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Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum (10 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for Section 4 support were (a) considered and (b) refused in each year since 2006.

Probation Service (4 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: This is a useful debate, given the concerns that have been expressed about probation over the past few weeks. No doubt the Minister will refer to the big increases in the probation budget in the past 10 years, and rightly so. There was a 70 per cent. increase in the budget from 1997 to 2007. That is not something that happens by chance. Budget increases of that size happen because Governments...

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners Release (4 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people were released on (a) temporary release licence, (b) home detention curfew, (c) early release and (d) juvenile temporary release in each of the last three years; (2) how many people were released from prison on (a) resettlement day release, (b) resettlement overnight release, (c) placements with community service...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (3 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether enforced returns were suspended for any period of time for nationals or particular groups of nationals from (a) Iraq, (b) Somalia, (c) Eritrea, (d) Democratic Republic of Congo, (e) Afghanistan and (f) Iran between 2000 and 2009.

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners: Suicide (3 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people (1) on home detention curfew committed suicide between 1999 and 2009; (2) released on an early release scheme committed suicide in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

Written Answers — Justice: Reoffenders (3 Nov 2009)

Neil Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many people on home detention curfew reoffended between 1999 and 2009; (2) how many people released under an early release scheme reoffended in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008.

Sri Lanka (IDP Camps) — [Dr. William McCrea in the Chair] (28 Oct 2009)

Neil Gerrard: The debate is coming towards its end and it is difficult not to repeat some of what has been said, but, like my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn), I have been involved in issues to do with Sri Lanka since I was first elected in 1992 and I cannot remember in all that time a worse year than this for what has happened there: the fighting at the beginning of the year,...

Sri Lanka (IDP Camps) — [Dr. William McCrea in the Chair] (28 Oct 2009)

Neil Gerrard: The hon. Gentleman will have his opportunity to speak in a moment; I want to conclude. If we do not use what pressures we can with the Government of Sri Lanka—not allowing preferential trade, stopping arms sales and all the sorts of thing that we have used with other regimes—we will not see the political progress that every one of us wants. Only with that political progress will...