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Awards of 'in year' non-consolidated performance pay are given to recognise specific exceptional contributions during the year. The following table provides details:
| Number of staff receiving a payment | Total amount paid (£) | |
| (1) The former Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) (2) Ministry of Justice (excluding NOMS) | ||
The increased amount paid from 2007 reflects that with effect from 1 August 2007, staff previously on magistrates' courts terms and conditions together with those who joined from the various tribunals (which became part of the Tribunals Service) became eligible for non-consolidated performance pay under the common terms and conditions introduced that year.
National Offender Management Service
Details for payments of 'year end' non-consolidated performance pay in the 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 performance years for staff employed across HM Prison Service and the National Offender Management Service headquarters are shown in the following table:
| Number of staff receiving a payment | Total amount paid (£) | |
Information on the number of staff in grades below the SCS receiving 'in year' non-consolidated performance payments and the total amount paid across HM Prison Service and National Offender Management Service Headquarters is contained in the following table.
| Number of staff receiving a payment | Total amount paid (£) | |
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the (a) average and (b) highest non-consolidated performance-related payment was in cash terms for a senior civil servant in his Department in each of the last five years. [307373]
Mr. Straw: Performance related pay is awarded to senior civil servants (SCS) in line with the recommendations made by the Senior Salaries Review Board. Payments of non-consolidated performance related pay are made as part of the SCS annual pay award and it is dependant on the achievement of performance that exceeds agreed delivery objectives during the previous reporting year.
The (a) average and (b) highest non-consolidated performance related payment made to a SCS in the Ministry, over the past five years, is shown in the following table:
| £ | ||
| Performance year | Average non-consolidated performance related payment | Highest non-consolidated performance related payment |
| (1 )This information includes non-consolidated performance related payments made to those SCS members employed in the Ministry HQ, the National Offender Management Service, Her Majesty's Court Service and the Tribunals Service. It excludes those employed by the National Archives, The Scotland Office and the Land Registry, as these costs are not met by the Ministry. (2 )This information refers to non-consolidated performance related payments to SCS members of staff in the former Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) only before the Ministry of Justice was formed in May 2007. | ||
Driving Offences
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) males and (b) females in each age group who were prosecuted for speeding offences were subsequently found to be without (i) insurance and (ii) a valid driving licence in each of the last two years. [311191]
Claire Ward: The information requested is not held centrally. To obtain such information would require the manual retrieval of data pertaining to speeding offences to identify the individual followed and an analysis of insurance and driving license offences for those individuals. To do so would incur a disproportionate cost.
Electoral Register
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the timetable is for the introduction of individual electoral registration. [311956]
Mr. Wills: The timetable for the introduction of individual electoral registration remains as I set out during the parliamentary passage of the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009. During Commons consideration of Lords amendments on 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 99, I explained that:
"Our approach to individual registration is to move in two phases: a voluntary phase and a compulsory phase. During the voluntary phase, it will be compulsory for electoral registration officers to ask individuals to provide the relevant identifying information-national insurance number, date of birth and signature-but individuals will not be required to do that to be on the register.....The voluntary phase will not commence before July 2010-in other words, it will not become entangled with the next general election, whenever that may be-and will not finish before 2014. That period will enable us to be fully confident that the system is ready before we move to the compulsory phase, when it will be obligatory for individuals to provide identifying information to electoral registration officers to be included on the register. It will enable us to prepare the public for the change, and to take steps to bolster registration rates in the meantime. That will be fundamental to protecting the system against the risk of a drop in the numbers registered."
Housing: Sales
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many sales orders in respect of residential property there were in each year since 1997; and how many charging orders over residential properties have been issued in each year since 1997. [312927]
Bridget Prentice: The table shows the numbers of applications for charging orders, and the number of charging orders made, in the county courts of England and Wales in each year since 1997.
No figures are held centrally for orders for sale prior to June 2009, when a new data collection system was introduced. These data show that 160 orders for sale were made in the county courts of England and Wales between June 2009 and September 2009, the latest period for which figures are currently available.
These figures cover charging orders and orders for sale made against all types of property, not just residential property. Figures relating solely to orders against residential property are not held centrally and could be obtained through the examination of individual case files only at disproportionate cost.
Hunting Act 2004: Prosecutions
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) prosecutions, (b) convictions and (c) cautions there were for offences under the Hunting Act 2004 in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009 to date. [310986]
Mr. Straw: Cautions and court proceedings data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.
In 2007 the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts in England and Wales for offences under the Hunting Act 2004 was 62. The number found guilty at all courts was 48. The number of cautions issued was eight.
KBR
Sir Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether his Department has entered into any contracts with Kellogg, Brown and Root or its subsidiaries since January 2009. [303330]
Mr. Wills: Centrally held records show that my Department has not entered into any contracts with Kellogg, Brown and Root or any of its subsidiaries since January 2009.
Land Registry: Labour Turnover
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of (a) the number of staff expected to leave posts at the Land Registry as a result of the review of its offices and (b) the number of additional staff to be employed by the Land Registry in 2010-11. [313062]
Mr. Wills: Land Registry published their Accelerated Transformation Programme proposals on 22 October 2009. The first phase of the programme envisages a reduction of 1,500 staff by 2011. The proposals for the first phase of the programme include the closure of five offices, a reduction in the number of clerical staff, and an examination of the scope for outsourcing some of its support functions.
Land Registry is holding a public consultation, which ends on 29 January, on proposals to close five of its offices. The total number of staff working in the five offices as at 4 January 2010 was 1,125.
The business case published alongside the proposals included a working assumption about recruitment of staff including those with specialist expertise, such as commercial skills, procurement and contract management,
programme and project management and IT. That assumption included the recruitment of 150 staff by December 2011. Land Registry will, of course, consider existing members of staff for posts as they arise before recruiting externally.
Land Registry is currently undertaking a workforce planning exercise and will review the recruitment projections in the business case. They will include the results of this review when they announce their final decisions and publish their consultation responses documents.
Land Registry: Resignations
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice for what reason the (a) Chief Executive and (b) Director of Operations left their positions at the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement. [313066]
Mr. Wills: Peter Collis, the Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar of Land Registry, announced he was stepping down on 11 January 2010. After 10 years in post, having seen Land Registry through challenging times and a radical reform of land law, he felt that the time was right to make way for someone with different skills and experience to take Land Registry forward in a new environment.
Andy Howarth, the Director of Operations has decided, after 42 years' service, and having passed the pension age under his Civil Service Pension Scheme, to retire in April 2010.
Magistrates Courts: Fines
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which magistrates courts do not have on-site facilities for payment to be made in person. [312897]
Bridget Prentice: All magistrates courts in England and Wales offer facilities for payment to be made in person with the exception of Wells, Maidenhead, Abertillery, Aberystwyth, Ammanford, Cardigan and Carmarthen. The variety of payment facilities at other courts vary from site to site but include cash deposit boxes, payment counters, dedicated telephone lines and staff members with Allpay accounts. Her Majesty's Courts Service intends to ensure that some facility is provided in all courts.
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the collection rate is for fines levied by each magistrates court. [312896]
Bridget Prentice: HMCS systems are unable to provide collection rates of fines for individual magistrates courts. Fine collection rates are broken down by local criminal justice board (LCJB) areas.
The current payment rate of financial impositions, from both the magistrates and crown courts, for each LCJB for the period April 2009 to December 2009 is:
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