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Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what categories of personal information on members of the public will be held on each database expected to become operational in the next five years and which will be managed by his Department or one of its agencies; what estimate he has made of the likely number of individuals' details each such database will hold when fully operational; and if he will make a statement. [286141]
Paul Goggins: Details of the databases which will be managed by the Northern Ireland Office or its agencies and are expected to become operational in the next five years together with the categories of personal information held on members of the public and the estimated number of records are listed in the following table.
Any personal data which will be stored in these databases will be subject to the Data Protection Act and to the Northern Ireland Office data protection policy. Also following the publication of the cross-Government data handling review in June 2008, new projects and programmes that hold significant amounts of personal data are obliged to conduct privacy impact assessments.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what databases which will be managed by his Department or one of its agencies and which will contain personal information are (a) under construction and (b) expected to become operational in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. [286507]
Paul Goggins: Details of databases which will be managed by the Northern Ireland Office or one of its agencies which will contain personal information currently under construction or expected to become operational in each of the next five years are listed in the following table.
Any personal data which will be stored in these databases will be subject to the Data Protection Act and to the Northern Ireland Office data protection policy. Also following the publication of the cross-Government data handling review in June 2008, new projects and programmes that hold significant amounts of personal data are obliged to conduct privacy impact assessments.
Departmental Electronic Equipment
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) photocopiers, (b) scanning devices and (c) fax machines, excluding multi-function devices, there are in his Department; how many there were in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [286168]
Mr. Woodward: My Department currently has (a) 82 photocopiers, (b) 50 scanning devices, and (c) 149 fax machines. Figures are not available for previous years.
A pilot scheme is currently running aimed at increasing the use of multifunctional printing devices in line with the Department's Green IT strategy.
Departmental Internet
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the maintenance and development costs of his departmental website were in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. [285410]
Mr. Woodward: A review of the Northern Ireland Office website was conducted in March 2007 to optimise the site and improve performance and download speed. Maintenance and development costs for 2006-07 were £15,677.44. For the period 2005-06 the costs were £10,293.50.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 39W, on departmental internet, what the (a) names and (b) versions are of the web browsers used on the (i) desktop machines and (ii) laptop computers used by his Department's (A) Permanent Secretary, (B) chief information officer, (C) head of communications and (D) head of finance; [288989]
(2) pursuant to the answer of 9 July 2009, Official Report, columns 918-19W, on departmental internet, what the (a) names and (b) versions are of the web browsers used on the (i) desktop machines and (ii) laptop computers used by his Department's (A) Permanent Secretary, (B) chief information officer, (C) head of communications and (D) head of finance. [288999]
Paul Goggins: The information requested in relation to web browsers currently used by staff in the Northern Ireland Office is listed in the following table.
| (i) Desktop machines | (ii) Laptop computers | ||
Departmental Manpower
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff are based at each of his Department's buildings. [285409]
Mr. Woodward: The number of staff based at each of my Department's buildings is detailed in the following table.
| Buildings | Staff |
Departmental Public Consultation
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what consultations have been carried out by his Department since July 2007; and at what cost. [279345] [Official Report, 9 September 2009, Vol. 496, c. 33-34MC.]
Mr. Woodward: Since July 2007 my Department, excluding Agencies and non-departmental public bodies, conducted the consultations set out in the following table. The table includes the cost where applicable.
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