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Illegal Entrants

Mr. Henderson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the (a) passengers in total and (b) persons treated as illegal entrants who were granted temporary admission or release in 1995 and 1996 to the latest convenient date subsequently absconded; how many of these were (1) asylum seekers and (2) applying for leave on some other basis; and how many (i) later reported voluntarily to the immigration authorities and (ii) were redetained. [38079]

Mr. Kirkhope: The available information relates to the numbers of person who absconded, either from detention or by failing to respond to the terms of temporary admission or release, and is given in the table. The other information requested is not available.

Absconders

Category of person	1995	1996 First quarter
Passengers(67)	2,049	605
Illegal entrants:
Asylum seekers	186	45
Others	101	18
Total	287	63

(67) A breakdown between asylum seekers and other passengers is not available.

Publicity

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of staff employed full time or part time (i) to provide information and publicity and (ii) to work on the press and media in (a) 1995-96, (b) 1994-95 and (c) 1993-94. [39410]

Mr. Howard: The cost of staff employed full time or part time by my Department to provide (i) information and publicity; and (ii) press office services, all media, in each of the years listed was as follows:

1995-96
(i) £558,238
(ii) £675,761
1994-95
(i) £511,307
(ii) £661,692
1993-94
(i) £524,251
(ii) £699,002

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These figures include information and administrative staff. They do not include press and publicity staff employed by the prisons agency.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his Department's budget in 1996-97 for consultants to assist with information, publicity, press and media. [39348]

Mr. Howard: My Department's communication directorate budget for 1996-97 includes no provision for consultants to assist with information, publicity, press and media. The directorate buys the great majority of its production services from a range of suppliers, but does not use consultants. Communication directorate specialists from the Government information service provides Ministers and officials with advice with advice on all aspects of information, publicity and press and media.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff were employed full time or part time (a) to provide information and publicity and (b) on press and media in (i) 1995-96, (ii) 1994-95 and (iii) 1993-94. [39420]

Mr. Howard: Staff numbers employed by my Department, full time or part time, to provide (a) information and publicity and (b) press office services, all media, in each of the years listed were as follows:

1995-96
(a) 19
(b) 23
1994-95
(a) 17
(b) 22
1993-94
(a) 18
(b) 24

These figures include information and administrative grades. They do not include staff employed by the prisons agency.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the cost budgeted for staff, employed full time or part time, to provide information and publicity in 1996-97. [39445]

Mr. Howard: The cost budgeted for staff employed full time or part time by my Department to provide information and publicity in 1996-97 is £1,303,340. The total includes press office staff, £717,340, and publicity and campaigns staff, £586,000. It covers information and administrative grades but does not include prisons agency staff.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff are assumed in his Department's budget, employed (i) full time and (ii) part time, (a) to work on the press and media and (b) to provide information and publicity in 1996-97. [39368]

Mr. Howard: My Department's communication directorate budget for 1996-97 provides for employment of 24 press office, all media, staff and 19 information and publicity staff. These figures include information and administrative grades. There are two part-time

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information staff and two part-time administrative staff. The total does not include prisons agency staff.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the cost, assumed in the budget, of people employed full time or part time to work on the press and the media in 1996-97. [39985]

Mr. Howard: I will write to the hon. Member.

Vehicle Crime

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the average value of items stolen from cars in each of the last five years in South Yorkshire; [39238]

(2) what was the average value of items stolen in recorded domestic break-ins in each of the last five years in South Yorkshire. [39239]

Mr. Maclean: The information requested is contained in the table.

Notifiable offences recorded by the police in South Yorkshire--average value of property stolen(68)Average value (£)

Year	Theft from a vehicle	Burglary in a dwelling
1991	232	908
1992	254	1,429
1993	244	1,020
1994	242	1,138
1995	254	1,023

(68) Excluding offences where the value was recorded as nil.

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many recorded car break-ins there were in South Yorkshire in each year since 1979; [39242]

(2) how many recorded domestic burglaries there were in South Yorkshire in each year since 1979. [39241]

Mr. Maclean: The information requested in contained in the table.

Notifiable offences recorded by the police in South YorkshireNumber of offences

Year	Theft from a vehicle	Burglary in a dwelling
1979	5,478	4,439
1980	6,328	5,777
1981	8,305	6,557
1982	9,548	7,744
1983	9,933	9,015
1984	11,611	10,476
1985	10,407	9,057
1986	12,230	11,125
1987	13,821	11,712
1988	14,033	10,213
1989	16,055	10,132
1990	19,315	12,126
1991	21,848	15,085
1992	22,572	18,372
1993	25,016	25,230
1994	23,304	25,563
1995	24,217	22,235

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Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the clear-up rates of recorded (a) car break-ins and (b) burglaries in South Yorkshire in each year since 1979. [39243]

Mr. Maclean: The information requested is contained in the table.

Clear-up rates in South YorkshirePercentages

Year	Theft from a vehicle	Burglary
1979	30	40
1980	24	36
1981	33	44
1982	37	39
1983	40	40
1984	29	31
1985	37	41
1986	30	36
1987	31	35
1988	35	44
1989	33	36
1990	37	36
1991	29	27
1992	16	17
1993	8	13
1994	13	20
1995	12	22

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the average age of people convicted of (a) car theft and (b) burglary in South Yorkshire in each of the last five years. [39240]

Mr. Maclean: Information for 1990 to 1994 on the number of offenders convicted at all courts in the South Yorkshire police force area by age is given in the tables. Data for 1995 will not be available until the autumn.

