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Borders: Personal Records
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the 2009 project milestones are for the e-Borders programme. [264189]
Mr. Woolas: The target for handling 100 million passenger movements is now scheduled for end of June 2009.
The programme remains on track to meet the milestone of capturing 60 per cent. (equivalent of 120 million passenger movements) of all passenger movements by December 2009.
Christmas
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is her Department’s policy to offer staff (a) additional leave entitlement for Christmas shopping and (b) Christmas bonus payments. [262816]
Mr. Woolas: It is not the policy of the Home Office and its agencies to offer staff additional leave entitlement for Christmas shopping. Neither is it the policy of the Home Office and its agencies to offer staff Christmas bonus payments.
Departmental Data Protection
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many staff in her Department and its agencies were (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for (i) not following practice and protocols when handling files and databases containing personal information on members of the public, (ii) losing or mishandling sensitive personal data and (iii) gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to personal information in each year since 1997; [240938]
(2) how many staff in her Department and its agencies were (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for (i) not following practice and protocols
when handling files and databases containing personal information on members of the public, (ii) losing or mishandling sensitive personal data and (iii) gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access to personal information in each year since 1997. [262343]
Mr. Woolas: Information can be provided only from 2005 onwards—records prior to this are not held centrally and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Departmental Lost Property
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether officials in her Department who have lost laptops that were the property of her Department in the last 12 months have been charged the full value of replacement. [266226]
Mr. Woolas: The majority of the IT equipment used across the Home Office is provided and supported by our IT service providers under contract. Any replacement of IT equipment is an integral part of the contract and is not costed separately.
It is not the policy of the Home Office to charge members of staff for the replacement value of lost laptops.
Departmental Press
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on subscriptions for magazines, newspapers and other publications in each of the last 24 months. [242217]
Mr. Woolas: The Department's expenditure is set out in the following table:
| Home Office expenditure on magazines, newspapers and other publications in each of the last 24 months (July 2008) | |
| Expenditure (£) | |
| Note: All expenditure is incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury Handbook on Regularity & Propriety. | |
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has spent on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in each year since 1997. [261181]
Mr. Woolas: The suppliers of journals and newspapers to the Home Office can only provide figures for supply to the entire Home Office for the last three years. We do not hold figures for overall Home Office expenditure on these publications prior to this date.
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