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Young Offenders
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the full complement of health care offenders and nurses at (a) Feltham Young Offenders Unit and (b) other young offender units. [84846]
Mr. George Howarth:
The figures requested are given in the table.
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Mr. Peter Bottomley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on police (a) progress in implementing and (b) plans to implement recommendations of the Macpherson report. [85063]
Mr. Straw:
On 24 March I published, an Action Plan which sets out how the report's recommendations will be taken forward. Progress has been made on implementing the recommendations in line with the published plan. Specifically in April:
Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many unacceptable absences are allowed before an offender on community supervision becomes the subject of breach proceedings. [84889]
Mr. George Howarth:
The current National Standards for the Supervision of Offenders in the Community require breach proceedings to be taken on, or before, a third unacceptable absence. The Government are keen to improve the enforcement of community penalties and are at present reviewing the National Standards with a view to introducing revised Standards next April.
Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were on the Probation Service's community supervision case load for (i) 1996, (ii) 1997 and (iii) 1998; and what the probation budget was for England and Wales for each of those years. [84888]
Mr. George Howarth:
The case load figures are given in the table. The budget figures are shown in the Government's Expenditure Plans 1999-2000 to 2001-02 for the Home Office and Charity Commission (Volume Two).
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New police discipline procedures and code of conduct came into effect.
Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary inspection of the Metropolitan Police is under way.
Targets for the recruitment, retention and career progression of minority ethnic officers were set and published.
New guidance to the police on pre-inquest disclosure in relation to deaths in police custody was issued.
I wrote to all local crime and disorder reduction partnerships about tackling racist crime.
A new internal inspection and review framework was introduced within the Metropolitan Police.
A draft manual of police operations in relation to race and hate crime was issued for consultation.
The Steering Group, chaired by me, which has responsibility for overseeing implementation of the report, met for the first time on 18 May.
| All persons supervised (19) | |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 171 |
| 1997 | 185 |
| 1998(20) | 191 |
(19) Includes those supervised under criminal court orders, those supervised pre and post-release from custody, and those under Family Court supervision.
(20) Estimated figure at 30 September 1998.
Probation Orders
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offenders were made subject to (i) a Probation Order and (ii) a Combination Order in (a) 1997 and (b) 1998; and how many in each case have been breached for failure to comply with the terms of the order. [84890]
Mr. George Howarth: The available figures are given in the tables.
| Probation Order | Combination Order | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 50.9 | 18.9 |
| 1997 (first 9 months) | 38.2 | 14.3 |
| 1998 (first 9 months)(21) | 40.6 | 15.2 |
(21) Estimated
| All terminations | Failed to comply with the terms of the order (22) | |
|---|---|---|
| Probation order | 51.4 | 2.3 |
| Combination order | 16.8 | 1.5 |
(22) Does not include terminated early for conviction of an offence.
Asylum Seekers
Fiona Mactaggart:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people applied for asylum in the UK during 1998; how many of these applied (i) at a port of entry and (ii) within the country; how many decisions were made; and of those how many were (a) recognition as a refugee, (b) exceptional leave to enter or remain and (c) refusal of asylum; and of the refusals, how many were (x) on safe third country grounds, (y) on non-compliance grounds and (z) refused after full consideration of the case; how many applications were withdrawn; and how many asylum applications were outstanding at the end of the year. [85045]
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Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The information requested will be published on 27 May in the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin, "Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 1998", a copy of which will be placed in the Library of the House on that day.
Fiona Mactaggart:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people applied for asylum in the UK in (a) March and (b) April; how many people were (i) recognised as refugees, (ii) granted exceptional leave and (iii) refused asylum in each of those months; and how many decisions on the asylum backlog were taken in each of those months. [85043]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
The information requested will be made available on the Home Office Internet site at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/index.htm, as part of the monthly reporting of asylum figures, on 25 May 1999.
Fiona Mactaggart:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the pilot of the Casework Programme in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to begin. [84975]
Mr. Mike O'Brien:
Piloting involves using the system on real cases for the first time and will not begin until the system has been thoroughly tested by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. It is not possible at this stage to give a firm date, since testing has not yet begun.
Mr. Stinchcombe:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many working days elapsed between the issuing of guidance to prisons in regard to arrangements for unconvicted prisoners wishing to take part in the local government elections and elections for the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament and the date by which applications to vote by post or proxy had to be received by electoral registration officers. [84949]
Mr. George Howarth:
Five working days elapsed between the date that guidance was issued to prisons by electronic mail, and the closing date for receipt by electoral registration officers for applications to vote by post or proxy.
Mr. Stinchcombe:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by prison, the number of prisoners on each level of the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme. [84948]
Mr. George Howarth:
The provisional figures for 30 April 1999, which are subject to final validation, are given in the table.
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