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Special bonus—the special bonus scheme enables line managers to award a one-off bonus to recognise and reward exceptional personal or team achievement. Detailed criteria are determined by local managers. Awards may be cash or vouchers but the amounts that can be awarded are modest because the total expenditure over the year is limited to 0.25 per cent. of the manager’s staffing budget. As there is no maximum amount set, these have not been included in the aforementioned table.

2. SCS

Performance year	Percentage receiving maximum bonus	Percentage not receiving maximum bonus
2005-06	8.45	91.55
2006-07	1.78	98.22

All bonuses are non-consolidated and so they are not added into salary and are not-pensionable.

Departmental Pilot Schemes

Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what criteria are used to decide which region is selected for a pilot scheme by his Department; [216918]

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(2) what his Department's total budget was for running pilot schemes in each of the last five years; and how much was spent (a) in Wales and (b) on testing service provision through the medium of Welsh; [216919]

(3) how many pilot schemes were run by his Department in each of the last five years, broken down by region. [216920]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 7 July 2008]: The Department runs pilots to test the effectiveness of different approaches to service provision in achieving results and in improving the customer experience. The decision on where these pilots are operated is based on a number of different criteria. These can include the type and location of the service being tested, the customer group involved, and the location of other pilots already under way. The decision on the location of a pilot also takes account of the need to ensure the customer base is sufficiently large to make the results of the pilot meaningful. Any pilot testing a service in Wales includes testing service provision in the Welsh language. Pilots that have been run in Wales include Pathways to Work in Bridgend, Rhondda, Cynon and Taff; Swansea Bay, West Wales; and Eastern Valleys; and new deal plus for lone parents in Cardiff.

Data over the last five years on the number of pilot schemes, the regions involved, and costs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Disabled: Respite Care

Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how the funding for the provision of short break services announced in the Aiming High for Disabled Children document, will be spent in each year over the Comprehensive Spending Review period. [220210]

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply.

In line with the commitments in Aiming High for Disabled Children, the Government intend to issue local authorities with revenue funding of £15.6 million in 2008-09, £75.8 million in 2009-10, and £177.6 million in 2010-11 for the transformation of short break provision. £11 million will be spent over the CSR period on programme support and evaluation.

In addition to this funding, the Government will also provide local authorities with short break capital funding of £4.5 million in 2008-09, £33 million in 2009-10 and £52.5 million in 2010-11. This additional £90 million was announced in the Children’s Plan in December 2007,

Funding allocations to local authorities can be viewed at:

www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/ahdc

Employment

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) UK nationals, ( b) non-UK EU nationals and (c) non-EU nationals were in (i) full-time employment and (ii) part-time employment in the UK in each year since 1995; and
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what the percentage rate of change was for UK nationals in each type of employment as a proportion of the UK working age population in each of those years. [169293]

Mr. Timms: I apologise for the delay in replying to the hon. Member which was as a result of an administrative error in relation to the transfer of his question to another Department. The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. The National Statistician will write to the hon. Member and a copy of the response will be placed in the Library of the House.

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 12 May 2008, Official Report, columns 1299-1301W, on employment, if he will break down the figures in Table D, foreign nationals, into (a) EU and (b) non EU citizens. [206255]

Mr. Timms: The information requested is given in the following tables.

The figures for foreign nationals provided in the answer given to the hon. Member on 12 May 2008, Official Report, columns 1299-1301W, were, as stated in the response, based on 2003 population estimates which were the latest estimates available at the time. On 14 May, ONS released re-weighted data based on 2007 population estimates. The foreign nationals table provided has therefore been revised to reflect the latest population estimates available and to include data on additional quarters now available, namely Q2 1998, Q2 2000 and Q1 2008. The tables for EU and non-EU nationals also use the 2007 population estimates.

