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Fines
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of fines issued for (a) shoplifting, (b) parking offences and (c) alcohol-related offences were paid (i) at the first opportunity and (ii) after a court appearance in the last 12 months. [272311]
Mr. Straw: Information held by the Ministry of Justice for the number of Penalty Notices for Disorder (PND) issued to persons aged 16 and over for the offence of Theft (retail under £200), and for alcohol related offences in England and Wales in 2007 that were paid (i) at the earliest opportunity within the 21 day suspended enforcement period is shown in the table. 21 days is the minimum period before which forces can register a fine against the recipient for not responding to a notice, so forces can accept payments after the SEP for administrative purposes. It is not possible to identify the payment rate of fines arising from unpaid PNDs separately from other court-imposed fines. However, the latest enforcement rate for all fines including those from unpaid PNDs, is 85.2 per cent. for the period April to December 2008.
Information on the number of persons who requested a court appearance after being issued with a PND has been provided in the table. It is not possible from the information collected centrally to provide details on the outcomes of these cases.
PND data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
Certain motoring offences, including parking offences where not de-criminalised, can be dealt with by the offer of a fixed penalty. Information reported to the Home Office on outcomes of fixed penalty notices
(FPNs) are not broken down by offence, therefore data on payment rates for FPNs for parking offences are not available.
Internet: Advertising
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent representations he has received on the data sharing implications of Phorm. [278480]
Mr. Wills: The Ministry of Justice has recently received a number of representations on the data sharing implications of Phorm. Those representations tended to focus on issues surrounding privacy and consent regarding the Phorm Trial.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is the independent regulator with responsibility for ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Representations have also been made to the Information Commissioner about the data sharing implications of Phorm and he has noted his intention to keep the matter under review.
Land Registry: Complaints
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints about the way in which a land registration decision had been reached were investigated by the Office of the Independent Complaints Reviewer in each of the last three years. [277963]
Mr. Wills: The figures set out in the following table show the number of complaint reviews completed and the number of separate allegations investigated that were considered in the reviews. The 2008-09 annual report has not been finalised.
| Number of complaints | Number of allegations investigated | |
Lindholme Prison
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners at Lindholme Prison share a cell designed for two cellmates with at least two others in each of the last three years. [275533]
Mr. Straw: Information provided by the prison shows that at Lindholme Prison no cell designed for two occupants has been used to hold more than two occupants in the last three years.
National Offender Management Information System
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice who each Senior Responsible Owner of the C-NOMIS is; and on what date each was appointed. [276035]
Mr. Straw: There have been three Senior Responsible Owners of the C-NOMIS Project and its successor, the NOMIS Programme. Their names and dates of appointment are as follows:
Christine Knott (SRO C-NOMIS Project)—June 2004;
Roger Hill (SRO C-NOMIS Project/NOMIS Programme)—April 2007;
Ann Beasley (SRO NOMIS Programme)—April 2008.
National Offender Management Service
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what the cost of recruitment of Directors of Offender Management in the National Offender Management Service has been to date; [277799]
(2) whether all the vacancies in the National Offender Management Service for Directors of Offender Management have been filled; [277800]
(3) what estimate he has made of the cost to the National Offender Management Service of employing each of its Directors of Offender Management in 2009-10. [277801]
Mr. Straw: The recruitment costs for the directors of Offender Management (DOM) in the National Offender Management Service is £168,000 as of 4 June 2009.
Nine of the 10 vacancies for DOM have been filled. The remaining vacancy, the north-east, is currently being covered by an interim appointment.
The director of Offender Management role has been evaluated, in all cases, to be senior civil servant (SCS) pay band 2. The salaries paid will be commensurate with this pay band and are expected to be in the region of £80,000 to £120,000. The exact salaries of the directors will be different because the roles vary in scale and this will be recognised accordingly.
The savings generated from the regional restructuring in the National Offender Management Service, which includes the creation and appointment of directors of Offender Management will result in a cost base reduction of £10 million.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what expenditure his Department has incurred on the National Offender Management Service in each year since the service was established. [277802]
Mr. Straw: The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) became part of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) when it was formed in May 2007. Before then it was part of the Home Office.
The NOMS agency unaudited resource and capital expenditure outturn for the financial year 2009-09 is: resource £4,452 million and capital £550 million. The
final audited figures will be included in the MOJ annual departmental report and accounts that will be published in due course.
The agency’s predecessor was announced in January 2004. The resource and capital expenditure outturn figures for each financial year are shown as follows.
| £ million | ||
| Financial y ear | Resource | Capital |
Figures for 2004-05 to 2006-07 have been taken from the Ministry of Justice departmental report 2007-08. Figures for 2007-08 have been taken from the Ministry of Justice annual accounts 2007-08.
The figures for 2008-09 will not be directly comparable with those for previous years as a result of the reorganisation of the service and the establishment of the new NOMS Agency, and the transfer of strategic functions to the newly formed Criminal Justice Group in the MOJ, from April 2008.
National Offender Management Service: Ethnic Groups
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much time the National Offender Management Service spent recording ethnic monitoring data in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009. [277805]
Mr. Straw: The information requested is not collected centrally. An accurate calculation of time spent recording and collating ethnic monitoring data would involve calculations across a number of processes and functions in prisons, young offender institutions and probations areas locally and at a regional and national level. Gathering this information would be at disproportionate cost.
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