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Metropolitan Police: Volunteers
Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many volunteers have been (a) acting and (b) recruited as independent lay custody visitors in the Metropolitan Police Authority in each year since 2000. [286236]
Mr. Hanson: The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) advises that prior to 2006, individual boroughs managed independent custody visiting in their areas and that figures on recruitment are not centrally available. From April 2007, the MPA took pan-London responsibility for management of custody visitor and visit information. The authority has provided the following information:
As of December 2007 the MPA had 360 independent custody visitors of which 70 were new recruits during the year.
As of December 2008 there were 401 independent custody visitors of which 140 were new recruits during the year.
National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit
David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding was allocated to the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit (NETCU) in each financial year since 2003-04; and how many staff were employed by NETCU in each such year. [282011]
Mr. Hanson [holding answer 24 June 2009]: Funding to the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit is managed on behalf of the Home Office by the Association of Chief Police Officers Terrorism and Allied Matters (ACPO TAM). We do not disclose details of grants provided to individual units on security grounds. Nor do we disclose details of the numbers of staff employed by individual units.
National Identity Scheme
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what contracts his Department has signed for delivery of the National Identity Scheme to date; with which suppliers such contracts have been entered into; and what the (a) monetary value and (b) expected duration of each such contract is. [281970]
Alan Johnson: The contracts that have been signed for delivery of the National Identity Service which is necessary for the introduction of biometric passports to date are as follows:
Thales UK Ltd was awarded a contract in July 2008 for the technology and process for early release of NIS which is worth £18 million. It has been awarded for four years with four successive six month options to extend.
De La Rue was selected in June 2009 as the preferred bidder for the Design and Production of next generation UK passport books which is worth £400 million. The contract was signed on 2 July, and has been awarded for a period of 10 years.
CSC was awarded a contract in April 2009 for the upgrade of IPS's Application and Enrolment system which is worth £385 million. It has been awarded for a period of 10 years.
IBM was awarded a contract in May 2009 to operate the biometric data base for passports and to support identity cards which is worth £265 million. It has been awarded for seven years with one three-year option to extend.
In addition, four existing contracts were amended to support the initial rollout of identity cards. These include:
secure mail delivery provider SMS for the passport book to extend delivery services;
Teleperformance to include an option to provide support for the introduction of identity cards;
3M SPSL to include production and personalisation of the identity cards; and
nCipher (now part of Thales) for specialist encryption equipment was amended to adapt this equipment for the rollout to UK nationals.
As spend has been in relation to only one contract and has therefore been with only one supplier, this information is considered to be commercially sensitive.
National Policing Improvement Agency: Consultants
Bob Spink:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the National Policing
Improvement Agency spent on consultants in each of the last five years. [280341]
Mr. Hanson: The National Policing Improvement Agency was established by statute on 1 April 2007. Data are only available for 2007-08 and 2008-09.
NPIA consultancy spend was £71.4 million in 2007-08. The figure for 2008-09 is £57.2 million.
National Policing Improvement Agency: Manpower
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff there were in each National Policing Improvement Agency office in each of the last five years. [279287]
Mr. Hanson: The National Policing Improvement Agency was established by statute on 1 April 2007. Data for 2007-09 are given in the tables. Data prior to this period are not available.
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| Location | Executive support and administration staff | Specialist and delivery managers | Senior managers | Directors | Total |
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