Golden Jubilee
Mr. Yeo:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what events (a) he is and (b) other Ministers in his Department are planning to attend as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations; and what events his Department is planning to arrange to celebrate the Golden Jubilee. [33247]
Mr. Blunkett
[holding answer 4 February 2002]: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Tessa Jowell), on 11 February 2002, Official Report, column 58W.
Passport Service
Ms Coffey:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the United Kingdom Passport Service intends to publish its corporate and business plan 2002 to 2007. [46320]
Angela Eagle:
The United Kingdom Passport Service corporate and business plan has been published today and I am pleased to say that copies of the plan have been placed in the Library.
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Criminal Records Bureau
Ms Coffey:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Criminal Records Bureau intends to publish its corporate and business plan 2002 to 2007. [46321]
Angela Eagle:
The Criminal Records Bureau corporate and business plan has been published today and I am pleased to say that copies of the plan have been placed in the Library.
Diabetes (Guidelines)
Mr. Wiggin:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to change his guidelines to the police on diabetes. [44489]
Mr. Denham
[holding answer 19 March 2002]: The guidelines on diabetes are currently under review by independent medical experts as part of the Home Office's National Recruitment Standards project. This work aims to ensure that occupational medical standards for police recruitment are evidence-based, job-related and not unfairly discriminatory. The new standards are expected to be applied consistently by the 43 forces of England and Wales.
The medical review will also take into account the implications of the proposed extension of the employment related provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act to the police.
Recommendations on proposed new medical standards should be available for consultation by July/August 2002.
Seafarer's Work Permit
Mr. Carmichael:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his policy is on the extension of the work permit regime to include seafarers serving on one-port voyages. [43595]
Angela Eagle
[holding answer 20 March 2002]: In June 2000, the work permit arrangements in place for non-European economic areas seafarers engaged in domestic ferry services and dredging operations were extended to include those engaged on scheduled domestic freight services. This has been enforced with effect from 1 April 2001, following a period of flexibility to allow shipping companies to adjust their staffing patterns to take account of the revised arrangements.
Consideration of whether to extend the work permit arrangements to cover one-port voyages is continuing. A decision will be made in due course in the light of all the available information, including legal advice received and consultations with officials in the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Entitlement Cards
Mr. Letwin:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government are investigating (a) privacy-enhancing technologies and (b) secret-key certificates in its work on developing entitlement cards. [40864]
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Angela Eagle
[holding answer 7 March 2002]: My officials have engaged in wide discussion in their work on entitlement cards. In particular, they have worked closely with the Office of the e-Envoy where relevant work on privacy enhancing technologies and secret-key certificates is being undertaken in the context of the development of electronic Government services.
Family Visit Visas
Simon Hughes:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown by nationality of (a) acceptances and (b) refusals for family visit visa applications in the last six months for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [44443]
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Mr. Bradshaw:
I have been asked to reply.
We do not collect statistics on the nationalities of applicants.
Statistical information on the number of family visit applications issued and refused on a monthly basis is only available, from those posts which provide monthly statistical information (110 largest posts in 2001 and 111 in 2002). These figures are in the tables.
The remaining posts submit information on an annual basis; this is not broken down into months. The annual return will be issued later this month, with replies from missions expected at the end of April 2002.
