Funding to implement the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease. The allocation will fund additional operating theatres, catheterisation laboratories, automated external defibrillators, ECG machines for ambulances, echo cardiography and gamma cameras to reduce unnecessary surgery. The project will increase the quality of care provided to those at risk of, or who have had, heart attacks.
Improving sport and arts facilities in primary schools in deprived areas for use by children within school hours and by the community outside school hours. Funding allows 375 projects covering nearly 20% of primary schools with unsatisfactory or worse facilities. The project will be supplemented by lottery funding. This allows greater use of primary school facilities and is being taken forward by DCMS, DfEE and Local Authorities jointly with scope for business sponsorship.
The aim is to raise pupil attainment and interest in science at all ages of secondary school. The project involves refurbishment or re-building science laboratories and modernisation with new equipment, including ICT. The project impacts on the motivation of pupils and teachers; allowing pupils to acquire new scope for pursuing projects outside their normal lesson periods and pursuing science in further and higher education. £60m will allow 21% of secondary schools with "unsatisfactory or worse" science accommodation (OFSTED assessment) to be substantially refurbished.
Piloting providing access to the Internet and ICT for 14,000 homes in 7 disadvantaged communities across the country. The project will install a mix of technology, including new and recycled PCs and television set-top boxes into individual households, linking them to online Government services and local community websites.
Supporting the learndirect project for employees and employees. This includes developing a learner support helpline and web-based support which is available to learners 24 hours and 7 days a week. The project will also create a national database of trained tutors who provide on-line tutor support for those learners that need it. Finally, the project will enable the testing of various mobile learning and demonstration facilities to encourage smaller businesses and their employees to become involved in learndirect.
Airport access for City airport which is growing rapidly but has no railway connection. 78% of passengers arrive or depart by car or taxi. Tackles local congestion and air quality problems, and contributes to wider departmental aims on modal shift in transport and regeneration and housing development on brownfield land. Contributes to sustainable growth of City Airport. The project includes 3 intermediate stations in Royal Docks area. It is part of a Public Private Partnership where revenue covers running costs.
The project has two aims. First, it will automate the handling of planning appeals by building a secure electronic network between the Planning Inspectorate, local planning authorities and others – replacing a largely paper based system. Secondly, it will enable the development of a planning information service on the Internet. The service will give access to all planning guidance, best practice, forms and research. All those involved in the planning system will benefit from improved information and from a more efficient appeals system.
Project to establish a 24 hour centre servicing UK law enforcement agencies by processing encrypted electronic data from computer-to computer communication to produce intelligible transcripts that are useable for prosecution or intelligence purposes. This delivers the recommendations of the PIU report which set out the strategy for Encryption and Law Enforcement.
A package of 3 enhancements designed to reduce delay in the criminal justice system by more effective management of cases through the Crown Court and improving the quality of service to court users. These are: a PC-based system for prosecution, defence, judge, jury, defendant and witnesses, allowing the electronic presentation of evidence producing significant savings in court time in complex cases; electronic transcripts of court proceedings through a digital audio recording of the official record and improved information distribution through displaying relevant information on how cases are progressing, public information kiosks and a read-only access IT source.
The inclusion in custody suites of video recording equipment designed to provide courts with a more complete record of police interviews of suspects thus reducing acquittals on the grounds of alleged non-verbal police intimidation.
In addition to round 1 funding from the CMF, this allocation provides further funding to expand the offender sample side of the database. This will lead to the rapid expansion of the database; a key driver of the Home Office's improving detection programme.
An allocation to end police paperwork by computerised custody and case preparation files. This is the basic building block for Integrating Business and Information Systems (IBIS) in the Criminal Justice System.
Establishing video conference links in prisons and magistrates' courts to reduce the need for escorting prisoners from prison to court for hearings, thus reducing the risk of escapes and streamlining the courts' business. The links also have applications for protecting vulnerable witnesses and more efficient interviews for legal representatives.
Creating two post-release hostels to run drug treatment, education and employment programmes for released short-term prisoners. The generic benefits are: providing an opportunity for drug dependent short-term prisoners to kick their habits in a drug-free environment whilst making connections with employment services and education facilities. The aim is to increases the likelihood of the released prisoner of staying off drugs and away from crime.
