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Departmental Art Works
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. [259441]
Mr. Straw: I and Ministers in my Department, have a number of pieces of artwork from the Government Art Collection on display in private offices, the detail of which are as follows:
Trial by Jury, Feliks Topolski, 1949
The Judge and his Clerk. Merlyn Oliver Evans, 1949
Brougham, Walter Richard Sickert, 1930
Procession Attending the Great National Petition of 3,317, 702 to the House of Commons, Anon British 19th Century
Interior, Dennis Creffield, 1971
Girl in a Kimono. Dennis Creffield, 1971
Free Range, Edwin La Dell, date not known
The Ruins of Downing Hall. Flintshire. Tony Steele-Morgan. 1977
Marching Out, George Robson, 2001
“A Midsummer Night's Dream”; What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?. Barbara Brownlee. 1964
“Hamlet”: Nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered. Sandra Blow. 1964
“Henry IV Part 2”: Sir John Falstaff and Mr Justice Shallow recruiting in Gloucestershire. Brian Robb. 1964
Interior with Figures. Francis Bacon. 1975
Icons in a Smoke-filled Room, Claes Oldenburg. 1996: published 1997
William Brown Suite, Helena Markson, 1964-1965
The Rt. Hon . Michael Wills MP
The Bay. David Jones, c1929-1930
Lower Wessex Lane. Spring, Norman Stevens. 1976
Everything Beautiful is Far Away, Mark Titchner. 2003-2005
Tea. David Tindle. 1970-1971
Untitled (Student). Matthew Usmar Lauder, 2006
Bray Village, Jeremy King, undated
Kim, Kwo Da-Wei, 1959
Bar-B-Q. Roland Piche, 1972
It was the fourth time that Daddy had fallen for the exploding fork routine, Glen Baxter, 1984
I sensed that Brenda was trying to impress me.... Glen Baxter, 1984
The South Prospect of Leicester, Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, published 25 March 1743
The War Office, William Monk, cl918
Mine Crater. Hill 60. December 191”, Paul Nash, December 1917
Andean Blue. Zoe Hodgson, 1997
Departures. Peter McDonald, 2006
Shahid Malik MP currently has no artwork from the Government Art Collection on display in his private office, but is in the process of selecting some.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much his Department has allocated for staff bonuses in 2008-09. [252252]
Mr. Straw: ‘Year end’ non-consolidated performance payments are paid to high performing members of the senior civil service (SCS) to reflect their individual contribution during the previous performance year. In the 2008-09 financial year £1,648,000 was paid to SCS staff.
Within the Ministry of Justice there are different methods of reward for former DCA staff and staff in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).
Payment of non-consolidated pay to former DCA staff below the SCS level may be either ‘year end’ or ‘in year’ performance payments. ‘Year end’ performance payments are paid only to staff who achieve the highest possible performance marking for the previous reporting year, which runs from 1 April to 31 March. The amount of ‘year end’ payments made in August 2008 to staff in the former DCA was £2,011,200.
‘In year’ payments are made, at local management discretion, to staff whose performance is exceptional as part of the Department’s recognition and reward policy.
For the former DCA, the amount allocated for the period 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008 was 0.4 per cent. of the 2007-08 paybill of £575,514.
The amount allocated for the period 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 is 0.5 per cent. of the 2008- 09 paybill of £597,641.
NOMS operate a performance management system which provides for ‘year end’ performance payments and recognises outstanding performance with ‘in year’ payments. It is not possible to give a figure for the total paid in performance payments for the current financial year i.e. 2008-09. However, such payments cannot exceed 0.5 per cent. of the paybill in any unit.
Performance payments are funded within existing paybill controls, have to be re-earned each year against pre-determined targets, and, as such, do not add to future paybill costs.
Performance payments, which are non-consolidated and non-pensionable, are paid to high performing individuals as part of the Department’s reward strategy. Such payments are a cost-effective means of encouraging and rewarding high performance and drives continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many bonus payments were made to (a) senior civil servants and (b) other staff working in (i) HM Courts Service, (ii) HM Prison Service, (iii) the National Offender Management Service and (iv) the Youth Justice Board in 2007-08; and how much was paid in such bonuses to people in each category. [254131]
Mr. Straw: The information requested is set out as follows:
Across the MoJ, end year non-consolidated performance payments are paid to high performing members of the senior civil service (SCS) to reflect their individual contribution during the previous reporting year. During
2007-08, 54 members of the SCS were paid non-consolidated performance pay amounting to £383,000, in respect of performance during the 2006-07 reporting year.
Payments of non-consolidated performance pay to staff below the SCS may be either ‘end of year’ payments or ‘in year’ payments.
‘End of year’ payments of non-consolidated performance pay are made as part of the annual pay award to staff who have performed beyond expectations throughout the performance year. In HM Courts Service 1,667 staff received end of year non-consolidated performance pay during the 2007-08 financial year for performance in the 2006-07 reporting year. The amount paid was £666,800. This was paid in October 2007 at the time of the implementation of the 2007 pay award for all staff.
‘In year’ payments of non-consolidated performance pay are one-off payments to staff who have made an exceptional contribution on specific occasions. It is not possible to provide details of payments made to staff in HMCS separate from those working in other parts of the Ministry of Justice, other than at a disproportionate cost.
During the financial year 2007-08 5,327 staff in Ministry of Justice (including HMCS) received ‘in year’ non-consolidated performance pay totalling £2,665,212.
During 2007-08, 25 members of the SCS were paid non-consolidated performance pay amounting to £231,000.
Payments of non-consolidated performance pay to staff below the senior civil service may be either ‘end of year’ or ‘in year’ payments of non-consolidated performance pay.
‘End of year’ non-consolidated performance payments are made as part of the annual pay award to staff who have performed at a level beyond expectations throughout the performance year. In HM Prison Service 4,816 staff received an end of year payment of non-consolidated performance pay in the 2007-08 financial year, totalling £1,096,766.
‘In year’ non-consolidated performance payments are one-off payments to staff who have made an exceptional contribution on specific occasions. During the financial
year 2007-08, 3,888 staff in HMPS received ‘in year’ payments totalling £1,333,039.
There were no payments of non-consolidated performance pay to any member of staff employed by local probation boards or trusts during the financial year 2007-08.
National Offender Management Service
The National Offender Management Service was established as an agency on 1 April 2008. The NOMS Agency consists of the HM Prison Service and the national probation service. The information contained in (ii) covers both of these parts of the NOMS Agency.
During the financial year 2007-08, one member of the SCS was awarded non-consolidated performance pay of £15.000.
In grades below the SCS, 43 staff were awarded non-consolidated performance pay ‘in year’ totalling £23,350. There were 21 ‘end of year’ awards of non-consolidated performance pay to staff in relation to annual performance marking. These payments amounted to £18,090.
Departmental Public Consultation
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many public consultations his Department has conducted in the last 12 months; how long each consultation was open for; how many responses were received in each case; and what the cost of conducting each consultation was. [259572]
Mr. Wills: The information requested is shown in the following table, which sets out details of the 37 formal written public consultations, carried out by the Ministry of Justice in the last twelve months. The printing and web publication costs of a standard consultation are met centrally by the Department. The only other cost of a standard consultation is the cost of staff time in preparing individual consultations. No breakdown exists for these costs and to provide one would incur disproportionate cost. But where activity over and above a standard consultation has been carried out and those cost details are available I have provided them.
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