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Northern Ireland

Police Service of Northern Ireland: Manpower

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) regular police officers and (b) reservists of each rank served in the Police Service of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [277748]

Paul Goggins: That is an operational matter for the Chief Constable. I have asked him to reply directly to the hon. Lady, and a copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.

Police Service of Northern Ireland: Museums and Galleries

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what criteria are applied by the museum at the Police Service of Northern Ireland headquarters on whether to accept donations of (a) Royal Ulster Constabulary and (b) B Specials memorabilia. [277739]

Paul Goggins: That is an operational matter for the Chief Constable. I have asked him to reply directly to the hon. Lady, and a copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.

Prison Service: Misconduct

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which offences by prison service staff constitute gross misconduct warranting termination of employment. [277749]

Paul Goggins: It is not possible to list every type of behaviour that might constitute gross misconduct. However, the Northern Ireland Prison Service Code of Conduct and Discipline gives examples of the type of conduct that will normally be regarded as gross misconduct and which will normally result in dismissal for a first offence. These are:


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Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prison officers have been (a) suspended and (b) dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct in each of the last three years; and for what reasons in each case. [Official Report, 23 June 2009, Vol. 494, c. 3MC.][277750]

Paul Goggins: The following table shows the number of prison officers who have been (a) suspended and (b) dismissed on grounds of gross misconduct in the last three years for the reasons stated.

Action Misc onduct

2006

4 suspensions

1 harassment

2 PSNI criminal investigations

1 fraudulent activity involving expenses

3 dismissals

1 failure to provide relevant information on security form

2 subject to criminal proceedings

2007

2 suspensions

1 interfered with prisoner’s confidential correspondence

1 fraudulent activity involving a prisoner

2 dismissals

1 harassment

1 fraudulent activity involving a prisoner

2008

17 suspensions

16 neglect of duty

1 inappropriate relationship with a prisoner

2 dismissals

1 interfered with prisoner's confidential correspondence

1 inappropriate relationship with a prisoner


Olympics

Departmental Official Hospitality

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister for the Olympics how much (a) her Office and (b) the Government Olympic Executive has spent on (i) conference services and (ii) banqueting services in each year since their creation. [274499]

Tessa Jowell: Part of Government Olympic Executive's (GOE) role is to develop legacy plans and ensure full economic and social benefits to the United Kingdom.

Since its creation the GOE, and the Minister for the Olympics' Office, have spent £225,893 on hosting five conferences—one in Leeds, two in east London and two in central London. Two conferences focused on the UK-wide business benefits of London 2012, one on disability, one on volunteering, and one on the International Inspiration Programme, which is aimed at transforming the lives of 12 million children and young people across 20 developing countries worldwide.

The GOE has also spent £4,686 on five dinners hosted by the Minister for the Olympics designed to consult a range of industry, charity and public sector leaders and inform our preparations for 2012. These events have covered a broad range of issues including how to engage young people in our plans for 2012; the
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means by which we can secure a positive legacy from the games; our plans for using volunteers on the 2012 programme; how we maximise access to and legacy from the games for disabled people; how we overcome challenges in relation to construction of the Olympic Park; as well as the use of new media and technology and legacy of the International Broadcast Centre/Main Press Centre. All resulted in proposals for further actions which are being developed.

Olympic Delivery Authority: Manpower

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Minister for the Olympics how many people are employed by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA); what the staffing costs of the ODA were in the last 12 months; and how many ODA staff work on (a) project management, (b) legacy planning and (c) financial oversight. [277376]

Tessa Jowell: At 30 April 2009 ODA employed 246 staff, permanent, secondments and fixed term, the latter including a number of graduates recruited for a 10-month placement as part of the ODA graduate placement scheme.

The ODA's staff costs for the 12 months to 30 April 2009 were £21.5 million, including salary, national insurance and pension contributions. The staff costs reflect, in part, the need to employ high quality external expertise to meet the unique challenge that the Olympics represents—delivering a large and complex programme to a fixed deadline. This is a successful operation: we are on time and within budget. The overall management costs of the Olympic programme are well within industry benchmarks for a project of this size.

