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Immigration Rules
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Government plan to amend the current immigration rules to take into account the decision of the European Court of Justice in R v. Immigration Appeal Tribunal ex parte Surinder Singh of 7 July 1992.
Mr. Charles Wardle : There is no need to amend the immigration rules.
The effect of the European Court of Justice's judgment in the particular circumstances of this case is that, where a British citizen has been exercising rights under the treaty of Rome to work in another member state and has a spouse who is not a European Community national, on their return to the United Kingdom the entry of the spouse is governed by European Community law rather than by the United Kingdom immigration rules.
Rights of Residence
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Government propose to introduce the legislation required under Council directives 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 90/366/EEC.
Mr. Charles Wardle : We are planning to lay before Parliament in the autumn an Order in Council under the European Communities Act 1972 to bring into domestic legislation these EC directives. They are being imple-mented administratively in the meantime.
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Asylum
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State forthe Home Department how many applications for entry clearance in order to seek asylum in the United Kingdom were (a) received and (b) granted by country during 1992 and the first quarter of 1993.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The information requested is not separately identifiable in the statistics.
Multiple-occupation Houses (Fires)
Mr. Spellar : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have died or been injured in fires in houses in multiple occupation in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The following table shows casualties in fires attended by local authority fire brigades in the United Kingdom in detached, semi-detached and terraced dwelling houses, that were in multiple occupation, for the years 1987 to 1991.
Fire related deaths and injuries in fires
in multiple occupancy dwelling houses<1>, attended
by local authority fire brigades, United Kingdom
Year |Fire related deaths|Fire related
|injuries
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1987 |110 |1,404
1988 |93 |1,232
1989 |85 |1,295
1990 |68 |1,297
1991 |48 |1,321
<1> Includes detached, semi-detached and terraced houses and bungalows.
Source: Home Office Fire Statistics, based on reports from local authority fire
brigades.
Lorrain Osman
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the prison service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Dr. Robert Spink, dated July 1993 : The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the costs of keeping Lorrain Osman in custody for seven years before his extradition.
We do not collect figures on the costs of individual prisoners, but the average cost of holding a person in custody from 6 December 1985 to 15 December 1992 in local and remand prisons would have been £140, 242 at 1992-93 prices.
Metropolitan Police
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were employed by the Metropolitan police for each year from 1980 to 1992 ; how many were women officers and how many were from ethnic minority groups ; and if he will give the equivalent figures for those stationed in Lewisham.
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Mr. Charles Wardle : The information available is in the table :
Figures as at 31 December each year apart from <1>below
Year |Total MPS strength|Total female |Total ethnic |Lewisham strength
|strength |minority strength
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1980 |23,691 |2,074 |109 |n/a
1981 |25,161 |2,315 |137 |n/a
1982 |26,350 |2,464 |182 |n/a
1983 |26,806 |2,483 |238 |n/a
1984 |26,844 |2,484 |253 |n/a
1985 |26,783 |2,528 |287 |n/a
1986 |27,005 |2,637 |334 |n/a
1987 |27,438 |2,935 |418 |292
1988 |28,009 |3,211 |426 |299
1989 |28,267 |3,408 |441 |<1>298
1990 |28,364 |3,551 |483 |349
1991 |28,455 |3,714 |552 |329
1992 |28,229 |3,834 |594 |313
<1>Strength as at 23 July 1989.
Prisons (AIDS)
Mr. Keith Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners have died as a result of AIDS in Her Majesty's prisons.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the prison service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Keith Hill, dated July 1993 : The Home Secretary has asked me to write to you directly in response to your recent Parliamentary Question on deaths in custody attributable to AIDS.
Twelve prisoners in England and Wales have died as a consequence of AIDS related illness while in custody. All were in an outside hospital or hospice at the time of death.
Crime, Harwich
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the figures for reported crime in Harwich between 1979 and 1992.
Mr. Maclean : The information is not collected centrally.
Registration and Naturalisation
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of how many applications for (a) adult registration with entitlement, (b) naturalisation and (c) registration of minors his Department (i) will receive and (ii) expects to grant in 1993- 94.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The latest estimate of the numbers of citizenship applications likely to be received and granted in 1993-94 is as follows :
|Intake |Applications granted
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Adult registration |5,500 |5,000
Naturalisation |24,500 |30,000
Minor registration |6,000 |10,000
|----- |-----
Total |36,000 |45,000
Cautions
Mr. John Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the current levels of cautioning by police officers in the last available six months and the corresponding period two and three years ago.
Mr. Maclean : The latest available information is given in the table. 1992 data will not be available until the autumn.
