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written question – answered on 11 July 2005.

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  • Abandoned Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of London's Operation Scrap-it; what plans his Department has for further funding of the project; and if he will...

  • Alcohol (Under-age Sales)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many successful prosecutions were brought against shops and off-licences for sales of alcohol to persons under 18 years of age in...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dispersal orders have been made under the provisions of section 30 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 since the Act came into...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crack house closure orders, (b) housing injunctions for antisocial behaviour and (c) demoted tenancies have been issued under...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been breached in (a) Pembrokeshire and (b) the Dyfed Powys police force area during each year since...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued since inception, broken down by(a) London borough and (b) local authority in Essex.

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of antisocial behaviour orders since their introduction have been issued to under 16-year-olds from (a) two parent...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in (a) the county of Bedfordshire and (b) the constituency of Mid-Bedfordshire in each...

  • Antisocial Behaviour Orders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders have been issued in the Chelmsford local authority area in the last two years for which figures are...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions in the last six months asylum detainees have been transported to and from Yarl's Wood and Oakington Detention Centres...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the grounds were for an order for deportation made against Anastancia Zulu, a Zimbabwean national detained at Yarl's Wood Detention...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those applying for asylum in the UK who had their application fast tracked during 2004 were detained for the duration of their...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications were received from Eritrean nationals in (a) 2000–01, (b) 2001–02, (c) 2002–03, (d)...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers are appealing against refusals.

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum applications have been made in Scotland since January; and if he will make a statement.

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what evidence his Department has collated on the treatment of people whose applications for asylum in the UK are refused and who are returned...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his Department's use of internal flight alternative as a reason for refusal of asylum applications.

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what guarantees have been received by his Department that returned Darfuri asylum seekers will not be at serious risk of torture or...

  • Asylum Seekers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what evidence he relies on to formulate a view that a country can take back asylum seekers without persecution; and how often such a...

  • Automatic Number Plate Recognition

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of alerts from the automatic number plate recognition system have been false positives; and what proportion related to (a)...

  • Clear-up Rates

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria are used to define the clearance of a crime for the purposes of reporting statistics on clear-up of offences by police forces...

  • Community Sentences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) female and (b) male offenders have received community penalties in each year since 1997.

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter of 6 April, ref 1064462, from the hon. Member for Birmingham Ladywood.

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letter to him dated 22 March 2005 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Mr. N....

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letter to him dated 10 May from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Ms Zeinab...

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality will reply to the letter dated 10 May from the hon. Member for Banff...

  • Corruption

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the members of the Review of the Law Relating to Bribery and Corruption team to meet.

  • Criminal Justice Act 1988

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions under section 141A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 have taken place in each of the last...

  • Criminal Prosecutions

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people of school age have been found guilty of committing a crime in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the...

  • Criminal Prosecutions

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many criminal cases were prosecuted in each of the last 10 years, broken down by region.

  • Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which individuals and organisations were consulted in drawing up the criteria for referral to the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder programme.

  • Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what access to advocacy is provided to people in the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder programme (a) prior to referral and (b) while on...

  • Deportations

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will stop the deportation to Zimbabwe of Timbha Mqubeli, Home Office reference No. T1053486.

  • Domestic Violence (Haringey) (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of domestic violence were reported in the London borough of Haringey in each year since 1995; how many fatalities were...

  • Dovegate Prison

    To ask the Secretary of State for theHome Department whether the Director General ofthe National Offender Management Service visited Dovegate Prison on or around 6 August 2004.

  • Local Government Employees (Assault)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many employees in local government have been the victims of offences of violence suffered in the course of their employment in each of...

  • Engagements

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to visit Hammersmith and Fulham.

  • EU Accession Countries

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list (a) education services, (b) health services, (c) publicly-funded housing, (d) benefits, (e) employment protection and (f)...

  • European Police College

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what courses (a) are and (b) will be made available at the European Police College.

  • Female Genital Mutilation

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with which countries his Department has had discussions regarding the extra-territorial aspects of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2004.

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many air weapon offences have been committed in England and Wales by (a) 14, (b) 15, (c) 16, (d) 17-year-olds and (e) those over 18 years...

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research has been carried out on the effects of the provisions relating to air weapons in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003; and on...

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded by the police in which (a) a firearm was alleged to have been used and (b) an identified firearm other than an...

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used, broken down by (a) crime and (b) firearm used...

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been killed by firearms since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many air weapon offences have been committed in England and Wales by persons aged (a) 14, (b) 15, (c) 16, (d) 17 and (e) over 18 years...

  • Firearms Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research has been carried out on the effects of recent changes in air weapon legislation in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003; and what...

  • Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland Scheme

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action his Department will take to encourage those taking part in the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme to remain in Scotland...

