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Departmental Official Residences
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what arrangements are in place for the procurement of services for official Ministerial residences in Downing Street; and if he will make a statement. [242263]
Kevin Brennan: The procurement of facilities services across the Cabinet Office estate is provided by the total facilities management provider for the Cabinet Office. Some cleaning services are provided by Cabinet Office staff.
Departmental Work Experience
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many individuals have worked in his Department on (a) paid and (b) unpaid work experience or internships in each of the past three years; on average how many hours a week were worked by such people in each year; what types of work each was involved in; what proportion were in full-time education; what proportion did not complete their set period of work experience; and how much those who received remuneration were paid on average per week in each year. [242120]
Mr. Watson: The Cabinet Office encourages managers to support applications from students, postgraduates and others in the wider community wishing to undertake work experience. The Cabinet Office does not keep any central records of individuals undertaking work experience and the information could be collected only at disproportionate cost.
Disclosure of Information
Chris Huhne: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on how many occasions in each of the last four years the Government has sought the assistance of the police to investigate unauthorised disclosures of information under (a) the Official Secrets Act and (b) the offence of misconduct in a public office; and how many of those investigations resulted in (i) dismissals, (ii) other disciplinary measures, (iii) prosecutions and (iv) convictions. [244237]
Mr. Byrne: Departments will seek the assistance of the police where they consider a criminal offence may have been committed. It is for the police, not Departments, to determine whether an investigation is carried out and what the potential criminal offence justifying an investigation is. The procedures when police get involved were set out by the Cabinet Secretary in his note to PASC, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
It would not be appropriate to provide information about investigations that are still open. It is however a matter of public record that there have been three successful prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act: David Keogh (2007); Richard Jackson (2008); and, Corporal Daniel James (2008). Corporal James was also successfully prosecuted for Misconduct in Public Office.
Employment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK-born people, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals and (e) non-EU nationals of working age were in employment in each workforce sector in (i) each of the last four quarters and (ii) each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will also express such numbers as a proportion of the workforce in each sector in each period. [246179]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated January 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK-born people, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals and (e) non-EU nationals of working age were in employment in each workforce sector in (i) each of the last four quarters and (ii) each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will also express such numbers as a proportion of the workforce in each sector in each period. (246179)
The requested information is shown in the attached tables.
Workforce Jobs estimates compiled from employer surveys are the preferred source for breakdowns of employment by industrial sector. However, in order to provide the nationality and country of birth breakdown requested, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) has been used.
The industry definitions used to answer this question should not be compared with the public/private breakdown given in your parliamentary question 246180.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata, which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently, the estimates from Q3 2006 are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, or the migrant worker figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
| Employment levels and percentage( 1) working in each workforce sector for working-age( 2 ) people by nationality and country of birth, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | ||||||||||
| Thousands and p ercentages | ||||||||||
| Agriculture, Fishing, Energy and Water( 3) | ||||||||||
| UK n ationals | UK born | Non-UK nationals( 4) | Non-UK EU national( 5) | Non-EU nationals | ||||||
| Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | |
| Thousands and percentages | ||||||||||
| Manufacturing | ||||||||||
| UK n ationals | UK born | Non-UK nationals( 4) | Non-UK EU national( 5) | Non-EU nationals | ||||||
| Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | Level | Percentage | |
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