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National Parks: Wildlife
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the designation of an area as a National Park on the level of wildlife in that area. [282803]
Huw Irranca-Davies: No comprehensive assessment has been made of the effect of the designation of an area as a National Park on the level of wildlife.
Pesticides Safety Directorate
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was paid in bonuses to (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff in the Pesticides Safety Directorate in each of the last five years. [282141]
Dan Norris: In the last four financial years from 2005-06 to 2008-09 the total amount paid to Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) staff in bonuses was as follows:
| £ | ||||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| (1) Defined here as staff at senior civil service or grade 6 level. (2) Defined here as staff at grade 7 level (includes managers in policy, science, technical and administrative areas). (3) Defined here as all staff in grades executive/scientific officer to senior executive/scientific officer. (4) Defined here as all staff in grades administrative officer and administrative assistant. Notes: 1. Data for the period 2004-05 are not available due to systems changes. 2. PSD transferred to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on 1 April 2008, and merged with other HSE teams to form the Chemicals Regulation Directorate on 1 April 2009. | ||||
Veterinary Medicines Agency: Consultants
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much the Veterinary Medicines Agency spent on consultants in each of the last five years. [282139]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Veterinary Medicines Directorate spent the following amount on consultants in each of the last five years.
| £ | |
These consultants were engaged to provide additional IT support for the development and maintenance of IT systems and additional scientific expertise to ensure that the assessment of applications for marketing authorisations is completed within the target time scales.
Water: National Security
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect on the publication of the Basingstoke Water Cycle report of the interpretation of the national security circular in relation to water assets. [282804]
Huw Irranca-Davies: This Department provides guidance to water asset owners and operators on a range of security issues, including the release of information that may impact on the physical security of those assets and on national security. Guidance is generally delivered in the form of thematic Advice Notes issued under the provisions of the Security and Emergency Measures Direction 1998. That guidance is developed in conjunction with the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.
In some instances, the owner or operator of a water asset may decide, on the basis of the guidance, that information should be withheld from publication on grounds of national security. We understand that in the case of the Basingstoke Water Cycle report, the water asset owner has referred to our guidance in requesting that certain information be withheld from wider public circulation.
Home Department
Acceptable Behaviour Contracts: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many acceptable behaviour contracts have been made in (a) the London Borough of Enfield and (b) Enfield North constituency in each of the last five years. [282566]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of acceptable behaviour contracts (ABCs) is collected by the Home Office through a voluntary survey of crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRPs) use of antisocial behaviour tools and powers. The latest data published indicate that over 30,000 ABCs have been made between October 2003 and September 2007, with over 2,958 issued in Greater London during the same period. Currently, data on the number of ABCs issued are not available below regional level.
Antisocial Behaviour: West Midlands
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have been recorded in (a) Tamworth constituency, (b) Staffordshire and (c) the West Midlands in each year since the inception of such orders; [282428]
(2) how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have resulted in a criminal conviction in (a) Tamworth constituency, (b) Staffordshire and (c) the West Midlands in each year since the inception of such orders. [282429]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) became available from 1 April 1999. ASBO breach data are available for ASBOs issued between 1 June 2000 and 31 December 2006 (latest available) and are not compiled below criminal justice system (CJS) area level. Information collected centrally on the number of breaches of ASBOs only counts those instances where the breach of the ASBO was proven in court.
The number of occasions in each year on which ASBOs were proven in court to have been breached in the Staffordshire and the West Midlands CJS areas is shown in the following table.
| Number of occasions in the Staffordshire and the West Midlands criminal justice system areas( 1) where persons were proven in court to have breached their antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) in each year between 1 June 2000 and 31 December 2006 | ||||||
| CJS area | 2000-02( 2) | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006 |
| (1) ASBOs may be issued in one area and breached in another. Breaches are counted in this table by area of breach. (2) From 1 June 2000. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: OCJR Court Proceedings Database. | ||||||
Asylum
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has conducted on the social effects of the (a) distribution of and (b) number of unsupported refused asylum seekers without the right to work; and if he will make a statement. [281571]
Mr. Woolas: The Department has not conducted such research. It is not our policy to allow asylum seekers to work because we believe that managed migration is a valuable source of skills and labour to the British economy and there are recognised routes into the UK for those seeking to work.
Asylum: Bahrain
Mr. Purchase: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 May 2009, Official Report, column 1459W, on asylum: Bahrain, which sources of evidence the UK Border Agency used in making decisions on asylum applications from Bahraini citizens in the last five years. [279642]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency uses a variety of published and reputable sources of information in making decisions. I cannot list all those which may have been referred to by the agency’s decision-makers over the past five years, but the body of information includes reports from various Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, the annual US Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices and the UK Government’s own agencies.
Departmental Air Conditioning
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent by his Department on carrying out inspections of air conditioning systems within departmental buildings in accordance with the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 since the Regulations came into force. [272127]
Mr. Woolas: My Department does not contract directly for these inspections but procures them as part of building maintenance services through wider Facilities Management or operational service contractors. Our contractors plan to carry out these inspections as soon as possible after their engineers have become appropriately qualified to do so.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of his Department's buildings are equipped with air conditioning systems with greater than 250kW of output; how many of these systems have been inspected under the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007; and if he will place in the Library a copy of each inspection report. [272186]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 30 April 2009]: Inspections have been planned by our building facilities management service providers around the availability of appropriately trained engineers able to undertake the task.
Departmental Carbon Emissions
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions from offices in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [280919]
Mr. Woolas: The following table provides a breakdown for carbon dioxide emissions from key offices in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. Full-time equivalent figures for these offices are not available.
| Carbon dioxide emissions from key offices | |
| Tonnes | |
Central Government Departments and their Executive agencies are required to report performance data on their carbon emissions for their office estate annually as part of the Sustainable Development in Government (SDiG) reporting process.
The latest assessment of Government’s performance against these targets was published by the Sustainable Development Commission on 12 December 2008
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from road-based transport used for administrative operations by his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [281044]
Mr. Woolas: The data on operational road travel, as published in the Sustainable Development in Government reports 2006-07 and 2007-08, are as follows:
| Tonnes of CO 2 | ||
| Operational road travel emissions | Emissions per FTE | |
Due to the machinery of government changes, resulting in the transfer of staff from the Home Office to Ministry of Justice, it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons between these years.
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions arising from air travel by staff in his Department in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 (i) in total and (ii) per full-time equivalent member of staff. [281045]
Mr. Woolas: The data on air travel are as follows:
| Tonnes of CO 2 | ||
| Air travel emissions | Emissions per FTE | |
These data cover some business areas that are now part of Ministry of Justice. The Home Office off-sets carbon dioxide emissions from official air travel through the Government Carbon off-setting scheme.
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