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Correspondence
Mr. Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply substantively to the letter from the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight dated 30 January, concerning Lawrence Gimblett. [110967]
Hilary Benn [holding answer 1 May 2003]: A reply was sent to the hon. Member on 7 May 2003.
Forensic Science Service
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 24 February 2003, Official Report, column 315W, when the findings of the review into the Forensic Science Service will be published. [110920]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: As announced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham) on 23 July 2002, Official Report, column 1078W, the principal provider of forensic science services to the police, the Forensic Science Service, is currently subject to an independent review, which is looking at the delivery, performance and responsiveness
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of the Service and the ways in which we can maximise its contribution to the work of the police and through them to the wider criminal justice system.
The findings of the results of the review will be made public after Home Office Ministers have given consideration to its recommendations and decided the best way forward for the organisation.
Prison Education
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his Answer of 25 March 2003, Official Report, column 151W, what his estimate is of the total number of education hours lost throughout the Prison Service over the last 12 months due to staff shortages; and if he will estimate the financial cost of these lost hours. [110889]
Hilary Benn: Records of hours ordered and delivered are kept by individual prison establishments, but have not been centrally collected, collated or aggregated for the period in question. The costs of doing so would be disproportionate.
Red Squirrel
Joyce Quin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department has spent on programmes run (a) by his Department and (b) by environmental organisations related to the preservation of red squirrel populations in each of the last five years. [110337]
Mr. Morley: I have been asked to reply.
The Department through English Nature have spent £125,602 over the past five years. The main projects have been:
- Thetford Forest—grey squirrel management and red squirrel reintroductions. Joint project with the Forestry Commission.
Feasibility study for the development of a vaccine against squirrel parapoxvirus.
Preparation of management plans for priority woodlands in northern England. Joint project with the Forestry Commission.
Isle of Wight project. Partnership with Wight Wildlife, Forestry Commission and others to link fragmented woodland on the Isle of Wight to benefit squirrels.
| FC England | FR (GB)(9) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1998–99 | 38.2 | 116.0 |
| 1999–2000 | 48.3 | 95.5 |
| 2000–01 | 46.6 | 78.5 |
| 2001–02 | 52.8 | 32.6 |
| 2002–03 | 73.2 | 12.0 |
| Total | 259.1 | 334.6 |
(9) FR is a FB Agency of the FC
Note:
In addition the FC has grant aided the establishment of new woodlands to link fragmented woodland on the Isle of Wight. The expenditure was £81.6k in 2001–02 and £56.7k in 2002–03.
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Rape Victims
Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what budgetary provision the Home Office has made to provide rape counselling and support services to match the change in the number of rape complainants resulting from the passage of the Sexual Offences Bill. [110720]
Hilary Benn: The Department has made no specific budgetary provisions regarding support services to rape victims as a result of the passage of the Sexual Offences Bill through Parliament. We are, however, currently considering whether there are ways in which further support could be provided generally to victims of sexual offences.
Special Advisers
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the salary bill was for special advisers in his Department in 2002–03; and what it is expected to be in 2003–04. [108510]
Mr. Blunkett: I refer the hon. Member to the answer provided by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, South (Mr. Alexander) on 28 April 2003, Official Report, column 45W.
Young Offenders
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the reconviction rate of (a) youth offenders and (b) first time youth offenders was in (i) the UK, (ii) Tyne and Wear, (iii) South Tyneside and (iv) the Jarrow constituency in each year since 1997. [111672]
Hilary Benn: Reconviction rates for juvenile offenders since 1997 were most recently published in February 2003 in Home Office Online Report 18/03. The unadjusted reconviction rate for the first half of 1997 was 33.7 per cent. The rates for July 1999, July 2000 and first quarter 2001 are 38.2 per cent., 26.4 per cent. and 26.4 per cent. respectively. These rates exclude juveniles given custodial sentences.
When comparing reconviction rates over time it is necessary to take account of the changing mix in the characteristic of offenders and the speeding up of justice. Unadjusted reconviction rates do not do this.
For first time juvenile offenders the unadjusted reconviction rates for the first half of 1997, July 2000 and the first quarter of 2001 are 21.2 per cent., 19.1 per cent. and 12.4 per cent. respectively. July 1999 figures are not available.
The reconviction rates relate to England and Wales only and do not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland. Information on regional and local rates are not available.
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TRANSPORT
Criminal Offences
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list, broken down by Act, the criminal offences created in legislation sponsored by his Department and its predecessors since 1997. [110991]
Mr. Jamieson: The following are the provisions of Acts of Parliament which have been sponsored since 1997 by the Department for Transport or by its predecessors (in relation to transport) and which have either created criminal offences directly or provided for their creation by subordinate legislation:
Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997
- Section 1 (unlawful entry into a temporary exclusion zone).
