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Criminal Investigations: Costs
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2009, Official Report, column 926W, on criminal investigation costs, what the (a) direct staff costs, (b) operational support costs, (c) business support costs and (d) total costs excluding overheads for (i) violence against the person-S20 and more serious, (ii) violence against the person-S47 and less serious, (iii) sexual offences, (iv) robbery, (v) deception/fraud, (vi) drugs offences, (vii) criminal damage, (viii) crimes other than those specified above and (ix) crimes other than those specified in ABC data collection were in (A) 2004-05, (B) 2005-06 and (C) 2006-07. [290890]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 9 September 2009]: The data requested are given in the tables.
| Table 1: Average cost per incident, by incident type, 2004-05: (£) | ||||
| (£) | ||||
| Direct staff costs | Operational support costs | Business support costs | Total cost excluding overheads | |
| Table 2: Average costs per incident, 2005-06 | ||||
| (£) | ||||
| Direct staff costs | Operational support costs | Business support costs | Total cost excluding overheads | |
| Table 3: Average costs per incident, 2006-07 | ||||
| (£) | ||||
| Direct staff costs | Operational support costs | Business support costs | Total cost excluding overheads | |
| (1) Crimes specified in ABC data collection are: violence against the person, sexual offences, burglary (dwelling), burglary (commercial and other), robbery, theft of or from a motor vehicle, deception/fraud, theft (other), drugs offences, criminal damage. | ||||
Departmental Advertising
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on newspaper advertising carried in each newspaper in the most recent year for which figures are available. [289510]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Office and its external agencies spent £1,795,842 on newspaper advertising in the 2008-09 financial year to communicate policies on knife crime, community safety, acquisitive crime, alcohol and the point-based system in immigration.
Departmental Dismissal
Justine Greening:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff have (a) been dismissed and (b) had their contract terminated by his Department in each of the last five years; what the
reason was in each case; and what the severance costs in relation to (i) dismissal and (ii) contract termination were in each such year. [290572]
Mr. Woolas: The information is as follows.
(a) Table 1 shows the number of staff who have been dismissed.
| Table 1 | |
| Financial year | Dismissals total |
(b) We are unable to identify those who have had their contract terminated as this is not a utilised reason for leaving; to identify the reason for each case could be obtained only at disproportionate cost as the data are not held centrally and would require each regional office to provide data.
The severance costs in relation to (i) dismissal and (ii) contract termination for each financial year is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate costs as it would require each regional office to provide data.
Departmental Electronic Equipment
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers in his Department are provided with a BlackBerry device. [289585]
Alan Johnson: In my Department six Ministers and two special advisers are issued with BlackBerry devices.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officials in (a) the Office for Security and Counter-terrorism, (b) the Identity and Passport Service and (c) his Department have been issued with a BlackBerry device. [289586]
Alan Johnson: There are currently 457 secure BlackBerry devices issued to civil servants in the Home Office. Of these, 31 secure devices have been issued to staff in the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism. The Identity and Passport Service does not supply BlackBerry devices to its staff.
Departmental Expenditure
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding from each of his Department's projects will be diverted to the Department for Communities and Local Government to implement the housing policies announced in the Draft Legislative Programme 2009-10. [289539]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Office has been able to identify emerging underspends from which to contribute to the housing programme, and as a result it has not been necessary to divert funding from any programmes or projects.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure his Department has incurred on room hire at the City Inn in Westminster in the last 24 months; and on how many occasions such rooms have been hired by his Department in that period. [290807]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 9 September 2009]: The Department has made payments totalling £5,651 to City Inn, Westminster, during the last two years. These relate to the hiring of conference facilities by business areas on four occasions.
Of the Department's agencies, the Criminal Records Bureau has not made any payments and Identity and Passport Service cannot provide the information without incurring disproportionate cost.
All Home Office expenditure conforms to the principles of regularity, propriety and value for money, and any other guidance as applicable contained within "Managing Public Money" and the Treasury handbook on "Regularity and Propriety."
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