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University for Industry: Citigate Public Affairs

Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what payments (a) University for Industry and (b) Learn Direct made to Citigate Public Affairs in each of the last five years; and on what date and for what purpose the payment was made in each case. [202263]

Mr. Lammy: The payments made by Ufi at this level of detail are not collected by my Department. This is an operational matter for Ufi since they determine any payments to local providers, partners and other organisations that are necessary to support the delivery of the Ufi’s key priorities and targets. Sarah Jones, Ufi’s chief executive, has written to the hon. Member with further information and a copy of her reply has been placed in the House Library.

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Letter from Sarah Jones, dated 1 May 2008:

I write following your Parliamentary Question regarding the payment of fees to Citigate Public Affairs over the last five years.
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The table below outlines the expenditure of Ufi, the company which owns and operates learndirect services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, in relation to this public affairs company:

£
	12 months 2003( 1)	12 months 2004( 1)	12 months 2005( 1)	12 months 2006	12 months 2007	3 months 2008	Total
England/general	142,061	71,219	18,057	14,400	13,200	2,400	261,337
Wales	36,000	21,000	—	—	—	—	57,000
N Ireland	4,500	3,500	4,500	—	—	—	12,500
MP database	—	10,400	—	—	—	—	10,400
Public Accounts Committee	—	—	8,825	—	—	—	8,825
Party conference fees	—	24,636	—	—	—	—	24,636
Other	—	14,850	—	—	—	—	14,850
	182,561	145,605	31,382	14,400	13,200	2,400	389,548
(1) Citigate Public Affairs services to 2005 were purchased via Central Office of Information. Note: Citigate Public Affairs were taken over by Grayling Group in June 2007—sums paid to Grayling Group are therefore included for consistency

The fees noted above covered the provision of the following services:

2003

Management of Ufi's attendance at the three main autumn party conferences.

Weekly provision of parliamentary and environmental monitoring on education and skills issues and policy.

Provision of ad hoc public affairs advice to the Chief Executive at that time.

Development and delivery of communications campaigns to Whitehall and Westminster audience to promote the contribution of learndirect to delivering the Government's skills agenda.

Provision of briefings on MPs to Ufi staff in preparation for visits by MPs to learndirect centres.

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

2004

Management of attendance at the three main autumn party conferences.

Weekly provision of parliamentary and environmental monitoring on education and skills issues and policy.

Provision of ad hoc public affairs advice to the Chief Executive at that time.

Development and delivery of communications campaigns to Whitehall and Westminster audience to promote the contribution of learndirect to delivering the Government's skills agenda.

Provision of briefings on MPs to Ufi staff in preparation for visits by MPs to learndirect centres.

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

2005

Preparation for Ufi's first appearance before the Public Accounts Committee (14 November 2005), including training of Ufi witnesses and background briefing on Committee members.

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

2006

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

2007

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect, and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

2008

Building, populating and maintaining a database recording contact between Ufi and learndirect and MPs through visits to centres and correspondence.

I believe this information answers the Parliamentary Question you posed on 24 April 2008.

Duchy of Lancaster

Council of Economic Advisers: Complaints

Alan Duncan: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether civil servants in his Department have lodged complaints against a member of the Council of Economic Advisers since 1997. [204135]

Edward Miliband [holding answer 9 May 2008]: It is standard practice not to disclose details of personnel issues relating to individual employees.

Departmental Translation Services

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much was spent by his Department on translation and interpretation services in 2007-08, broken down by language. [205170]

Phil Hope: The information is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Children, Schools and Families

Children in Care

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many looked after children there were in each local authority in each of the last five years. [205577]

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Kevin Brennan: Information on the number of children in care in each local authority area in each of the last five years is shown in the following table. (Table LAA1).

Table LAA1 is taken from the Statistical First Release entitled 'Children Looked After in England (Including
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Adoption and Care Leavers) year ending 31 March 2007', which is located at: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000741/index.shtml and table LAA1 can be found within the 1st set of 10 additional tables supplementing SFR27/2007 on the website.

