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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 2001October 2001November 2001December 2001January 2002February 2002
1 Abijan211611261019
2 Abu Dhabi361535212836
3 Abuja2015151800
4 Accra473246238691851210
5 Addis Ababa10615513
6 Algiers000000
7 Aimaly2512312207
8 Amman62694696756
9 Amsterdam49583483634
10 Ankara952682617
11 Bahrain381918293425
12 Baku111524411919
13 Bangkok453432203877
14 Banjul575841494244
15 Beirut1086463903359
16 Belgrade118167254446209229
17 Bogota80124999521
18 Bombay557528433380489665
19 Bratislava9211215311674134
20 Brussels81242297
21 Bucharest10592121735159
22 Budapest172068
23 Cairo14710912414213596
24 Calcutta1631098574109143
25 Canberra71416152012
26 Casablanca83778499126126
27 Chicago142186234259100177
28 Colombo826148656663
29 Copenhagen445962823962
30 Dakar032210
31 Damascus322121344131
32 Dar Es Salaam11416593027126
33 Dhaka251222233123212175
34 Doha242228242130
35 Dubai915556312427
36 Dublin182754332631
37 Dusseldorf189303322496207230
38 Ekaterinburg101123171119
39 Freetown(19)3640
40 Geneva10549497873
41 Georgetown4735364373
42 Guangzhou1056813412894108
43 Hanoi207136
44 Harare74245
45 Havana4545111
46 Hong Kong3428454038
47 Islamabad9993996047741,0371,176
48 Istanbul223233205205210247
49 Jakarta475269633925
50 Jedda18191282133
51 Jerusalem251442363220
52 Kampala249737210159
53 Karachi292169188127
54 Kathmandu165726561324
55 Khartoum27257242014
56 Kiev107931451217393
57 Kingston667576676162
58 Kuala Lumpur1173776
59 Kuwait751211812
60 Lagos2,7277231,267165138691
61 Lahore139223299214317
62 Lima262340322339
63 Los Angeles12612520697174149
64 Luanda38620
65 Lusaka645170833358
66 Madras180206181199275359
67 Madrid5130485445
68 Manila264226527
69 Mexico City000000
70 Minsk262525291620
71 Moscow227405321292229258
72 Muscat8570621139678
73 Nairobi388252279234301183
74 New Delhi1,027416309353601665
75 New York361464632766548
76 Nicosia220178192241240195
77 Oslo4058747344
78 Ottawa211247287187137136
79 Paris34535875288135173
80 Peking136182343276341341
81 Port Louis11310114214479173
82 Port of Spain38345
83 Prague000000
84 Pretoria137389
85 Quito18146122022
86 Riga3616147
87 Riyadh1861000
88 Rome7210214325211472
89 Sana'a45158
90 Santo Domingo11116751
91 Sarajevo1056875647986
92 Shanghai544873841412
93 Singapore101732164983
94 Skopje38529610291110
95 Sofia871242111626963
96 St. Petersburg54093940
97 Stockholm911161068981114
98 Taipei000000
99 Tashkent22471166
100 Tbilisi00010
101 Tehran38134438137800
102 Tirana333970412128
103 Tokyo691015312
104 Tripoli163119283467
105 Tunis986360777664
106 Vienna435458802626
107 Warsaw00321
108 Washington000000
109 Wellington00000
110 Yaounde222444211313
111 Zagreb5411316819581104
Total13,6339,91211,47611,2039,8269,317

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Applications refused
September 2001October 2001November 2001December 2001January 2002February 2002
1 Abijan210011
2 Abu Dhabi1361384
3 Abuja6662565700
4 Accra9601,0391,634926769726
5 Addis Ababa558317
6 Algiers000000
7 Aimaly012000
8 Amman241133
9 Amsterdam132320
10 Ankara001126
11 Bahrain212110
12 Baku014104
13 Bangkok40402792127
14 Banjul924127310
15 Beirut221210
16 Belgrade453014
17 Bogota112119412
18 Bombay235161156103152158
19 Bratislava343222
20 Brussels000000
21 Bucharest501871015
22 Budapest001021
23 Cairo1961011522
24 Calcutta372010
25 Canberra100010
26 Casablanca2053464
27 Chicago101210
28 Colombo676967512928
29 Copenhagen1253043
30 Dakar113304
31 Damascus346217
32 Dar Es Salaam101000027
33 Dhaka278327383248227123
34 Doha456612
35 Dubai315138192818
36 Dublin0010138
37 Dusseldorf11046915
38 Ekaterinburg111210
39 Freetown(19)3732
40 Geneva48554
41 Georgetown10514184
42 Guangzhou251513122321
43 Hanoi2533
44 Harare11004
45 Havana100110
46 Hong Kong24545
47 Islamabad9024025395382832
48 Istanbul4438505299111
49 Jakarta2421108
50 Jedda1245217
51 Jerusalem204000
52 Kampala289282028
53 Karachi39001
54 Kathmandu7824172226
55 Khartoum141569139
56 Kiev1912127410
57 Kingston16818211612
58 Kuala Lumpur112113
59 Kuwait1555866
60 Lagos273291324155182311
61 Lahore89981094990
62 Lima101631
63 Los Angeles252221
64 Luanda23011
65 Lusaka10282539273
66 Madras253014262217
67 Madrid01000
68 Manila4270814952
69 Mexico City000000
70 Minsk002020
71 Moscow11114682
72 Muscat561305
73 Nairobi354157533821
74 New Delhi522460382394372396
75 New York133411
76 Nicosia2146420
77 Oslo00103
78 Ottawa135054
79 Paris220002
80 Peking191417162329
81 Port Louis2427101198
82 Port of Spain10100
83 Prague000000
84 Pretoria2951070
85 Quito124151
86 Riga00010
87 Riyadh94900
88 Rome411011
89 Sana'a4113614
90 Santo Domingo001003
91 Sarajevo333066
92 Shanghai726200
93 Singapore00002819
94 Skopje54822811
95 Sofia1522171064
96 St. Petersburg00780
97 Stockholm060230
98 Taipei000000
99 Tashkent000100
100 Tbilisi00030
101 Tehran5642294300
102 Tirana183201
103 Tokyo102512
104 Tripoli3813161530
105 Tunis503122132427
106 Vienna10022626
107 Warsaw01133
108 Washington000000
109 Wellington00000
110 Yaounde421144
111 Zagreb1036655
Total4,2253,3444,1362,7063,0373,209

(19) From January 2002

Note:

"—" indicate information not yet received from posts


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