Offenders cautioned for all offences, excluding motoring offences,
during July to December by type of offence
Number and percentage of offenders found guilty or cautioned
1988 to 1991
England and Wales
Thousands
July to December
Type of offence |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
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Indictable offences<1> |63.9 |69.3 |84.4 |94.3
Summary offences<1> |47.1 |51.0 |51.7 |51.3
All offences<1> |111.0 |120.3 |136.1 |145.6
<1>Excludes motoring offences.
g
Offenders cautioned as a percentage
of offenders found guilty or cautioned
Per cent.
July to December
Type of offence |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
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Indictable offences<1> |28 |31 |34 |37
Summary offences<1> |18 |18 |19 |19
All offences<1> |22 |24 |26 |28
<1>Excludes motoring offences.
Prison Custody Officers
Mr. Hoon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the labour costs for HM Prison Service prison custody officers for each hour spent at court ; and what are the corresponding costs to public funds for Group 4 prison custody officers.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the prison service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Geoffrey Hoon, dated July 1993 : The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the hourly labour costs of Prison Service officers while they are at court and the corresponding costs of Group 4 prison custody officers.
We do not collect costs for Prison Service staff specifically while they are on court duty, but the average hourly costs of prison officers in 1992- 93 were as follows :
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Region Grade
|Principal Officer|Senior Officer |Officer
|£ |£ |£
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Inner London |15.31 |14.12 |12.73
Intermediate zone |14.71 |13.52 |12.15
Outer London |14.49 |13.30 |11.94
National |13.85 |12.68 |11.32
Group 4 are paid an overall price for the escorting of prisoners to courts from prisons and police stations, their subsequent custody at court and as necessary escort to prison after their hearings. The constituent costs are a matter for them as the contractor.
Bail Information Schemes
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many bail information schemes currently exist in (a) courts and (b) prisons in England and Wales ; and if he will list those in each category.
Mr. Maclean : As at 15 July 1993, there was a total of 179 court- based and 131 prison-based bail information schemes in operation. A list of those schemes in each category follows. Prison-based bail information schemes Avon
Bristol
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Cheshire
Risley
Cleveland
Holme House
Devon
Exeter
Durham
Low Newton
Essex
Chelmsford
Hampshire
Winchester
Kent
Canterbury, Elmley
Lancashire
Lancaster Farms, Preston
Leicestershire
Glen Parva
Lincolnshire
Lincoln
Greater London
Bellmarsh, Brixton, Feltham, Pentonville, Wandsworth, Holloway, Wormwood Scrubs
Greater Manchester
Hindley, Manchester
Surrey
Camberley, Chertsy, Dorking, Epsom,. Esher, Farnham, Godstone, Guildford, Reigate, Staines, Woking
East Sussex
Brighton
West Sussex
Worthing, Crawley, Chichester, Horsham, Haywards Heath
Warwickshire
Leamington Spa, Mid-Warwickshire
West Midlands
Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, Warley, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton
North Yorkshire
Harrogate, York
South Yorkshire
Sheffield, Doncaster
West Yorkshire
Bradford, Leeds, Calder, Brighouse, Todmorden
Wiltshire
Swindon, Chippenham
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South GlamorganCardiff, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
West Glamorgan
Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot
North Wales
Wrexham, Mold
Powys
Brecon, Llandrindod, Ysradgynlais
Merseyside
Liverpool
Oxfordshire
Bullingdon
Shropshire
Shrewsbury
West Midlands
Birmingham, Brinsford
South Yorkshire
Moorland
West Yorkshire
Leeds
West Glamorgan
Swansea
Court-based bail information schemes Avon
Bristol, North Avon, Woodspring
Bedfordshire
Luton
Berkshire
Forest, Maidenhead, Reading, Slough, Newbury, Windsor
Buckinghamshire
Amersham, Aylesbury, Beaconsfield, Buckingham, Wycombe, Milton Keynes
Cheshire
Chester, Ellesmere Port, Halton, Macclesfield, South Cheshire, Vale Royal, Warrington
Cleveland
Teeside
Cumbria
Carlisle, Barrow, Whitehaven, Millom, Ulverston, Wigton, West Allerdale, Kendal, Windermere
Derbyshire
East Derbyshire, Derby, Chesterfield
Devon
Exeter, Torbay, Newbridge, Teignmouth, Totnes, Plymouth
Dorset
Bournmouth, Poole, Weymouth
Gloucester
Cheltenham, Gloucester
Hampshire
Southampton, Portsmouth
Hereford and Worcester
Hereford, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Redditch Hertfordshire
Bishops Stortford, Cheshunt, Dacorum, Hatfield, Hertford, Hitchin, Letchworth, Stevenage, St Albans, Watford
Humberside
Scunthorpe, Hull, Grimsby
Lancashire
Preston, Blackpool, Fleetwood
Leicestershire
Leicester
Lincolnshire
Lincoln, Grantham, Boston, Skegness, Gainsborough
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