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Young Offenders: Children in Care
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15, (e) 16, (f) 17, (g) 18 and (h) 19-year-olds in each young offender institution had previously been in the care of their local authority. [282916]
Maria Eagle: I refer the hon. Member to the answer that was given to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) on 29 April 2008, Official Report, column 391W.
Information on the total number of prisoners in all prison establishments in England and Wales who were in local authority care at some point when under the age of 16 is not centrally available.
However, a Social Exclusion Unit report ‘Reducing re-offending by ex-Prisoners’ published in 2002 reported that 27 per cent. of the prison population had been taken into care as a child against an average across the general population of 2 per cent.
Similarly, the information required to answer this question relating to 12 to 19-year-old prisoners previously in care of the local authority is not centrally available.
Leader of the House
Members: Allowances
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Leader of the House how many hon. Members have repaid money received by them in allowance payments since the detailed information on hon. Members' allowance payments has been published; and how much has been so repaid (a) in total and (b) on average by hon. Members. [283442]
Barbara Keeley: Members repay sums to the House for numerous reasons, many of which are unconnected with the recent publication of detailed information on allowances, such as for end-year reconciliations and in respect of refunds by suppliers. Since 1 April 2009, 264 Members have repaid a total of £642,728.75. The average refund was £2,434 per Member.
Northern Ireland
Departmental Internet
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 3 February 2009, Official Report, columns 988-90W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by each website operated by his Department in each of the last 12 months. [280720]
Mr. Woodward: The number of (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions received by each website for the last 12 months as detailed in the answer of 3 February is shown in the following table.
| Youth Justice Agency | NI Prison Service | OCTF | Northern Ireland Office | |||||
| Month | Unique visitors | Page impressions | Unique visitors | Page impressions | Unique visitors | Page impressions | Unique visitors | Page impressions |
| (1) Figures as at 16 June 2009. Notes: 1. Figures for the Northern Ireland Office website are not obtainable from January 2009 until present due to a changeover from our web statistic provider. 2. The Youth Justice Agency website: www.youthconferenceserviceni.gov.uk is not included as this website has not been in operation for the last 12 months. | ||||||||
Transport
Aviation: Black Boxes
Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will request the Civil Aviation Authority to press the International Civil Aviation Organisation to review the design of aircraft black boxes to ensure that after accidents they can (a) be more readily located and (b) transmit location signals for a longer period. [283491]
Paul Clark: The Department for Transport is not aware of a particular deficiency in the design of aircraft flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders (otherwise known as ‘black boxes') which needs to be addressed.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are being kept well informed of all developments in the investigation into the A330 Air France accident and will take any appropriate action necessary once the relevant facts are made available.
Departmental Consultants
Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether consultants employed by his Department have served on departmental boards established to determine (a) promotions and (b) level transfers in the last 12 months. [283195]
Chris Mole: Human Resources interim managers in the Highways Agency fulfil the full range of duties associated with the role they are providing cover for and may from time to time serve on recruitment and promotion boards.
Interim managers in the Central Department from time to time serve on promotion and level transfer boards, providing they have undertaken the necessary training.
Interim managers have been used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency during the last 12 months to assist civil servants on boards to determine promotions and level transfers. The decision who to employ was always made by a civil servant.
John McDonnell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many consultants within his central Department act as interim managers; and of these how many act as (a) reporting officers and (b) countersigning officers for appraisal reporting purposes. [283701]
Chris Mole: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Manpower
John McDonnell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 383W, on departmental training, which bargaining units have rolled out his Department's competency framework for employees in pay bands 1 to 7. [282958]
Chris Mole: The Department for Transport (DFT) Central, the Vehicle Certification Agency, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the Highways Agency have all rolled out the DFT competency framework to all staff below SCS.
The Government Car and Despatch Agency rolled out the competency framework to its non-industrial staff.
The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) decided not to implement the DFT Framework and is continuing to use an updated version of its former (DVO) competency framework. VOSA is committed to promoting Professional Skills for Government (PSG) to all staff and is currently taking positive steps to roll out PSG to all grades.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is also continuing to deploy the former DVO competency framework for its key HR procedures and processes. DVLA's commitment to and delivery of skills development and career management is strong and is inherently aligned to the principles of PSG, with work having been undertaken on job families and an “innovation centre” which has an excellent reputation. Work is planned to review what steps DVLA needs to take to progress PSG implementation further.
The Driving Standards Agency did not roll out PSG to grades below G7 via the DFT competency framework but is embedding PSG into individual people processes using the original PSG core skills.
Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) consultants and (b) contractors worked in the human resources section of his Department in 2008-09. [283194]
Chris Mole: The Central Department and its agencies recorded 37 consultants and contractors working within sections of human resources in 2008-09.
This figure excludes the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency. Any further breakdown can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Publications
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much it cost to produce each of his Department's publications in each of the last three years. [280770]
Chris Mole: The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Staff
John McDonnell: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what assessment has been made of the merits of moving staff from DfT Hastings to the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission in Hastings; and if he will make a statement. [283700]
Chris Mole:
No assessment has been made of the merits of moving Department for Transport staff in Hastings to the Child Maintenance Enforcement
Commission. Should any staff surplus arise, the Department will deploy the Cabinet Office Protocol for handling surplus staff situations, which has been agreed by the General Secretaries of our recognised trade unions.
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