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Information Technology
Mr. Flight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's (a) total managed expenditure, (b) total spending on Information Technology and (c) spending on Information Technology as a proportion of its total managed expenditure was in each financial year since 1997–98. [107175]
Mr. Wills: The Home Office's contribution to total managed expenditure consists of the total of spending under resource and capital budgets, less non-cash items in annually managed expenditure. Data for 1998–99 to 2001–02 was published in Table 1 of the Financial Tables of the 2003 Departmental Report (Cm 5908).
Estimates of spending on Information Technology are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Probation Service
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional funding will be made available to the probation service to meet the costs of the Custody Plus scheme as set out on page 133 of the explanatory notes to the Criminal Justice Bill; ; what recent meetings he has held with representatives of the National Probation Service in relation to the provision of additional funding for the Custody Plus scheme; and if he will make a statement. [112147]
Paul Goggins : The costs shown on page 133 of the explanatory notes to the Criminal Justice Bill relate to the whole package of sentencing changes, not just Custody Plus. As the different sentencing proposals are inter-related it is not possible to meaningfully separate one particular aspect at this stage.
The National Probation Service will receive the additional funding it requires to meet the extra costs of implementing the Criminal Justice Bill including Custody Plus. The exact timing of implementation of the proposals will of course determine the funding requirement.
My hon .Friend, member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) had regular meetings with the Director General
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and other senior staff of the National Probation Service which include consideration of the additional costs and benefits of the Bill.
Replica Firearms
Ms Bridget Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many gun crimes were carried out using replica firearms in the last year for which figures are available in (a) the Borough of Lewisham, (b) London and (c) England and Wales; and if he will make a statement; [114082]
- (2) how many people in England and Wales have been (a) injured and (b) killed as a result of modified replica weapons in the last year for which figures are available; [114080]
(3) how many modifiable replica handguns were sold last year in England and Wales; [114083]
(4) how many replica firearms the Government estimates were modified to shoot real bullets in the last year for which figures are available. [114081]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Numbers of recorded crimes involving replica firearms at London borough and police force level are not available. There were 1,201 recorded crimes involving imitation firearms in England and Wales in the year ending March 2002.
Details of recorded crimes involving modified replica weapons are not collected separately.
The number of modifiable replica handguns sold in England and Wales is not collected centrally. No estimates have been made of the number of replica firearms which have been modified to shoot live ammunition. It is illegal to modify a replica weapon to shoot live ammunition, or possess such a weapon. It is illegal to modify a replica weapon to shoot live ammunition, or possess such a weapon.
It is also illegal to sell an imitation firearm which is readily convertible into a firearm and we are currently introducing a ban on the sale, transfer, import or manufacture of any air weapon using the self-contained air cartridge system which can be converted to fire conventional ammunition.
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Terrorism
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have taken place under the Terrorism Act 2000. [113605]
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Mr. Blunkett [holding answer 15 May 2003]: The information requested is contained in the table. Prosecutions are a matter for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. The Act is working well.
Statistics for 2002 will be available in the autumn.
| England and Wales 2000 and 2001 | Number of persons | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Offence description | Statute | (15)2000 | 2001 |
| Relating to membership of proscribed organisations | Terrorism Act 2000 S.11 | — | 3 |
| Wearing any item to dress in support of a proscribed organisation | Terrorism Act 2000 S.13(a) | — | — |
| Wears, carries or displays any article in support of a proscribed organisation | Terrorism Act 2000 S.13(b) | — | — |
| Contributions toward acts of terrorism | Terrorism Act 2000 S.15–18 and 22 | — | 1 |
| Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion of acts of terrorism | Terrorism Act S.19 | — | — |
| Failure to leave a cordoned area immediately when ordered to do so by constable in uniform | Terrorism Act 2000 S.36(1) (a) | 1 | — |
| Failure to leave premises, which about or are wholly or partially within a cordoned area, immediately if ordered to do so by a constable in uniform | Terrorism Act 2000 S.36(1) (b) | — | — |
| Failure of driver or person in charge of a vehicle which is in a cordoned area to immediately move the vehicle if ordered to do so by a constable in uniform | Terrorism Act 2000 S.36(c)(d)(e) | — | — |
| Contravention or a prohibition or restriction order made by a constable in uniform to a cordoned area | Terrorism Act 2000 S.36(1) | 1 | — |
| Making any disclosure likely to prejudice an investigation about acts of terrorism or failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism | Terrorism Act 2000 S.39 | — | — |
| Failure to stop (power to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians) | Terrorism Act 2000 S.43, 44 and 47(1)(a)(b) | 1 | 1 |
| Wilful obstruction (power to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians) | Terrorism Act 2000 S.43, 44 and 44 and 47(1)(c) | — | — |
| Failure to move vehicle when ordered to do so by a constable in uniform, (vehicle had or both been permitted to remain at rest in contravention of any prohibition or restriction) | Terrorism Act 2000 S.48 and 51(2) | — | — |
| Leaves a vehicle, or permits a vehicle to remain at rest, on a road in contravention of a prohibition or restriction | Terrorism Act 2000 S.48 and 51(1) | — | — |
| Provides instruction; invites another to receive instruction in weapon training | Terrorism Act 2000 S.54 | — | 1 |
| Directing terrorist training | Terrorism Act 2000 S.56 | — | — |
| Possession of articles intended for terrorists purposes | Terrorism Act 2000 S.57 | — | — |
| Collect, record or possession of information likely to be of use to terrorists | Terrorism Act 2000 S.58 | — | — |
| Failure to furnish information when required by examining officer | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.7(5)(a) | 1 | — |
| Failure to produce either a valid passport or identifying document when required by examining officer | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.7(5)(b) | — | — |
| Failure to declare or produce any relevant documents when required by examining officer | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.7(5)(c)(d) | — | — |
| Failure to submit to search by examining officer or person acting on his/her behalf | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.7(7)(8) | — | — |
| Failure to complete and produce an embarkation card when required to by examining officer | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.7(16) | 1 | — |
| Wilfully obstructs a constable in the execution of his duty in a cordoned area | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.5 S.36(1)(2) | — | — |
| Wilfully obstructs, or seeks to frustrate to object of, a search in a cordoned area | Terrorism Act 2000 Sch.5 (1–3) | — | — |
| Total | 5 | 6 | |
(14) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(15) Staffordshire Police were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts in 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table.
Work Permits
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits have been issued in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by (a) occupation and (b) region of employment. [113652]
Beverley Hughes: Work Permits (UK) approved a total of 157,759 work permit applications from employers between 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003. The following table sets out the number of permits issued to those 20 industries sectors to which the majority of these work permits were issued.
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Work Permits (UK) is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of work permits issued by geographical region.
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