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| Average annual gas bills( 1) for standard credit customers from 1998 until 2008 | |||||||||||
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| (1) For consumption of 18,000 kWh per annum | |||||||||||
Low Carbon Buildings Programme
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the budget of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme is. [255988]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The total budget for the Low Carbon Buildings Programme is £86 million. Phase One of the programme was launched in April 2006; it has a budget of £36 million and is currently only open to household applications. Phase Two was announced in the Budget 2006 and provides an additional £50 million of funding for applications from the public sector, communities and not-for-profit organisations.
Office For Nuclear Development
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many secondees from the nuclear industrial sector (a) within the UK and (b) abroad have been recruited to the Office of Nuclear Development; for what period each is seconded; who pays their salary; and what criteria were used in their appointment. [253931]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Office for Nuclear Development (OND) currently employs five secondees from the nuclear industrial sector, or from commercial organisations which have been involved directly in, or in giving advice to clients involved in, the nuclear industry. The organisations who have seconded staff into the OND are Allen and Overy, CH2M Hill, Clifford Chance KPMG, and WS Atkins.
Each secondee was recruited from an organisation operating within the UK, although one individual is a non-UK national. The length of secondments in the OND currently ranges from six months to three years.
Individuals' salaries continue to be paid by their seconding organisations, but the Department reimburses seconding organisations at a rate appropriate to the equivalent civil service grade.
Secondees were appointed on the basis of their experience and ability to contribute to the work and objectives of the OND, and on our being satisfied that there is no conflict of interest in their working for the OND.
Justice
Antisocial Behaviour: Prosecutions
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 there were in respect of (a) noise, (b) graffiti and fly-posting and (c) waste and litter in (i) each local authority and (ii) each police basic command unit in 2007-08. [256684]
Maria Eagle: The information requested covering the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts for noise, waste offences and littering in England and Wales for 2007 by police force area, are provided in the following table. Offences of graffiti and fly-posting are not separately identifiable from other criminal damage offences (for example vandalism and damaging property) from the information reported to the Ministry of Justice.
It is not possible to separately identify prosecutions taking place in (i) local authority area and (ii) basic command units within police force areas in England and Wales from the information reported to the Ministry of Justice.
These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
Court proceedings data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
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