Table (D) foreign nationals
	(i) Employment rate (percentage)	(ii) WA employment	(iii) 16+ employment
Q2 1997	60.3	940,000	970,000
Q2 1998	60.3	1,040,000	1,060,000
Q2 1999	60.0	990,000	1,020,000
Q2 2000	60.4	1,110,000	1,140,000
Q2 2001	61.6	1,180,000	1,210,000
Q2 2002	62.2	1,260,000	1,300,000
Q2 2003	62.7	1,360,000	1,390,000
Q2 2004	64.8	1,470,000	1,500,000
Q2 2005	63.9	1,570,000	1,600,000
Q1 2006	67.0	1,760,000	1,800,000
Q2 2006	68.0	1,840,000	1,880,000
Q3 2006	69.2	1,910,000	1,960,000
Q4 2006	68.7	1,960,000	2,010,000
Q1 2007	66.9	1,980,000	2,020,000
Q2 2007	67.9	2,100,000	2,140,000
Q3 2007	68.6	2,110,000	2,150,000
Q4 2007	68.3	2,170,000	2,210,000
Q1 2008	69.2	2,250,000	2,290,000

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Table (D) (a) EU nationals
	(i) Employment rate (percentage)	(ii) WA employment	(iii) 16+ employment
Q2 1997	66.7	400,000	420,000
Q2 1998	68.5	450,000	470,000
Q2 1999	69.0	430,000	450,000
Q2 2000	69.0	440,000	460,000
Q2 2001	72.6	470,000	490,000
Q2 2002	72.4	460,000	480,000
Q2 2003	72.4	490,000	520,000
Q2 2004	71.9	560,000	580,000
Q2 2005	73.2	620,000	640,000
Q1 2006	75.2	720,000	740,000
Q2 2006	75.8	710,000	730,000
Q3 2006	77.3	750,000	780,000
Q4 2006	77.2	830,000	860,000
Q1 2007	77.4	900,000	920,000
Q2 2007	77.1	970,000	990,000
Q3 2007	78.4	970,000	990,000
Q4 2007	79.0	1,010,000	1,030,000
Q1 2008	78.9	1,070,000	1,090,000

Table (D) (b) non-EU nationals
	(i) Employment r ate (percentage)	(ii) WA employment	(iii) 16+ e mployment
Q2 1997	56.2	540,000	550,000
Q2 1998	55.3	590,000	300,000
Q2 1999	54.6	560,000	570,000
Q2 2000	55.9	670,000	580,000
Q2 2001	56.0	710,000	^30,000
Q2 2002	57.5	800,000	520,000
Q2 2003	58.2	860,000	370,000
Q2 2004	61.1	910,000	J20.000
Q2 2005	59.0	950,000	J60.000
Q1 2006	62.3	1,040,000	060,000
Q2 2006	63.8	1,120,000	140,000
Q3 2006	64.8	1,160,000	180,000
Q4 2006	63.6	1,130,000	150,000
Q1 2007	60.1	1,080,000	100,000
Q2 2007	61.7	1,130,000	150,000
Q3 2007	62.1	1,140,000	160,000
Q4 2007	61.1	1,160,000	180,000
Q1 2008	62.3	1,190,000	200,000
Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10,000. 2. The figures provided in the tables are not seasonally adjusted. This means direct comparisons between different quarters are not possible. 3. In order to provide the more detailed breakdown that is required to answer the question, a country is defined as being in the EU only from the date at which it became a member state. This means that workers from some countries (e.g. Estonia) will be counted as non-EU nationals for some years (in the case of Estonia prior to 2004) and EU nationals for other years. 4. The totals for foreign nationals in Table (D) may not be equal to the sum of the corresponding numbers shown for EU and non-EU nationals—Tables (D) (a) and (D) (b) respectively—due to rounding. 5. As these figures are based on a sample survey they are also subject to sampling variability. 6. It should be noted that the nationality question in the LFS is an undercount because: it excludes those who have not been resident in the UK for six months; it excludes students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent; it excludes people in most other types of communal establishments (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites, etc); it is grossed to population estimates that only include migrants staying for 12 months or more. Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS)

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