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Table LAA1: Children looked after at 31 March 2003 to 2007( 1, 2, 3,) England
Numbers and rates per 10,000 children aged under 18 years
	Numbers					Rates
	2003( 4)	2004( 5)	2005( 5)	2006( 5)	2007( 5)	2003( 4)	2004( 5)	2005( 5)	2006( 5)	2007( 5)
England	61,200	61,200	61,000	60,300	60,000	55	55	55	55	55
North East	3,280	3,320	3,290	3,160	3,250	59	60	60	58	61
Darlington	155	145	140	150	140	71	66	63	67	63
Durham	445	495	475	410	405	42	47	46	40	40
Gateshead	250	265	245	280	305	61	64	61	70	77
Hartlepool	105	115	120	115	135	49	54	55	55	63
Middlesbrough	265	240	240	240	240	77	72	72	74	75
Newcastle Upon Tyne	380	415	445	440	475	69	77	83	83	91
North Tyneside	275	240	230	220	230	66	58	56	55	57
Northumberland	330	335	350	315	325	50	52	55	50	52
Redcar and Cleveland	150	140	130	135	140	48	44	42	43	46
South Tyneside	270	265	265	240	250	79	79	80	75	80
Stockton-On-Tees	205	215	190	190	185	47	49	44	44	44
Sunderland	465	450	460	430	420	74	72	75	72	71
North West	9,930	10,070	10,240	10,260	10,410	64	65	67	67	69
Blackburn with Darwen	290	275	290	310	295	74	70	74	79	76
Blackpool	245	270	275	290	260	81	89	91	97	87
Bolton	305	345	380	390	405	48	55	60	62	65
Bury	265	250	290	300	290	61	58	68	70	68
Cheshire	480	495	490	500	545	32	34	33	34	37
Cumbria	620	550	525	480	465	60	53	51	47	46
Halton	190	170	165	160	160	65	59	59	58	57
Knowsley	235	260	280	280	290	62	69	75	76	80
Lancashire	1,300	1,285	1,270	1,280	1,305	50	50	49	50	51
Liverpool	1,015	985	870	820	860	103	102	93	90	96
Manchester	1,240	1,325	1,370	1,455	1,480	128	139	145	154	157
Oldham	295	320	335	360	385	53	57	60	65	70
Rochdale	290	315	315	310	325	56	61	61	62	65
Salford	585	565	575	565	570	120	117	122	121	123
Sefton	370	325	305	330	320	58	51	49	54	54
St Helens	230	235	260	295	320	57	58	64	74	81
Stockport	380	360	370	310	330	59	57	58	50	54
Tameside	295	315	350	320	325	58	62	70	65	67
Trafford	200	195	220	215	220	42	41	46	45	46
Warrington	190	190	210	200	185	42	43	48	46	43
Wigan	415	455	430	410	400	60	66	63	61	60
Wirral	500	590	675	680	670	68	82	95	97	97
Yorkshire and The Humber	6,680	6,630	6,550	6,430	6,550	59	58	58	57	59
Barnsley	250	265	250	275	260	51	54	51	56	53
Bradford	815	845	835	830	810	66	68	68	67	65
Calderdale	185	200	235	235	260	40	44	52	51	57
Doncaster	410	400	390	415	405	61	60	59	64	63
East Riding of Yorkshire	245	265	290	285	295	37	39	43	42	45
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	615	570	510	550	525	105	98	89	97	94
Kirklees	295	305	310	330	385	31	32	33	35	41
Leeds	1,350	1,385	1,335	1,315	1,360	85	88	86	85	89
North East Lincolnshire	240	230	190	145	155	62	60	50	38	43
North Lincolnshire	180	195	190	170	160	52	56	55	49	47
North Yorkshire	380	395	415	415	430	30	32	33	33	35
Rotherham	410	365	380	315	340	70	62	66	55	59
Sheffield	715	630	660	650	670	66	58	61	61	63
Wakefield	435	420	410	365	340	60	59	57	52	49
York	150	160	150	140	155	42	45	42	40	45
East Midlands	4,030	3,940	3,760	3,690	3,680	43	42	40	39	39
Derby	385	385	370	380	390	71	72	69	72	74
Derbyshire	580	530	520	500	500	36	33	32	31	31
Leicester	475	515	465	460	440	69	75	69	68	65
Leicestershire	360	345	330	350	325	27	26	25	26	24
Lincolnshire	560	595	600	560	525	40	42	42	40	37
Northamptonshire	600	600	535	555	565	40	40	35	36	37
Nottingham	525	485	445	410	465	90	84	78	73	83
Nottinghamshire	530	475	475	460	440	32	29	29	28	27
Rutland	10	10	15	10	20	12	13	18	13	24
West Midlands	7,120	6,910	6,980	7,140	7,320	58	57	57	59	61
Birmingham	2,055	1,915	1,915	1,965	2,105	81	76	76	78	84
Coventry	510	500	500	490	500	72	72	72	72	74
Dudley	410	420	430	450	470	60	62	64	67	70
Herefordshire	190	195	175	155	170	50	51	46	42	46
Sandwell	525	515	525	555	505	76	75	77	82	75
Shropshire	200	175	185	190	185	33	28	30	31	31
Solihull	200	220	245	285	325	42	47	53	62	70
Staffordshire	620	580	635	680	660	35	33	36	39	38
Stoke-On-Trent	425	395	405	430	440	80	75	77	82	85
Telford and Wrekin	200	195	190	200	230	51	49	49	51	60
Walsall	465	485	460	455	430	75	79	76	75	72
Warwickshire	400	445	465	470	455	36	40	42	42	41
Wolverhampton	385	380	400	375	370	70	69	74	70	70
Worcestershire	535	495	455	435	475	45	42	38	37	40
East of England	5,570	5,750	5,800	5,750	5,650	46	47	48	47	46
Bedfordshire	405	440	390	330	315	45	48	42	36	34
Cambridgeshire	345	350	380	385	365	28	28	31	31	30
Essex	1,250	1,285	1,285	1,300	1,235	42	44	44	44	42
Hertfordshire	960	985	980	965	975	40	41	41	40