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Social Workers: Females
Mr. Amess: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of people employed in social care who are women. [320654]
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 March 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for the recent estimate of the proportion of people employed in social care who are women. (320654)
For the period October-December 2009 it was estimated that 1.4 million women were employed in social care in the UK, the proportion of women employed in social care is 80.0 percent.
These estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and are not seasonally adjusted. The social care estimate was derived using the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007) codes: 87. Residential care activities and 88. Social work activities without accommodation.
As with any sample survey, the estimates provided are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Trade Unions
Mr. Syms: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many days staff of (a) her Department, (b) the Charity Commission and (c) the Central Office of Information spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. [320619]
Angela E. Smith: The following number of staff days have been allocated as trade union facility time for 2009-10:
(a) The Cabinet Office: 250 days.
(b) The Charity Commission: 188 days.
(c) The Central Office of Information: 55 days.
The annual cost of trade union activity for each organisation is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Unemployment
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people were not in employment in each quarter since April 2008. [320175]
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 March 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were not in employment in each quarter since April 2008. (320175 )
The table provided contains estimates of the number of people not in employment. These estimates have been derived from the figures published by the ONS in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin.
As with any sample survey, the estimates provided are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Indications of the sampling variability of LFS aggregate estimates are provided in the Statistical Bulletin.
| Number of people aged 16 and over, not in employment( 1 ) United Kingdom, seasonally adjusted | |
| T housan d | |
| (1) Unemployed people plus those who were economically inactive Source: ONS Labour Force Survey | |
Voluntary Work
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at Britain's Everyday Heroes Book Launch of 24 July 2007, what steps have been taken to mark the contribution of volunteers on 24 July each year. [318357]
Angela E. Smith: The Government have used the 24 July to recognise and celebrate the efforts of those making a difference in our communities. This has included work with the Council on Social Action as well as voluntary and community groups to support and encourage them to find more ways to celebrate all those acting for social good.
Events to mark the day have included the Catalyst Awards for people using technology to create social change, a reception at 10 Downing street for local heroes across the country and the creation of the National Talent Bank to act as an intermediary between employers who are scaling back working hours and volunteering organisations.
House of Commons Commission
Palace of Westminster
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission for what reason the Carriage Gates exit to the Palace of Westminster was closed on 1 February 2010. [319899]
Nick Harvey: At approximately 5.12 pm on 1 February, a defect with the drop bolt on the Carriage Gates "exit gate" was discovered which left the gate unsecured when in the open position. Due to the risk of the gate swinging closed against a vehicle or person the decision was made to leave the gate in the closed and locked position. Remedial work was carried out overnight and the gate was returned to service. The "in gate" remained in use throughout.
Regional Committees
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the cost has been of the operation of each (a) regional grand committee and (b) regional select committee since its inception. [319655]
Nick Harvey: The information requested is as follows:
(a) An estimate of the costs for regional grand committees to the end of February 2010 is given in the following table. Costs include hire of accommodation, sound recording, police support, and travel and subsistence for staff. No additional staffing costs were incurred as no extra staff were engaged to work for regional grand committees.
| Cost of regional grand committees (£) | |
(b) An estimate of the costs of regional select committees is given in the following table. Costs include staffing, hire of accommodation, transcription of evidence, printing, specialist advisers' and witnesses' expenses, and travel and subsistence for staff. Expenditure on staffing cannot be broken down by region as these committees were supported from a pool of staff in the Department of Chamber and Committee Services.
| Cost of regional select committees up to end of February 2010 (£) | |
Justice
Convictions: Essex
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in (a) West Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex have been convicted of offences (i) of domestic burglary and (ii) related to drug offences in each year since 2005. [320573]
Claire Ward: Information showing the number of persons found guilty at all courts for domestic burglary and drugs offences in the Essex police force area from 2005 to 2008 (latest available) is shown in the following table.
Court proceedings data are not available at parliamentary constituency level.
Data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010.
| Persons found guilty at all courts for domestic burglary and drugs offences, in the Essex police force area, from 2005 to 2008( 1, 2, 3) | ||||
| Number | ||||
| Offence | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008( 3) |
| (1) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice. | ||||
Departmental Plants
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies has spent on pot plants in 2009-10. [319230]
Mr. Straw: The information requested is as follows and covers expenditure for pot plants at the Ministry of Justice headquarters estate, for the period 2009-10.
| £ | Period | |
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Note: Of which £10,503.66 is attributable to the Department; and £9,658.63 is attributable to its agencies occupying parts of the HQ estate. | ||
The figures do not include costs from the Tribunal Service, Her Majesty's Court Service or the National Offender Management Service as no separate accounting code is used to record pot plants and to obtain this information would require a manual trawl of each Division at a disproportionate cost.
Driving Offences
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the average (a) fine and (b) length of sentence for an offence of dangerous driving was in each of the last 10 years. [320161]
Claire Ward: The requested information is provided in the following table:
| Average fine and average length of sentence for dangerous driving( 1) , 1998 to 2008 | ||
| Average fine amount (£) | Average custodial sentence length (months) | |
| (1) Road Traffic Act 1988 S.2. Dangerous Driving. (2) Excludes life and indeterminate sentences. Notes: 1. These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. 2. The data have been taken from the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database. The data are presented on the principal offence basis. Where an offender has been sentenced for more than one offence the principal offence is the one for which the heaviest sentence was imposed. Where the same sentence has been imposed for two or more offences the principal offence is the one for which the statutory maximum is most severe. | ||
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