Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to introduce legislation to outlaw religious descrimination following two independent research reports published by the Home Office.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will give the numbers of police officers for the Greater Manchester Police for each of the last five years broken down as: (a) numbers deployed in each division; (b) numbers deployed at the Greater Manchester Police Headquarters; and (c) numbers deployed in task groups working on specific types of crime, for example, drugs working across the county.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether funding will be available nationally to organisations acting as registered bodies under requirements of the Criminal Records Bureau.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: When they expect to reach a decision about funding of the Immigration Advisory Service for the financial year commencing April 2001; and What growth they expect in Section 81 funding of the Immigration Advisory Service for next year and thereafter.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the likely effect on the staffing structure of the Immigration Advisory Service if the present level of funding cannot be maintained; and What is the likely effect on the Immigration Advisory Service if the present level of funding cannot be maintained.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: What progress has been made with the review of the Parole Board and the operation of supervised conditional release in the light of the study by the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research, The Parole System at Work: A study in Decision Making (Home Office Research Study No 202); and whether consideration has been given to extending the function...
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many new criminal offences were created in (a) public and (b) local and private legislation enacted during the session 1999-2000.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have reached a decision about Criminal Records Bureau charges, in respect of information about criminal records of people volunteering to work with young people.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: When the Home Office received the Report of the Chief Inspector of Prisons on HM Prison Brixton; and when it will be published.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many appeals were heard against conviction (including conviction and sentence) in England and Wales in the latest year for which figures are available; in how many cases the conviction was quashed; of the number quashed how many were ordinary appeals and Criminal Cases Review Commission referrals respectively; and in how many cases in each category was the...
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Which Council of Europe member countries allow sentenced prisoners to vote.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they will advise the Central Sussex Partnership Board to take public opinion in mid-Sussex into account when it considers whether to move trauma and emergency surgical services away from the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Why the review, announced last year, of the rehabilitation periods contained in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 has not yet started; when it will start; and what will be the form of the review.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, in the light of the recent comments by Mr Justice Henriques, they believe that the timetable for a criminal trial should be determined by the employment commitments of the accused.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the basis of the estimate announced by the Prime Minister in his speech on 31 August that a DNA database holding over 3 million samples will cover virtually the entire criminally active population.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the recruitment process of Chief Probation Officers for the probation areas that are to be amalgamated and other vacancies between now and 1 April 2001 will meet the Home Office's equal opportunities policies.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many defendants were remanded in custody for psychiatric reports in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many prisoners were transferred to hospital under Sections 47 and 48 of the Mental Health Act 1983 in 1988 and 1999 respectively.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many medium secure psychiatric hospital beds are currently available; and what were the equivalent figures five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago.
Lord Dholakia: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many court diversion schemes for mentally disordered defendants currently receive central government funding.