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Government Departments: Internet
Margaret Moran: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much she plans to spend on the use of new media to undertake public consultation in the next three years. [315086]
Tessa Jowell: Departmental spending plans are only available for the period of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007, and current projected figures for the use of new media regarding public consultations are not available.
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format provided by her Department to the Iraq Inquiry that Inquiry has sought to publish under the procedure set out in the protocol on documents and other written and electronic information; and if she will make a statement; [314545]
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many requests the Iraq Inquiry has made for the disclosure of classified documents under the protocol on documents and other written and electronic information; [314896]
(2) how many classified documents have been passed to the Iraq Inquiry which may not be disclosed under the protocol on documents and other written and electronic information. [314897]
Tessa Jowell: The Government have made clear that the Inquiry will have access to every Government document or electronic record that it wishes, regardless of classification; Government Departments have already provided most of the information the Inquiry has requested and arrangements are in place to ensure that the remainder they hold is provided as quickly as possible. Requests from the Inquiry for declassification of documents are being handled in accordance with the Protocol agreed between the Government and the Inquiry, which is available on the Cabinet Office's website and a copy is in the Library of the House.
Iraq Committee of Inquiry: Mass Media
Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what arrangements are in place for the provision of footage obtained from the broadcast pool camera at the Iraq Inquiry to news agencies and news providers; [314411] [Official Report, 1 March 2010, Vol. 506, c. 12MC.]
(2) if she will make it her policy to ensure that all video news agencies providers have access to low-resolution footage from the broadcast pool camera at the Iraq Inquiry. [314412]
Tessa Jowell: The Cabinet Office is not responsible for the broadcast footage of the Iraq Inquiry. The UK Broadcasting Pool, a partnership between the BBC, Sky News and ITN, is responsible for distributing footage from their cameras in the Inquiry's hearing room. Other broadcasters would need to make arrangements with the pool, not the Government or the Inquiry. There is already an agreement to provide footage to all Iraqi broadcasters at no cost.
The Cabinet Office, as the sponsoring department for the Inquiry, has a contract with the Pool to receive footage for use on the Iraq Inquiry website, which is made available to the public for free.
Ministerial Policy Advisers: Information Officers
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the supplementary letter of 21 October 2008 from her Department in its written evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications HL 7, what her most recent estimate is of the number of special advisers whose responsibilities are primarily in communications. [315318]
Tessa Jowell: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) on 11 November 2009, Official Report, column 414W.
Public Sector: Internet
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which public sector websites have been discontinued since her Department announced its plans to rationalise the overall number; and on what date each was discontinued. [315326]
Tessa Jowell: I have asked the chief executive of the Central Office of Information to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Mark Lund, dated 2 February 2010:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question [315326] asking which public sector websites have been discontinued since her Department announced its plans to rationalise the overall number; and on what dates each was discontinued.
Each government department is responsible for undertaking Website Reviews and packaging their information and communications in a form that is easy to understand and find. As a consequence, many central government websites migrate their content onto more appropriate and easily findable locations, including businesslink.gov.uk, Directgov and third parties. The list of central government websites reported as being closed up to 7th August 2009 was placed in Parliament's Library in August 2009, although a record of the date on which each was discontinued is not held centrally.
Children, Schools and Families
Academies Enterprise Trust
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) when he last inspected the accounts of the Academies Enterprise Trust; [316397]
(2) if he will list the salaries of (a) the Chief Executive and (b) other senior officials of the Academies Enterprise Trust in each of the last three financial years. [316442]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 8 February 2010]: All Academy Trusts (which includes Charitable Trusts running more than one Academy) are required to publish annual accounts in accordance with the Companies Act 2006. The Charity Commission has published a "Statement of Recommended Practice" which clarifies how charities should prepare their accounts in order to reflect these legal requirements. The Statement of Recommended Practice states that charities which are subject to a statutory audit should include a note in their accounts disclosing the number of employees whose emoluments were £60,000 or above, presented in £10,000 bandings. The Department expects Academy Trusts to comply with the "Statement of Recommended Practice".
The Academies Enterprises Trust comprises Greensward Academy, Maltings Academy and New Rickstones Academy, which opened in September 2008 and Clacton Coast which opened in September 2009. For the Academies that opened in 2008, their first annual report and accounts will cover the period 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2009. The Academies Enterprise Trust was required to submit their accounts to the Department by 31 December 2009 for academies that opened in 2008. The accounts have been received by the Department but have not yet been finalised. Once finalised, they will be published on the Charities Commission's website.
For the Clacton Coastal Academy, audited accounts are due to be with the Department by 31 December 2010.
Academies: South East
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding for academies in South East England has been provided by (a) the Government and (b) sponsors since the inception of the academy scheme. [315763]
Mr. Coaker: There are 24 open academies in south-east England with a further 13 in development. To date, the amount of funding provided by the Department for Children, Schools and Families for these academies is £613,448,699. This includes the capital costs for new buildings that have been completed or where construction has started. The total funding provided to date by the sponsors of academies in south-east England is £15,228,849.
Departmental Buildings
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) their agencies spent on (i) cleaning, (ii) electricity and (iii) heating in each of the last 12 years. [303930]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The information is as follows:
The data was requested for the last 12 years, however, the Department is only able to supply 10 years and is only required to retain financial records and original documentation for six years after the end of the financial year in which the transaction took place.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families was created on 28 June 2007 as a result of a machinery of government change and the expenditure recorded includes those of the two predecessor Departments, the Department for Education and Employment (DFEE) and the Department for Education and Skills (DFES).
The expenditure for 2007-08 and 2008-09 also includes any costs incurred by the Department for Universities, Innovation and Skills, where these costs relate to areas formerly the responsibility of the Department for Education and Skills.
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Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost to his Department was of provision of office facilities to (a) special advisers and (b) press officers in the 2008-09 financial year. [302978]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The total cost on the provision of office facilities to special advisers and press officers during the last 2008-09 financial year amounted to £126,381.44.
Health Education: Sex
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has for the role of local education authorities in determining the curriculum for sex and relationships education under the provisions proposed in the Children, Schools and Families Bill. [309604]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Children, Schools and Families (CSF) Bill makes no provision for local authorities to have a role in determining the content of schools' sex and relationships education (SRE) programmes.
Hotels
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many hotel room nights were booked by officials in (a) his Department and its predecessor and (b) their agencies in each year since 2007; and how much (i) his Department and its predecessor and (ii) their agencies spent on the fees of third party agents in booking hotel accommodation in each of those years. [309056]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The data requested was for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). DCSF was established under the machinery of government changes on 28 June 2007. The data starts from July when Expotel took over the hotel booking contract for the department. Data prior to July can be provided only at disproportionate costs.
The data has been provided by the Department's hotel booking agent Expotel.
The number of hotel room nights booked by officials in (a) his Department and its predecessor is:
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(b) Their agencies in each year since 2007 are:
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