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CS Sprays
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces in England and Wales do not hold stocks of CS sprays; how many make it their policy not to use CS sprays; and if he will make a statement. [129248]
Mr. Charles Clarke: Three police forces in England and Wales do not use CS spray: Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Sussex. The remaining 40 forces will hold stocks of CS spray for issue to their officers.
Firearms
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the number of unlicensed shotguns held in the UK; and if he will make a statement. [129454]
Mr. Charles Clarke: So far as I am aware, no reliable estimate exists of the number of unlicensed shotguns in the United Kingdom.
Young Offenders (Barnet)
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of time was from arrest to sentence of persistent young offenders at the magistrates courts in Barnet in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. [129278]
Mr. Charles Clarke [holding answer 6 July 2000]: The average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders sentenced at Barnet magistrates court is estimated to have been 100 days in the period April 1999 to March 2000. This estimate is based on data collated by the Lord Chancellor's Department. It is calculated from the average time from charge to sentence for persistent young offenders sentenced at Barnet magistrates court between April 1999 and March 2000 and on the police force level results of a survey on the average time between arrest and charge for persistent young offenders dealt with in 1999. The figure excludes any cases that were dealt with at Barnet magistrates court but were committed to the Crown Court for trial or sentence. It is based on only 19 sentencing occasions and therefore should be interpreted cautiously.
Lords Lieutenant
Mr. Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money his Department has spent in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available on (a) Lords Lieutenant and (b) their deputies in England. [129678]
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Mr. Mike O'Brien: Expenditure incurred by the Home Office in support of Lords Lieutenant in each of the last 10 years was:
| Year | £ |
|---|---|
| 1990-91 | 249,529 |
| 1991-92 | 302,793 |
| 1992-93 | 369,522 |
| 1993-94 | 475,504 |
| 1994-95 | 568,509 |
| 1995-96 | 731,830 |
| 1996-97 | 670,307 |
| 1997-98 | 781,063 |
| 1998-99 | 660,066 |
| 1999-2000 | 686,173 |
No expenditure is incurred on Deputy Lieutenants.
Policing (Cleveland)
Mr. Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were employed by Cleveland Constabulary in each of the last five years. [129519]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The information requested is as follows:
| Year | Number |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 1,430 |
| 1996 | 1,444 |
| 1997 | 1,481 |
| 1998 | 1,453 |
| 1999 | 1,373 |
Mr. Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many criminal offences were recorded in the Cleveland Constabulary area by category in (a) 1999 and (b) 1986. [129518]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The requested information is given in the table. The data are not comparable because of changes to the counting rules for recorded crime which came into effect on 1 April 1998.
| Offence category | Year ending September 1999 | Calendar year 1986 |
|---|---|---|
| Violence against the person | 3,016 | 1,959 |
| Sexual offences | 372 | 284 |
| Robbery | 836 | 121 |
| Burglary | 16,476 | 15,089 |
| Theft and handling | 30,668 | 29,640 |
| Fraud and forgery | 2,606 | 2,097 |
| Criminal damage | 10,956 | 8,876 |
| Drug and other offences | 1,532 | 67 |
| Total | 66,462 | 58,133 |
Youth Justice Board
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library an
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analysis of how the Youth Justice Board plans to spend the budget and Development Fund set out on page 77 of the Home Office Annual report 1999-2000. [129523]
Mr. Charles Clarke: An analysis will be placed in the Library on Wednesday 12 July.
Research and Statistics
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of his Department's expenditure on the Research and Statistics Service supports (a) the preparation and publication of statistics and (b) research. [129530]
Mr. Straw: My Department's Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (RDS) conducts a wide range of social research, development and statistics work, often using multidisciplinary teams working on a range of statistical and research outputs and for this reason details of expenditure cannot be broken down in the way requested. The available information on RDS expenditure as a whole for the 1999-2000 financial year is shown in the table:
| Category | Total (£) | Percentage of total expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| Staff running costs(7) | 7,827,877 | 43.9 |
| Costs of RDS publications | 495,230 | 2.8 |
| Other non-pay running costs | 3,184,347 | 17.9 |
| Total running costs | 11,507,454 | 64.5 |
| External research and grants | 6,356,819 | 35.5 |
| Total expenditure(8) | 17,828,772 | 100 |
(7) RDS staff running costs includes £206,985 on communications and publications staff.
(8) RDS received a total of £454,021 in receipts in 1999-2000, which is excluded from this total.
In addition, a number of other areas of the Department undertake research, including the Fire Research and Development Group, which spent £542,998 (including £42,456 VAT recovered) on fire research in 1999-2000 in addition to pay-running costs of £761,787 in support of fire research. The Animal Procedures Committee plan to spend £295,000 on research and the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs has spent £225,000 (35 per cent. of the total inquiry expenditure).
Refugees
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library an analysis for (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01 of the main items of expenditure included under reception and resettlement of refugees referred to on page 80 of the Home Office Annual report 1999-2000. [129529]
Mr. Straw: The main items of expenditure included under reception and resettlement of refugees referred to on page 80 of the Home Office Annual report 1999-2000 are as follows:
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Grants
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the beneficiaries in (a) 1999-2000 and (b) 2000-01 of grants to assist organisations or projects working to reduce racial disadvantage, giving the sums of money paid in each such grant. [129524]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The following organisations have received funding under the Reduction of Racial Disadvantage grant programme:
| Financial year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Organisation | 1999-2000(9) | 2000-01(10) |
| Account Finance Forum | 6,707 | -- |
| Account 3--PMN | 52,920 | 78,698 |
| Alert in WF | 7,500 | -- |
| An-Nisa Society | 3,450 | -- |
| Arachne | 15,000 | -- |
| ASHA Foundation | 210,000 | -- |
| Association of British Hujjaj | 20,650 | -- |
| Blackliners | 1,500 | -- |
| CEMVO | -- | 60,000 |
| Community Self-Build | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Council Disabled Warwickshire | 6,000 | -- |
| Council Education World Citizenship | 5,000 | -- |
| Council of Europe | 10,000 | -- |
| Euro Internet ICARE | 5,000 | -- |
| Global Cultural Diversity Congress | 50,000 | -- |
| Greenwich REC | 5,500 | -- |
| Heartstone | 177,012 | -- |
| Joseph Rowntree Trust | 20,000 | -- |
| KENTE | 89,830 | -- |
| Knights Foyer | 230,000 | -- |
| Limehouse Project | 21,335 | 63,160 |
| Maternity Alliance | 60,000 | -- |
| Montserrat Community Support Project | 250,000 | -- |
| Muslim News | 34,000 | -- |
| Powys Victim Support | 5,500 | -- |
| PRIAE Bradford University | 80,000 | -- |
| Reproductive Health | 400 | -- |
| Runnymede Trust | 16,778 | -- |
| Serious Music Ltd. | -- | 2,500 |
| Southall Black Sisters | 990 | -- |
| Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Theatre Museum (Paul Robeston) | 38,000 | -- |
| Windsor Fellowship | 123,500 | 6,500 |
| Worcestershire REC | 8,250 | -- |
| Total | 1,644,342 | 374,858 |
(9) Paid
(10) Budget
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