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Coroners and Justice Bill: Removal of limitation on warrants under Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: I support Lords amendment 43, which clarifies the rules across the country. It is interesting to note that the provisions of the amendment already apply in Northern Ireland, as one of the subsequent amendments shows, and it therefore seems a sensible proposal to adopt. I thank the Minister for his kind comments, and in return I thank him and his team, and also the hon. Member for Gedling...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 96 — Retention and destruction of samples etc: England and Wales (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: I admire the Minister's elegant attempt to stay on the front foot on this issue, but let us be clear: this is a retreat. The Government had wanted to grow the DNA database as a primary policy principle, but they cannot do that now. They wanted to retain profiles on people arrested but never charged with or convicted of any offence, but they have now accepted that they can no longer do that,...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 35 — Contents of injunctions: supplemental (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: The Conservatives made it clear in Committee and on Report that we would support measures to deal with the serious problem of gang-related violence, which affects so many communities and young people up and down our country. In the past fortnight, the charity Catch22 published a survey of young people's experiences of crime and put this issue into context by suggesting that more than one in...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 27 — Increase in penalty for offence (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: We are obviously pleased that the Government have listened to a number of points made in Committee and during the course of the Bill's passage. I was very pleased to note that the Minister accepted that the need for clause 27 was questionable on the basis, as he said, that no one had actually received the current £500 fine up to now. As the British Retail Consortium put it in its...

Written Answers — Home Department: Closed Circuit Television (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the number of closed circuit television cameras monitoring public space in the UK.

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental ICT (12 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and (e) current estimated cost is for each information technology project being undertaken by his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour Orders (11 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what date his Department's qualitative review of anti-social behaviour orders commenced; which matters are being analysed as part of the review; what estimate he has made of the cost of the review; what methodology is being used; and when he expects (a) the study to be completed and (b) the review to be published.

Written Answers — Home Department: Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Children (11 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he intends to take to implement the automatic issue of parenting orders following the breach of an anti-social behaviour order by a child.

Written Answers — Home Department: Vetting (11 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the number of people seeking registration with the Independent Safeguarding Authority under the vetting and barring scheme in the next five years.

Written Answers — Home Department: Vetting (11 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long on average he expects it to take for an application for registration under the vetting and barring scheme to be processed by the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

Written Answers — Health: Drugs: Misuse (10 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people aged (a) under 16 and (b) between 16 and 18 years were admitted to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of poisoning by drugs in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Health: Drugs: Rehabilitation (10 Nov 2009)

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people entering treatment with the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse left treatment free of their drug dependency (a) with no drug use and (b) with occasional drug use in each year since such information started to be counted within the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.