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Departmental Legislation

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what Acts for which her Department has policy responsibility received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and 1 January 2009; which provisions of those Acts (a) have not yet come into force, (b) have been repealed prior to coming into force and (c) have been repealed after coming into force;
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and how many prosecutions have taken place for each offence created under each of those Acts. [260665]

Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 4 March 2009]: The provisions of the following Acts, which received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and 1 January 2009 and for which the Home Secretary has policy responsibility, are fully in force:

The table lists provisions of Acts for which the Home Secretary has policy responsibility which received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and 1 January 2009 which are not yet in force.

It is not possible to provide lists of provisions which have been repealed prior to coming into force or which have been repealed after coming into force, without incurring disproportionate cost. For the same reason, it is not possible to say how many prosecutions have taken place for each offence created under each of the Acts referred to above.


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Act Sections not in force

Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003

85(5) (in part), Sch 2(2) (in part)

Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

78

Asylum and Immigration(Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004

16

Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

1-18, 22-28, 30-61, 91, Sch 2-6, Sch 9 Part 3

Crime (International Co-Operation) Act 2003

10-12, 20-25, 54-75, Sch 3, Sch 4

Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

98-117, 125, 130-137, 146

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

78(7), 80(4), Sch 7 para 6 (in part)

Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004

9, 12 and Sch 10, 11 and 12 (in part)

Drugs Act 2005

2

Identity Cards Act 2006

1-24, 27-35, 39, 41, 42, 43, Sch 1

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

16 and 17, 117(5)

Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

44, 50(3) (in part) and (6)

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

10(5)(a), 17 and 18 (for certain purposes), 19-33, 35(1) (a)-(g)(i) and (2) and (3), 36, 37, 39, 40(2) and (3), 41(2) and (3), 44-47, 51, 53, 124

Police and Justice Act 2006

14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 34, 43(1), 46 (in part), Sch 2 (in part), Sch 5 (in part), Sch 8, Sch 13 (in part), Sch 14 (in part) and Sch 15 (in part)

Police Reform Act 2002

45

Private Security Industry Act 2001

17 (part)

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Sch 11 para 17 (2) and Sch 12 (part)

Serious Crime Act 2007

77, 91 and 92, Sch 10, 13 and 14 (all in part)

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

120, 121, 114(9), 117(part), 162(3), Sch 4 (part), Sch 9 (part), Sch 10 (part), Sch 14 (part)

UK Borders Act 2007

19, 24, 32-38 (part), and 57

Vehicle (Crime) Act 2001

8, 34, 35, 36, Sch paras 1 and 2

Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

1-14, 61, Sch 2 (part), Sch 5 (part)


Departmental Manpower

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) permanent, (b) agency and (c) temporary staff on contracts of (i) up to three months, (ii) between three and six months, (iii) between six and 12 months and (iv) 12 months or more there are in each directorate of her Department. [264309]

Mr. Woolas: Permanent Home Office civil servants are recruited on open ended contracts.

The Home Office policy on the tenure of agency staff is in concert with guidance promulgated by the Cabinet Office: Agency contracts are restricted to a maximum of 11 months; this may be extended in exceptional circumstances. Our databases do not record contract length details. To provide this information would incur a disproportionate cost owing to the need to investigate individual locally held staff files.

Temporary staff includes fixed-term appointments (FTA) whose contracts are for less than 12 months and those staff on short-term contracts paid through the Home Office payroll system. Our databases do not record length of contracts. To provide this information would incur a disproportionate cost owing to the need to investigate individual staff files.

Total numbers of staff are available in the 2008 Home Office departmental report at pages 102 to 104. A copy or the report is available in the House Library. Alternatively it can be found on the Home Office website at:

Departmental Private Finance Initiative

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what private finance initiatives her Department has entered into since 1997; what the total value of each contract was; who the name of the successful contractor was; which projects have been subject to refinancing arrangements; what the monetary value of the refinancing arrangement was in each such case; and what the extent of the clawback has been. [259551]

Mr. Woolas: The Home Department has entered into three private finance initiatives since 1997. Details of these contracts are provided in the following table:

Table 1
PFI description Value of contract (£ million) inclusive of VAT Name of successful contractor Has the PFI been subject to refinancing yes/no

Home Office Central London accommodation (2 Marsham Street)

1,406.5 over 26 years

Anne’s Gate Property plc

No

IT 2000 (Sinus)

700 over 10 years

Fujitsu Services (Alcedo) Limited

No

IPS IT Pass Project

396.7 over 11 years

Siemens IT Services and Solutions

No


Departmental Public Expenditure

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what capital funding her Department has brought forward from its (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11 budgets for use in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and to what ends this funding has been allocated. [266205]

Mr. Woolas: As announced in the pre-Budget report on 24 November, £20 million of capital expenditure has been brought forward from 2010-11 to 2009-10. Half of this sum has been allocated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency and half to the National Police Improvement Agency, for improving their estates, developing and installing high technology systems and enhancing intelligence gathering against serious organised crime.

Departmental Recruitment

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1826W, on departmental recruitment, what estimate she has made of the annual salary cost of (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited by her Department in each year since 2005-06. [264307]

Mr. Woolas: It is not possible to provide an estimate of the salary costs of the recruits provided in the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1826W, without incurring a disproportionate cost. Significant time would need to be spent on investigating individual staff records to establish salary information.

Departmental Travel

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many nights she spent in hotels on official business in each (a) region and (b) overseas country in each month since July 2007. [259614]

Mr. Woolas: The Government publish an annual list of Ministers’ visits overseas costing more than £500. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s written statement of 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 102WS, set out spending for the financial year 2007-08. Information for 2008-09 will be published in the usual way after the end of the current financial year.

Information is not collected in a format to provide for the number of nights spent in hotels in each region.


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Departmental Visits Abroad

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much expenditure was incurred in respect of overseas visits which (a) she, (b) other Ministers in her Department and (c) her Department’s senior officials undertook in 2008. [262179]

Mr. Woolas: Since 1999, the Government have published a list of all overseas travel by Cabinet Ministers costing over £500. Information for the financial year 2007-08 was published on 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 102WS and for the first time, included details of overseas visits undertaken by all Ministers. All travel by Ministers is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code.

The Department’s accounting system does not separately identify expenditure undertaken by officials according to grade. Such information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The Department is required to make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements. This is in accordance with the civil service Management Code.

Departmental Written Questions

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what average time her Department has taken to answer (a) named day and (b) ordinary written questions in Session 2008-09; how many named day questions received a reply on the day named; and how many named day questions receiving a holding reply received a substantive reply after a further (i) one day, (ii) two days, (iii) three days, (iv) four days, (v) five days, (vi) one week, (vii) two weeks and (viii) three weeks or more. [263289]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The following two tables provide the information requested for the parliamentary Session to date.

Table 1: Home Office performance answering named day( 1) and ordinary written questions for 2008- 09 parliamentary Session to 10 March 2009
Number

 Named day Ordinary written

Total answered

258

1,267

Average (median) sitting days to answer

5

6

(1) Named day questions include oral questions that are unstarred or not reached on the day.

Table 2: Sitting days taken to answer named day( 1) questions, parliamentary Session 2008-09, to 10 March 2009
Answered Number Percentage

By named day

86

34

1 sitting day late

5

2

2 sitting days late

41

16

3 sitting days late

40

16

4 sitting days late

19

7

5 sitting days late

13

5

6-10 sitting days late

31

12

11-15 sitting days late

14

5

Over 15 sitting days late

9

3

Total

258

100

(1) Named day questions include oral questions that are unstarred or not reached on the day.
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