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Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Billing (12 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is committed to achieving compliance with the Prime Minister's target of paying 90 per cent. of suppliers within 10 days where possible, and is a signatory to the prompt payment code. The MOJ's percentage of supplier invoices paid within 10 days for September and October 2009 exceeded the 90 per cent. target (September 2009 was 91.7 per cent., October 2009 was...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Postal Services (12 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice currently has no formal contracts for postal services. However, it has a number of local agreements with both Royal Mail and DX limited. We recognise that the absence of established contracts is not satisfactory and are in the process of completing a further competition against the Buying Solutions Postal Framework. It is expected that we will have a formal contract in...

Written Answers — Justice: Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval: Freedom of Information (12 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval (JACQA) could be designated as a public authority under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) by means of a section 5 order. The JACQA was not nominated for inclusion in an initial section 5 order during the Government's consultation on this in 2007 (the JACQA was not established until 2008). However, Government are keeping the...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Data Protection (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice has subjected its information assurance procedures to an independent audit as mandated by the Cabinet Secretary's report into data handling processes across government and the Security Policy Framework. The Ministry of Justice has used the Information Assurance Maturity Model, supported by CESG (the national technical authority for information assurance), to benchmark...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Energy (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: Display Energy Certificates (DEC) were introduced in 2008. OGC publish central government departments' Display Energy Certificate (DEC) operational ratings on a building by building level twice a year. The most recent data for the Ministry of Justice, published on 31 July 2009, which includes DEC ratings up to and including 28 February 2009 and can be viewed at:...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Freedom of Information (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: All freedom of information requests made to my Department are administered by the Data Access and Compliance Unit. Of the 27 staff in the Unit, 19 deal with the management of requests. The remainder are responsible for handling requests under the Data Protection Act 1998, or have managerial or administrative responsibilities. The Data Access and Compliance Unit was formed in October 2008, and...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Postal Services (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice currently has no formal contracts for mail services. However, it has a number of local agreements with both Royal Mail and DX Ltd. We recognise that the absence of established contracts is not satisfactory and are in the process of completing a further competition against the Buying Solutions Postal Framework. It is expected that we will have a formal contract in place...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Procurement (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: No tenders were cancelled during the tender process and prior to the award of any contracts, therefore no costs were incurred by the Ministry of Justice.

Written Answers — Justice: Election Day: Weekend Voting Consultation (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Government's response to the Election Day: Weekend Voting consultation will be published shortly in the context of the Government's wider thinking on promoting engagement in the electoral process. The responses to the consultation reveal that there is a wide range of views on whether weekend voting would have a positive impact on turnout.

Written Answers — Justice: Public Sector: Information (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: Public sector bodies need to ascertain whether the documents fall within the scope of the Regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (SI 2005/1515) taking into account whether: the document was supplied within the public sector organisation's public task; the document falls within the scope of the Regulations; the intellectual property rights rest with the public sector...

Written Answers — Justice: Public Sector: Information (11 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The policy responsibility for public sector information and its re-use originally rested with the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The Ministry of Justice assumed responsibility for this policy in October 2006. I am responsible for this policy.

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoner Voting Rights (10 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The second consultation on the voting rights of convicted prisoners closed on 29 September 2009. The Government are carefully studying the responses and will set out the next steps in due course

Written Answers — Justice: British Values Roadshow (10 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Government have held a series of five deliberative events on Identity, Values and a possible Bill of Rights and Responsibilities during October. Two further events, both of which will cover a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and a written constitution, will take place on 21 and 28 November. There will be a National Deliberative Event in the new year. It is not possible to finalise the...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Freedom of Information (10 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: On 16 July, the Government published the response to its consultation on extending the Freedom of Information Act by means of a section 5 order. It noted that it was not minded to include private prisons in an initial order. However, the Government have made it clear it intends to keep the extension of the Act under review.

Written Answers — Justice: Vetting: Local Government (10 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has not issued any guidance to local authorities on this matter. However, "The Employment Practices Code" produced by the ICO contains guidance for employers on a range of data protection issues including pre-employment checks.

Written Answers — Justice: Housing: Sales (9 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The following table shows the total number of registered residential properties sold at full value(1) in each region of England and Wales in the requested timeframe: (1) Full value = residential property transactions where the full price has been paid. The figures exclude a number of transactions including, Right to Buy sales at a discount, properties sold by way of a gift, and properties...

Written Answers — Justice: Housing: Sales (9 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: Land Registry is able to provide information on the total number of registered residential properties sold at full value(1) in each of the last six months for which figures are available. As these figures are extracted using price paid data, no information is available for any properties which have not been sold. The only way to identify other changes of ownership would be to extract data...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Postal Services (5 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The Ministry of Justice currently has no formal contracts for mail services. However, it has a number of local agreements with both Royal Mail and DX limited. We recognise that the absence of established contracts is not satisfactory and are in the process of completing a further competition against the Buying Solutions Postal Framework. It is expected that we will have a formal contract in...

Written Answers — Justice: National Archives (4 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The National Archives has recently implemented a package of measures to make the savings required to ensure that they can live within their budget. In order to make these savings, the number of posts in the organisation has been reduced by 10 per cent., with half of these savings made through freezing vacancies, and the rest through restructuring to reduce the levels of management and...

Written Answers — Justice: National Archives (4 Nov 2009)

Michael Wills: The National Archives' public reading rooms were refurbished in 2008 in part to accommodate the services previously offered at the Family Records Centre, the relocation of which brought all services together under one roof and saved the National Archives over £1 million per year in the rent of a separate building. The cost of the refurbishment was £2.5 million, all of which was met...