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Cabinet Office
Jobseeker's Allowance: Wales
Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants in each constituency in Wales had been claiming the allowance for (a) up to three, (b) between three and six, (c) between six and 12 and (d) between 12 and 24 months in each month since September 2009; and if she will make a statement. [310509]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated January 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question concerning how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants in each constituency in Wales had been claiming the allowance for (a) up to three, (b) between three and six, (c) between six and 12 and (d) between 12 and 24 months in each month since September 2009. (310509)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles the number of claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) from the Jobcentre Plus administrative system. Table 1 shows the number of computerised claims of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for people, aged 16 or over resident in each parliamentary constituency in Wales, by duration of the claim. Table 2 shows the percentage of all claimants in each constituency by duration of the claim.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
Tables 1 and 2 will be placed in the Library of the House.
Official Residences: Repairs and Maintenance
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 20 March 2008, Official Report, column 1303W, on official residences: repairs and maintenance, what the cost was of the works associated with Crown Proposal 08/00696/1884. [308315]
Angela E. Smith: Information on capital expenditure in 2008-09 on improving Cabinet Office buildings, including the Downing street estate are included in the annual Cabinet Office resource accounts. Copies are available in the Library of the House.
Women and Equality
Departmental Internet
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality which websites her Department's staff are blocked from accessing on networked computers. [310764]
Michael Jabez Foster: The Government Equalities Office uses intranet services provided by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Access is blocked to unacceptable internet sites and in addition staff are instructed not to attempt to access unacceptable sites.
Examples of the types of websites which are blocked and must not be accessed are those which are:
Pornographic
Discriminatory
Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Contain material, the possession of which would constitute a criminal offence, or
Promote or incite any form of criminal or terrorist activity.
It is not possible to list all the sites covered by these restrictions.
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Databases
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what the timetable is for the creation of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's lifestyle database; and what data sources will be used to create it. [309396]
Maria Eagle: The Equality and Human Rights Commission will be developing its Equality Measurement Framework over the next 18 months and will make available some data by the autumn of 2010.
The Equality Measurement Framework will in large part use existing information sources from national surveys and administrative data sets, such as statistics from the British Crime Survey, Census, Crown Prosecution Service, Health and Safety Executive, Labour Force Survey and Office for National Statistics Opinions Survey.
The Commission will also be asking data providers to consider developing these sources in ways that will allow more analysis which would be utilised by the Equality Measurement Framework. However no new data collection burden is expected to fall on individual employers or other private organisations.
EU Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Philip Davies: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what recent assessment she has made of the UK's level of compliance with EU anti-discrimination legislation. [308221]
Maria Eagle:
The European Commission sent two Reasoned Opinions to the UK Government on 20 November which questioned the compliance of our domestic legislation with two European directives in
certain respects. We are studying these Reasoned Opinions carefully and will reply to the Commission towards the end of January.
National Equality Panel
Robert Neill: To ask the Minister for Women and Equality what groups have been invited to submit evidence for consideration by the National Equality Panel in its investigation into inequality. [308680]
Michael Jabez Foster: The National Equality Panel sent invitations to a range of equality lobby groups and academics to submit evidence to the National Equality Panel's call for evidence on economic inequality in the UK, in November 2008 to the end of January 2009. These groups included:
EHRC
Age Concern/Help the Aged
Children's Right's Alliance
Child Commissioner
Child Poverty Action Group
Stonewall
Lesbian and Gay Foundation
1990 Trust
The Runnymede Trust
Operation Black Vote
The Evangelical Alliance
The Muslim Council of Great Britain
British Humanist Association
The Interfaith Network
The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales
The Church of England
The National Secular Society
The Jewish Board of Deputies
The Hindu Council
The British Council of Disabled People
Leonard Cheshire Foundation
MENCAP
MIND
RADAR
RNIB
RNID
SCOPE
Women's National Commission
Fawcett Society
National Alliance of Women Organisations
Press for Change
CBI
British Retail Consortium
Federation of Small Business
ACAS
Audit Commission
ABI
IDeA
National and Diversity Forum
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
TUC
Consumer Focus
Engineering Employers Federation
The Tax Payers Alliance
Policy Exchange
Fabian Society
Institute for Public Policy Research
Pensions Policy Institute
Institute for Employment Studies
The New Policy Institute
One Parent Families
Shelter
Professor. Danny Dorling
Professor. Jane Falkingham
Professor. Maria Evandrou
Dr. Anne Green
Professor Mark Stewart
Professor Gary Craig
Dr. Gloria Gordon
Glen Bramley
Jay Ginn
The invitation to submit evidence was also put online for anybody to respond to.
We received 25 responses, which are available online at:
Solicitor-General
Corruption
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Solicitor-General what guidelines have been issued to prosecutors on cases involving overseas corruption; and if she will make a statement. [310005]
The Solicitor-General: The Serious Fraud Office has published on its website a guide entitled 'Approach of the Serious Fraud Office to dealing with overseas corruption', which outlines the guidance available, see the following link:
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/media/28313/approach%20of%20the %20sfo%20to%20dealing%20with%20overseas%20corruption.pdf
In addition, the Crown Prosecution Service has legal guidance for prosecutors in relation to prosecuting offences of bribery and corruption. The guidance is published on the CPS website and is available at
There is also prosecution guidance on corporate offending, which has relevance to bribery and corruption offences, and is available at:
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/media/65228/coml%20joint%20 guidance%20on%20corporate%20prosecutions%20for%20 publication.pdf
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Solicitor-General whether the Serious Fraud Office has received representations on its policy document Approach of the Serious Fraud Office to dealing with overseas corruption. [310006]
The Solicitor-General: The Serious Fraud office has received helpful feedback on the guidance including offering assistance as it embeds and develops.
Departmental Buildings
Sarah Teather: To ask the Solicitor-General what the (a) area and (b) estimated value is of (i) vacant and (ii) occupied office space (A) owned and (B) rented by her Department. [310521]
The Solicitor-General: The Attorney Generals' Office occupies a single rented property which contains 1157sq metres of office space. The annual rental cost is £462,820. All of the available space is occupied.
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
Jenny Willott: To ask the Solicitor-General (1) how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format by the Law Officers Departments of each security classification have been submitted to the Iraq Inquiry; and if she will make a statement; [309369]
(2) whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from the Law Officers' Departments by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if she will make a statement; [310176]
(3) how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by the Law Officers' Departments; and if she will make a statement; [310186]
(4) how many (a) documents and (b) other types of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from the Law Officers' Departments; and if she will make a statement. [310194]
The Solicitor-General: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her by the Minister of State, Cabinet Office, my right hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela E. Smith), on 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 840-41W.
Israel
Richard Burden: To ask the Solicitor-General what meetings the Attorney-General had during her visit to Israel in January 2010 at which the subject of the operation of the law of universal jurisdiction in the UK in relation to the possibility of Israeli officials, politicians or military personnel being arrested if they travel to the UK was discussed. [310075]
The Solicitor-General [holding answer 11 January 2010]: The matter was raised with the Attorney-General in meetings she had with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and Minister of Justice Yaacov Ne'eman on 5 January. In addition the issue was discussed at a meeting the Attorney had in Ramallah on 6 January with the Independent Commission on Human Rights and representatives from the Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association.
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