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Fuel Poverty
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many staff in his Department are working on the review of its strategy for tackling fuel poverty. [285094]
Mr. Kidney: DECC is currently undertaking a review of its fuel poverty policies. Initial findings of this review are expected in the summer of 2009. Until the review has delivered its findings it would be inappropriate to consider whether to revise the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy.
The Fuel Poverty Review project team currently consists of the following officials by pay band:
| Number | |
In addition the project team has recently recruited a short-term secondee.
Warm Front Scheme: Pensioners
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many applicants for a Warm Front grant aged (a) under 60 years old and (b) 60 years old and over who were informed that they would need to pay a contribution (i) took up the grant and (ii) did not proceed with their applications in 2008-09. [285080]
Mr. Kidney: The following table shows the requested information:
| Households asked to contribute | |||||
| Scheme year 2008-09 | Assisted households | Number | Percentage | Paid | Did not proceed |
The grant maxima for the period reported on were £2,700 or £4,000 where an oil measure was required. On 23 April 2009 we announced our intention to raise the grant maxima to £3,500 or £6,000 for oil and other low carbon and renewable heating measures.
Prime Minister
Members: Surveillance
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Prime Minister whether the application of the Wilson Doctrine on interception of hon. Members' telephone calls has been amended since September 2007; and if he will make a statement. [286618]
The Prime Minister: No. I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) on 9 July 2009, Official Report, columns 1133-4.
Olympics
Olympic Games 2012: Employment
Alistair Burt: To ask the Minister for the Olympics what percentage of the construction workers at the Olympic Park are residents of the London Borough of (a) Hackney, (b) Newham, (c) Tower Hamlets, (d) Waltham Forest and (e) Greenwich. [285108]
Tessa Jowell:
The latest figures published by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) in April 2009 showed that at that time there were 4,101 people working on the
Olympic Park, of which 20 per cent. (826) stated that they are a resident in the five host boroughs. This equates to approximately one in five individuals working on the Olympic site.
The table provides a snap shot of people from each of the host boroughs working on site as at April 2009.
| Borough | Contractor workforce number | Representation of contractor workforce (percentage) | BAME (percentage) |
The ODA publishes its employment and skills statistics on a quarterly basis and will be releasing the next set of quarterly figures later this month, in the publications sections of the London 2012 website.
Olympic Games 2012: Gun Sports
Gordon Banks: To ask the Minister for the Olympics if she will publish all reports relevant to the consideration of the National Shooting Centre, Bisley as a location for target shooting at the London 2012 Olympics. [280694]
Tessa Jowell [holding answer 18 June 2009]: A redacted summary version of the KPMG report that informed the Olympic Board's decision was published and placed in the House Library. Because of the continuing commercial sensitivity of information contained within the report, I am unable to publish a full copy at this time.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and the Olympic Delivery Authority have also held several briefing sessions with a number of MPs and Peers and are happy to undertake further meetings to explain the rationale behind the Olympic Board's decision as are the British Olympic Association and British Shooting. British Shooting has accepted that Bisley is not a viable option for the 2012 events and will work with London 2012 on legacy for the sport.
Home Department
Antisocial Behaviour
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding has been provided from the public purse to parish councils to tackle antisocial behaviour in the last 12 months. [285390]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office does not provide direct funding to parish councils to tackle antisocial behaviour. Funding to tackle antisocial behaviour now forms part of the general Area Based Grant (ABG) paid by the Department of Communities and Local Government to Unitary and upper tier authorities. It is for local partnerships to agree how the grants received should be allocated against locally determined priorities, including tackling antisocial behaviour.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Young People
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2009, Official Report, column 454W, on anti-social behaviour orders: young people, who is responsible for monitoring the effects of media reporting on antisocial behaviour orders imposed on children between the ages of 10 and 17 years on levels of compliance with such orders. [285322]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office has issued guidance on publicising antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) which emphasises that a case by case approach should be adopted and that a test should be applied which balances the purpose of publicity against the impact it will have on the individual involved, especially in cases involving young people. It is up to the applicant agency to determine the outcome of this test and determine what publicity is appropriate and proportionate. In addition courts retain the right to impose reporting restrictions where they believe it necessary to do so.
ASBO publicity does not always have to be negative. In cases where ASBOs have worked and perpetrators have turned their lives around, the media may wish to follow up ASBO successes with good news stories.
Crime: Detection Rates
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the crime detection rate for North Yorkshire police force was in each year since 2002-03. [285708]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested has been given in the following table.
From 1 April 2007 the rules governing recording of non-sanction detections were revised to reduce the scope within which they can be claimed to a very small limited set of circumstances. This has significantly reduced the number of non-sanction detections which has been reflected in the overall detection rates in England and Wales.
Detection rates are a ratio of crime detected in a period to crimes recorded in a period. They are not based on tracking whether individual crimes recorded in a period have eventually been detected.
| Detection rates for offences recorded by the police in North Yorkshire | |
| Detection rate (percentage) | |
Crime: Yorkshire
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were reported in York in each of the last four years. [285711]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is given in the table.
| Offences recorded by the police in York | |
| Number | |
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) violent crimes and (b) crimes were recorded in (i) North Yorkshire and (ii) City of York in each year since 1996-97. [285712]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The available information is given in the tables.
A number of changes have been made to recorded crime in response to suggestions in the two reviews of crime statistics. One such change is that the term 'violent crime' is no longer used and we now provide figures for violence against the person.
| Table 1: Offences recorded by the police in North Yorkshire and York, 1996 and 1997 | ||
| Number | ||
| Area and offence | 1996 | 1997 |
| n/a = Not available. | ||
| Table 2: Offences recorded by the police in North Yorkshire and York, 1998-99 to 2001-02( 1, 2) | ||||
| Number | ||||
| Area and offence | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| n/a = Not available (1) The coverage was extended and counting rules revised from 1998-99. Figures from that date are not directly comparable with those for 1997. (2) The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. | ||||
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