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Prisons: Mobile Phones
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent estimate he has made of the cost of installing a mobile telephone blocker in every prison; and what plans his Department has for their installation in every prison. [312926]
Maria Eagle:
National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is currently trialling mobile phone signal blocking technology. Given commercial sensitivity and the fact that pilot projects are testing various technologies, I am
unable to provide details of the potential cost of installing a mobile phone blocker in all prisons.
As agreed in the Government response to the Blakey report, NOMS will seek to deploy further blockers once the technology has been shown to be effective in prison conditions and as funding allows.
Referendums: Costs
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent estimate he has made of the cost of holding a referendum. [316336]
Mr. Straw: Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 the Electoral Commission is responsible for the conduct of referendums.
The Government have not made a detailed estimate of the likely cost of holding a referendum. We have previously said that, as a guide, we expect the cost of running a UK-wide referendum to be similar to the cost of a general election. In 2005 the general election cost something in excess of £80 million.
There are however, a number of key differences between the running of a general election and the running of a referendum-for example, the role of the Electoral Commission and the entitlements to send communications to voters-and as such the cost of a UK-wide referendum would not be exactly the same as a general election.
Robbery: Convictions
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each age group were convicted of robbery in (a) Greater London and (b) England and Wales in each year since 1998. [314996]
Claire Ward: The number of people convicted of robbery in Greater London and England and Wales in each age group for 1998 to 2008 (latest available) are shown in the following table:
| Number of persons found guilty at all courts for robbery offences, by age group, from 1998 to 2008( 1, 2, 3) | |||||||||||
| Greater London | |||||||||||
| Number of offenders | |||||||||||
| Type of offence, sex and age group | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008( 1) |
Cabinet Office
Census
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 956W, on the Census, if she will place in the Library a copy of the data-sharing agreement with (a) Local Government Information House, (b) the Royal Mail and (c) Ordnance Survey. [315172]
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 4 February 2010:
As Director General I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking if a copy of the data-sharing agreement with (a) Local Government Information House, (b) the Royal Mail and (c) Ordnance Survey will be placed in the Library. (315172)
There are no plans to lay a copy of the data-sharing agreement in the House of Commons Library. However an electronic version of the agreement will be on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website shortly.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 951W, on the Census, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Information Commissioner's response on the privacy impact assessment. [315173]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
As Director General I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 951W on the Census, if a copy of the information commissioner's response on the privacy impact assessment will be placed in the Library. (315173)
The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a process developed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and we had preliminary meetings with the ICO on the scope of the PIA. Their advice was to focus on those aspects of the 2011 Census which are new and have been introduced since the 2001 Census. They also offered suggestions about which privacy groups to speak to. Further guidance was obtained through their published handbook.
The Privacy Impact Assessment was published on the ONS website in November. We have had no response from the Information Commissioner to the published document.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 951W, on Census, if she will place in the Library a copy of each written submission made to the Office for National Statistics on the Census by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. [315174]
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 4 February 2010:
As Director General I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 951W on Census, if a copy of each written submission made to the Office for National Statistics on the Census by the Equality and Human Rights Commission will be placed in the Library. (315174)
There are no plans to place in the Library copies of written submissions made by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (and the former bodies that have since been incorporated into it). Individual written submissions in response to the programme of consultation on census topics in 2005 are available on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website:
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