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Departmental Broadcasting
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the (a) name, (b) cost and (c) purpose is of each television programme his Department has provided funding for in each of the last five years. [241767]
Mr. Byrne: I refer to the answer given to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) on 25 June 2008, Official Report, column 400W.
The Cabinet Office has not paid for any television programmes. However, the Office of the Third Sector is providing a grant of £2.4 million to the Media Trust
between 2008-11. This funding is to support the Community Channel, a digital television channel which promotes volunteering and the work of charities. This funding also supports the Community Newswire, which enables charities to promote their work to journalists. The Media Trust is an independent charity overseen by a board of trustees which sets the channels’ programming priorities. Details of the Community Channel’s programmes are available on their website at:
Departmental Consultants
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much his Department has spent on external consultants in each year since 1997. [240527]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested for the Cabinet Office is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Data Protection
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with reference to the answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 756W, on security breaches (data loss), what the evidential basis is for the statement by the Parliamentary Secretary relating to the amount of progress in making data safe in government; and if he will make a statement. [241974]
Mr. Watson: Data protection is a top priority for Government Departments and there are a number of key areas in which we have made improvements:
Vital openness and transparency achieved through the publishing of data breaches in annual resource accounts—there is currently no equivalent requirement to report in the private sector
Enhanced departmental roles increasing accountability with senior information risk owners at board level owning risk and reporting to accounting officers on data security measures
Huge training efforts—90,000 staff trained at HMRC alone, NHS training package available to 1 million plus staff, new civil service wide e-learning package delivering data security training on an unprecedented scale
Increased technical precautions to minimise the likelihood of data losses—encryption programmes in all Government Departments with over 30,000 laptops encrypted in MOD alone.
Updated and improved guidance being issued on all aspects of departmental security including physical, personnel and information security.
Departmental Disabled Staff
Mr. Harper: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what conclusions his Department has reached in fulfilment of its duty under section 3.111 of the statutory code of practice of the disability equality duty. [240972]
Mr. Watson: The Cabinet Office published its Single Equality Scheme in February 2008, which included a report on progress in meeting its disability equality duties. Copies are available in the in the Libraries of the House and on the Cabinet Office website at:
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with reference to the answer of 11 November 2008, Official Report, column 1131W, and to the written ministerial statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS, on special advisers, whether the aggregate cost of special advisers in the statement includes the cost of (a) National Insurance contributions for employers, (b) employee pension contributions and (c) expenses. [241770]
Kevin Brennan: National insurance employer contributions incurred on behalf of special advisers and expenses are not included in the pay bill costs provided by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS.
Employee pension contributions form part of salary and are included in the costs provided by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS.
Departmental Travel
Mr. Maude: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East of 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 20W, on departmental travel, whether the Cabinet Office Mid-Year Report will be published before the end of 2008. [241675]
Kevin Brennan: The Cabinet Office’s mid-year report, the autumn performance report 2008 (cm 7517), was laid before Parliament on 8 December 2008.
The autumn performance report 2008 is also available from the Cabinet Office website at:
Foreign Investment in UK
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the (a) inflow and (b) outflow of foreign capital into the UK has been in each month since January 2004. [241564]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 9 December 2008]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated December 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking for the (a) inflow and (b) outflow of foreign capital into the UK in each month since January 2004.(241564)
The Office for National Statistics does not collect data for total inflows and total outflows of foreign capital into the UK. Data is compiled for net inflows only, that is total inflows of foreign capital less total outflows of foreign capital. This data is not available on a monthly basis but. is compiled on a quarterly basis. Therefore data for net inflows of foreign capital into the UK are attached for every quarter since the first quarter of 2004.
This data is published in the quarterly Balance of Payments First Release.
| Financial Account—Investment in the UK by non-residents: Net inflows (not seasonally adjusted) | |||||||||
| £ million | |||||||||
| Direct investment in the UK | Portfolio investment in the UK | ||||||||
| Equity capital | Reinvested earnings | Other capital transactions | Total direct investment in the UK | Equity securities | Debt securities | Total portfolio investment the UK | Other investment the UK | Total investment in the UK by non-residents | |
| HJYR | CYFV | HMAD | HJYU | XBLW | XBLX | HHZF | XBMN | HBNS | |
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