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Departmental Internet
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for which Government websites her Department is responsible; how many visitors each received in the last period for which figures are available; and what the cost of maintaining each site was in that period. [235031]
Mr. Woolas: The following table shows visitors received to
from April 2007 to March 2008.
The costs for all Home Office sites are embedded in budgets across the Department and could be extracted only at disproportionate cost.
| Home Office sites—not including sub-domains—Visitors April 2007 to March 2008 (where statistics are available) | |
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Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 673W, on departmental internet, how many of the (a) absolute unique and (b) total visitors to her Department's mylifemyid website originated in London SW1. [236504]
Meg Hillier: It is not possible to provide the information requested as visitors to the website were not obliged to give their geographical location in order to contribute to the forum.
Departmental Land
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much surplus land (a) her Department and (b) its agencies own; and what the (i) area and (ii) estimated monetary value of each site is. [236422]
Mr. Woolas: The Department and its Executive agencies have no surplus land. The National Policing Improvement Agency, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department is disposing of a single site of 19.18 hectares. This property is currently being sold and its book value for disposal is for the time being confidential.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has for each of the sites owned by her Department and registered on the Register of Surplus Public Sector Land; what construction projects are planned for each site; and when she expects each site to be returned to use. [236437]
Mr. Woolas:
The National Policing Improvement Agency a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department is currently disposing of the former police training centre in Ashford Kent. The successful purchaser will be responsible for deciding on their construction projects and when the site will be returned to use. The Department has no other surplus sites to
dispose of. Three surplus NPIA houses shown on the September 2008 register have been sold.
Departmental Lost Property
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) equipment and (b) data was lost by her Department in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. [231441]
Mr. Woolas: In 2007-08, three laptops were reported as lost and 12 reported as stolen. Two memory sticks were reported lost and one stolen, but they did not contain personal information. Two hard drives were reported stolen but were unformatted and therefore contained no data. Two CDs containing personal data were reported lost and notified to the Information Commissioner. No desktops were reported lost or stolen.
The Home Office published details of the protected personal data related incidents notified to the Information Commissioners Office in 2007-08 in its Resource Accounts published on 8 August 2008.
Departmental Manpower
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in her Department there were (a) on a headcount basis and (b) on a full-time equivalent basis at the end of each of the last five financial years. [222597]
Mr. Woolas: The information is summarised as follows for ease of reference.
HQ and UKBA are unable to provide headcount information for 2003-04 and 2004-05 without incurring a disproportionate cost due to moving to a new database during that period.
The Identity and Passport Service is unable to provide headcount data without incurring disproportionate cost due to current upgrades of their database.
Please be aware that the structure of the Home Office changed significantly between 2003 and 2008. Staffing details are available in the Annual Reports.
| Home Office headcount and FTE( 1) | ||||||||||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07( 2) | 2007-08( 3) | ||||||
| HC | FTE | HC | FTE | HC | FTE | HC | FTE | HC | FTE | |
| (1) FTE figures include permanent civil servants, casual and agency/contractors. (2) FTE and headcount for 2006-07 does not include Communities Group which left to join Department of Communities and Local Government. (3) FTE and headcount for 2007-08 does not include National Offender Management Service and Office of Criminal Justice which left the Department and joined Ministry of Justice in May 2007 neither does it include the Respect Task Force. (4) FTE for IPS and CRB is taken direct from business areas and not departmental reports. Figures for IPS are for permanent members of staff only. (5) CRB did not record FTE data before 2004. | ||||||||||
Departmental Marketing
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 17 September 2008, Official Report, column 2257W, on departmental marketing, Department branding and marketing, how much was spent by (a) her Department, (b) the UK Border Agency, (c) the Identity and Passport Service and (d) the Criminal Records Bureau and their predecessors in each of the last five years. [232816]
Jacqui Smith: I will write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in her Department are responsible for branding activity; and what the cost of employing such staff was in 2007-08. [237473]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising in each year since 1997-98; and if she will make a statement. [239071]
Mr. Woolas: The following table show a departmental breakdown of spend on advertising and publicity over the last five years:
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