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How awards were distributed by pay band and award category is provided in the following tables.

2004-05

SCS Pay Band Number awarded	High	Upper Medium	Lower Medium
1	£7,500	£5,000	£3,500
Awarded	21	54	68
2	£10,000	£7,000	£4,250
Awarded	5	11	4
3	£12,500	£9,000	£5,000
Awarded	1	2	1

2005-06

SCS Pay Band Number awarded	High	Upper Medium	Lower Medium
1	£10,000	£6,5000	£4,000
Awarded	23	53	64
2	£14,000	£9,500	£5,500
Awarded	2	12	14
3	£16,000	£11,000	£7,000
Awarded	1	4	1

2006-07

SCS Pay Band Number awarded	High	Upper Medium	Middle Medium	Lower Medium
1	£10,750	£7,500	£5,600	£4,500
Awarded	21	34	55	37
2	£14,500	£10,250	£7,750	£6,250
Awarded	3	11	13	7
3	£17,600	£12,750	£10,500	£7,750
Awarded	2	2	1	0

2007-08

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SCS Pay Band Number awarded	Award levels
	High 10%	Upper Medium 15%	Middle Medium 25%	Lower Medium 15%	Half Lower Medium 5%
1	£12,000	£9,000	£7,000	£5,600	£2,800
Awarded	19	34	55	31	12
2	£16,500	£12,500	£9,500	£8,000	£4,000
Awarded	2	10	10	8	2
3	£22,500	£17,000	£13,000	£10,000	Not applicable
Awarded	Not awarded	2	2	0	-

2008-09

Allocation is currently being determined against the following framework within Cabinet Office capped rates per pay band and which will not exceed Cabinet Office quotas stated below.

SCS Pay Band	High	Medium	Low
1	£10,000	£8,000	£6,000
2	£12,250	£10,250	£8,250
3	£15,000	£13,000	£11,000

Details are not included here for non-consolidated awards for pay band 4/Permanent Secretaries, which are considered by the Permanent Secretaries' Remuneration Committee and are subject to the same rules and regulations governed by the Senior Salaries Review Body and the Cabinet Office as the rest of the SCS.

All information provided in the tables above are figures specifically for the past five reporting years ending on 31 March for which payment is made in the following financial year.

Asked by Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 20 April (WA 370) concerning the amount of funding for Senior Civil Servants' performance-related pay, what were the figures requested. [HL3643]

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Lord Adonis): The pay bill for permanent senior civil servants in the Department for Transport and the percentage that could be awarded as non-consolidated variable pay is set out in the following table for each year since 2005:

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Non-consolidated variable pay percentage	5.0	6.5	7.6	8.6	8.6
SCS pay bill £(millions)	£9.84	£13.00	£13.22	£13.64	£14.02*

* estimated, as pay award not yet calculated and paid.

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Cycling

Question

Asked by Lord Laird

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the appropriate authorities about discouraging cycling on footpaths in the area of the Palace of Westminster. [HL3622]

The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Lord Adonis): Cycling on the pavement is an offence under Section 72 of the Highways Act 1835. The enforcement of this, and other cycling offences, is therefore an operational matter for the police.

Embryology

Question

Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 5 May (HL2987), what was the time lag between funding of research with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and publication of such research in the journals Development (Volume 136, pages 1063-1069) or Nature (Volume 458, pages 766-775); and how this compares to the duration of time between provision of funding to derive human embryonic stem cells by nuclear transfer and research publications reporting this work. [HL3354]

The Minister of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Lord Drayson): As reported in PQ HL2990, the MRC has made one award which specifically addresses somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The award, held by the University of Newcastle, aims to incorporate technological advances to improve the efficiency of SCNT in human oocytes and develop a reproducible method of generating human embryonic stem cells following the transfer of the nucleus of an adult somatic cell into an oocyte. The project was funded in 2007 and is due to end towards the end of 2009. No research papers relating to this ongoing study have been published to date.

The publications referred to on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) relate to ongoing MRC funding to the MRC Centre in Edinburgh and Professor Smith's team in Cambridge. This work was commenced prior to the MRC call for platform technology proposals in iPSC, funded in April 2009, though has been directly aided by the additional funding provided through this call.

It should be noted that the timescale of developments using these two distinct approaches is not directly comparable, since SCNT represents technology in development, with significant technological hurdles in relation to using human oocytes, which are being addressed through the MRC award to the University of Newcastle. This is in contrast to the iPSC field, which has moved rapidly since the original proof of concept in mouse (2006) and human (2007) cells through the concerted efforts of numerous laboratories worldwide able to utilise the published methodology.

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