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Departmental Advertising
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his Department's advertising budget is for 2009-10. [284847]
Joan Ruddock: Between April 2009 and July 2009, DECC is expected to spend approximately £370,000 on Act on CO2 campaign advertising media and production. We are considering our advertising plans for the rest of 2009-10.
Departmental Data Protection
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many (a) attempts and (b) successful attempts were made to gain unauthorised access to each (i) database and (ii) ICT system run by his Department; and if he will make a statement. [286547]
Joan Ruddock: It is not in the interests of the UK's national security for Departments to confirm information on the number of attempts, successful or otherwise, to gain unauthorised access to departmental systems or databases. Such disclosure could undermine the integrity and security of departmental systems and thereby expose them to potential threats.
DECC complies with the mandatory requirements of the Security Policy Framework in relation to information security including managing the risk of unauthorised access to ICT systems.
Departmental Databases
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which databases managed by his Department and its agencies hold personal information on members of the public; on what date each such database become operational; and if he will make a statement. [284907]
Joan Ruddock: The Department and its agencies hold a large number of databases ranging in size. These range from corporate databases to small local databases with just a few users held by units within the Department and its agencies, in addition to a large number of spreadsheets containing data, of which, the larger and more sophisticated could be described as fulfilling a database function. Some of these databases and systems can be expected to hold information on members of the public gathered in support of a wide range of departmental initiatives and activities. It is not possible due to disproportionate costs to identify which of the many databases contain personal data on members of the public and the date each one became operational.
All databases containing personal data maintained by DECC are managed in accordance with the Data Protection Act and 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 Internet
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when his Department plans to update its web browsers from Internet Explorer 6. [285017]
Joan Ruddock: The Department is currently reviewing its options for the technology refresh of software such as Internet Explorer 6, as part of a PFI Agreement for the provision of IT Services.
Energy Saving Trust: Finance
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) what the Energy Saving Trust's budget is for (a) advertising, (b) consultancy fees and (c) administration in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12 and (iv) 2012-13; [286859]
(2) what expenditure the Energy Saving Trust incurred on (a) advertising, (b) consultancy fees and (c) administration in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09. [286860]
Joan Ruddock: The Energy Saving Trust is a not-for-profit private company limited by guarantee. As part of the terms and conditions of the grant funding DECC provides to the Energy Saving Trust, the trust is required to provide DECC with audited annual accounts within five months of the end of the financial year.
The Energy Saving Trust statutory accounts for the financial years ending 2008 and 2009 are deposited with Companies House and are in the public domain.
Environmental Transformation Fund: Finance
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (1) how much in public funding for the Environmental Transformation Fund (a) was provided in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09 and (b) is planned to be provided in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12 and (iv) 2012-13; [285079]
(2) what proportion of expenditure under the Environmental Transformation Fund was spent on UK-based projects in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; [285084]
(3) what proportion of expenditure under the Environmental Transformation Fund he expects to be spent on UK-based projects in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13. [285085]
Joan Ruddock: The Environmental Transformation Fund (ETF) began operation in April 2008-therefore there was no ETF expenditure in the financial year 2007-08. The ETF budgets are for the current CSR period, so no budgets have yet been agreed for financial year 2011-12 or beyond.
The ETF has international and national components, which are managed separately. The International ETF is jointly controlled by my Department and by the Department for International Development; its total budget for the CSR period was £800 million with £100 million available in financial year 2008-09, £200 million in financial year 2009-10 and £500 million in financial year 2010-11. None of the international component is spent in the UK, whereas the national component is spent exclusively in the UK.
The National ETF total budget for the CSR period was £400 million with up to £133 million available in financial year 2008-09, up to £118 million in financial year 2009-10 and up to £149 million in financial year 2010-11. In its first year of operation National ETF spent £91m(1) on UK-based projects.
(1) Figure is provisional and subject to finalisation of accounts for the year. It also includes up to £7 million which has been, or will be, handed back by recipients of Offshore Wind Grants who would prefer to claim Renewables Obligation Certificates instead, now that the regime has changed. In addition, the figure includes £24,000 which has been received back from a hydrogen and fuel cell company that went into receivership.
Industrial Diseases: Compensation
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change to which 100 firms of solicitors his Department and its predecessors has paid the most in costs in respect of the coal health compensation scheme. [286399]
Mr. Kidney: The top 100 claimants' representatives who the Department has paid the most in fees broken down by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), vibration white finger (VWF) and miscellaneous claims is shown in the following table.
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