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Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry (12 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: I am advised that the cost of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry to the end of September 2009 is £188.7 million. The costs of the Inquiry for each calendar month since January 2005 are shown in the following table. NIO funding MoD funding Total 2009-10 April 67,442 0 67,442 May 351,006 0 351,006 June 105,924 0 105,924 July 171,543 0 171,543 August...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Official Cars (12 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: No special advisers are provided with an allocated Government car and driver. As with all civil servants, special advisers may use an official car or taxi in properly defined circumstances. Details of such use are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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

Shaun Woodward: Royal Mail provide external postal services to my Department and Agencies. There were no contracted services for the dates listed.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Rail Travel (11 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The number of journeys paid for and number of people who travelled are shown in the following table. Single journey equivalents Number of staff who travelled 2006-07 414 76 2007-08 239 55 2008-08 288 78 My Department receives refunds for unused rail ravel so there was no nugatory expense incurred.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Police (10 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given on 9 November 2009, Official Report, column 12W.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Police (9 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The Secretary of State has continued to meet and engage regularly with the First and Deputy First Minister and other party leaders in Northern Ireland, on a range of financial and other matters relating to policing and justice. A copy of a letter sent by the Prime Minister on 21 October has been placed in the Library.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Police: Devolution (9 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The Government have not received any costed proposals from the Northern Ireland Executive since 1 September 2009.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Presbyterian Mutual Society (9 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The Financial Services Authority (FSA) indicated in a statement on 9 April 2009 that the Presbyterian Mutual Society "...was conducting regulated activities without the necessary authorisation or exemption. However, on the basis of the information currently available to us, and applying the criteria in the Code for Crown Prosecutors, we have decided that it would not be right for us to take...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Presbyterian Mutual Society (9 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The Ministerial Working Group, chaired by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, expects to produce a draft report to the Prime Minister in the coming weeks. I have attended both meetings of this group which have taken place to date, and have discussed the matter with Treasury colleagues on a number of separate occasions. Officials from my Department continue to play a full part in the work...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Presbyterian Mutual Society (9 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: I have had a number of recent discussions with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who chairs the Ministerial Working Group set up by the Prime Minister to examine this issue.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Devolution (4 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The repatriation of foreign prisoners will become the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice after the devolution of criminal justice and policing. Decisions on the grounds of national security will, however, remain excepted.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Dissident Republicans (4 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier to the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East (James Duddridge).

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Christmas (4 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: Northern Ireland Office (NIO) Ministers hosted and attended four Christmas receptions. These events were attended by over 1,500 cross-community representatives from the criminal justice, policing, military, charity and voluntary sectors across Northern Ireland. The total cost was £37,534.53. The Northern Ireland Office works in partnership with a range of organisations in the course of...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Inquiries (3 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: Expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office to the end of September 2009 on funding the public inquiries is as follows: £ million Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1)153 Robert Hamill Inquiry 28 Rosemary Nelson Inquiry 43 Billy Wright Inquiry 28 (1) In addition, £36 million has been paid by the Ministry of Defence in relation to the inquiry.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Postal Services (2 Nov 2009)

Shaun Woodward: Royal Mail provides external mail services to my Department. This is not a tendered service and therefore there is no formal expiry date.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Rail Travel (26 Oct 2009)

Shaun Woodward: My Department's spend on first class rail travel is set out in the following table. Expenditure (£) 2006-07 14,523.24 2007-08 7,431.06 2008-09 10,710.80 The majority of this expenditure is for travel between Belfast and Dublin. These figures include all first class rail travel booked through my Department's central travel booking service. It does not include the cost...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Motor Vehicles (13 Oct 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The following table shows how much the Northern Ireland Office, including the Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland, but excluding its agencies and NDPBs has spent on hire vehicles in each of the last five financial years. £000 2004-05 70 2005-06 73 2006-07 50 2007-08 74 2008-09 73

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Advertising (12 Oct 2009)

Shaun Woodward: The finance system of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) does not break down advertising expenditure in the detail requested therefore these figures could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Recycling (12 Oct 2009)

Shaun Woodward: Complete data on what proportion of waste was recycled are not available. However, all buildings are involved in recycling. A cross-departmental recycling scheme on the Stormont estate, which covers a large proportion of Northern Ireland Office staff, shows an average recycling rate from June 2008 to May 2009 of 45 per cent. We are constantly looking at ways to improve recycling rates, for...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Departmental Responsibility (12 Oct 2009)

Shaun Woodward: My right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Northern Ireland (Paul Goggins) has been assigned responsibility for overseeing the delivery of value for money in the Northern Ireland Office. The Northern Ireland Office is committed to reforming public services to improve services for the citizen and the Department has established a Business Performance Review Team (BPRT) to implement reforms....