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Departmental Public Participation
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice to which completed consultations his Department has yet to respond. [239790]
Maria Eagle: The information on completed consultations that are awaiting a response is shown in the following table.
Departmental Public Relations
Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost was of (a) entertainment, (b) advertising and promotion and (c) public relations consultancy to his Department in 2007-08. [228148]
Maria Eagle: Ministry of Justice has spent the following since it was created on 9 May 2007 to 31 March 2008:
(a) Entertainment:
The information could be provided across the Ministry only at disproportionate cost.
(b) Advertising and promotion £6,459,801.64 (total including HMPS figures for full financial year).
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Advertising (total including HMPS figures for full financial year) | |
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Her Majesty’s Prison Service expenditure on recruitment service under contract for the financial year 2007-08 | |
(c) Public relations consultancy—£290,476
All expenditure incurred is in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much (a) his Department and (b) its executive agencies spent on (i) recruitment consultants and (ii) external recruitment advertising to recruit staff in each of the last five financial years; which recruitment consultants were employed for those purposes in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. [226796]
Maria Eagle: The information is as follows.
Recording of costs for (i) recruitment consultants and (ii) external recruitment advertising to recruit staff are combined in the Department’s financial system and include campaigns run by the Department on behalf of Her Majesty’s Courts Service.
Data for each year are shown in table 1 as follows.
Recording of costs for (i) recruitment consultants and (ii) external recruitment advertising to recruit staff are combined in the agencies financial systems, with the exception of Tribunal Services.
Data for each year are shown in table 2 as follows.
Departmental Visits Abroad
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department and each of its agencies spent on overseas travel in the last 12 months. [239548]
Maria Eagle: This information could be only provided by gathering information from across the Ministry which would incur disproportionate cost.
The Department's annual accounts show travel, subsistence, and hospitality in one line, and to distinguish the travel element from this figure would be at disproportionate cost.
The Department has published rules for official travel in its staff handbook, and all travel is undertaken in accordance with the guidelines set out in the ‘Civil Service Management Code’.
All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the ‘Ministerial Code’ and ‘Travel by Ministers’, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.
The Government's annual publication about overseas travel by Cabinet Ministers is accessible at
The list includes details about the number of officials accompanying the Minister when non-scheduled travel is used for the trip. Copies of lists covering information going back to the 1997-98 financial year are available in the Libraries of the House.
Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, columns 331-32W, on Departmental written answers, where the information on (a) questions answered in 2002-03 and 2003-04, (b) the number of questions answered substantially and (c) the number of questions not answered due to disproportionate cost is held. [239933]
Mr. Malik: The information prior to the 2004-05 session is held in paper format and post 2004-05 on an electronic database. Both formats would require a manual collation by checking every question’s answer at a disproportionate cost. The database has been adapted and the information will be collated from the new Session.
Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill
Mr. Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the timetable is for the publication of the Government’s response to the Joint Committee’s Report on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill, HC 551-I. [239709]
Mr. Wills: The Government are grateful for the Joint Committee’s report on the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. Since its publication, we have given careful consideration to its recommendations and a full response will be published ahead of the Bill’s introduction to Parliament
Driving Under Influence: Hampshire
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people resident in (a) Southampton, (b) Test Valley borough and (c) the ceremonial county of Hampshire were (i) arrested under suspicion and (ii) convicted of driving when drunk in (A) each of the last five years and (B) each month since October 2007. [239841]
Maria Eagle: The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences), by main offence group (e.g. violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary, theft and handling stolen goods, etc.) and police force area within England and Wales. Information on summary motoring offences including those of driving etc. after consuming alcohol or taking drugs are non-notifiable and as a result are not covered by the collection.
Available information held on convictions at all courts for offences of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs for the years 2002 to 2006 (latest available) is provided in the following table. Data for 2007 will be available on 27 November 2008. The data provided cover both drink and drugs offences combined, as volumes of prosecutions and convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs cannot be accurately established separately.
Information is available on a calendar year basis and at police force area level only.
| Findings of guilt at all courts for offences of driving etc. after consuming alcohol or taking drugs( 1) , within Hampshire police force area, 2002-06 | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) Data provided cover summary offences of driving etc. after consuming alcohol or taking drugs (which cannot be reliably distinguished separately). Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. 2. 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. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | |
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