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National Academy for Parenting Practitioners
National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT)
National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
National Children’s Bureau
National Children’s Homes (NCH)
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
NC Soft
News Corporation
Nickelodeon
Nintendo
Northamptonshire County Council
Office of Communications (Ofcom)
Open Rights Group
Orange
The Overtis Group Limited
Oxford University
Pan-European Game Information (PEGI)
Papyrus
Parenting UK
Parentline Plus
Phorm
Piczo
Press Complaints Commission
Research In Motion
Fiona Romeo
Samaritans
Sandbach High School & Sixth Form College
Sentry Parental Controls
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Stop It Now
South West Grid for Learning
Symantec
Telefonica 02 UK
Thus PLC
Tiga
Tiscali
T-Mobile
Ubisoft
University for Industry (Ufi)—UK Online Centres
Virgin Media
Vodafone UK
Monica Whitty
Yahoo
Young Scot
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many times the UK Council for Child Internet Safety has met; who was present at each meeting; and what was discussed at each meeting. [267367]
Beverley Hughes [holding answer 27 March 2009]: The Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety has met twice. The first meeting was on 9 December 2008 and the most recent was 10 March 2009. The next quarterly meeting is scheduled for 9 June 2009.
Meeting notes and attendance lists from all board meetings are published online on the UKCCIS website
Unemployment: Eastbourne
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many individuals resident in Eastbourne constituency aged between 16 and 24 years are not in employment, training or full-time education. [267251]
Jim Knight: Information on the number of 16 to 24-year-olds resident in the Eastbourne constituency who are not in employment, training or full-time education is not available.
However, we can use information collected by the Connexions service to estimate the number and proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) at local authority level. The 2008 estimate for East Sussex is that 1,160 16 to 18-year-olds were NEET (7.2 per cent. of the 16 to 18-year-old population). Connexions services do not collect information on 19 to 24-year-olds, or provide information to the Department at constituency level.
Young People: Carers
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children under the age of 16-years have been identified as young carers in (a) Essex local authority, (b) Southend unitary authority and (c) Thurrock unitary authority. [266587]
Beverley Hughes: The 2001 Census, which is the only source of nationally comparable data on the number of carers of all ages, indicated that the number of young carers aged under 16 in Essex local authority was 2000, 300 in Southend unitary authority and 300 in Thurrock unitary authority.
Work and Pensions
Council Tax Benefit
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of raising the income level at which a household no longer receives full council tax benefit to £116 a week for (a) a single person aged under 25 years, (b) a single person aged over 25 years and (c) a couple of working age. [266520]
Kitty Ussher [holding answer 25 March 2009]: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave her on 25 March 2009, Official Report, column 450W.
Departmental Carbon Emissions
Greg Clark:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department has adopted the
Carbon Trust’s Carbon Management Programme. [266735]
Jonathan Shaw: The Department worked with the Carbon Trust on a range of measures to improve communications and staff engagement, as the conventional audit based scheme did not, on this occasion, offer any additional benefits to the information provided by our PFI estates partner.
The Department has now committed to meeting the new carbon standard, which has replaced the Energy Efficiency Accreditation scheme.
Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department (a) were disciplined and (b) had their employment terminated as a result of a poor sickness record in each of the last 12 months. [262224]
Jonathan Shaw: The information is contained in the following table. The data reflect information currently held on the Department's personnel computer system.
| Last 12 months | Number of staff disciplined due to poor sickness record | As a percentage of the total work force( 1) | Number of staff whose employment was terminated due to poor sickness record | As a percentage of the total work force( 1) |
| (1) Total work force includes all staff in the Department with an open civil service contract as at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reference point, the last working day of each month. | ||||
Departmental Empty Property
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the change in the annual cost to his Department of maintaining the empty public buildings owned by his Department as a result of the April 2008 changes to empty property rate relief. [267131]
Jonathan Shaw: DWP does not own any buildings. Vacated buildings are handed back to Trillium (our PFI provider) and maintenance and disposal are at no cost to the Exchequer.
Departmental Energy
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps have been taken by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies to improve the thermal efficiency of their buildings in the last 12 months. [266763]
Jonathan Shaw: The Department for Work and Pensions does not own its estate, but accesses fully serviced accommodation from its PFI estates partner Trillium. The Department looks for improvements to the thermal efficiency of buildings to be achieved either through an ongoing programme of life cycle works or specific spend-to-save projects.
Due to the scale of the Department and the associated life cycle works programme it is possible to identify individual projects, and the elements within them which would improve the thermal efficiency of a building, only at a disproportionate cost. However energy use, and energy efficiency across the estate, are monitored very closely.
A range of energy efficiency “spend-to-save” projects have been undertaken over several years. During the past 12 months only one project focusing specifically on the thermal efficiency of building has been completed. March 2008 saw the conclusion of a project to fit heating valve insulation covers, which commenced in 2006, with a total of 33,200 fitted across the estate. Between January and March 2008 53 buildings were completed—with an average of 43 units installed per building.
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent progress his Department has made towards the target of increasing its energy efficiency per square metre of its estate by 15 per cent. by 2010, relative to 1999-2000 levels; and if he will make a statement. [266874]
Jonathan Shaw: The following table shows the Department’s performance against the sustainable operations on the Government estate target to increase energy efficiency per square metre of its estate by 15 per cent. by 2010, compared with a 1999-2000 baseline.
Additionally, energy efficiency is also shown as a measurement of energy use against the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) permanent staff in post within the Department since 1999-2000.
| Percentage | ||||
| Energy efficiency kWh/m( 2) | Percentage c hange compared to 1999-2000 | Energy efficiency kWh/FTE | Percentage c hange compared to 1999-2000 | |
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