HC Deb 07 September 2004 vol 424 cc955-6W
Bob Spink

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many rooms are set aside for(a) the use of smokers, (b) worship, broken down by religion and (c) nursing mothers and pregnant women in each building and sets of offices for which his Department is responsible. [186536]

Fiona Mactaggart

In the Departments seven main central London buildings there is (a) one smoking room in each building, (b) one building with a multi-faith room and one building with a Muslim prayer room, and

General government

grants1

£ million

Annual percentage

change in general

government grants

percentage

Specific grants and

capital provisions2

£ million

Total

£ million

Annual percentage

change in all

government grants

Percentage

1997–98 129.7 6.7 136.4
1998–99 131.5 1.4 2.1 133.6 -2.0
1999–2000 134.8 2.5 3.1 137.9 3.2
2000–01 143.8 6.7 4.3 148.1 7.4

The running costs for each year since 2001 are as follows:

£
2001 890,715.68
2002 1,260,983.99
2003 1,282,909.33

Mr. Oaten

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time equivalent staff there have been in(a) his Department and (b) agencies of the Department in each year since 1997. [182219]

Fiona Mactaggart

The following table provides a reply to the question based on the civil service statistics staff levels since 1996.

These are full-time equivalent figures, based on civil service statistics, 1997 onwards available from the available civil service statistics. All figures are as at April.

(c) a designated room for nursing mothers and pregnant women in three of the buildings. This information is not held centrally for the remainder of the Home Office Estate.