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UK Border Agency: Overtime
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency spent on overtime payments to civil servants at grade (a) 5 and (b) 6 in each of the last two years. [317150]
Mr. Woolas: The amount that the UK Border Agency spent on overtime payments to civil servants at grade (a) senior civil service and (b) six in each of the last two years was (a) nothing and (b) £1,684.
Home Office civil servants in the UK Border Agency at grade (a) 5, are not eligible for overtime payments and, (this grade has now been re-graded into the senior civil service whose contracts specifically exclude overtime). Civil service staff at grade 6 level are not eligible for overtime payments. There is guidance on discretionary payments instead of overtime, which are used rarely.
Vetting: Compensation
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 8 February 2008, Official Report, columns 756-7W, on vetting: compensation, how much the Criminal Records Bureau has paid in financial awards to provide redress for customers for maladministration since 1997. [317218]
Meg Hillier: The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) makes financial awards to redress customers for its maladministration in accordance with Treasury policy.
The following table shows the number of claims made, the number of those claims which resulted in an award and the amount paid out in each financial year since the Bureau's inception.
| Financial year | Total certificates issued | Claims | Awards | Total paid (£) | Percentage of Awards against total certificates issued |
These figures are calculated by financial year and information for 2009-10 contains the figures up to December 2009. The full financial year's figure will not be available until after March 2010.
Work Permits
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits carrying entitlement to settlement in the UK were issued to non-EU citizens in each year since 2005. [317635]
Alan Johnson: A work permit does not carry an entitlement to settlement.
Written Questions: Government Responses
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to answer question 300301, on departmental pay, tabled on 18 November 2009. [313135]
Mr. Woolas: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 22 February 2010, Official Report, columns 346-47W.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to answer question 310383, on fingerprints in passports, tabled on 7 January 2010. [317196]
Alan Johnson [holding answer 22 February 2010]: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 22 February 2010, Official Report, column 373W.
House of Commons Commission
Members: Email
Mr. Maude: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission with reference to the answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1211-2W, and pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2010, Official Report, column 434W, on Members: email, if the House of Commons Commission will direct to be placed on the House of Commons website (a) a list of the forms of email encryption members of the public can use to communicate securely with their Members of Parliament and (b) a directory of encryption certificates and PGP keys used by hon. Members. [318317]
Nick Harvey: It is a matter for individual Members whether to make details of their encryption software available to their constituents.
Nurseries: Costs
Michael Fabricant: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what estimate he has made of the cost of converting Bellamy's Bar, Bellamy's Club Room and the Astor Suite and surrounding rooms into a crèche, including the cost of all other construction work required associated with the crèche. [317550]
Nick Harvey: The cost, including fees, of converting Bellamy's Bar, Bellamy's Club Room and the Astor Suite and surrounding rooms into a nursery is provisionally estimated to be some £490,000 excluding VAT.
Culture, Media and Sport
Castle Point
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Castle Point constituency, the effects on that constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997. [318082]
Mr. Sutcliffe: My Department's aim is to improve the quality of life for everyone through cultural and sporting activities, to support the pursuit of excellence and to champion the tourism, creative and leisure industries.
The impact of bodies and policies of my Department on the Castle Point constituency since 1997 include:
Digital switchover is due to take place in Castle Point in 2012. By the time switchover is complete at the end of 2012, 98.5 per cent. of households nationwide will be able to receive digital TV-the same number that can currently receive analogue.
Over £4 million of national lottery grants made to applications from the Castle Point constituency since 1995.
The Castle Point constituency has also benefited from other policies and spending whose impact cannot be broken down by constituency. This includes:
£4 billion of Exchequer funding spent on culture.
More than £5.5 billion invested in sport by the Government and the national lottery since 1997.
Almost 800,000 free swims taken in the south east in the first eight months of the Free Swimming programme.
A 68 per cent. increase in national museum visits from 1998-99 to 2008-09-10 per cent. of which were by adults from lower socioeconomic groups.
£416.6 million in grants allocated by English Heritage since 1997.
48 per cent. of buildings on the original 1999 Buildings at Risk Register having their future secured.
90 per cent. of all pupils taking part in at least two hours of high quality PE or sport per week in 2008 from an estimated 25 per cent. in 2003-04-exceeding our target.
Departmental Energy
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the estimated (a) amount and (b) cost was of energy used in his Department and its agency in each year since 1997; what proportion of the energy used was generated from renewable sources in each of those years; and if he will make a statement. [317237]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is shown in the following tables.
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | ||||
| Electricity Kwh | Electricity cost (£) | Gas Kwh | Gas cost (£) | |
| n/a = Not available. | ||||
Since December 2005 the Department has purchased energy generated from 100 per cent. renewable sources. Information relating to years prior to 2003 is not available.
| The Royal Parks | ||||
| Electricity Kwh | Electricity cost (£) | Gas Kwh | Gas cost (£) | |
| (1) Not recorded. | ||||
Since 2002 The Royal Parks has purchased energy generated from 100 per cent. renewable sources. Information relating to years prior to 2002 is not available.
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