Family visit applications
| Applications issued
|
| September 2001 | October 2001 | November 2001 | December 2001 | January 2002 | February 2002
|
1 Abijan | 21 | 16 | 11 | 26 | 10 | 19
|
2 Abu Dhabi | 36 | 15 | 35 | 21 | 28 | 36
|
3 Abuja | 20 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 0 | 0
|
4 Accra | 473 | 246 | 238 | 691 | 851 | 210
|
5 Addis Ababa | 10 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 13 |
|
6 Algiers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
7 Aimaly | 25 | 12 | 31 | 22 | 0 | 7
|
8 Amman | 62 | 69 | 46 | 9 | 67 | 56
|
9 Amsterdam | 49 | 58 | 34 | 8 | 36 | 34
|
10 Ankara | 9 | 5 | 26 | 8 | 26 | 17
|
11 Bahrain | 38 | 19 | 18 | 29 | 34 | 25
|
12 Baku | 11 | 15 | 24 | 41 | 19 | 19
|
13 Bangkok | 45 | 34 | 32 | 20 | 38 | 77
|
14 Banjul | 57 | 58 | 41 | 49 | 42 | 44
|
15 Beirut | 108 | 64 | 63 | 90 | 33 | 59
|
16 Belgrade | 118 | 167 | 254 | 446 | 209 | 229
|
17 Bogota | 80 | 124 | 99 | 95 | 21 |
|
18 Bombay | 557 | 528 | 433 | 380 | 489 | 665
|
19 Bratislava | 92 | 112 | 153 | 116 | 74 | 134
|
20 Brussels | 8 | 12 | 4 | 22 | 9 | 7
|
21 Bucharest | 105 | 92 | 121 | 73 | 51 | 59
|
22 Budapest | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8
|
23 Cairo | 147 | 109 | 124 | 142 | 135 | 96
|
24 Calcutta | 163 | 109 | 85 | 74 | 109 | 143
|
25 Canberra | 7 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 12
|
26 Casablanca | 83 | 77 | 84 | 99 | 126 | 126
|
27 Chicago | 142 | 186 | 234 | 259 | 100 | 177
|
28 Colombo | 82 | 61 | 48 | 65 | 66 | 63
|
29 Copenhagen | 44 | 59 | 62 | 82 | 39 | 62
|
30 Dakar | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0
|
31 Damascus | 32 | 21 | 21 | 34 | 41 | 31
|
32 Dar Es Salaam | 114 | 16 | 59 | 30 | 27 | 126
|
33 Dhaka | 251 | 222 | 233 | 123 | 212 | 175
|
34 Doha | 24 | 22 | 28 | 24 | 21 | 30
|
35 Dubai | 91 | 55 | 56 | 31 | 24 | 27
|
36 Dublin | 18 | 27 | 54 | 33 | 26 | 31
|
37 Dusseldorf | 189 | 303 | 322 | 496 | 207 | 230
|
38 Ekaterinburg | 10 | 11 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 19
|
39 Freetown(19) | | | | | 36 | 40
|
40 Geneva | 105 | 49 | 49 | 78 | 73 |
|
41 Georgetown | 47 | 35 | 36 | 43 | 73 |
|
42 Guangzhou | 105 | 68 | 134 | 128 | 94 | 108
|
43 Hanoi | 20 | 7 | 13 | 6 | |
|
44 Harare | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
|
45 Havana | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11
|
46 Hong Kong | 34 | 28 | 45 | 40 | 38 |
|
47 Islamabad | 999 | 399 | 604 | 774 | 1,037 | 1,176
|
48 Istanbul | 223 | 233 | 205 | 205 | 210 | 247
|
49 Jakarta | 47 | 52 | 69 | 63 | 39 | 25
|
50 Jedda | 18 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 33
|
51 Jerusalem | 25 | 14 | 42 | 36 | 32 | 20
|
52 Kampala | 249 | 73 | 72 | 101 | 59 |
|
53 Karachi | 292 | 169 | 188 | 127 | |
|
54 Kathmandu | 16 | 57 | 26 | 56 | 13 | 24
|
55 Khartoum | 27 | 25 | 7 | 24 | 20 | 14
|
56 Kiev | 107 | 93 | 145 | 121 | 73 | 93
|
57 Kingston | 66 | 75 | 76 | 67 | 61 | 62
|
58 Kuala Lumpur | 11 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6
|
59 Kuwait | 7 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 12
|
60 Lagos | 2,727 | 723 | 1,267 | 165 | 138 | 691
|
61 Lahore | 139 | 223 | 299 | 214 | 317 |
|
62 Lima | 26 | 23 | 40 | 32 | 23 | 39
|
63 Los Angeles | 126 | 125 | 206 | 97 | 174 | 149
|
64 Luanda | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
|
65 Lusaka | 64 | 51 | 70 | 83 | 33 | 58
|
66 Madras | 180 | 206 | 181 | 199 | 275 | 359
|
67 Madrid | 51 | 30 | 48 | 54 | 45 |
|
68 Manila | 26 | 42 | 26 | 5 | 27 |
|
69 Mexico City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
70 Minsk | 26 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 16 | 20
|
71 Moscow | 227 | 405 | 321 | 292 | 229 | 258
|
72 Muscat | 85 | 70 | 62 | 113 | 96 | 78
|
73 Nairobi | 388 | 252 | 279 | 234 | 301 | 183
|
74 New Delhi | 1,027 | 416 | 309 | 353 | 601 | 665
|
75 New York | 361 | 464 | 632 | 766 | 548 |
|
76 Nicosia | 220 | 178 | 192 | 241 | 240 | 195
|
77 Oslo | 40 | 58 | 74 | 73 | 44 |
|
78 Ottawa | 211 | 247 | 287 | 187 | 137 | 136
|
79 Paris | 345 | 358 | 75 | 288 | 135 | 173
|
80 Peking | 136 | 182 | 343 | 276 | 341 | 341
|
81 Port Louis | 113 | 101 | 142 | 144 | 79 | 173
|
82 Port of Spain | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|
83 Prague | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
84 Pretoria | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 9
|
85 Quito | 18 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 22
|
86 Riga | 3 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 7 |
