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Departmental Lost Property
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether officials in his Department who have lost laptops that were the property of his Department in the last 12 months have been charged the full value of replacement. [266227]
Mr. Straw: Laptop losses are investigated by line managers and, where appropriate, disciplinary action is considered, in line with the Department’s policy. The Department has not charged individuals for the replacement value of laptops which were lost by officials in the period May 2007, when the Ministry was established, to March 2008.
Departmental Training
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff awaydays his Department has held since its creation. [267807]
Mr. Malik: The Ministry of Justice does not hold centrally information on how many staff awaydays were organised. To collate this information would necessitate inquiring of all business areas across significant number of MOJ bodies, which would entail disproportionate cost.
Liverpool Prison: Cemeteries
Mr. O'Hara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Torbay of 19 May 2008, Official Report, columns 71-3W, on Walton Prison: cemeteries, (1) what steps his Department has taken to resolve (a) any outstanding exhumation and funeral costs of and (b) matters relating to DNA testing in respect of George Kelly; [267859]
(2) what the (a) role and (b) pay band is of the official in his Department responsible for resolving any outstanding issues in the George Kelly case; [267860]
(3) if he will direct the Corporate Management Board of his Department to make an assessment of his Department's handling of matters relating to the George Kelly case in the light of the representations it has received on the matter; [267861]
(4) how many submissions have been made to Ministers in his Department and its predecessor in respect of the George Kelly case, and on what dates;
and what the (a) role and (b) pay band was of each official who (i) drafted and (ii) was copied in on each submission. [267862]
Mr. Hanson: I will write to the hon. Member when I am in a position to do so and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.
National Offender Management Service: Finance
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the budget for each probation area was in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09. [268133]
Mr. Straw: The resource budget for each probation area is shown in the following table. These give the budget as at the end of the year. The 2008-09 figures may possibly be subject to change.
| Probation boards end-year budgets | |||
| £000 | |||
| Boards | Revenue 2008-09 | Revenue 2007-08 | Revenue 2006-07 |
Prisoners: Ex-servicemen
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to collect and publish information on the number and proportion of adult prisoners in each prison in England and Wales who had served in the armed services at any time prior to conviction. [267218]
Mr. Hanson: In response to the hon. Member's question on the collection of data on the numbers of prisoners in England and Wales who had previously served in the armed services, I refer him to my answer on 24 March 2009, Official Report, column 320W.
Prisons: Meat Products
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of (a) ham, (b) pork, (c) beef and (d) chicken served in public sector prisons was produced in the UK in the last period for which figures are available. [264663]
Mr. Straw: Percentages of meat used by HM Prison Service that were produced in the UK in 2007-08 are shown in the following table.
| Percentage | |
Separate figures are not available for UK origin Ham used as it is included within the return for Pork.
This most recent information is contained in a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report for 2007-08 detailing the proportion of food grown or reared in the UK used by Whitehall departments, including that supplied to public sector prisons in England and Wales under contracts negotiated by HM Prison Service, now part of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).
A copy of this report was placed in the House of Commons Library. An electronic copy can be obtained using the following link:
The data submitted by the Ministry of Justice was for 2007-08, it is anticipated by suppliers that the use of domestic frozen meat have increased since these figures were submitted. The Ministry of Justice is attempting
to increase its percentage of meat bought of UK origin where it can and is currently retendering its frozen contracts (awarded in 2003) utilising food quality standards developed with the OGC and DEFRA. In addition, the objectives identified in the PSFPI form part of the frozen, retender evaluation criteria.
The weaker pound will increase the percentage of meat bought that is of UK origin as it becomes more cost effective.
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