Of the ODA's staff 136 are working on project management. This includes work on legacy planning. Every project in the programme is considered with legacy in mind, ensuring that legacy requirements are incorporated in design briefs, specifications and business planning. This approach is designed to ensure that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games will be the catalyst for the regeneration, but it also means that staff are not attributed specifically to legacy planning.

The ODA's Finance and Business Planning team employs 19 staff on financial oversight and who work closely with the Delivery Partner. This excludes internal Cabinet Office audit services which are provided by Ernst and Young.

Olympic Games 2012

Bob Spink: To ask the Minister for the Olympics (1) what her most recent estimate is of the cost of hosting Olympic events in the Lower Lea Valley; [278344]

(2) what her most recent estimate is of the cost of hosting the London 2012 Olympics white water canoe event at River Lee Country Park; [278311]

(3) what her most recent estimate is of the cost of hosting London 2012 Olympics events at Earl's Court. [278317]

Tessa Jowell [holding answer 8 June 2009]: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has responsibility for staging the Olympic and Paralympic games at existing venues. The direct costs associated with staging the events at existing venues come from LOCOG's revenues
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which are primarily derived from commercial sponsorship, broadcast rights, ticket sales and merchandising/licensing—not from the public purse.

There will be attributable costs to the public purse, for example in respect of the security and transport functions associated with the venue. However these costs have not yet been identified separately for individual venues, but they will form part of the overall security and transport budgets.

In respect of the white water canoe course and Eton Manor, which are being constructed by the Olympic Delivery Authority, the project budgets cannot be disclosed at the current time owing to reasons of commercial sensitivity.

Health

Breast Cancer: Screening

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting times for breast cancer screening in each primary care trust were in the latest period for which information is available. [278865]

Ann Keen: Waiting times in the NHS Breast Screening Programme are measured by the proportion of eligible women who are recalled for screening within 36 months of their previous screen. This is known as round length. Round length is not measured by primary care trust, but round length by local breast screening unit ranked in descending order for quarter 4 2008-09 (January to March 2009) is shown in the following table.


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Breast screening unit 36 month round length (percentage)

Doncaster

100

Aylesbury

100

Wycombe

100

Crewe

99

Macclesfield

99

Wirral

99

Sheffield

99

Rotherham

99

Epping

99

West Devon

99

Northampton

99

South Derbyshire

99

Kettering

99

Windsor

99

Portsmouth

99

North Yorkshire

98

Leeds Wakefield

98

Barnsley

98

West of London

98

Barking and Havering

98

Shropshire

98

South Staffordshire

98

Avon

98

Dorset

98

Somerset

98

Milton Keynes

98

Reading

98

Southampton and Salisbury

98

Isle of Wight

98

North Tees

97

Gateshead

97

Pennine

97

East Suffolk

97

North Staffordshire

97

Cornwall

97

North Nottinghamshire

97

Lincolnshire

97

Canterbury

97

Bolton

96

North Cumbria

96

North Yorkshire

96

South East London (Greenwich)

96

Cambridge and Huntingdon

96

Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry

96

South Devon

96

Wiltshire

96

Maidstone

96

Medway

96

Chester

95

South West London

95

King’s Lynn

95

South Essex

95

Liverpool

94

Newcastle

94

James Paget (Great Yarmouth)

94

Oxford

94

East Lancashire

93

South East London (Kings)

92

Chelmsford and Colchester

91

Humberside

90

West Suffolk

90

North Derbyshire

89

Leicester

88

Warrington

87

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

87

West Sussex

87

Norfolk and Norwich

86

Wigan

85

Jarvis Centre (Guildford)

85

Greater Manchester

84

Hereford and Worcester

84

South Birmingham

84

Gloucestershire

79

Nottingham

78

City and East London

76

East Devon

75

City Hospital (Birmingham)

69

Peterborough

62

Dudley and Wolverhampton

58

North Lancashire

48

North and Mid-Hampshire

43

North London

22

Brighton

8

Source:
NHS Cancer Screening Programmes

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