Section 5 (provision for offences in respect of waste reception facilities at harbours).
Section 10 (contravention of requirements related to moving of ships).
Section 11 (offence relating to ships receiving trans-shipped fish).
Section 16 (provision for an offence relating to compulsory insurance).
Section 24 (provision for creation of an offence relating to the protection of wrecks outside UK waters).
Schedule 1, paragraph 5 (offence relating to detention of ships).
- Schedule 3, paragraph 4 (using or keeping certain exempt vehicles on a public road).
- Section 180 (providing London local bus service without permit).
Section 187(6) (contravention of condition of a London bus service permit).
Section 234 (3) (intentionally altering etc. document to be produced to PPP Arbiter).
Schedule 17, paragraph 7(2) (failure to provide name and address for the purpose of a penalty fare) and paragraph 9(2) (power to apply provisions regarding penalty charges to qualifying train services).
Schedule 23, paragraph 25 (committing acts with intent to avoid payment under by a road user charging scheme), paragraph 26 (intentional obstruction of a person authorised to enter a motor vehicle by a charging authority) and paragraph 27 (unauthorised removal or interference with an immobilisation notice or intentional obstruction of authorised persons).
Schedule 24, paragraph 16 (intentionally providing false or misleading information in connection with application for workplace parking levy licence) and paragraph 31 (workplace parking levy: intentionally obstructing person exercising rights of entry to premises).
- Section 3 (provision of air traffic services without a licence).
Section 18 (application of Fair Trading Act 1973 provisions including false and misleading information).
Section 25 (failure to provide information or destroying information etc).
Section 38 (failure to comply with directions in interests of national security and wrongful disclosure).
Section 46 (failure to provide information or destroying information etc).
Section 56 (application of Competition Act 1985 provisions to shadow directors including prohibition on dealing in share options).
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Section 71 (failure to provide information or destroying information etc).
Section 82 (non compliance with regulations relating to assessment and collection of air navigation charges).
Section 93 (failure to comply with directions providing for control of aviation assets in time of hostilities etc).
Section 94 (provision for offences arising out of orders for possession of aerodromes etc in times of hostilities etc).
Section 101 (false statements).
Section 143(6) (prohibited disclosure of information to local transport authorities).
Section 144(11) and (12) (provision for offences relating to penalty charges for bus lane contraventions).
Section 148 (failure to provide half-price travel to persons holding travel concession permits).
Section 173(5) and (8) (committing acts to avoid payment under road user charging scheme).
Section 173(6) and (8) (making or using false documents with the intent to avoid payment under road user charging scheme).
Section 173(7) and (9)(removal of penalty charge notice from vehicle).
Section 174(3) and (4) (obstruction of exercise of powers relating to examination of vehicles etc.).
Section 175(2) and (5) (interfering with immobilisation devices).
Section 175(3) and (6) (removing an immobilisation device).
Section 175(4) and (6) (obstructing exercise of charging scheme powers).
Section 188(4) and (5) (providing false or misleading information in connection with application for workplace parking licence).
Section 190(4) and (5) (intentionally obstructing exercise of power to enter premises in connection with workplace parking levy licensing scheme).
Section 247(1) and (6) (provision for offences relating to railway standards).
Section 255(11) (provision for offence for failure to give notice of street works).
Section 256(7) (provision for offences for failure to give notice in relation to prolonged street works).
Section 266 (driving etc. a vehicle, in contravention of a direction relating to drivers' hours).
Section 273 (extension of corporate offences to directors etc).
Schedule 2, paragraph 10 (failure to provide information relating to air traffic administration orders).
Schedule 3, paragraph 12 (failure by air traffic administrator to send copies of discharge of air traffic administration order).
Schedule 9, paragraph 6 of (wrongful disclosure of information).
Schedule 20, paragraph 2 (contravention of railway byelaws).
Schedule 21, paragraph 14(4) (alteration etc of document required in connection with railway transfer scheme).
- Section 85 (provision for offences relating to the provision of aviation security services).
Section 86 (non-compliance with directions relating to detention of aircraft for aviation security purposes).
Section 87 (false documentation relating to air cargo).
- Section 28 (knowingly etc selling plates which are not vehicle registration plates).
Section 29 (supplying a plate etc. to an unregistered person etc.).
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Private Hire Vehicles (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) Act 2002
Section 1 (offences relating to the booking of private hire vehicles for the carriage of disabled persons accompanied by assistance dogs).
Section 2 (provision for offences relating to the carriage of disabled persons and their dogs in private hire cars).
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