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Sport England has no record of providing awards to the following bodies or projects in respect of teaching people to swim or coaching of competitive swimmers:

Royal Life Saving Association, the swimming and water safety website, Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents, Institute of Swimming Teachers and Coaches, British Swimming Coaches and Teachers’ Association, Swimming Teachers’ Association.

Sport England has provided awards to support Community Sports Coaches (CSCs) in a number of sports over the period 2005-09. It is not possible to identify the exact amount of investment to swimming as many awards will be for coaches working across more than one sport. However, Sport England estimates that a total investment of more than £1.1 million will have benefited swimming coaching. CSCs will normally provide coaching to non-competitive swimmers, and their work may include introductory and taster sessions for new swimmers.

The lottery awards to the ASA include an award of £3,020,437 for the ASA Club and Coach Programme 2007-10. This supports the establishment of talent pathways, including the provision of coaching for swimmers at grass roots level.

UK Sport has funded elite swimming competitors over the same period, but to disaggregate the element spent on coaching could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding his Department has allocated (a) to swimming and (b) to elite and competitive swimming in each of the last 10 years. [228654]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Sport England has advised that the following funding has been allocated to swimming in each of the last 10 years:


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£
Swimming (overall figure) Elite and competitive swimming (figures included in overall figure for swimming)
Financial year Exchequer Lottery Exchequer Lottery

1997-98

(1)

55,700,872

(1)

21,869,600

1998-99

323,500

56,082,875

0

0

1999-2000

320,000

25,154,681

0

112,237

2000-01

340,000

22,192,764

0

8,941,360

2001-02

340,000

29,920,415

0

1,957,905

2002-03

343,660

36,331,316

0

16,688,438

2003-04

449,333

21,561,774

0

1,748,831

2004-05

688,000

18,987,199

0

3,194,768

2005-06

701,000

11,801,663

0

149,293

2006-07

947,891

6,640,736

0

0

2007-08

856,192

11,155,462

0

0

(1) No records

UK Sport has advised that the following funding has been allocated to the world class swimming programme in each of the last 10 years:

£
Elite and competitive swimming (figures included in overall figure for swimming)
Financial year Exchequer Lottery Lottery (events)

1997-98

143,500

2,011,299

1998-99

260,000

2,725,201

1999-2000

195,000

3,356,484

2000-01

170,000

3,251,651

2001-02

195,000

2,985,964

1,610

2002-03

245,000

3,079,250

35,000

2003-04

299,610

3,103,124

60,000

2004-05

1,335,175

2,267,760

7,500

2005-06

334,200

3,289,969

2006-07

2,572,688

5,552,757

2007-08

3,187,243

5,370,196

207,000


Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency cases under (a) the old and (b) the new scheme are open. [226095]

Kitty Ussher: The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the chief executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter from Stephen Geraghty:


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Departmental Cleaning Services

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what contracts his Department has with cleaning services providers; and what the hourly rate of pay for cleaners working in his Department is. [223874]

Mr. McNulty: The Department has a contract with Land Securities Trillium (LST) for the provision of fully fitted and serviced accommodation, including cleaning services, and does not have any direct contracts with service partners. LST provide all the Department’s cleaning services through two service partners: ISS and MITIE.

Hourly pay rates for cleaners employed by ISS and MITIE vary between £5.73 per hour and £7.00 per hour, depending upon geographical area, job type and tasks.

Departmental Dismissal

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department were dismissed for gross misconduct in each of the last five years. [226153]

Jonathan Shaw: The information about the number of staff dismissed for gross misconduct for the period April 2004 to September 2008 (the most recent date for which figures are available) is shown in the following table:

Employees dismissed in Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for gross misconduct

Number

April 2004 to March 2005

223

April 2005 to March 2006

227

April 2006 to March 2007

121

April 2007 to March 2008

202

April 2008 to September 2008

126


Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on upgrading its IT in each of the last three financial years. [228413]

Jonathan Shaw: The Department realigned its contracts with its major suppliers, EDS and BT, in 2005, which means the Department only pays for the IT services it consumes.


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Included within these realigned contracts are obligations on the suppliers to maintain and refresh the IT infrastructure that underpins the delivery of standard services. The costs for all upgrades of hardware and software are, therefore, included within the prices the Department pays for the IT services and not identified separately.

Departmental Planning

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what reports have been completed by his Department's Strategy Team in each of the last 12 months. [229049]

Jonathan Shaw: The following reports have been published by the Department's Strategy Unit over the last 12 months:

In addition, the Strategy Unit has contributed to a number of departmental reports, including the Welfare Reform Green Paper ‘No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility' (July 2008), the Department for Work and Pensions Three Year Business Plan 2008-2011 (February 2008) and the Welfare Reform Green Paper ‘Ready for work: full employment in our generation' (December 2007).

Departmental Procurement

Mr. Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of invoices for goods and services procured from small and medium-sized businesses were paid within 30 days of receipt by (a) his Department and (b) the agencies for which his Department is responsible in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. [226498]

Jonathan Shaw: The proportion of invoices paid within 30 days of receipt for small and medium-sized enterprises is not recorded or reported separately. However the overall performance for the Department and the agencies for which the Department is responsible in 2007-08 was 96 per cent. This can be further broken down to:


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