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Government Departments: Disclosure of Information
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the answer of 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 411W, on disclosure of information, if she will place in the Library a copy of the current edition of the document, "Handling unauthorised disclosures", redacting information which could harm national security. [312438]
Tessa Jowell: Copies of "Official Information: standards of conduct and procedures" have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Detailed internal guidance on the conduct of the investigation of leaks and procedures for use by Government
Departments is also held. There are no plans for this to be published with or without redactions. Publishing details of working methods and investigative techniques would compromise the effective conduct of investigations in future.
Government Departments: ICT
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much was spent on information and communication technology across central Government in the latest year for which information is available. [312262]
Ian Pearson: I have been asked to reply.
Details of ICT expenditure across central Government are not held centrally; however estimates are contained in the Operational Efficiency Programme published in Budget 2009.
The Operational Efficiency Programme can be accessed via the following link:
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/oep_collaborative_ procurement_pu731.pdf
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much has been spent on information and communications technology across central Government since 1997-98. [312282]
Ian Pearson: I have been asked to reply.
Details of central Government ICT expenditure since 1997-98 are not held centrally. However, data on the IT expenditure since 2006 for those parts of the public sector represented on the Chief Information Officers' Council can be found in the Transformational Governments Annual Reports using the following link.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/cio/transformational _government.aspx
Government Departments: Information Officers
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will place in the Library a copy of the Central Office of Information's White Book produced for the second half of 2009. [312279]
Angela E. Smith: I have asked the chief executive of the Central Office of Information to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Mark Lund, dated 19 January 2010:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question [312279] asking for a copy of the most recent edition of The White Book.
A copy of The White Book published in September 2009 will be placed in the library of the House.
Government Departments: Manpower
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many layers of line management there are in her Department; and what estimate she has made of the average number of layers of line management in each Government Department. [312353]
Tessa Jowell: I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 12 November 2009, Official Report, column 756W.
Information concerning the number of layers of line management in each Government Department is published on the Office for National Statistics website. The table will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Health: Torbay
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer was in Torbay constituency in each of the last 10 years. [312399]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer was in Torbay constituency in each of the last 10 years. I am replying in his absence. (312399)
Figures on newly diagnosed cases (incidence) of chronic lung disease and coronary heart disease are not readily available. Mortality and incidence rates for parliamentary constituencies which do not share boundaries exactly with a local authority can be calculated only from 2001 onwards. The tables below provide (a) the age standardised cancer incidence rate and (b) age standardised mortality rates for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in Torbay parliamentary constituency for the years 2001 to 2007 (the latest available).
Parliamentary constituency population estimates on which these rates are based are experimental statistics, that is, statistics which are in a testing or consultation phase, and therefore should be treated with caution.
| Table 1: Age-standardised cancer incidence rates,( 1,2) Torbay parliamentary constituency,( 3) 2001 to 2007( 4,5) | |
| Cases per 100,000 | |
| Number | |
| (1) Age-standardised cancer registration rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. (2) Cancer incidence defined using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes C00-C97 excluding code C44: non-melanoma skin cancer. (3) Based on boundaries and postcode allocation, as of 2009. (4) Newly diagnosed cases registered in each calendar year. (5) Parliamentary constituency population estimates used to calculate the incidence rates are experimental statistics. | |
Intelligence Services: ICT
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what the cost to the public purse was of the Scope IT project; how much was paid to IBM in respect of the project; and how much is planned to be spent on the replacement for the project; [312356]
(2) whether her Department plans to undertake legal action to recover losses from the Scope IT project. [312294]
Tessa Jowell: There is nothing further to add my written ministerial statement on 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 41WS.
It is not practice to publish the costs of intelligence-related programmes. They are subject to scrutiny by the Intelligence and Security Committee, whose reports are available in the Library for the reference of Members.
Job Creation
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate (a) the Office of National Statistics and (b) the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of net additional jobs created by the Government's stimulus initiatives. [312296]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate (a) the Office of National Statistics and (b) the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of net additional jobs created by the Government's stimulus initiatives. I am replying in his absence. (312296)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority with responsibility for the production of statistics. To date, the ONS has not made an estimate of the number of net additional jobs created by the Government's stimulus initiatives.
Life Expectancy: South West
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women in each constituency in Devon and Cornwall geographical region (i) is and (ii) was in (A) 1999, (B) 1989 and (C) 1979. [312398]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the average life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women in each constituency in Devon and Cornwall geographical region (i) is and (ii) was in (A) 1999, (B) 1989 and (C) 1979.1 am replying in his absence. (312398)
Period life expectancies at birth for (a) males and (b) females for all local authority districts and unitary authorities in England and Wales, for rolling three-year periods from 1991-93 to 2006-08, are published on the National Statistics website at:
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