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| Number of cautions | |||
| National | Scotland | England and Wales | |
| Notes: 1. The number of people investigated and cautioned was collected on a national basis only for 2006-07 and 2007-08 and cannot therefore be provided for Scotland, the Highlands, England and Wales. 2. The information requested is available for 2008-09. However, figures for the Highlands cannot be separated out and are included within those for Scotland. Source: Fraud and Error by Sector (FIBS) and Fraud Referral and Intervention Management system (FRAIMS). | |||
| Numbers of convictions, custodial sentences, community sentences and discharges in England and Wales | ||||
| Conviction | Custodial sentence | Community sentence | Discharge | |
| Notes: 1. The number of people convicted and receiving a custodial/community sentence and discharge cannot be broken down for England and Wales. 2. The figures provided for convictions do not necessarily relate to the investigations undertaken in the years mentioned above because of the time taken to progress cases through the courts. Source: Sol Prosecution's Division Computerised Information System. | ||||
Social Security Benefits: Moray
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Moray constituency are in receipt of (a) attendance allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) jobseeker's allowance; and what the average weekly payment is in each case. [318828]
Jonathan Shaw: Attendance allowance provides an important non-contributory, non-income-related and tax free cash contribution towards the extra costs of severely disabled people.
The Government are committed to providing real help to disabled people, particularly through the early stages of economic recovery. This is why the Chancellor announced in the December 2009 pre-Budget report that attendance allowance would be increased by 1.5 per cent., bringing forward help when it is most needed. Without this commitment, the recent negative growth in the retail prices index would have meant that this benefit would not have increased in 2010.
From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot.
The information requested is in the table.
| Number of cases in payment and average weekly payment of incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance and jobseeker's allowance in the Moray constituency in August 2009 | ||
| Number of cases in payment | Average weekly amount paid (£) | |
| Notes: 1. Benefit recipients are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Average weekly amounts are rounded to the nearest penny. 3. Benefit recipients receiving more than one of these benefits will be counted under each benefit. 4. Attendance allowance totals exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 5. The data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 2008. 6. All data refer to benefit recipients and therefore will exclude credits only cases. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study. | ||
Social Security Benefits: Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were in receipt of incapacity benefit in Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the average weekly payment made in such benefit was in that constituency in that period. [319066]
Jonathan Shaw: From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot.
The information requested is in the following table.
| Number of cases in payment and average weekly payment of incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency in August 2009 | ||
| Number of cases in payment | Average weekly amount paid (£) | |
| Notes: 1. Benefit recipients are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Average weekly amounts are rounded to the nearest penny. 3. The data do not include claimants of employment and support allowance introduced from October 2008. 4. All data refer to benefit recipients and will therefore exclude credits only and nil payment cases. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study | ||
Trade Unions
Mr. Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many days staff of her Department and its agencies 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. [320664]
Jonathan Shaw: The information is as follows:
1. The Corporate Employee Relations Framework for the Department for Work and Pensions and its agencies, which was introduced in August 2003, sets out the maximum amount of time off we will allow for trade union representatives to undertake their trade union activity.
2. The Department and its agencies allows a total resource of 0.2 per cent. of the Department's overall whole time equivalent staffing headcount as at the 1 April each year. Out of a total of 21,134,300 staff days this was 42,460 days for the year commencing 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2010.
3. Information on the annual cost to the public purse of such activity is not available.
Work Capability Assessment
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of employment and support allowance were required to take a work capability assessment in each of the last six months. [319995]
Jonathan Shaw [holding answer 3 March 2010]: From 27 October 2008 we replaced incapacity benefits for new customers with the employment and support allowance and a revised medical assessment which focuses on what people can do, as well as what they cannot.
The available information is in the following table.
| Work capability assessment breakdown showing the number of people assessed by month of assessment from September 2009 to November 2009 | |
| Month | Total assessed |
| Notes: 1. November 2009 is the latest month for which data is available. 2. A small number of employment and support allowance claims have been assessed more than once. Repeat assessments are excluded from these figures. 3. The data are published online at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/workingage/esa_wca/esa_wca_19012010.pdf Source: Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment Statistical Release: January 2010 | |
Justice
Bail Accommodation and Support Service
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many places are to be provided under his Department's contract with Stonham for the Bail Accommodation and Support Service; [319933]
(2) how much has been paid to Clearsprings Ltd in respect of the Bail Accommodation and Support Service in (a) 2007-08, (b) 2008-09 and (c) 2009-10. [320060]
Mr. Straw: The contract with Stonham for the Bail Accommodation and Support Service requires an initial provision of a maximum of 740 bed spaces. However, directors of Offender Management will review demand in their region from time to time.
The amount paid to ClearSprings for the bail accommodation and support service for 2007-08 was £4.5 million and for 2008-09 was £5.8 million. In the current financial year until the end of December 2009, £4.5 million has been paid.
Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings
Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) disciplinary and (b) capability procedures have been (i) initiated and (ii) completed in his Department in each of the last five years; how much time on average was taken to complete each type of procedure in each such year; how many and what proportion of his Department's staff were subject to each type of procedure in each such year; and how many and what proportion of each type of procedure resulted in the dismissal of the member of staff. [320628]
Mr. Wills: In the Ministry of Justice, disciplinary and capability procedures are devolved to a local line management. Therefore, records of procedures initiated and completed, and the length of time taken, are not held centrally. Obtaining the data would involve asking each individual office to conduct a search of their local records, and this would incur a disproportionate cost.
The Ministry does record centrally the number of dismissals under its disciplinary and capability procedures. The figures and the proportion of total staff involved (as a percentage) are set out in the following table.
| Year( 1) | Conduct | Percentage of total staff | Capability | Percentage of total staff |
| (1) Data are given from the inception of the Ministry of Justice (2 )Up to 31 January 2010 | ||||
Departmental ICT
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost has been of the Heavy Hitter Programme Delivery Director service deployed in his Department; on which IT projects each consultant contracted under that service worked; and what payments have been made to each such consultant for work undertaken in connection with the programme. [318111]
Mr. Straw: The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not deployed a Heavy Hitter service. Senior ICT appointments within the Ministry are agreed by the Chief Information Officer in conjunction with other senior management, as appropriate.
The Ministry was established in May 2007 and prior to that responsibility for information technology rested with the predecessor Departments, including the Department for Constitutional Affairs, parts of the Home Office, and the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. In October 2005 an appointment was made (by the Home Office) under the Heavy Hitter service to the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Youth Justice Board (YJB), now an MoJ sponsored NDPB. The individual continued in the CIO role until November 2009 and since then has supported work to identify how information management flows can improve efficiency and public safety in the adult criminal justice system. The YJB (as employer) ends the contract on 31 March 2010.
The costs incurred over the period October 2005 to March 2010, are £1,436,344.60. This includes agency fees, VAT and work related expenses.
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what information technology projects initiated by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies were cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months; and what the cost of each such project was to the public purse. [320423]
Mr. Wills: There have been no information technology projects cancelled prior to completion within the last 12 months.
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