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Criminal Justice Bill
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has for making appropriate treatment more widely available for the purposes of clause 16 of the Criminal Justice Bill. [128629]
Caroline Flint: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Criminal Justice Boards
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the (a) work and (b) efficiency of the criminal justice boards; and what recent changes have occurred in the way cases are handled at local level. [137826]
Ms Blears: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Criminal Justice Royal Commission
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost was of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice that reported in June 1996; what the main budgetary items of expenditure were; for how many days the Commission sat in public; how many witnesses gave evidence; and how many copies of the final report were distributed. [137501]
Paul Goggins: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Criminal Justice System
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to improve the representation of victims' interests in the criminal justice system. [137346]
- Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the timescale is for the Government's review of inspection arrangements within the criminal justice system. [139255]
Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Criminal Records Bureau
Ms Shipley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on the Criminal Records Bureau's Overseas Information Service; [127768]
- (2) what measures he takes to ensure that other Departments are made aware of the Criminal Records Bureau's Overseas Information Service; [127769]
(3) what measures he has taken to publicise to voluntary sector organisations the service offered by the Criminal Records Bureau's Overseas Information Service. [127770]
Ms Blears: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
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Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether applicants for disclosures through the Criminal Records Bureau are required to have their fingerprints taken. [137388]
Paul Goggins [holding answer 11 November 2003]: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Connarty: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make a statement on the outsourcing of Criminal Records Bureau data processing to a company whose employees are based in India. [138838]
Paul Goggins: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Cumbria Crime Squad
David Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make a statement on (a) the total cost, (b) the cost in terms of the wages of the officers under investigation of the inquiry into the Cumbria Force Crime Squad and (c) the cost in terms of public money; [94025]
- (2) what reasons underlie the length of time taken by the inquiry into the Cumbria Force Crime Squad. [94026]
Ms Blears: I will write to the right hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Deaths in Custody
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deaths of under-18s held in custody in descending order by institution, there were in the past 20 years. [133050]
Paul Goggins: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) suicide and (b) attempted suicide by under 18s held in custody there have been in each of the last 20 years. [133052]
Paul Goggins: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Domestic Violence
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action (a) has been and (b) will be taken by his Department regarding the recommendations of the 1998 report, Policing Domestic Violence: Effective Organisational Structures. [81091]
Ms Blears: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research he has commissioned on how many children who grow up in homes with domestic violence are (a) abused by a partner or husband and (b) abuse a partner or husband later in adulthood. [138169]
Ms Blears: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
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Drugs
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of property crime attributable to the misuse of Class A drugs. [128628]
Caroline Flint: I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug dealers were convicted in London in each of the last six years. [139266]
Caroline Flint [holding answer 17 November 2003]: The table contains data from the Home Office Court Appearances and Cautions Drugs Database showing the number of drug dealers in the City of London and Metropolitan Police force area cautioned and convicted in the years 1996 to 2000 (the latest year available). "Dealing" has been taken to mean drug trafficking, that is: to include possession with intent to supply, unlawful supply, unlawful production and unlawful import/export.
| Number of persons | |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 2,360 |
| 1996 | 1,980 |
| 1997 | 2,130 |
| 1998 | 2,350 |
| 1999 | 2,040 |
| 2000 | 2,320 |
(33) The phrase "drug dealer" has been taken to mean trafficking in drugs controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. That is: to include possession with intent to supply, unlawful supply, unlawful production and unlawful import/export.
Source:
Drug offender statistics databases.
These data are taken from the annual Home Office Statistical Bulletin, "Drug Seizure and Offender Statistics, UK". Copies of the bulletin, area and supplementary tables and are available on the RDS website and in the Library (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb402.pdf)
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the street prices of illegal drugs in the last two years. [139229]
Caroline Flint: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Dungavel
Mr. Peter Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of stay at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre for (a) adults and (b) children has been over the last 12 months. [131558]
Beverley Hughes: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Prisoner Education
Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of prisoners at each
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(a) prison and (b) young offenders institution have received formal education within those institutions in 2003. [131754]
Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison staff in each (a) prison and (b) young offenders institution are employed to provide educational services; and what proportion these figures represent of the total staff employed in each institution. [131755]
Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison staff are employed in (a) prisons and (b) young offenders institutions to provide educational services for each of the past 10 years. [131756]
Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget has been for (a) literacy and (b) numeracy courses in (i) prisons and (ii) young offenders institutions in each of the past five years. [131757]
Paul Goggins: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
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