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Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from networked computers in his Department. [310051]
Mr. Woolas: The Security Policy Framework, the Data Handling Report and the National Information Assurance Strategy produced by the Cabinet Office provide a strategic framework for protecting information that Government handles and put in place a set of mandatory measures to which Departments must adhere.
It is not in the interest of the security of the Department, or that of the public, to disclose detailed information relating to security of departmental IT systems. Disclosing such information would carry a significant risk of enabling criminals and those who would attempt to cause disruptive threats to the department to deduce how to conduct attacks and therefore potentially enhance their capability to carry out such attacks.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for his Department's websites in each of the last three years; and how much has been allocated for each such category of expenditure in 2009-10. [310758]
Mr. Woolas: The information is as follows:
(a) Strategy and planning costs are embedded in other costs and cannot be extracted from other running costs for the years required.
(b) Design and build costs as follows:
£ | |
(1 )Not available as a separate figure. |
(c) The costs of hosting, licensing, domain registration, and updates.
£ | |
(d) Content provision is partly incorporated in the costs given for hosting etc and partly with other costs. It is not possible to extract these costs.
(e) Testing and evaluation costs:
£ | |
(1) This includes allocations for user research and information architecture development, resulting from the movement of content to Direct.gov |
John Mason: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) bonuses and (b) incentives have been paid to (i) consultants and (ii) contractors engaged by his Department in each of the last three years. [300657]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Department does not have any direct employer-employee relationships with individual consultants or contractors.
The Department engages consultants and contractors through suppliers on consultancy and contractor assignments. We do not, therefore, pay the salaries, nor any incentives or bonuses for these individuals.
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deportations of residents of the London borough of Bexley without leave to remain there have been in each of the last three years. [310687]
Mr. Woolas: Information of the number of individuals who were resident in the London borough of Bexley who have been removed in each of the last three years could be obtained only by undertaking a search of case files which would incur disproportionate cost.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) simple cautions for cannabis possession and (b) cannabis warnings have been issued by each police force in each year since 2004. [300754]
Alan Johnson: The number of cautions and cannabis warnings recorded by the police in England and Wales as a method of detection for possession of cannabis offences are given in Tables 1 and 2 respectively.
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