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Departmental Air Travel
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 14 July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government Departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department and its predecessor have participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short-haul and (c) long-haul flights. [221961]
Maria Eagle: In 2006, the then Department for Constitutional Affairs agreed to join the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund (GCOF). In the first year, 2006-07, it was confirmed with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) that this offsetting would be limited to air travel by Ministers and senior (board level) officials. For the year 2006-07, flights were only broken down into long haul and short haul. The distance travelled was 114639 km short haul which produced 34.39 tonnes of CO2 emissions and 121459 km long haul which produced 61.22 tonnes of CO2 emissions at a cost of £606.72.
The Ministry of Justice was created in May 2007. For 2007-08, all official air travel, by Ministers and officials regardless of grade, has been included. For 2007-08, flights were broken down into domestic, short haul and long haul. For Ministry of Justice HQ, HM Courts Service and Tribunals Service, the distance travelled on: domestic flights was 1107594 km which produced 190.75 tonnes of CO2 emissions; short haul was 68027 km which produced 19.34 tonnes of CO2 emissions and long haul 99292 km which produced 22.86 tonnes of CO2 emissions at a total cost of £2,308.49. The new NOMS agency will be putting into place a mechanism before the end of this financial year to enable payments to be made into the GCOF. HM Land Registry distance travelled on: domestic flights was 22286 km which produced 3.84 tonnes of CO2 emissions; short haul was 41297 km which produced 11.74 tonnes of CO2 emissions and long haul 159664 km which produced 36.76 tonnes of CO2 emissions at a total cost of £518.63. The National Archives distance travelled on: domestic flights was 45012 km which produced 7.76 tonnes of CO2 emissions; short haul was 79165 km which produced 22.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions and long haul was 358070 km which produced 82.43 tonnes of CO2 emissions at a total cost of £1,116.73.
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether those staff of (a) his Department and (b) its agencies who are entitled to business class or first-class air travel are permitted to (i) travel in a cheaper class to the destination and (ii) benefit in monetary terms or kind from the saving. [221968]
Maria Eagle: Those Ministry of Justice staff who are entitled to travel by air on business or first class are permitted to travel in cheaper class. Any consequent saving accrues to the Department, not them individually.
All official travel by Ministers and civil servants is undertaken in accordance with the requirements of the “Ministerial Code” and the “Civil Service Management Code” respectively. Copies of these are available in the House Library.
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 24 June 2008, Official Report, columns 240-41W, on departmental aviation, what information on the number and destination of flights is transferred to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund by his Department in order to calculate the carbon offset payments for his Department’s flights. [222193]
Maria Eagle: The information transferred to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund is on the air miles travelled on long haul, short haul and domestic flights as required by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Departmental Buildings
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the location is of each office occupied by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies which has been (i) newly occupied and (ii) refurbished in the last 24 months; and what the floor area in square metres is of each. [221971]
Maria Eagle: The information requested is shown as follows.
| Ministry of Justice HQ | ||
| Location | Net internal area (sq m) | |
| NOMS | ||
| Location | Net internal area (sq m) | |
| Tribunal Service | ||
| Location | Net internal area (sq m) | |
| Legal Services Commission | ||
| Location | Net internal area (sq m) | |
|
Floors 1l, 12,and 13 Building 2, Exchange Tower, Harbour Exchange, London EC15 | ||
Departmental Cleaning Services
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what contracts his Department has with cleaning services providers; and what the hourly rate of pay for cleaners working in his Department is. [224094]
Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not have any contracts for cleaning services with (a) ISS, (b) ITS, (c) ICS or (d) GBM.
Cleaning services for the courts, tribunals and MoJ HQ buildings are contracted out. The current hourly pay rate ranges paid by contractors to their staff working within MoJ, are as follows:
| Pay range (£) | |
In respect of National Offender Management Service: as part of the work to provide prisoners with skills to aid their resettlement and to reduce cost to the public purse, most cleaning within prisons is undertaken by prisoners. Their pay will depend on the individual establishment's rates of pay and on what level of the incentive or earned privilege scheme the prisoner is on.
Departmental Databases
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what use (a) his Department and (b) its agencies make of (i) MOSAIC data and (ii) ACORN data. [221966]
Maria Eagle: The Ministry of Justice does not directly make any routine or systematic use of MOSAIC or ACORN data. However, officials have, on occasion, made limited use of ACORN data as part of internal modelling work to assess the likely impact of policy proposals.
It is possible that the Ministry of Justice or its agencies may have used MOSAIC or ACORN data indirectly, through work carried out on its behalf by consultants or contractors. However, this information could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.
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