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Drugs
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with his Dutch counterpart about the policy of the Government of the Netherlands towards drugs. [137887]
Mr. Charles Clarke: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to his question on 31 October 2000, Official Report, column 431W. I have had no recent separate bi-lateral discussions with my Dutch counterpart.
Home Detention Curfew Scheme
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 2 November 2000, Official Report, column 610W, on the home detention curfew scheme, if he will list the sentences imposed on those prisoners released under the home detention curfew scheme who have since been convicted of a further offence. [137967]
Mr. Boateng: Information about sentences imposed upon prisoners placed on the home detention curfew scheme who have since been convicted of a further offence is not held centrally.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who have been released from prison under the home detention curfew scheme have committed two or more offences since their release; and what sentences they have received. [137884]
Mr. Boateng: As of 30 September 2000, the Prison Service was notified of 242 prisoners who had been convicted, cautioned or were awaiting prosecution for two or more offences committed while they were subject to the home detention curfew scheme. Information on the sentences imposed upon those prisoners who have been convicted is not held centrally.
Gay Relationships
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 31 October 2000, Official Report, column 425W, how many representations he has received (a) supporting and (b) opposing the civil registration of homosexual and lesbian relationships. [137997]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Since May 1997, we have received 37 representations supporting, and 10 representations opposing civil registration. These were predominantly from individual members of the public rather than from campaigning organisations.
Sex Videos (Juvenile Protection)
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 2 November 2000, Official Report, column 590W, when he will publish his conclusions regarding measures to protect children from exposure to sexually explicit material contained in videos with an R18 classification. [137991]
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Mr. Charles Clarke: I will publish my conclusions as soon as I have had an opportunity to consider the responses to the consultation paper.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many responses he received to the consultation paper published on 24 July regarding the protection of children from exposure to sexually explicit material. [137890]
Mr. Charles Clarke: To date, 107 responses have been received to the Consultation Paper on the Regulation of R18 videos. The consultation period formally ended on 31 October although several individuals and organisations have sought permission to send responses after this date.
Football Hooligans
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people arrested at Premiership and Nationwide league grounds during the (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1997-98 seasons were (i) convicted of an offence and (ii) given a custodial sentence. [137889]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The information requested is not available. Most types of offences committed in connection with football are not specific to football; because convictions are recorded by category of offence rather than by the location or circumstances of the offence, no separate record is kept as to which offences took place at football grounds.
Child Abuse
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will commission a statistical study of the link between domestic violence and child abuse. [137883]
Mr. Boateng: The Government are well aware of the links between domestic violence and child abuse. These have already been documented by a number of research studies. A useful guide is contained in "Making an Impact: children and domestic violence: a training and resource pack". This document prepared by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Barnardo's and the University of Bristol was published by the University of Bristol in 1998. The Government's own publication "Working Together to Safeguard Children"--a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, makes clear that everyone working with women and children should be alert to the frequent inter-relationship between domestic violence and the abuse and neglect of children. It also notes that domestic violence in itself is likely to have a damaging effect on children's health and development.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many instances of child abuse were reported in each police force area in each of the last three years. [137882]
Mr. Charles Clarke: It is not known how many instances of child abuse were reported to the police in the last three years.
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Offences recorded by the police are not collected by age of victim nationally. The number of offences recorded by the police, which can be identified as committed against children, is given in the table, by police force areas
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for the years 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000. Data for cruelty to or neglect of children were not collected separately prior to April 1998.
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| Cruelty to or neglect of children | Abandoning a child under the age of two years | Child abduction | Gross indecency with a child | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 25 | 3 | 1 | -- | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 30 | 22 |
| Bedfordshire | 3 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 31 | 11 | 10 |
| Cambridgeshire | 30 | 42 | 2 | -- | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 17 |
| Cheshire | 59 | 71 | -- | 3 | -- | 1 | 4 | -- | 60 | 37 | 24 |
| Cleveland | 8 | 7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 5 |
| Cumbria | 14 | 23 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 6 | 20 | 6 |
| Derbyshire | 19 | 22 | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 14 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 35 | 74 | -- | -- | 3 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 29 | 47 | 54 |
| Dorset | 3 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 28 | 16 | 10 |
| Durham | 15 | 19 | -- | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 29 | 13 |
| Essex | 43 | 53 | -- | 1 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 27 | 40 | 38 | 46 |
| Gloucestershire | 12 | 21 | -- | -- | -- | 4 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 7 | 16 |
| Greater Manchester | 80 | 102 | 2 | -- | 2 | 33 | 38 | 45 | 64 | 84 | 121 |
| Hampshire | 24 | 70 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 58 | 38 | 66 |
| Hertfordshire | 75 | 15 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 18 |
| Humberside | 39 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 33 | 36 | 23 |
| Kent | 36 | 57 | 1 | -- | -- | 7 | 13 | 12 | 39 | 53 | 26 |
| Lancashire | 52 | 37 | 1 | -- | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | -- | 49 | 50 |
| Leicestershire | 8 | 17 | 1 | -- | 2 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| Lincolnshire | 24 | 13 | -- | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 27 | 14 |
| City of London | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Merseyside | 30 | 35 | 4 | 1 | -- | 27 | 10 | 37 | 31 | 25 | 28 |
| Metropolitan Police | 884 | 1,023 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 117 | 144 | 125 | 291 | 206 | 201 |
| Norfolk | 8 | 18 | 1 | 2 | -- | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 17 |
| Northamptonshire | 12 | 10 | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 19 |
| Northumbria | 66 | 49 | -- | -- | -- | 15 | 16 | 24 | 16 | 23 | 42 |
| North Yorkshire | 22 | 12 | 1 | -- | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 13 |
| Nottinghamshire | 71 | 65 | 1 | 1 | -- | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 34 | 26 |
| South Yorkshire | 14 | 23 | 3 | -- | -- | 2 | 6 | 17 | 41 | 41 | 31 |
| Staffordshire | 11 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 21 | 23 |
| Suffolk | 13 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | 4 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 34 |
| Surrey | 21 | 26 | -- | 1 | -- | 7 | 3 | 5 | 40 | 48 | 20 |
| Sussex | 45 | 30 | -- | -- | -- | 9 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 30 | 38 |
| Thames Valley | 26 | 45 | 2 | 1 | -- | 5 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 26 |
| Warwickshire | 7 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 9 |
| West Mercia | 55 | 9 | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 38 |
| West Midlands | 86 | 202 | -- | 1 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 31 | 40 | 63 |
| West Yorkshire | 104 | 113 | -- | 3 | -- | 9 | 15 | 15 | 72 | 54 | 64 |
| Wiltshire | 22 | 13 | -- | 1 | -- | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 19 |
| England | 2,101 | 2,424 | 47 | 42 | 48 | 372 | 475 | 554 | 1,230 | 1,202 | 1,284 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 42 | 66 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 23 | 29 | 19 |
| Gwent | 53 | 99 | 2 | -- | 1 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 27 | 19 | 33 |
| North Wales | 34 | 17 | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 |
| South Wales | 70 | 25 | 1 | -- | 1 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 24 | 36 | 22 |
| Wales | 199 | 207 | 7 | -- | 3 | 19 | 27 | 23 | 84 | 91 | 81 |
| England and Wales | 2,300 | 2,631 | 54 | 42 | 51 | 391 | 502 | 577 | 1,314 | 1,293 | 1,365 |
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