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Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the hon. Member for Bolton South-East to the letter on behalf of Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers of 28 February. [129893]
Beverley Hughes: My hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) wrote to my hon. Friend on 9 September 2003.
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the ARDG Central Allocation Team of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Totnes of 14 July regarding Mrs. John Lewis of Dartmouth, South Devon; and what the reasons are for the delay in replying. [130991]
Beverley Hughes [holding answer 18 September 2003]: I wrote to the hon. Member on 29 September 2003.
Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter of 27 May 2003 from the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood regarding Singobile Lunga, H.O. Ref L1047295, a constituent. [131159]
Beverley Hughes: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 23 September 2003.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the estimated cost of crime, in money terms, in each of the last six years was. [130487]
Ms Blears: The Home Office made estimates of the economic and social cost of crime in England and Wales in 19992000. Estimates were published in Home Office Research Study 217 (HORS 217), "The economic and social costs of crime". This study estimated that, in England and Wales in 19992000, the cost of crimes against individuals was £32.2 billion, against businesses
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and public sector was £9.1 billion, of fraud and forgery was £13.8 billion, and of traffic and other non-notifiable offences was £4.8 billion. Figures for other years are not currently available.
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the differences are in the criteria by which an offence is considered to be (a) cleared up and (b) brought to justice. [109586]
Ms Blears: The term cleared up is used when an individual has been charged, cautioned, reprimanded, or received a final warning for a notifiable offence or offences in relation to a crime, or when such an offence has been accepted for consideration in court. A crime may also be counted as cleared up when no further action is taken on an offence for one of the following reasons:
the victim refuses or is unable to give evidence;
the offender is under the age of criminal responsibility;
the Police or Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decide that no useful purpose would be served by proceeding; or
the time limit of six months for commencing prosecution, where applicable, has been exceeded.
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many shoplifting offences were committed in Romford in (a) 2002 and (b) each of the last 10 years. [128375]
Paul Goggins: The available information is contained in the table:
Persons aged 1017 | Persons aged 1820 | All young offenders | |
---|---|---|---|
1992 | 178 | 505 | 683 |
1993 | 171 | 609 | 780 |
1994 | 156 | 480 | 636 |
1995 | N/a | N/a | N/a |
1996 | 201 | 518 | 719 |
1997 | 252 | 481 | 733 |
1998 | 292 | 409 | 701 |
1999 | 269 | 473 | 742 |
2000 | 222 | 466 | 688 |
2001 | 286 | 481 | 767 |
(57) A person convicted on more than one occasion during a year will be counted separately on each occasion.
(58) Court sits at Romford. Figures include those convicted at the Crown Court, having been committed for trial from Havering PSA.
Statistics for 2002 will be available in December.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 8 July 2003, Official Report, column 724W, on juvenile prisoners, what plans he has to move all 17-year-old females out of Prison Service custody. [125889]
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Paul Goggins: We are determined to minimise the number of juvenile girls mixing with adult prisoners. We are currently setting up a new, separate juvenile unit at Downview, to end placements in Holloway. Given the numbers and geographical spread, complete separation across England and Wales is not simple, but we are looking at how further improvements can be made.
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions he has had with the Metropolitan Police Force in the London borough of Havering with regard to young offenders. [128373]
Ms Blears: I have regular bilateral meetings with the Commissioner which cover the whole of the Metropolitan police area. The Youth Offending Team (YOT) in Havering was the first in London to be managed by a serving officer from the Metropolitan police and is one of the best performing YOTs in London, according to the tables of performance compiled by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.
It forms part of a consortium of YOTs which run the East London Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme for persistent young offenders. With support from the Children's Fund, Havering is also developing a Youth Inclusion and Support Programme which will aim to identify young people at risk of offending and provide a series of early intervention measures to address this risk.
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the CCRC received in Grant Aid in the year ending 31 March 2003. [128886]
Paul Goggins: In the year ending 31 March 2003, the Commission received £7 million in Grant Aid.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what additional steps he is taking to ensure that the target to disrupt 10 per cent. more organised criminal enterprises by 2004 is met. [130486]
Ms Blears: The target of disrupting 10 per cent. more organised criminal groups by 2004 set against a 200001 baseline was met in 200102. In 200203 there was a 3.4 per cent. increase in disruptions on 200102.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. [130510]
Paul Goggins: The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority has a complement of 554 posts. At the end of July 2003, 496.5 of these posts were filled by staff on secondment from the Authority's sponsoring organisations, the Home Office and the Scottish Executive. A further 37 posts were filled by agency and casual staff.
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Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the proposed timelines and targets set by each local Criminal Justice Board for the reduction of the time from arrest to sentence. [130483]
Paul Goggins: All Local Criminal Justice Boards are expected to continue to work towards meeting and maintaining the Government's objective to halve the average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders in England and Wales from 142 days (1996) to 71 days. The average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders in England and Wales was 64 days for the second quarter of 2003the eighth consecutive quarter at or below the 71 day target. Current Persistent Young Offenders (PYO) performance for each Local Criminal Justice Board is set out in the table (Table A) and further details are available at www.youth-justice-board.gov. uk/PractitionersPostal/PracticeAnd Performance/Performance.
Locally, since April 2003 when the Boards were formally established, each Board has set itself individual adult and youth targets for improving general timeliness in the magistrates courts, with separate Crown court targets for different types of cases. These have been set in the context of the overall delivery of the Criminal Justice Systems (CJS's) Public Service Agreements and in the magistrates courts are expressed in terms of charge to completion. Targets for each area are set out in the table (Table B). Performance data from April-June 2003, is due to be published in October 2003.
Note:
This table shows the latest available PYO arrest-to-sentence figures for each Criminal Justice Area.
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(59) denotes no area target set
Notes:
Persistent Young OffendersTargets are based on average time in days from arrest to sentence
Timeliness in Magistrates courtsTargets are based on 80 per cent. of defendants charged with crime to be dealt within the number of days shown from charge to disposal.
Timeliness in Crown courtsTargets are the percentage of defendants to be dealt with within National Targets from committal to first hearing
Crown Court National targets are: Committals for trial, 16 weeks; Sent for trial cases, 26 weeks; Committals for sentence, 10 weeks; Appeals, 14 weeks
These figures have been updated recently and may differ slightly from previously published figures
Awaiting clarification from Gwent on Adult timeliness targets
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