|
87 Riyadh | 18 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
|
88 Rome | 72 | 102 | 143 | 252 | 114 | 72
|
89 Sana'a | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
|
90 Santo Domingo | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 51
|
91 Sarajevo | 105 | 68 | 75 | 64 | 79 | 86
|
92 Shanghai | 54 | 48 | 73 | 84 | 14 | 12
|
93 Singapore | 10 | 17 | 32 | 16 | 49 | 83
|
94 Skopje | 38 | 52 | 96 | 102 | 91 | 110
|
95 Sofia | 87 | 124 | 211 | 162 | 69 | 63
|
96 St. Petersburg | 54 | 0 | 93 | 94 | 0 |
|
97 Stockholm | 91 | 116 | 106 | 89 | 81 | 114
|
98 Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
99 Tashkent | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 6
|
100 Tbilisi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
101 Tehran | 381 | 344 | 381 | 378 | 0 | 0
|
102 Tirana | 33 | 39 | 70 | 41 | 21 | 28
|
103 Tokyo | 6 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 12
|
104 Tripoli | 163 | 119 | 28 | 34 | 67 |
|
105 Tunis | 98 | 63 | 60 | 77 | 76 | 64
|
106 Vienna | 43 | 54 | 58 | 80 | 26 | 26
|
107 Warsaw | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
|
108 Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
109 Wellington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
110 Yaounde | 22 | 24 | 44 | 21 | 13 | 13
|
111 Zagreb | 54 | 113 | 168 | 195 | 81 | 104
|
|
Total | 13,633 | 9,912 | 11,476 | 11,203 | 9,826 | 9,317
|
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| Applications refused
|
| September 2001 | October 2001 | November 2001 | December 2001 | January 2002 | February 2002
|
1 Abijan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
|
2 Abu Dhabi | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4
|
3 Abuja | 66 | 62 | 56 | 57 | 0 | 0
|
4 Accra | 960 | 1,039 | 1,634 | 926 | 769 | 726
|
5 Addis Ababa | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 17 |
|
6 Algiers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
7 Aimaly | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
8 Amman | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3
|
9 Amsterdam | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0
|
10 Ankara | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6
|
11 Bahrain | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0
|
12 Baku | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4
|
13 Bangkok | 40 | 40 | 27 | 9 | 21 | 27
|
14 Banjul | 9 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 10
|
15 Beirut | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0
|
16 Belgrade | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4
|
17 Bogota | 11 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 12 |
|
18 Bombay | 235 | 161 | 156 | 103 | 152 | 158
|
19 Bratislava | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2
|
20 Brussels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
21 Bucharest | 5 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 15
|
22 Budapest | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1
|
23 Cairo | 19 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 22
|
24 Calcutta | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0
|
25 Canberra | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0
|
26 Casablanca | 20 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4
|
27 Chicago | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0
|
28 Colombo | 67 | 69 | 67 | 51 | 29 | 28
|
29 Copenhagen | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3
|
30 Dakar | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4
|
31 Damascus | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7
|
32 Dar Es Salaam | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27
|
33 Dhaka | 278 | 327 | 383 | 248 | 227 | 123
|
34 Doha | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2
|
35 Dubai | 31 | 51 | 38 | 19 | 28 | 18
|
36 Dublin | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 8
|
37 Dusseldorf | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15
|
38 Ekaterinburg | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0
|
39 Freetown(19) | | | | | 37 | 32
|
40 Geneva | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
|
41 Georgetown | 10 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 4 |
|
42 Guangzhou | 25 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 23 | 21
|
43 Hanoi | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
|
44 Harare | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
|
