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National Lottery: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of Lottery funding has been allocated to organisations in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last five years; and which organisations received such funding. [282077]
Mr. Simon: I have arranged for a list to be placed in the libraries of both Houses, of organisations in Essex and Castle Point that received lottery awards in each of the last five years.
The following tables show the value of lottery grants awarded to organisations in Essex and Castle Point in the same years, along with the total amount of lottery grants awarded during those years.
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These statistics come from the Department’s Lottery Grants Database. The Database is searchable at www.lottery.culture.gov.uk and uses information on Lottery grants supplied by the Lottery distributors.
National Lottery: Greater Manchester
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what proportion of all Lottery funding available has been awarded to organisations in (a) Tameside and (b) Stockport in the last 12 months. [279767]
Mr. Simon: Out of £805,595,710 Lottery funding awarded between 11 June 2008 and 11 June 2009, £1,357,072 was awarded to organisations in the Tameside Local Authority area, and £670,680 to organisations in the Stockport local authority area.
The information is derived from the Department's Lottery Grant database which is searchable at www.lottery.culture.gov.uk and uses information supplied by the Lottery distributors.
Richmond Park: Parking
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when his Department expects to receive recommendations from the Royal Parks Agency following the Agency’s recent consultation on the proposal to introduce car park charging in Richmond Park; and if he will make a statement. [281880]
Barbara Follett:
The Royal Parks has had a very large response to its consultation on changes to the Park Regulations. The results are currently being analysed with the expectation that the Agency will make its recommendations to Ministers by the end of July. I will
carefully consider the recommendations and I have already agreed to meet the hon. Member prior to making any decision.
Television: Concessions
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many pensioners in (a) Chorley and (b) Lancashire had a free television licence at the latest date for which figures are available. [282082]
Mr. Simon [holding answer 24 June 2009]: TV Licensing, which administers free television licences for people aged 75 or over as agents for the BBC, can provide breakdown only by postcode. However, according to the records from the Department for Work and Pensions, the number of households with at least one person aged 75 or over claiming the winter fuel payment in 2007-08 was in (a) Chorley, 5,450 and in (b) Lancashire 71,710. Figures for 2008-09 are still being compiled.
Tourism
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make an assessment of the impact of changes in the budget of Visit Britain since 2007 on the (a) tourist industry and (b) economy. [281248]
Barbara Follett: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport requires its sponsored bodies to achieve value for money and VisitBritain’s Tourism Framework Review sets a new agenda for the industry to work effectively with other structures.
In partnership with the industry and the wider public sector, the DCMS has a clear and coherent policy framework for industry growth. This includes branding and marketing improvement led by VisitBritain; the National Tourism Skills Strategy; work across Britain to drive up product quality through accommodation grading schemes and the better co-ordination of the over £350 million a year of public money invested in tourism at national, regional and local levels.
Tourism: Olympic Games 2012
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department plans to spend on encouraging international travellers to visit the UK during the London 2012 Olympics. [281276]
Barbara Follett: Between 2008-09 and 2010-11, VisitBritain has been allocated funding of around £130 million towards marketing and promotion.
VisitBritain is in the process of reviewing its Olympics Delivery Plan and intends to submit this to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport shortly.
Cabinet Office
Cancer
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many cases of cancer have been diagnosed in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England in each year since 2000. [281669]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell dated June 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of cancer have been diagnosed in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England in each year since 2000 (281669).
The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of cancer for the years 2000 to 2006 for (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England are in Table 1 below.
| Table 1: Registration of newly diagnosed cases of cancer( 1) , Peterborough parliamentary constituency( 2) , and England, 2000 to 2006 | ||
| Peterborough | England | |
| (1) All cancers, coded to C00-C97 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (C44). (2) Based on boundaries as of 2007. Source: Office for national Statistics | ||
Departmental Pay
John McDonnell: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which (a) sections of her Department and (b) non-departmental public bodies for which her Department is responsible have requested money saved from efficiency savings to be used for increased pay in their 2009 pay offers to staff. [282540]
Angela E. Smith: The Cabinet Office and the non-departmental public bodies for which it is responsible have not requested money saved from efficiency savings to be used for increased pay in their 2009 pay offers to staff.
Departmental Responsibilities
Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the responsibilities of her Department’s Director of Digital Engagement are. [282042]
Tessa Jowell: The director for digital engagement works across Government Departments to promote the use of digital technology to communicate with the public. He is responsible for implementing the recommendations of the Power of Information Taskforce and for the programme to create better access to government held public data.
He also chairs the Government’s Knowledge Council and is responsible for increasing the civil service’s use of internal digital tools to improve cross Government policy development and service delivery.
Floods
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of provision to category 1 responders of assessments of critical infrastructure in their areas to enable them to assess vulnerability to flooding. [280480]
Tessa Jowell: Arrangements were put in place in March 2008 to share information on critical national infrastructure with all local resilience forums (LRFs) in England. This information has been shared with LRFs to enable local risk assessment and generic planning, under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004); we will assess the results next year.
In the immediate future the natural hazards team is undertaking an assessment of the vulnerability of the critical national infrastructure to flooding and will be working with the relevant lead Government Departments, economic regulators and operators to reduce those vulnerabilities.
Marketing: Apprentices
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much the Central Office of Information spent on (a) producing advertising and (b) buying advertising space as part of the Make Things Happen apprenticeships advertising campaign. [266498]
Tessa Jowell: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Central Office of Information. I have asked the Chief Executive to reply.
Letter from Mark Lund, dated June 2009:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on the Make things Happen apprenticeships campaign (266498).
COI supplied details of costs incurred in the campaign as part of the response given to the hon. Member by the Learning Skills Council’s acting chief executive (30 March 2009, Official Report, column 871W). Copies of the letter sent to the hon. Member by the acting chief executive are available in the libraries of the House.
Regional Support Unit
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) budget and (b) staffing level of her Department’s Regional Support Unit will be in 2009-10. [269897]
Tessa Jowell: At present £150,000 has been identified to cover the Cabinet Office costs for the regional support unit to co-ordinate regional communications. This includes the costs of a team of three staff.
Strategic Horizons Unit: Manpower
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many full-time equivalent staff work in the Cabinet Office’s (a) Strategic Horizons Unit and (b) horizon-scanning divisions. [249902]
Tessa Jowell: The Strategic Horizons Unit was established in accordance with the Prime Minister’s written ministerial statement of 22 July 2008 on the National Security Strategy:
“Alongside (the National Security Secretariat) a horizon scanning unit will be established which will co-ordinate the security-related horizon scanning currently undertaken in a number of Government Departments, with the intention of giving it an overarching framework and a more coherent output.”
The unit began operations on 23 September 2008.
Four full-time equivalent staff work in the Cabinet Office’s strategic horizons unit, and the unit is in the process of hiring one further member of staff. The functions of the vacant post are currently being performed by a member of the Intelligence Corps (Volunteers). There is no other Cabinet Office division for which horizon scanning is its main mission.
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