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The Insolvency Service has not centrally logged all requests received across The Service for the period from January 2005 to December 2008 and individual Directorates within The Service were responsible for responding to the requests they received. Consequently the figure provided below may well be a slight understatement of actual requests received and dealt with by The Service.
In the period March 2005 to February 2010 The Insolvency Service has recorded a total of 1,238 requests.
Letter from John Alty, dated 10 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 8 March 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The number of freedom of information requests received by the Intellectual Property Office from 2005 to 2009, are as follows:
| FOI requests | |
| Number | |
Letter from Peter Mason, dated 9 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office (NMO) (formerly National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML)) to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 08/03/2010 [reference 2009/1630] to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, asking how many Freedom of Information requests his Department, its predecessors and its executive agencies replied to in each of the last five years.
The number of Freedom of Information requests handled by NMO (2009/10) and NWML (2005/09) was:
| Number | |
Departmental ICT
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 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. [320431]
Mr. McFadden: In the last 12 months the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has not cancelled prior to completion any information technology projects.
I have approached the chief executives of the Insolvency Service, Companies House, the National Measurement Office and the Intellectual Property Office and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 8 March 2010:
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has asked me to reply to your question 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.
In the last 12 months, The Insolvency Service has not cancelled any of the information technology projects it has initiated.
Letter from John Alty, dated 3 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 01 March 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The only information technology project that we have cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months was a pilot to investigate the feasibility of obtaining wider input to the patenting process. The cost up to that point was £142k.
Letter from Peter Mason, dated 3 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office (formerly the National Weights and Measures Laboratory) to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 1st March 2010 [reference 2009/1518 ] to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, asking about information technology projects which have been cancelled prior to completion in the last 12 months.
No information technology projects initiated by the National Measurement Office were cancelled prior to completion during this period.
I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 1 March 2010, UIN 320431, to the Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Companies House has not cancelled any Information Technology projects prior to completion in the last twelve months.
Departmental Public Relations
Angus Robertson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which public relations companies have had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each of its (i) non-departmental public bodies and (ii) executive agencies since 2004. [319766]
Mr. McFadden: The following public relations companies have been employed since 2004/05. Most of these companies have been procured via the Central Office of Information (COI). External public relations companies are used for raising public awareness on specific issues and are only used where the internal specialism is not available.
The Department does not hold centrally the information you request on non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and this could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
I have approached the Chief Executives of the Insolvency Service, Companies House, the National Measurement Office and the Intellectual Property Office and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 2 March 2010:
The Minister of State, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked me to reply to your question which public relations companies have had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body, (ii) executive agency since 2004.
The following public relations companies have had contracts with The Insolvency Service since 2004: GfK NOP and Laura McCaffrey Editorial.
Letter from Gareth Jones, dated 26 February 2010:
I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010, UIN 319766 to the Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Companies House has not had contracts with any public relations companies since 2004.
Letter from John Alty, dated 26 February 2010:
I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010, to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Since 2004, The Intellectual Property Office, an executive agency of BIS, has had contracts with the following three (3) public relations companies:
Prowse & Co
Bell Design
Eulogy.
Letter from Peter Mason, dated 15 March 2010:
I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled 24 February 2010 to the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, asking which public relations companies have had contracts with the Department and its Executive Agencies since 2004.
The then National Weights & Measures Laboratory, at that time an Executive Agency of the DTI, had a contract with Icas PR, 4 The Waterhouse, Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1 EN, which ran from May 2004 to July 2005. The Agency has had no contracts with public relations companies since that date.
Departmental Recruitment
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much his Department and its agencies spent on external recruitment consultants in the last 12 months. [315286]
Mr. McFadden: Central records indicate that the Department spent £59,928 on external recruitment consultants since its inception (announced on 5 June 2009) to 31 December 2009.
I have approached the chief executives of the Insolvency Service, Companies House, the National Measurement Office and the Intellectual Property Office and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 15 March 2010:
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked me to reply to your question, how much his Department and its agencies spent on external recruitment consultants in the last 12 months.
The Insolvency Service employs a large number of temporary staff. Financial records show that in the 12 months from February 2009 to January 2010 (inclusive) it spent £20,512,282 on temporary staff supplied by several agencies. Agency recruitment charges are estimated to be between 12.5% and 18% of this total, i.e. between £2,564,035 and £3,692,211.
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