  • Homophobic Assaults

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many homophobic assaults there were in London in each year since 1997.

  • Homophobic Assaults

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many homophobic hate crimes there have been since recording began, broken down by London borough; and if he will make a statement.

  • Hunger Strikers

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures are in place to deal with hunger strikers in detention centres.

  • Illegal Immigrants

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the recently announced figures for people estimated to be illegally in the country included dependants; and what methodology was used...

  • Immigration and Nationality Directorate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's Complaints Audit Committee produced in 2004; and how many complaints were made...

  • Licensed Premises (Violent Crime)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 June 2005, Official Report, column 764W, on Licensed Premises (violent crime), when he expects the statistics...

  • Live8 Concert (Policing)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the commissioner for the Metropolitan police regarding the use of police officers from other forces to help...

  • Methadone

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the size of the black market in methadone in the UK.

  • Metropolitan Police

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will rank each London borough Metropolitan Police Service by (a) number of officers, (b) number of crimes, (c) number of cases detected...

  • Metropolitan Police

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the pension and other benefits packages offered to new police constables joining the Metropolitan police in London are.

  • Miscarriages of Justice (Compensation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Government's policy is on recouping the costs of bed and board incurred during imprisonment from the compensation moneys paid to...

  • Missing Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 June 2005, Official Report, column 766W, on missing children, what assessment his Department has made of the...

  • Motoring Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females were convicted of motoring offences in (i)Southend, (ii) Essex and (iii) England and Wales in each of the...

  • Mr. Crispen Kulinsi

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will defer the enforced return of Mr. Crispen Kulinsi (Home Office ref K1188546) to Malawi pending consideration by his Department of...

  • Murder Rate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the murder rate per 1,000 of the population in (a) the constituency of Southend, West and (b) England and Wales was in each of the last...

  • Nazi War Criminals

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department's information held on alleged Nazi war criminals includes information on any persons who were formerly detained in the...

  • Police

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) cars, (b) vans, (c) trucks, (d) motor cycles, (e) push bicycles and (f) horses are operated by Lancashire police.

  • Police

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet a cross-party delegation from Northamptonshire, including hon. Members, to discuss funding for the county police force.

  • Police

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to remove the floor damping scheme for police authority grant funding for 2006–07 and beyond.

  • Pre-sentence Reports

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department has issued to the Probation Service on the preparation of pre-sentence reports.

  • Prisoners (Deportation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in London are held awaiting deportation having completed their sentences.

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison staff were diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis in the last year for which figures are available; and how many staff died...

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he has taken following the recommendation in 2004 of HM Inspectorate of Prisons that the female centre at HMP Durham be closed...

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places there were in prisons in London in each of the last five years.

  • Probation Service

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken in the last two financial years to improve the health and safety of staff at probation hostels in England and Wales.

  • Religious Premises (Vandalism)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many acts of vandalism on (a) synagogues, (b) mosques, (c) churches, (d) temples and (e) Gurdwaras were reported in each of the last...

  • School-age Children (Protection from Crime)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure that children who are taken out of schools do not become victims of crime; and if he will make a statement.

  • Sentencing

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he collects on the average sentence imposed for similar crimes in different police and courts' service areas; and for which...

  • Speed Cameras

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money has been raised from speed cameras in each of the last five years; how much of this money has been retained by road safety...

  • UK Citizenship

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been refused UK citizenship based on an insufficient standard of English in each of the last 10 years, broken down by...

  • UK-US Data Transfer

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether UK data on criminal convictions are made available to United States customs and immigration agents; and on what basis.

  • Vehicle Registration

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals in England and Wales have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted in relation to failing to register their vehicles in...

  • Victims of Crime

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people of school age have been the victims of crime in (a) Southend, West constituency, (b) Essex, (c) Greater London and (d)...

  • Victims of Crime

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the victims of serious crime can take to prevent the perpetrators of such crimes from coming near their homes while on (a)...

  • Worker Registration Scheme

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government have commissioned research into the efficiency of the worker registration scheme; and how many people have registered...

  • Young Offenders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what financial penalties have been imposed on the contractors for (a) Hassockfield, (b) Medway, (c) Rainsbrook and (d) Oakhill secure...

  • Young Offenders

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what fees are paid by the Youth Justice Board for a bed in (a) a local authority secure children's home, (b) secure training centre and (c) a...

  • Young People (Secure Training Centres)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the young people admitted from each secure training centre to hospital in each of the last four years had been involved in...

  • Young People (Secure Training Centres)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions young people have been admitted to hospital from each secure training centre in each of the last four years.

  • Young People (Secure Training Centres)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the young people admitted to hospital from each secure training centre in each of the last four years were admitted due to (a)...