Home Department

written question – answered on 8 January 2007.

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  • Assaults

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions took place for (a) assaults and (b) assaults with a minor injury in (i) each basic command unit in Durham...

  • Assaults

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) assaults and (b) assaults with a minor injury took place on police officers in (i) each basic command unit in Durham...

  • Asylum Registration Cards

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum registration cards were issued in each month since July 2006.

  • Asylum and Immigration

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made by his Department in working with the Local Government Association, London councils, the Department for Education...

  • Asylum and Immigration

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many under-18s were detained in immigration removal centres on 30 November 2006.

  • Asylum and Immigration

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many under-18s were held at Colnbrook immigration removal centre on 30 November 2006.

  • Bereavement Counselling

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what services are provided by Government for people bereaved as a result of a (a) homicide and (b) road crash; what the cost was for...

  • Child Immigrants

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children who had been detained for more than 28 days were being held at immigration detention centres on (a) 31 August, (b) 30...

  • Corporal Punishment

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward proposals for legislation to abolish all forms of corporal punishment of children.

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letter to him dated 9 November from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, with regard to Ms Jacinta...

  • Crime: Cumbria

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of (a) violence against the person, (b) theft and (c) criminal damage were committed in Cumbria in each year since 1998.

  • Departmental Computer Data

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any of his Department's (a) computer data and (b) computer back-up data is stored outside the United Kingdom.

  • Departmental Computer Data

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any corrupt data have been detected on his Department's computer systems.

  • Departmental Computer Data

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department where his Department's computer (a) data and (b) back-up data is physically stored.

  • Departmental Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the cases of overspend on his Department's projects costing over £5 million since 2001; and if he will make a statement.

  • Departmental Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was to his Department of conferences relating to the new asylum model in the last 12 months.

  • Departmental Library

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for his Department's library was for each of the last five years.

  • Departmental Staff

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) marketing officers, (b) communications officers and (c) press officers are employed in his Department; and what the total...

  • DNA Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people under 18 years who have DNA profiles stored on the national database have not been charged or cautioned for an offence; and...

  • DNA Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of (a) murder, (b) manslaughter, (c) grievous bodily harm and (d) rape have been solved as a result of the retention on...

  • DNA Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many DNA profiles were recorded on the national DNA database in each of the last two years.

  • DNA Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of people on the DNA database have been convicted of a crime.

  • DNA Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost is of collecting and entering one DNA profile onto the national DNA Database; and if he will make a statement.

  • Driver Improvement Courses

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether acceptance of a place on a driver improvement course offered by Bedfordshire police in lieu of prosecution involves admission of...

  • Driver Improvement Courses

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of fees for the driver improvement course offered by Bedfordshire police service to motorists is received by the service.

  • Efficiency Gains

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will break down by area of expenditure the £445 million efficiency gains set out in paragraph 6.18 of the pre-Budget report; and...

  • Escort Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments his Department has made to security firms for (a) detention and (b) escort services provided to the Immigration and...

  • Foreign Prisoners

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases involving foreign prisoners claiming to be wrongfully detained after the end of their sentence have been settled (a) out of...

  • Furniture

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by his Department on furniture made by British firms in each year since 2000.

  • Gershon Review

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent by his Department and agencies in order to achieve Gershon efficiency savings; whether these costs were included in...

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of those resident at the Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre on 29 November 2006 have (a) been bailed, (b) been transferred...

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library the results of internal inquiries into disturbances at Harmondsworth Immigration detention centre before 29...

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his written statement of 30 November 2006, Official Report, column 115WS, on Harmondsworth, what assessment he has made of the...

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will conduct an inquiry into the disturbances at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre on 29 November.

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the contract to run the Harmondsworth immigration detention centre includes provision for his Department's press office to deal with...

  • Harmondsworth Centre

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many detainees have been removed from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre following the incident on 28 November; and where they have...

  • Immigration and Nationality Directorate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Warley of 5 September on behalf of...

  • Immigration and Nationality Directorate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken by the forgery unit of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to resolve a case was in the latest period for...

  • Immigration and Nationality Directorate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases the forgery unit of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate are working on.

  • Immigration and Nationality Directorate

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many forged document cases at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate are unsolved.

  • Justice and Home Affairs: Passerelle

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government are opposed in principle to the use of the passerelle in justice and home affairs.

  • Langley House

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there are any plans to renegotiate the contract with Langley house to supply secure beds to the Home Office.

  • National Offender Management Service

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes he expects in the number of probation officers required under the offender management model of supervision.

  • National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the £55,000 cash sum seized from a proscribed terrorist organisation by the national terrorist financial investigation unit reported...

  • National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what way the seizure of funds from a proscribed terrorist organisation by the national terrorist financial investigation unit make a...

  • National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the national terrorist financial investigation unit cost between 2001 and 2006.

  • New Asylum Model

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many extra staff have been recruited to his Department to operate the new asylum model.

  • Parliamentary Questions

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to parliamentary question 107352 on Abid Javaid, tabled by the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden for answer on...

  • Prison Management (2 annotations)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what evidence he has collected on the comparative efficacy of (a) private prisons and (b) public sector managed prisons in (i) reducing...

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances drug users who begin a custodial sentence (a) are required to go through a detoxification process and (b) are allowed...

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prisoners were prosecuted for offences committed in prison of (a) violence, (b) drugs, (c) threatening or abusive behaviour...

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent guidance has been issued by the Prison Service on the adoption of common criteria for the distribution of condoms in prisons.

  • Prisons

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are earning at or above the national minimum wage.

  • Probation Service

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been allocated to training and development for those working in the probation service for (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c)...

  • Recidivism

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his most recent estimate is of the rate of recidivism amongst (a) child sex offenders, (b) other sex offenders, (c) violent crime...

  • Recidivism

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the adjusted re-offending rate for persons on community orders was during the two-year period following completion of the order at the...

  • Release and Recall Section

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contractors have referred breaches of curfew orders to the Release and Recall Section in each quarter for which figures are...

  • Retirement Age (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, columns 189-90W, on the retirement age, what his Department's policy is on the...

  • Road Accidents: Prosecutions

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of fatal road crashes have resulted in a criminal prosecution in the last five years.

  • Rural Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what programmes his Department operates to make particular provision in rural areas; and what the cost of such programmes is expected to be...

  • Sentencing Discounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will assess the merits of introducing differential sentencing discounts for guilty pleas made (a) before trial and (b) at trial.

  • Terrorism Act

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases of people arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 a charge was ultimately brought under (a) the threshold test and (b) the...

  • Victim Support

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many victims were supported by Victim Support in each of the last five years; and of these, what percentage were victims bereaved as a...

  • Victim Support

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what victim groups have received money from the Victims fund since it was set up in 2004, broken down by type of crime; how much in each year...

  • Youth Justice System

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many first time entrants there were into the youth justice system in the year ending 31 March (a) 2004, (b) 2005 and (c) 2006.