Joint CPS/Police Criminal Justice Units and Trial Units (a Glidewell recommendation), to provide, amongst others, better and faster communication between police and CPS; improve the timeliness of the prosecution file upon which all Criminal Justice System users rely; eliminate duplicate tasks and functions and improve service to victims and witnesses. This funding will allow a funding springboard to supplement local implementation efforts.
This enables the development, procurement and implementation of interfaces between new IT systems currently being implemented in CJS organisations. These interfaces enable the systems to "talk" to each other.
This will give police the technology to track electronic tags that will be built into personal property (computers, digital TVs etc.) to allow them to be recovered when stolen. The ability to track goods should have a significant impact on the police's work and crime reduction generally.
London Information ON-line will allow the police for the first time to cross analyse data relating to stops; incident and crime reports; custody records and criminal intelligence. It is aimed at providing and/or upgrading police, local authority, health and probation computer systems so that partner data can be shared and analysed. Joint access will promote joint interventions to resolve a common problem.
The SBS aims to deliver relevant information and advice to small business. It starts in April 2000, this project establishes the channels to deliver advice by through the hardware and software that run a telephone call centre, an internet/website connection and the central database and network to link various advisors.
This project implements a cross-departmental (with Customs, MAFF and DTI) common e-business infrastructure to provide information and transaction services to people starting small businesses. Inland Revenue will lead the construction of an 'e-business' gateway for new business to register as a company, register for VAT and register with Customs and Revenue. Existing business can submit VAT returns, applications for CAP and PAYE returns electronically. Each business will have a common identifier. The service will be 2-way so business can access data as well as submit forms. It also aims to make it easier for business to find and follow regulation and provide an anytime, anywhere availability of services.
A new campaign to increase awareness, take-up and use of IT among the smallest businesses. This includes a national marketing campaign, to raise awareness of the opportunities of e-commerce amongst SMEs and of the availability of advice, support and training and an expansion of the DTI's Information Society Initiative's IT support centres, which provide training and consultancy services to SMEs; and to maximise its effectiveness, engage the private sector to provide advice and support through these support centres.
A regional fund to stimulate cluster activity by funding, through Regional Development Agencies, business incubator and capital infrastructure to develop high tech clusters of business activity. This aims to deliver the virtuous circle of innovation and technological advancement that clusters can deliver alongside significantly increased survival rate of new high tech firms and high levels of leveraged private finance.
Providing public access through the Internet to the registers of employment tribunal applications and decisions. The aim is to increase access for users to employment decisions and to increase the opportunity for the business community to be fully up to date with employment law.
The project sets up a national resource centre for research and development of organic horticultural crop production. It involves a new building with IT and conference facilities and support for organic producers, and those interested in converting, through best practice demonstrations, the latest developments and interactive multi-media displays available on site and over the internet.
Providing new facilities to expand research capacity into TSE.
The project would create 600 ha of forests on brown field land in semi-urban areas: on Merseyside, in Greater Manchester and in East London. The project will bring recreation in large forested areas close to sizeable populations and a sustainable end-use for damaged land - (eg coal tips, mineral workings - unfit for hard development). It will transform landscapes in mostly relatively disadvantaged semi-urban areas.
This project provides funding for an electronic claim form and tele-centre costs to deliver the minimum income guarantee.
Development of portable and "virtual" medical technologies to be used on the battlefield or for treating civilian patients in remote or difficult locations through paramedics. The project will develop a single, transportable prototype Emergency Trauma unit that can provide diagnostic support for emergency services or battlefield medical staff with links to specialist centres (hospitals). It includes portable and desktop intelligent medical support systems for immediate access to medical information and a prototype 'virtual hospital' that will allow up to 250 patients to be discharged into its care.
The aim of the project is to research and develop, a low-cost portable mine detector for use in humanitarian demining operations. This will allow more effective and efficient de-mining. Overall, the project will contribute to reducing costs for the UK and other nations in clearance efforts under the Ottawa Treaty.
Development of a system for earlier and more accurate reporting of potential flooding from rivers by fusing together data from automated remote management sensors and existing radars to allow Environment Agency better predictive and warning systems.
Creating a customised portal, providing a single point of access to Government services on the Internet. Enabling information to be shared across Government more readily and making it easier for the public to access information and services.
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