Table A: Number of persons convicted at all courts of (a) car theft and (b) burglary offences in the South Yorkshire Police Force Area by age, 1990

		Burglary
Age	Car theft(69)	Domestic burglary	Non domestic burglary	Total burglary
10	1	2	--	2
11	2	6	5	11
12	4	8	4	12
13	10	14	21	35
14	17	22	25	47
15	68	35	47	82
16	85	50	44	94
17	197	91	75	166
18	172	53	105	158
19	139	70	88	158
20	90	34	66	100
21 and under 25	196	120	188	308
25 and under 30	(70)64	48	101	149
30 and under 40	24	32	45	77
40 and under 50	7	9	20	29
50 and under 60	2	3	6	9
60 and over	--	--	--	--
All ages	1,078	597	840	1,437

(69) Car theft includes the indictable offences of theft from vehicles; theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle car and the summary offences of stealing and unauthorised taking of a conveyance.

(70) Includes persons, convicted of summary offences, given the default age of 25 where the exact age was not known.

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Table B: Number of persons convicted at all courts of (a) car theft and (b) burglary offences in the South Yorkshire Police Force Area by age, 1991

		Burglary
Age	Car theft(71)	Domestic burglary	Non domestic burglary	Total burglary
10	--	--	--	--
11	1	1	2	3
12	10	8	9	17
13	14	18	7	25
14	36	25	16	41
15	100	43	45	88
16	102	43	56	99
17	123	58	61	119
18	156	79	89	168
19	114	71	77	148
20	108	55	77	132
21 and under 25	206	108	202	310
25 and under 30	(72)72	68	117	185
30 and under 40	47	44	72	116
40 and under 50	9	9	20	29
50 and under 60	3	2	5	7
60 and over	--	--	1	1
All ages	1,101	632	856	1,488

(71) Car theft includes the indictable offences of theft from vehicles; theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle car and the summary offences of stealing and unauthorised taking of a conveyance.

(72) Includes persons, convicted of summary offences, given the default age of 25 where the exact age was not known.

Table C: Number of persons convicted at all courts of (a) car theft and (b) burglary offences in the South Yorkshire Police Force Area by age, 1992

		Burglary
Age	Car theft(73)	Domestic burglary	Non domestic burglary	Total burglary
10	--	--	--	--
11	--	2	1	3
12	1	2	3	5
13	10	15	9	24
14	13	17	17	34
15	49	25	35	60
16	66	47	51	98
17	103	80	69	149
18	98	70	64	134
19	113	56	65	121
20	96	42	70	112
21 and under 25	173	130	159	289
25 and under 30	(74)83	55	102	157
30 and under 40	37	31	89	120
40 and under 50	5	9	22	31
50 and under 60	1	1	2	3
60 and over	1	--	1	1
All ages	849	582	759	1,341

(73) Car theft includes the indictable offences of aggravated vehicle taking--injury to person, damage to property of care (as from 1 April 1992); theft from vehicles; theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle car and the summary offences of stealing and unauthorised taking of a conveyance and aggravated vehicle taking where criminal damage of £2,000 or under (as from 1 April 1992).

(74) Includes persons, convicted of summary offences, given the default age of 25 where the exact age was not known.

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Table D: Number of persons convicted at all courts of (a) car theft and (b) burglary offences in the South Yorkshire Police Force Area by age, 1993

		Burglary
Age	Car theft(75)	Domestic burglary	Non domestic burglary	Total burglary
10	--	1	--	1
11	1	--	--	--
12	1	2	2	4
13	10	10	8	18
14	33	23	14	37
15	29	22	27	49
16	54	37	27	64
17	72	62	45	107
18	95	41	69	110
19	79	41	46	87
20	70	46	51	97
21 and under 25	130	103	132	235
25 and under 30	(76)47	52	95	147
30 and under 40	27	31	61	92
40 and under 50	6	4	10	14
50 and under 60	1	2	--	2
60 and over	--	--	1	1
All ages	655	477	588	1,065

(75) Car theft includes the indictable offences of aggravated vehicle taking--injury to person, damage to property of car; theft from vehicles; theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle car and the summary offences of stealing and unauthorised taking of a conveyance and aggravated vehicle taking where criminal damage of £2,000 or under.

(76) Includes persons, convicted of summary offences, given the default age of 25 where the exact age was not known.

Table E: Number of persons convicted at all courts of (a) car theft and (b) burglary offences in the South Yorkshire Police Force Area by age, 1994

		Burglary
Age	Car theft(77)	Domestic burglary	Non domestic burglary	Total burglary
10	1	--	--	--
11	1	--	3	3
12	4	1	3	4
13	8	10	4	14
14	22	29	14	43
15	47	45	22	67
16	60	48	36	84
17	81	52	36	88
18	92	72	41	113
19	54	43	41	84
20	57	42	27	69
21 and under 25	124	136	137	273
25 and under 30	(78)54	67	81	148
30 and under 40	26	39	65	104
40 and under 50	6	9	15	24
50 and under 60	--	--	3	3
60 and over	2	--	1	1
All ages	639	593	529	1,122

(77) Car theft includes the indictable offences of aggravated vehicle taking--injury to person, damage to property of car theft from vehicles; theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle car and the summary offences of stealing and unauthorised taking of a conveyance and aggravated vehicle taking where criminal damage of £2,000 or under.

(78) Includes persons, convicted of summary offences, given the default age of 25 where the exact age was not known.

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