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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Thursday Volume 499 12 November 2009 No. 141 Part2of2 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 12 November 2009 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2009 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through the Office of Public Sector Information website at www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ Enquiries to the Office of Public Sector Information, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; e-mail: [email protected] 833W Written Answers12 NOVEMBER 2009 Written Answers 834W Written Answers to Coroners: Armed forces Mr. Ingram: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice Questions whether the arrangements agreed between his Department and the Scottish Executive on the use of fatal accident inquiries into the deaths abroad of service personnel are to be applied retrospectively; and on what date such Thursday 12 November 2009 arrangements will take effect. [298624] [Continued from column 832W] Bridget Prentice: The Coroners and Justice Act, which received Royal Assent today provides for the possibility of a Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) in Scotland into the deaths of service personnel who die abroad on active JUSTICE service or in training or preparation for it. The arrangements will take effect once the Scottish Christmas Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has made the necessary preparations for Fatal Accident Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State Inquiries to be held into overseas deaths of service for Justice how much (a) his Department and (b) its personnel. The UK Government will work with the agencies have spent on Christmas (i) cards, (ii) parties COPFS to bring the new provisions into effect as soon and (iii) decorations in the last 12 months. [299265] as possible. Transitional provisions will be made to ensure that the arrangements can be in place ahead of Mr. Straw: The information requested is as follows. the complete reform of the coroners’ system, by April 2012, on which they are otherwise dependent. (i) Christmas cards It is possible that the provisions could be applied to The Ministry of Justice spent £1,695 on official Christmas deaths that have occurred before the provisions are cards in 2008. 3,800 printed cards were sent to the implemented to meet the wishes of a bereaved family. I Department’s stakeholders, and 400 more cards were will write to my right hon. Friend on progress in this sent out electronically. The official card was used by area and place a copy in the Library. Ministers, MOJ headquarters and the Office for the Public Guardian. Departmental Air Travel The order for cards for 2009 has not yet commenced. Other executive agencies made their own arrangements Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for for Christmas cards, HM Courts Service and Tribunals Justice how many domestic flights within Great Britain Service did not produce official cards. Expenditure on officials from his Department made in 2008-09; and at Christmas cards by the National Offender Management what cost. [298253] Service is at local discretion. No central records of expenditure are held and details could be obtained only Mr. Straw: The Ministry has a contract with a travel at disproportionate cost. management company for the booking of flights at the (ii) Christmas parties most economical rates available. The expenditure incurred by the Ministry on domestic flights within Great Britain Secretary of State via this travel management company in 2008-09 was I hosted one Christmas function in 2008. This was an £478,091. This consisted of 2,262 transactions, with a event attended by approximately 50 members of the return flight counting as one transaction. national media. The total cost of the function was Exceptionally, some flights may have been purchased £1,199.90 (excluding VAT). This expenditure included outside of the contract using the Government Procurement the provision of finger foods and beverages, and the Card (GPC) or paid for by members of staff and reclaimed cost of staffing and equipment. through expense claims. To determine the number and I did not attend any Christmas functions arranged by cost of domestic flights outside of the travel management the Ministry or its agencies other than the one I hosted contract would involve the disproportionate cost of above. scrutinising individual records held locally across the For officials at the Department and its agencies Department. The Department and its agencies do not fund Christmas All travel bookings by Ministry of Justice staff members parties for staff, although staff may personally contribute is completed in line with the published rules for official towards the cost of such an event. travel and subsistence within the staff handbook. The (iii) Christmas decorations rules are in accordance with the guidelines set out in the ‘Civil Service Management Code’. The Ministry’s policy The cost of Christmas trees for MOJ headquarters is that air travel should only be used where there is a was £970 inclusive of VAT. The decorations from 2007 cost advantage from savings of subsistence and official were re-used for 2008. time, or if urgency justifies the additional cost. The information for agencies can be gathered only at a disproportionate cost. All four MOJ agencies (National Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice Offender Management Service; HM Courts Service; how many first-class flights were taken by each Tribunals Service and Office of the Public Guardian) Minister in his Department in 2008-09; and what the have regionalised structures). Each individual building (a) origin, (b) destination and (c) cost was of each orders their own trees and decorations. such flight. [298749] 835W Written Answers12 NOVEMBER 2009 Written Answers 836W Mr. Straw: For the 2008-09 financial year, there was within 10 days for September and October 2009 exceeded only one first-class flight taken from Mumbai to London, the 90 per cent. target (September 2009 was 91.7 per costing £2,040.50. This flight was taken by the cent., October 2009 was 92.2 per cent.). The value of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend invoices paid within the target for September and October the Member for Lewisham, East (Bridget Prentice), totalled around £881 million. who had to travel first class on the return leg of the Departmental Information and Communications journey owing to illness. All travel by Ministers is Technology undertaken in accordance with the ‘Ministerial Code’. Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Departmental Billing Justice what IT systems have been in development for use within his Department in the last five years; what Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice the primary reason for the development of each system what percentage of invoices from suppliers his Department was; how much has been spent on the development of paid within 10 days of receipt in (a) September and (b) each system; and which systems have subsequently been October 2009. [299549] (a) implemented, (b) terminated prior to implementation and (c) terminated following implementation. [290247] Mr. Wills: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is committed to achieving compliance with the Prime Minister’s target Mr. Straw: Details of the IT systems developed since of paying 90 per cent. of suppliers within 10 days where the Ministry of Justice was established in May 2007, possible, and is a signatory to the prompt payment together with reasons for the development, implementation code. The MOJ’s percentage of supplier invoices paid date and cost, are listed as follows. Project name Implementation date Reason for development Total cost Athena April 2010 Business Change £600,000 Computer Aided Facilities Management November 2009 Operational Benefit £2.1 million Corporate Staff Rostering December 2009 Operational Benefit £14.1 million HMPS Replacement Intranet October 2009 Business Change £3.9 million Manage Interconnect (MINT) December 2009 Infrastructure development £500,000 NOMSnet September 2008 Infrastructure development £5.3 million NOMSnet2 December 2009 Infrastructure development £1.5 million OASys 4.2 March 2008 Business Change £8.5 million OASys Interim Continuity July 2008 Applications Maintenance £600,000 Oracle Discrete Manufacturing March 2009 Business Application £600,000 OMNI Transformation April 2010 Operational Benefit £35.3 million Perimeter Security December 2008 Operational Benefit £1.1 million Phoenix January 2009 Shared Service Development £55.5 million Shared Services Phoenix March 2010 Shared Service Maintenance £1.7 million Infrastructure Projects Sharepoint October 2009 Infrastructure £600,000 VISOR May 2008 Business Application £8.1 million WAN Upgrade January 2009 Infrastructure development £25.7 million This table includes IT developments costing more In addition, details follow of the National Offender than £500,000. Management Service’s NOMIS programme. NOMIS Programme, comprising the following projects System Development reasons Cost of development (up to March 2009) Implemented C-NOMIS/Prison- NOMIS C-NOMIS: The C- NOMIS project was The total C-NOMIS historic sunk costs1 Implementation of Prison-NOMIS intended to provide a single interactive up to December 2007 was £160.7 commenced May2009, expected to record of offenders in England and million. This figure included the costs complete summer 2010 Wales across the National Probation for requirements definition, application Service(NPS) and Her Majesty’s Prison development, testing, implementation
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