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Departmental Internet

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:


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£

2006-07

(1)-

2007-08

56,000

2008-09

36,000

2009-10

Nil

(1 )Not available as a separate figure.

(c) The costs of hosting, licensing, domain registration, and updates.

£

2006-07

750,100

2007-08

620,000

2008-09

577,000

2009-10

583,000


(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:

£

2006-07

n/a

2007-08

90,000

2008-09

23,000

2009-10

(1)179,003

(1) This includes allocations for user research and information architecture development, resulting from the movement of content to Direct.gov

Departmental Pay

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.

Deportation

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:


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Drugs: Cannabis

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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Table 1: Number of cautions recorded as method of detection for possession of cannabis offences, by police force area in England and Wales, 2004-05 to 2008-09
Police force area 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Avon and Somerset

345

504

563

616

616

Bedfordshire

35

45

55

162

215

British Transport Police

775

1,009

975

752

737

Cambridgeshire

192

269

243

267

273

Cheshire

353

389

148

240

188

Cleveland

248

294

308

263

336

Cumbria

216

194

184

212

168

Derbyshire

131

259

162

247

265

Devon and Cornwall

468

630

404

466

442

Dorset

259

260

249

218

199

Durham

116

149

141

139

154

Dyfed-Powys

467

438

406

337

286

Essex

367

443

498

696

814

Gloucestershire

181

213

180

220

312

Greater Manchester

1,013

1,341

1,067

1,285

1,213

Gwent

437

316

347

324

324

Hampshire

824

550

405

617

556

Hertfordshire

253

302

281

434

567

Humberside

314

389

272

252

222

Kent

443

524

454

637

557

Lancashire

651

782

701

832

780

Leicestershire

479

512

320

276

276

Lincolnshire

184

135

133

133

141

London, City of

78

133

147

142

81

Merseyside

1,786

1,003

529

1,125

1,451

Metropolitan Police

17,841

5,071

4,929

4,458

4,643

Norfolk

241

200

276

255

223

Northamptonshire

384

384

390

329

205

Northumbria(1)

1,045

1,019

592

398

346

North Wales

351

324

219

333

357

North Yorkshire

29

23

36

124

124

Nottinghamshire

279

604

535

631

542

South Wales

433

376

275

340

405

South Yorkshire

395

452

582

630

610

Staffordshire

445

493

507

473

342

Suffolk

245

857

216

221

252

Surrey

468

440

371

424

395

Sussex

559

884

865

1,076

672

Thames Valley

1,191

1,618

1,303

1,401

1,444

Warwickshire

122

220

292

297

269

West Mercia

466

481

443

401

423

West Midlands

1,343

1,797

1,784

1,964

2,165

West Yorkshire

1,064

1,036

723

621

556

Wiltshire

222

191

147

120

200

England and Wales

37,738

27,553

23,657

25,388

25,346


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