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Figures for the European Parliament are available on its website (8).
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The European Parliament outturn figures for calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and budget figures for 2007 and 2008 can be found on the European Parliament website (8).
| House of Commons | |
| £ millions | 2007-08 Provisional Unaudited Outturn |
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Accommodation costs, including rent, operating costs and security | |
Details of previous years’ expenditure by the House of Commons can be found in the Members and administration resource accounts (4)
| House of Lords | |
| £ millions | 2007-08 Provisional Unaudited Outturn |
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Member’s expenses, salaries and pensions for admin staff (5) | |
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Accommodation costs, including rent, operating costs and security | |
Details of previous years’ expenditure by the House of Lords can be found in resource accounts (6).
| Number of Sitting Days | |||
| Sitting Days | 2006-07 Session | Calendar Year 2007 | 2007-08 Financial Year |
- (1) The figures are calculated on the 641 Members who actually sat in chamber for 2006-07, 659 Members for 2005-06 and 731 for 2004-05. There are 646 Members, of whom five decline to sit in the chamber.
- (4) House of Commons resource accounts can be found on their website (HC419, HC420, HC67, C68, HC1239, HC1240, HC831, HC832): www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmhocpap.htm#resource.
- (5) The indicative numbers held at the moment do not separate out the data for Members expenses and salaries and pensions for admin staff.
- (6) House of Lords resource accounts can be found on their website (HL23, HL44, HL11, HL197, HL163): www. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldres.htm.
- (7) European Parliament Budget Information and number of Members can be found on their website: www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/budget/www/ index-en.htm.
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Police: Firearms
Lord Trefgarne asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many police officers employed by the Metropolitan Police are authorised to use automatic weapons. [HL4303]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): At 31 March 2007, the Metropolitan Police Service had 2,584 authorised firearms officers.
Police: Northern Ireland
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 3 June (WA 45) concerning resignation from the Police Service of Northern Ireland of officers appointed on the “50—50” recruitment system, what the category of “undetermined” signifies. [HL4094]
Lord Tunnicliffe: The category of “undetermined” signifies that a community background determination could not be made for these employees based on the information they provided on their equality monitoring form.
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 3 June (WA 45—6) concerning police manning in County Fermanagh, whether the officer seriously injured in a recent car bomb has been replaced for day-to-day work purposes. [HL4111]
Lord Tunnicliffe: I am pleased to report that the officer is making steady progress. The chief constable has provided me with the following Answer.
The injured officer was attached to response policing within F district. The district commander has set minimum strengths for response policing, and additional officers are deployed where necessary to ensure that these levels are maintained.
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass asked Her Majesty's Government:
Which areas of Northern Ireland have little or no night cover by the Police Service of Northern Ireland; and what steps they will take to remedy this situation. [HL4188]
Lord Tunnicliffe: The chief constable has provided me with the following Answer.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland provides a 24-hour, seven days a week response service to every area in Northern Ireland. Where analysis indicates, additional neighbourhood policing, tactical support group and roads policing officers will be deployed to support response policing or to address specific problems.
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Lord Maginnis of Drumglass asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many personnel and what outside agencies are employed in public relations work for the Police Service of Northern Ireland; and what has been the service's total public relations budget in each year since 2002. [HL4189]
Lord Tunnicliffe: The chief constable has provided me with the following Answer.
There are six personnel employed in the public relations branch of the Department of Media and PR within the PSNI. The outside agencies used are Whitenoise Design Ltd and Genesis Advertising Ltd. Information specific to the total PR budget is not available; the budget for that area also includes News/Press, Media Monitoring, Public Affairs, Administration and Information Management.
Lord Maginnis of Drumglass asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many people are employed in the Police Ombudsman's Northern Ireland office and what is the cost of that office in the current year. [HL4192]
Lord Tunnicliffe: 145 staff are currently employed in the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. The budget for the office in the current year is £9,977,000.
Post Offices: Card Account
Lord Hanningfield asked Her Majesty's Government:
What their plans are for the future of the Post Office card account after the current contract expires. [HL4312]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): The existing Post Office card account contract ends on 31 March 2010 as always planned. We are currently in the process of procuring a successor to the existing Post Office card account. An announcement will be made as soon as possible, in accordance with appropriate procurement rules, once a decision has been reached.
Prisoners: Freshstart
Lord Dholakia asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many prisoners in England and Wales had a Freshstart meeting to arrange a jobseeker interview upon release in (a) 2005—06, (b) 2006—07 and (c) 2007—08. [HL4151]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): The available information on the number of interviews booked is in the table.
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| Number of Jobseeker's interviews booked through Freshstart | |
| England and Wales | |
| Period | Number of interviews booked |
- 1. Central collection of Freshstart statistics was suspended by DWP in December 2007 due to data security issues arising from the HMRC data loss. Individual prison data are no longer collated centrally.
Prisons: Drugs
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many times illegal drugs were found in prisons in Northern Ireland in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; and what convictions there were as a result. [HL4214]
Lord Tunnicliffe: The total number of illegal drugs finds in Northern Ireland prisons in these years was:
The figures include all finds, whether on visitors or inside the establishment; they also include prescription medicines issued within the establishment but in unauthorised possession. Where a visitor to a prison is found to be in possession of illegal drugs they are handed over to the police with a view to prosecution.
The case of any prisoner found in possession of drugs is also carefully considered; more serious cases will be brought to the attention of the police. Any other case will be dealt with through adjudication under the prison rules. The imposition of closed visits, or the banning of a visitor from the prison, may be considered in addition to any award made to the prisoner.
The Prison Service does not hold information on the outcome of cases handed over to the police.
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