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Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many job vacancies in (a) her Department, (b) the Charity Commission and (c) the Central Office of Information were filled using external recruitment in the last year for which figures are available. [315209]
Angela E. Smith: The number of job vacancies filled using external recruitment from 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 was (a) 88 at Cabinet Office (b) 85 at the Charity Commission and (c) 74 at the Central Office of Information.
Departmental Sick Leave
David Simpson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many staff in her Department have had five or more periods of sickness absence of less than five days in two or more of the last three years. [316458]
Angela E. Smith: There have been 36 staff that have had five or more periods of absence which have lasted less than five days in two or more of the last three calendar years.
Employment: Merseyside
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many jobs there were in Merseyside (a) in 1997 and (b) on the most recent date for which figures are available. [315995]
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 5 February 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many jobs there were in Merseyside (a) in 1997 and (b) on the most recent date for which figures are available. (315995)
Estimates of the number of jobs in local areas are not available. As an alternative we have provided estimates of the number of people employed in Merseyside on the requested dates.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles employment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and its predecessor the Annual Labour Force Survey following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions.
The number of persons resident in Merseyside employed in the March 1997 to February 1998 period was 522,000 and for the July 2008 to June 2009 period was 572,000.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
Government Communications
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the eight principles of the Government Communication Network's Engage Strategic Communications Framework are. [315229]
Tessa Jowell: There are eight key principles to the Government Communication Network's Engage Strategic Communications Framework.
These identified in the Introduction to Engage booklet (2006) as:
1. Listening, consulting, understanding, questioning to obtain insight into people's motivations, needs and barriers.
2. Segmentation makes our communication more effective. Identifying people with distinctive shared needs, characteristics and beliefs gives a sharper focus to policy and communication.
3. Changing behaviour is often essential to policy delivery. We need to work with colleagues to help identify the interventions that will encourage change and develop communication that will support them, and really engage our audiences.
4. Propositions express policy in a way that makes sense to people we are targeting and gives them a clear understanding of what's in it for them or for society as a whole.
5. Reaching people in complex communication environments means that we must consider a wide range of media, channel and stakeholder options.
6. The best people experience is achieved when the views of the public are fed into all aspects of policy development and service delivery.
7. We need to collaborate with policy and service delivery partners and stakeholders if we are to improve communication and encourage effective engagement with our audiences.
8. Being open and accountable in all our communication and marketing activities, adhering to our civil service values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2009, Official Report, column 702W, on Government communications, how many public sector employees are registered to access the Government Communication Network. [315276]
Tessa Jowell: The Government Communications Network is a virtual, online network and resource open to all civil servants who have an interest in Government communications.
As of December 2009 there are 5,844 civil servants registered to the Government Communication Network website. These registrations include communications staff and other civil servants in no-communications roles.
These registrations include both those who work solely on Government communications and those civil servants who have registered for whom communications may only be part of their role or who wish to access specific best practice material.
Government Departments: ICT
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the estimated monetary value is of the central Government information and communication technology contracts that are expected to be renewed or commissioned over the next two years. [312266]
Ian Pearson: I have been asked to reply.
Details of ICT contracts across central Government 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 Government Annual Reports using the following link.
Office for National Statistics: Contracts
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the monetary value is of the Office for National Statistics' 2011 Census contract with (a) Polestar, (b) UK Data Capture, (c) Cable and Wireless, (d) bss, (e) Logica, (f) Steria and (g) Lockheed Martin. [315266]
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 what the monetary value is of the Office for National Statistics 2011 Census contract with (a) Polestar, (b) UK Data Capture, (c) Cable and Wireless, (d) bss, (e) Logica, (f) Steria and (g) Lockheed Martin. (315266)
The monetary value of the contract with (g) Lockheed Martin UK is approximately £150 million. Lockheed Martin UK has subcontracted a number of specialist activities to (a) Polestar, (b) UK Data Capture, (c) Cable and Wireless, (d) bss, (e) Logica and (f) Steria. These contracts are commercially confidential and I am unable therefore to supply details.
Unemployment: East Sussex
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants in each constituency in East Sussex had been claiming the allowance for (a) up to three, (b) between three and six, (c) between six and 12 and (d) between 12 and 24 months in each month since September 2009. [315762]
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 5 February 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants in each constituency in East Sussex had been claiming the allowance for (a) up to three, (b) between three and six, (c) between six and 12 and (d) between 12 and 24 months in each month since September 2009 (315762).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles the number of claimants of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) from the Jobcentre Plus administrative system.
Table 1 shows the number of computerised claims of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for people, aged 16 or over resident in each parliamentary constituency in East Sussex, by duration of the claim in each month since September 2009. Table 2 shows the percentage of all claimants in each constituency by duration of the claim for the same periods.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at
| Table 1-Numbe r of persons claiming jobseeker' s allowance by duration of claim | ||||||||||
| September 2009 | October 2009 | |||||||||
| Duration of claim | Up to 13 weeks | Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks | Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks | Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks | Total | Up to 13 weeks | Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks | Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks | Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks | Total |
| November 2009 | December 2009 | |||||||||
| Duration of claim | Up to 13 weeks | Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks | Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks | Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks | Total | Up to 13 weeks | Over 13 weeks up to 26 weeks | Over 26 weeks up to 52 weeks | Over 52 weeks up to 104 weeks | Total |
| Notes: 1. Data rounded to nearest five. 2. Age and duration data are only available for computerised claims, which account for 99.7 per cent. of all claims. Source: Jobcentre Plus administrative system | ||||||||||
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