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Police Recruitment

Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many expressions of interest have been received as a result of the national police recruitment campaign in each month of the campaign to date; and how many have resulted in recruits joining the police (a) in England and Wales as a whole and (b) in each police force in England and Wales. [150044]

Mr. Charles Clarke: To 4 February, there had been over 100,000 inquiries through the website and call centre. These have resulted in over 22,000 formal Expressions of Interest (EOIs). The breakdown by month is as follows:

Number
End of August/September7,317
October5,616
November1,503
December727
January7,051
February (to 4 February 2001)349
Total22,563

The table shows the breakdown of EOIs and the forces to which they have been passed.


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Responsibility for processing EOIs rests with forces. Forces are being asked to report on the outcome of the EOIs with a view to assessing the effectiveness of the campaign.

Expressions of interest to 4 February 2001

ForceNumber
Avon and Somerset Constabulary680
Bedfordshire Police128
Cambridgeshire Constabulary274
Cheshire Constabulary685
City of London239
Cleveland Constabulary423
Cumbria Constabulary415
Derbyshire Constabulary578
Devon and Cornwall Constabulary555
Dorset Police278
Durham Police504
Dyfed-Powys Police317
Essex Police378
Gloucestershire Constabulary157
Greater Manchester Police1,390
Gwent Constabulary227
Hampshire Constabulary333
Hertfordshire Constabulary192
Humberside Police471
Kent Constabulary328
Lancashire Constabulary1,044
Leicestershire Constabulary272
Lincolnshire Police283
Merseyside Police1,124
Metropolitan Police1,946
Norfolk Constabulary316
Northamptonshire Police186
Northumbria Police683
North Wales Police278
North Yorkshire Police623
Nottinghamshire Constabulary859
South Wales Constabulary963
South Yorkshire Police819
Staffordshire Police676
Suffolk Constabulary188
Surrey Police174
Sussex Police324
Thames Valley Police385
Warwickshire Constabulary182
West Mercia Constabulary418
West Midlands Police930
West Yorkshire Police1,191
Wiltshire Police147
Total22,563

Best Value

Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the additional cost to each police force in England and Wales has been of administration associated with Best Value; and if he will make a statement. [150042]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The administration cost associated with Best Value is not collected centrally by the Home Office.

The Government are confident that Best Value will, over the five year period, save police authorities and forces more than they spend as well as improving police performance across the board.

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Entry Clearance (IT Professionals)

Sir Patrick Cormack: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals have been granted permission to enter the UK on the basis of their qualifications in information technology in the last three years; and from which countries they have come. [148903]

Ms Hodge: I have been asked to reply.

The number of foreign nationals, broken down by country, granted permission through the work permit arrangements to undertake information technology related jobs during 2000 is given in the table. Directly comparable figures for 1998 and 1999 are not available as the way in which work permit management information is collected was changed in October 1999.

CountryTotal number of IT applications approved for 2000
Albania5
Algeria11
Angola3
Argentina8
Armenia4
Australia708
Azerbaijan3
Bahrain2
Bangladesh15
Barbados3
Belarus18
Bermuda5
Bolivia1
Bosnia-Herzogovina2
Botswana2
Brazil39
British Dependant Territories2
British National Overseas23
British Overseas Citizens4
Bulgaria65
Burundi2
Cameroon17
Canada377
Chile6
China Peoples Republic of221
Colombia16
Congo1
Costa Rica2
Croatia35
Cuba3
Cyprus11
Czech Republic49
Dominica2
Ecuador3
Egypt21
Estonia2
Ethiopia4
Gambia3
Georgia5
Ghana11
Grenada1
Guatemala1
Guinea1
Guyana2
Haiti1
Hong Kong (British)9
Hong Kong (Chinese)3
Hungary46
India11,474
Indonesia36
Iran21
Iraq1
Israel90
Ivory Coast1
Jamaica9
Japan191
Jordan16
Kazakhstan7
Kenya27
Kuwait2
Latvia2
Lebanon14
Libya2
Lithuania7
Macedonia2
Malawi2
Malaysia111
Malta13
Mauritius20
Mexico32
Morocco11
Myanmar10
Namibia2
Nepal3
New Zealand358
Nigeria45
Pakistan132
Palestine3
Panama1
Peru3
Philippines103
Poland86
Romania54
Russia158
Saudi Arabia6
Senegal8
Serbia6
Sierra Leone3
Singapore62
Slovakia19
Slovenia7
South Africa748
South Korea44
Sri Lanka69
St. Lucia3
Sudan5
Swaziland1
Switzerland77
Syrian Arab Republic3
Taiwan31
Tanzania6
Thailand23
Trinidad and Tobago19
Tunisia5
Turkey85
Turkmenistan2
Uganda6
Ukraine52
United States of America2,034
Uruguay1
Uzbekistan2
Venezuela9
Vietnam2
Yugoslavia69
Zambia6
Zimbabwe17
Total18,257


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