
4
Scarborough and Whitby
584,475
4
Scunthorpe
197,002
1
Selby
445,860
1
Sheffield Central
979,448
6
Sheffield, Attercliffe
936,388
2
Sheffield, Brightside
588,599
4
Sherwood
1,165,721
6
Shipley
246,042
2
Shrewsbury and Atcham
270,732
1
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
74,000
1
Skipton and Ripon
48,612
2
Slough
1,062,159
4
Solihull
376,365
2
South Cambridgeshire
131,300
1
South Dorset
50,100
1
South East Cambridgeshire
395,259
1
South Holland and The Deepings
282,896
1
South Ribble
205,212
1
South Shields
1,020,934
3
South Swindon
609,202
3
South West Bedfordshire
50,000
1
South West Norfolk
97,626
2
Southampton, Itchen
733,440
3
Southampton, Test
516,538
3
Southend West
486,097
1
Southport
401,151
1
St. Albans
340,087
1
St. Helens South
1,000,366
4
St. Ives
588,351
6
9 July 2008 : Column 1670W
Stafford
321,723
1
Stevenage
162,345
1
Stockport
706,070
2
Stockton North
90,182
1
Stockton South
963,388
5
Stoke-on-Trent Central
1,485,144
5
Stoke-on-Trent North
475,209
2
Stoke-on-Trent South
375,589
1
Stone
406,066
1
Streatham
395,737
2
Stretford and Urmston
364,881
2
Stroud
162,398
2
Suffolk Coastal
76,945
1
Sunderland North
954,881
3
Sunderland South
114,854
1
Sutton and Cheam
382,055
1
Sutton Coldfield
454,843
2
Tamworth
676,316
1
Taunton
325,000
1
Teignbridge
155,560
1
Telford
324,131
2
Tewkesbury
298,683
2
Thurrock
740,488
2
Tiverton and Honiton
122,276
2
Tonbridge and Mailing
249,686
2
Tooting
597,493
2
Torridge and West Devon
254,008
6
Totnes
305,418
1
Tottenham
1,011,138
5
Truro and St. Austell
554,817
3
Twickenham
98,078
1
Tyne Bridge
1,035,319
5
Tynemouth
429,805
1
Upper Bann
469,115
1
Uxbridge
36,196
3
Vale of York
150,000
1
Vauxhall
1,227,125
4
Wakefield
970,187
3
Wallasey
144,201
1
Walsall North
61,000
1
Walsall South
1,039,958
3
Walthamstow
876,601
3
Wansbeck
506,286
2
Wantage
204,559
1
Warley
376,614
1
Warrington North
70,246
1
Warrington South
499,186
1
Warwick and Leamington
515,355
2
Waveney
172,446
1
Wealden
101,151
3
Weaver Vale
652,221
2
Wellingborough
100,489
2
Wells
98,013
2
Welwyn Hatfield
331,864
2
Wentworth
255,190
2
West Bromwich West
1,527,561
7
West Chelmsford
386,257
4
West Derbyshire
494,157
3
West Dorset
99,293
1
West Ham
1,268,507
5
West Lancashire
1,060,180
3
West Suffolk
65,736
1
West Worcestershire
105,834
2
Westbury
125,562
1
9 July 2008 : Column 1671W
Westmorland and Lonsdale
377,404
2
Weston-Super-Mare
636,493
3
Wigan
565,933
2
Wimbledon
91,438
1
Windsor
210,000
1
Witney
213,804
1
Wokingham
532,056
3
Wolverhampton North East
320,843
1
Wolverhampton South East
974,641
2
Wolverhampton South West
537,965
2
Woodspring
264,724
2
Worcester
161,704
1
Workington
495,681
2
Worsley
494,425
1
Worthing West
316,544
1
Wyre Forest
421,345
2
Yeovil
491,428
4
Not known(1)
1,555,880
6
(1) Six awards for constituencies were their location has not been recorded. Source:
Big Lottery Fund
