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HOME DEPARTMENT
Police Station Detainees
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the levels of morbidity and mortality of detainees in police stations, for each of the last five years for which information is held. [4036]
Mr. Maclean: The available information held centrally relates to deaths of persons occurring within police stations. The information, which excludes the Metropolitan police district, is given in the table. Statistics for deaths occurring within the Metropolitan police district are produced by the force on a financial year basis and published in the annual reports of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, copies of which are available in the Library.
| Year | Number of deaths |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 19 |
| 1991 | 21 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 17 |
Mr. Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what clinical and therapeutic guidelines are in place for the care of detainees in police stations with opiate withdrawal; and if he will make a statement. [4035]
Mr. Maclean: The Department of Health has issued guidelines for the clinical management of substance misusers in police custody, which have been distributed to all police forces.
Mr. Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidelines are in place outlining standards of health care to which detainees in police stations are entitled; and if he will make a statement. [4034]
Mr. Maclean: The code of practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers-- code C--issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 sets out, among other things. the arrangements for the medical care of detained persons in a police station. The British Medical Association in conjunction with the Association of Police Surgeons has produced guidance for police surgeons on the health care of police detainees.
Police Surgeons
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police surgeons were approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983, for each of the last ten years for which figures are available. [4037]
Mr. Maclean: Police surgeons are employed by individual police forces. No information is held centrally on the numbers approved under the Mental Health Act.
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Mr. Betts:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each scheme so far agreed under the private finance initiative (a) capital and (b) revenue costs to public funds (i) under the PFI and (ii) estimated to have been incurred had the scheme been funded wholly within the public sector. [3814]
Mr. Howard:
Two projects have been contractually agreed under the private finance initiative.
| Schemes contractually agreed | (a) Capital | (b) Revenue (per annum) |
|---|---|---|
| (i) Under the PFI | ||
| Police National Network | (1)-- | (2)not available |
| Gatwick Immigration Detention Centre | (1)-- | (3)987 |
| (ii) If the projects had been wholly public sector funded: | ||
| Police National Network | 12,000 | 13,000 |
| Gatwick Immigration Detention Centre | 15,000 | (3)0 |
(1) The initial capital cost to the contractor of the PNN is believed to
be of the order of £10m (with an estimated full cost over 5 years of some £50 million), and of the Gatwick Centre £12m.
(2) Police forces purchase usage of the network from public funds,
and the value will vary with demand.
(3) The current contract relates only to the provision of the Centre. A
separate operating contract is to follow. 1. Under both scenarios, preparatory costs will/would have been incurred within my Department.
Mr. Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much capital expenditure is forecast to be included in the private finance initiative for the current financial year and the next five financial years. [3828]
Mr. Howard: Private sector capital expenditure in this financial year is expected to be £20 million. For future years. I refer the hon. Member to table 6.5 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report 1996-97" which was laid before the House on 28 November 1995.
Asylum Appeals
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been granted asylum on appeal in each of the last 20 years. [4038]
Mr. Kirkhope: Information for 1994 on the outcome of appeals of people who had been refused asylum-- including those initially granted exceptional leave to remain--is given in table 8.3 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 1994", issue 15/95. A copy of this publication is available in the Library.
Not all people whose appeals are allowed or referred back to the Secretary of State are granted asylum; some appeals allowed by adjudicators are reversed by the tribunal and others which were dismissed are subsequently granted asylum or exceptional leave to remain.
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Approximately 100 people are estimated to have been granted asylum after appeal in 1994. Information prior to 1994 is not available.
Ms Coffey:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many warrants of arrest for non-payment of compensation were issued in each police authority in the latest year for which latest information is available; if he will give the numbers of these warrants which were not executed; and how many were subsequently re-issued. [4282]
Mr. Maclean:
The information requested is not held centrally.
Mr. Donohue:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many ministerial visits have been undertaken by each Minister in his Department between 6 July and 1 December; and how many and what percentage of these have involved the Minister travelling abroad. [4225]
| Total visits | Visits abroad | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Secretary | 69 | 5 | 7.2 |
| Baroness Blatch | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Ann Widdecombe | 25 | 3 | 12 |
| Mr. David Maclean | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Mr. Nicholas Baker (to 17 October) | 5 | 1 | 20 |
| Mr. Timothy Kirkhope (from 17 October) | 4 | 0 | 0 |
My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Sackville) joined the Department on 28 November 1995 but did not make any ministerial visits between then and 1 December 1995.
Correspondence
Mr. Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston dated 29 August. [4529]
Mr. Howard: I wrote to the hon. Member about the case of Mr. Paul Malone today.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Disability Living Allowance
Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many more people aged 65 years or over would qualify for the mobility component of disability living allowance, at the higher and lower rate, respectively, if the age limit were removed; how many of them would be receiving attendance allowance or disability living allowance under the existing rules; how many people aged 65 years or over, by five year age groups, are now receiving the mobility component at the higher and lower rate respectively. [2739]
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Mr. Andrew Mitchell: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the tables.
| Age | Higher rate | Lower rate |
|---|---|---|
| 65-69 | 185,600 | 12,200 |
| 70-74 | 81,100 | None |
| 75-79 | 22,500 | None |
| 80+ | 2,700 | None |
| All | 291,900 | 12,200 |
Source: Analytical Services Division: 5 per cent. sample (31 August 1995).
| Higher rate | Lower rate |
|---|---|
| 2,000,000 | 60,000 |
Notes: 1. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 10,000, they are speculative and subject to very substantial margins of error. 2. Insufficient information is held to estimate how many of these people would be receiving DLA or AA under existing rules. Source: DLA statistics May 1995, OPCS Disability Survey 1985, Government Actuaries Department population projection 1992.
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