45 Havana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0
|
46 Hong Kong | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
|
47 Islamabad | 902 | 40 | 253 | 95 | 382 | 832
|
48 Istanbul | 44 | 38 | 50 | 52 | 99 | 111
|
49 Jakarta | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8
|
50 Jedda | 1 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7
|
51 Jerusalem | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
52 Kampala | 28 | 9 | 28 | 20 | 28 |
|
53 Karachi | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
|
54 Kathmandu | 7 | 8 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 26
|
55 Khartoum | 14 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9
|
56 Kiev | 19 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 10
|
57 Kingston | 16 | 8 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 12
|
58 Kuala Lumpur | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3
|
59 Kuwait | 15 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6
|
60 Lagos | 273 | 291 | 324 | 155 | 182 | 311
|
61 Lahore | 89 | 98 | 109 | 49 | 90 |
|
62 Lima | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1
|
63 Los Angeles | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1
|
64 Luanda | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
65 Lusaka | 10 | 28 | 25 | 39 | 27 | 3
|
66 Madras | 25 | 30 | 14 | 26 | 22 | 17
|
67 Madrid | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
68 Manila | 42 | 70 | 81 | 49 | 52 |
|
69 Mexico City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
70 Minsk | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0
|
71 Moscow | 11 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2
|
72 Muscat | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5
|
73 Nairobi | 35 | 41 | 57 | 53 | 38 | 21
|
74 New Delhi | 522 | 460 | 382 | 394 | 372 | 396
|
75 New York | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
|
76 Nicosia | 2 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0
|
77 Oslo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
|
78 Ottawa | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4
|
79 Paris | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2
|
80 Peking | 19 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 23 | 29
|
81 Port Louis | 24 | 27 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 8
|
82 Port of Spain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
|
83 Prague | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
84 Pretoria | 2 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 0
|
85 Quito | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1
|
86 Riga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
87 Riyadh | 9 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
|
88 Rome | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1
|
89 Sana'a | 4 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 14 |
|
90 Santo Domingo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3
|
91 Sarajevo | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6
|
92 Shanghai | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0
|
93 Singapore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 19
|
94 Skopje | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 28 | 11
|
95 Sofia | 15 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 4
|
96 St. Petersburg | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
|
97 Stockholm | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0
|
98 Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
99 Tashkent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0
|
100 Tbilisi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
|
101 Tehran | 56 | 42 | 29 | 43 | 0 | 0
|
102 Tirana | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1
|
103 Tokyo | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2
|
104 Tripoli | 38 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 30 |
|
105 Tunis | 50 | 31 | 22 | 13 | 24 | 27
|
106 Vienna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 26
|
107 Warsaw | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
|
108 Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
|
109 Wellington | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
110 Yaounde | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4
|
111 Zagreb | 10 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5
|
|
Total | 4,225 | 3,344 | 4,136 | 2,706 | 3,037 | 3,209
|
(19) From January 2002
Note:
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