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Sport
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with reference to the answer of 14 July 2009, Official Report, columns 248-49W, on sports, how many people of each (a) sex and (b) ethnic group participated in each funded sport according to Active People Survey 3 results. [301777]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Active People Survey 3 data you have requested will be published in December this year.
Sport: Females
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what percentage of the total workforce of each sport governing body in receipt of public funds are women. [301766]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is not held centrally by my Department or our NDPBs. As there are 46 sport governing bodies that are currently in receipt of public funding, this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Television
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if his Department will commission research on the possible effects on levels of community engagement of time spent watching television. [302035]
Mr. Simon: My Department has no plans to commission such research.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the time spent by (a) children and (b) adults on watching television in each of the last 10 years. [302038]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) is the organisation responsible for providing the official measurement of UK television audiences. This information is not held centrally by DCMS, but Ofcom has provided the following information:
| Average minutes of viewing per day | ||||||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009( 1, 2) | |
| (1) Up to 24 November (Q1-Q3). (2) Data for indicative purposes only and is not comparable with other years. Source: BARB, Network. Total TV. Whole Day. | ||||||||
Television: Licensing
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent estimate he has made of the number of homes without a (a) television and (b) television licence. [303067]
Mr. Simon: The proportion of UK households that own a television set is 97.06 per cent. (as of June 2009).
The television licence evasion rate, as reported in the BBC's 2008-09 annual review, is 5.3 per cent.
Tourism: West Midlands
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the average expenditure per head by overseas tourists visiting (a) the West Midlands, (b) Birmingham and (c) the Tamworth Borough Council area in the latest period for which figures are available. [301650]
Margaret Hodge: VisitBritain have advised the following:
(a) There were 1,760,000 overseas visits to the West Midlands in 2008 and average expenditure per head totalled £349 per visit.
(b) Overseas visits to Birmingham in 2008 totalled 763,000 and average expenditure per head totalled £337 per visit.
(c) Over the period 2005-08, there have been approximately 12,000 overseas visits to Tamworth in each year (due to small sample sizes it is essential to look at a longer period of time for more reliable estimates).
Estimates for spend in Tamworth are not reliable and so are not given.
Video Games
Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) video games and (b) films have been refused classification by the British Board of Film Classification in each of the last five years. [303027]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is set out in the following table.
| Video games and other interactive | Films (including videos) | |
| Source: BBFC. | ||
Scotland
Departmental Consultants
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many external consultants work for his Department. [303242]
Ann McKechin: There are no external consultants working for the Scotland Office.
Departmental Crime
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many officials working in his Department have (a) been reprimanded, (b) had their contract of employment terminated and (c) been prosecuted for theft of departmental property in each of the last three years. [303114]
Ann McKechin: No officials in the Scotland Office have been reprimanded, had their contract of employment terminated or have been prosecuted for theft of departmental property.
Departmental Food
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) lamb, (b) beef, (c) chicken, (d) pork, (e) turkey, (f) other meats, (g) vegetables and (h) fruit procured by his Department that was produced in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [300174]
Ann McKechin: The Scotland Office does not procure (a) lamb, (b) beef, (c) chicken, (d) pork, (e) turkey, (f) other meats, (g) vegetables and (h) fruit.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of jobs advertised by his Department in the last 12 months were online-only applications; and what provision his Department makes for those wishing to apply for jobs in his Department who do not have access to the internet. [301535]
Ann McKechin: No jobs in the Scotland Office were advertised online only.
Departmental Working Hours
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many and what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) the Advocate-General's Office work flexibly or part-time; and what his Department's policy is on making jobs available on a job-share or flexible basis. [301341]
Ann McKechin: All permanent staff in the Scotland Office and the Office of the Advocate-General for Scotland are on secondment from the Scottish Executive or the Ministry of Justice. Any member of staff can request a change to their working pattern and line managers consider requests in line with the policy and guidance of the parent Department.
Staff below the senior civil service (91 per cent.) can work to a flexi-time agreement and local records are kept of hours worked; 5 per cent. of all staff work part-time, 2 per cent. work compressed hours and 2 per cent. of staff work in a job share partnership. Details of the breakdown of staff by category are not provided as identification of individuals may be possible in view of the numbers involved.
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Finance
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many on-farm visits were made in relation to rural development programme schemes in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [300293]
Huw Irranca-Davies: Both Natural England (NE) and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) make on-farm visits in relation to rural development programme schemes.
NE make agri-environment (AE) agreement visits. These visits by land management experts are to assess the environmental features of the site, to work with the farmer to design and agree the management options that will deliver the most benefit, or to monitor the benefits and suggest improvements (these are distinct from the formal inspections carried out by RPA). NE makes about 26,000 visits to 18,000 farms each year. NE has over 58,000 AE agreements, so this is about one visit every two years, but the visits are focused on areas with the most environmental impact, typically higher level stewardship and environmentally sensitive areas.
The RPA undertakes on-farm compliance inspections made under land-based rural development schemes. The number of visits made in the last five years is shown in the following table.
| Number | |
Agriculture: Subsidies
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many on-farm inspections were made in relation to (a) single farm and (b) hill farm payments in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [300294]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The numbers of on-farm inspections made in relation to single payment scheme (SPS) payments and hill farm allowance (HFA) in each of the last five years are shown in the following tables.
| SPS payments | ||||
| Type of inspection | ||||
| Physical land eligibility | Remote sensing follow up on farm | Cross-compliance | Total number of on-farm inspections | |
| (1) Inspections to date. | ||||
| HFA payments | ||
| HFA scheme year | SPS equivalent scheme year | Number of on-farm inspections |
| (1) Selection made to date. | ||
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