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Wales
Future Jobs Fund: Wales
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which companies in Wales have made successful applications to the Future Jobs Fund; how many jobs have been created in respect of each application; when the jobs enabled by each application were advertised; and how many such vacancies have been filled. [318135]
Mr. Hain: The following organisations were successful in bidding for Future Jobs Fund money in Wales, with the number of jobs expected to be created in brackets:
Groundwork (240 jobs);
Rhyl City Strategy (322 jobs);
Cardiff City Council (289 jobs);
Hyfforddiant Ceredigion Training (100 jobs);
Pembrokeshire County Council (170 jobs);
Vale of Glamorgan Council (96 jobs);
Powys Partnership Future Jobs Fund (63 jobs);
City of Swansea's Employability Training (1,320 jobs);
Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (75 jobs);
WCVA (2,500 jobs);
Merthyr Tydfil Council (3,519 jobs);
Interlink (120 jobs);
Carmarthenshire County Council (291 jobs);
Neath Port Talbot County Council (288 jobs);
Newport Future Jobs Fund Partnership (472 jobs);
Coalfields Regeneration Trust (80 jobs).
These bids will bring a total of 9,945 jobs to Wales over the next 18 months.
Advertisement and recruitment into these positions is an ongoing process. Statistics for the number of starts are not yet available but are being collated by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Justice
Departmental Energy
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department plans to take to participate in the Earth Hour event on 27 March 2010. [319097]
Mr. Wills: Throughout the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), as part of our continuing efforts to reduce energy consumption, staff are regularly reminded to turn off computers, monitors and other electrical equipment, unplug mobile phone chargers and switch off lights when rooms are not in use. As the 2010 Earth Hour event is on Saturday 27 March, many of our buildings will be unoccupied. The MoJ HQ estate will participate through contractors turning off any lighting not required and ensuring meeting room co-ordinators check video link screens and televisions are not left on standby.
The MoJ will publicise the Earth Hour event to staff through the staff Intranet.
Departmental Theft
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many thefts from his Department have been recorded in the last two years. [318996]
Mr. Wills: The Department records theft and other losses, but does not separately distinguish between the two for reporting purposes. The centrally recorded thefts and losses during the last two financial years for the Department and its predecessor, the Department for Constitutional Affairs (created in May 2007), including its agencies and other offices, are:
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The number of such cases involving theft could be provided only at disproportionate cost. This detail is recorded in individual incident records held locally by the Department's various agencies and other business areas. The increase in the number of incidents is believed to be due to the increased awareness of the requirement for reporting, arising from the Data Handling Review.
Ex-Servicemen: Prison
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether people (a) whose date of birth was unavailable, (b) sent to prison before 1979 and (c) who had been reservists counted for the purposes of his Department's determination of the number of veterans in jails in England and Wales. [319840]
Maria Eagle: The methodology used by Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) to estimate the proportion of armed forces veterans in prison was published on the DASA website:
http://www.dasa.mod.uk/applications/newWeb/www/index.php?page=48&;pubType=3&thiscontent=540&PublishTime =16:00:00&date=2010-01-25&disText=Single %20Report&from=listing&topDate=2010-01-25
The report describes in some length and detail who was contained in databases held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the variables used in the matching process and the advantages and disadvantages of the approach taken.
As date of birth was a required variable only those records that contained a date of birth were used. This amounted to around 81,000 valid records from the prison database and around 1.3 million valid records from the MOD database.
The date of the prison population extract taken to inform the matching work was 6 November 2009. If a person sent to prison before 1979 was still in prison on this date then their record would have been used in the matching process.
Reservists were not included in the matching process.
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether people (a) whose first name was unavailable, (b) under the age of 18 years, (c) who had changed their names on marriage and (d) known to use aliases were counted for the purposes of his Department's determination of the number of service veterans in prison; [319555]
(2) what the prison population was when his Department made its determination of the number of service veterans in the prison system; [319556]
(3) what his most recent estimate is of the number of service veterans in HM Prison (a) Manchester, (b) Durham and (c) Everthorpe; [319557]
(4) what his most recent estimate is of the number of service veterans under the supervision of the probation service on (a) court orders and (b) parole. [319558]
Maria Eagle: The methodology used by Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) to estimate the proportion of Armed Forces veterans in prison was published on the DASA website
http://www.dasa.mod.uk/applications/newWeb/www/index.php?page=48&;pubType=3&thiscontent=540&Publish Time=16:00:00&date=2010-01-25&disText=Single %20Report&from=listing&topDate=2010-01-25
The report describes in some length and detail who was contained in databases held by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the variables used in the matching process and the advantages and disadvantages of the approach taken.
The date of the prison population extract taken to inform this work was 6 November 2009. The total number of people in prison in England and Wales was 84,522. However, as only sentenced and remand prisoners aged 18 and over were matched, the denominator used was 81,071. Non criminal prisoners and those aged under 18 were excluded from the matching process.
No estimate of veterans in individual prisons has been made because this was outside the scope of the project.
The MoD and MoJ are currently working to estimate the proportion of armed forces veterans under the supervision of the Probation Service. Results will be published when complete.
Freedom of Information
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) whether the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 apply to documents relating to the administrative duties conducted on behalf of HM Courts Service by (a) the Lord Chief Justice, (b) the Master of the Rolls and (c) other judges; [319050]
(2) whether his Department accepts legal responsibility for the custody and control of documents relating to the administrative duties conducted on behalf of HM Courts Service by (a) the Lord Chief Justice, (b) the Master of the Rolls and (c) other judges. [319051]
Mr. Wills: Members of the judiciary do not carry out administrative duties on behalf of HM Court Service. There are accordingly no documents relating to such duties.
The Department does hold some information created by the judiciary in the course of discharging their judicial functions, and there may be occasions when the judiciary hold information on behalf of the Department. The Department's legal obligations in respect of such information under the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Public Records Act 1958 will depend on the facts of any given case.
Juries
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people summoned for jury service in Milton Keynes declined to carry out their service for each reason in each year since 1997; [319004]
(2) how many people (a) were summoned for and (b) undertook jury service in Milton Keynes in each year since 1997. [319005]
Bridget Prentice: The following table shows, on a national level basis for each calendar year from 2000 to 2008, the following:
(a) how many people have been required for jury service
(b) how many people have been supplied to the court for jury service
(c) how many people have been deferred from the original date they were summoned for jury service
(d) how many people have been excused from jury service
(e) how many people have been disqualified from jury service.
The Jury Central Summoning Bureau (JCSB) is not able to supply the information for Milton Keynes as the data cannot be extracted in this way by the computer system.
Data are organised under postal catchment areas to different Crown courts. Therefore residents from Milton Keynes could be summoned to either Aylesbury or Luton Crown court, which also covers other postal areas.
Members of the public summoned for jury service cannot decline to carry out jury service. However, a juror can apply to defer their jury service to a more suitable date within the forthcoming 12-month period if the original date is not convenient. Jurors can apply to be excused from jury service but their application must show good cause why they should be excused from attending.
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