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Criminal Records Bureau

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have now been checked by the Criminal Records Bureau; and how many checks are outstanding. [143063]

Ms Blears: As of 31 January 2004 the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) had issued 3,283,723 Disclosures. The first million Disclosures were issued by the CRB within 10 months, the second million within six months and the third million within five months. This reflects the CRB's increased capacity to handle over 50,000 Disclosure applications per week.

As of 31 January 2004 the CRB has 107,219 applications outstanding (excluding those that have been returned to the customer). 03,840 of these applications are less than four weeks old with only 987 applications, approximately one per cent.of the overall total, still being processed after six weeks

Curfew Orders (Southend)

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many home curfew orders have been made in Southend in each of the last five years. [152162]

Paul Goggins: The available information is contained in the table and relates to offenders sentenced to a curfew order at court.

Statistics on court proceedings for 2003 will be published in the autumn.

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Number of offenders sentenced to a curfew order for all offences at South East Essex Petty Sessional Area⁽²⁵⁾ including those sentenced at the Crown Court where South East Essex PSA was the committing court⁽²⁶⁾, 1998 to 2002

	Number
1998	—
1999	—
2000	8
2001	6
2002	13

⁽²⁵⁾ Covers Southend and some parts of Rayleigh, Benfleet and Canvey.

⁽²⁶⁾ These data are on the principal offence basis.

Mental Health

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the number of people who have been killed in each of the last 10 years at the hands of people receiving treatment for mental health problems. [143057]

Paul Goggins: Information on the mentally disordered state of the offenders, or whether they were receiving treatment at the time is not held centrally. The available information is in the form of currently recorded homicides where the apparent circumstances of the offence involved a mentally disturbed suspect. From 1992 to 1997 the statistics record homicides by calendar year and from 1997–98 financial years are used. There is duplication between 1997 and 1997–98, but it is standard practice to provide both periods.

The number of victims is given in the following table.

	Number of victims
1992	12
1993	34
1994	46
1995	39
1996	36
1997	42
1997–98	39
1998–99	28
1999–2000	22
2000–01	16
2001–02	32

Data as for 8 October 2002, figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts or as further information becomes available.

Detention and Training Orders

Dr. Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances magistrates can impose a detention and training order on an offender aged 12 to 14 years who has been convicted of breaching an anti-social behaviour order. [150993]

Paul Goggins: A court sentencing an offender aged 12–14 for breach of an anti-social behaviour order can make a Detention and Training Order in the same circumstances as for other criminal offences attracting custody. That is, where:

it decides that the effect of the breach either in itself or in combination with associated offences, is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified; or

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the anti-social behaviour involves a violent or sexual offence and only a custodial sentence.

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the changes in the costs of introduction of the detention and training orders. [151132]

Paul Goggins: We estimate the average cost of a Detention and Training Order to be £27,000. That is an average for all sentence lengths and all types of establishment (Young Offender Institutions, Secure Training Centres and Local Authority Secure Children's Homes). It includes both the custodial and the community parts of the Order.

Drug Treatment and Testing Orders

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the effectiveness of drug treatment and testing orders. [150353]

Paul Goggins: The evidence shows that Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (DTTOs) do work and that the longer offenders remain in treatment, the more likely they are to reduce their levels of offending and drug misuse (National Treatment Outcome Research Study 2001). An evaluation of the 3 DTTO pilots found that, on average, offenders committed 75 per cent. fewer offences while on the order and reduced their spend on drugs by over 90 per cent.

A two-year follow up reconviction study of offenders from the three DTTO pilot sites found that:

There was a significant reduction in the average number of convictions per year in the two years following the order in all three pilot sites; and

Those who had completed DTTOs had a reconviction rate of only 53 per cent. compared with 91 per cent. for revokees, and reduced their annual conviction rate to levels significantly below those of the previous five years.

Eastern European Immigrants

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what research he has based his estimates of the likely levels of immigration from Eastern European countries after accession to the EU in May. [153096]

Beverley Hughes: The Home Office commissioned research by University College London to look at the impact of EU accession (published in 2003 and available on the Home Office website (RDS On-line Report 25/03). In this report the authors reviewed the literature on potential migration flows following enlargement, analysed the experience of previous enlargements and developed their own model to estimate net migration from the new member states to the UK. This research was peer reviewed by scientific experts in the field.

The findings were broadly in line with previous research, in particular, reports by the European Commission in 2000 ("European Commission information note on free movement in the context of workers") and the former Department for Education and Employment in 1999 ("Assessment of possible migration pressure and its labour market impact following EU enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe").

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Electronic Tagging

Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are on electronic tags, broken down by (a) sex, (b) offence, (c) length of sentence and (d) region. [149091]

Paul Goggins [holding answer 26 January 2004]: Figures for those on home detention curfew at the end of November 2003, having been released from prison are given in the following tables broken down by sex, offence, sentence length and region.

Number on Home Detention Curfew, by offence, at end November 2003

	Total	Male	Female
Violence against the person	656	617	39
Robbery	343	300	43
Burglary	447	419	28
Theft and handling	381	327	54
Fraud and forgery	217	173	44
Drugs offences	695	578	117
Other offences	719	673	46
Offence not recorded	131	126	5
Total	3,589	3,213	376

Number on Home Detention Curfew, by sentence length, at end November 2003

	Number
Three to less than six months	362
Six to less than 12 months	500
12 to less than 18 months	555
18 months to less than two years.	512
Two years to less than four years	1,660
Total	3,589

Estimated number on Home Detention Curfew, by region, at end November 2003

	Number
Northern	1,146
Southern	574
London and Eastern	868
Midlands and Wales	1,001
Total	3,589

The figures by region are estimates, and represent contractor regions.

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his conclusions are arising from trials involving electronic tagging of juvenile sex offenders. [150749]

Paul Goggins: There have been no trials of electronic tagging for juvenile sex offenders in England and Wales.

Fines

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) fines and (b) other financial penalties were imposed by the courts for criminal offences during 2000–01, broken down by police authority in England and Wales; and how many of these were paid fully and on time. [152186]

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Paul Goggins: The number of offenders ordered to pay a fine or compensation order or who have received a confiscation order (monetary) for all offences at all courts, England and Wales 2000–01, by Police Force Area is contained in the table.

Details on the number of these financial penalties paid fully and on time, is not available centrally.

Number of offenders sentenced to pay a fine, or compensation order or who have confiscation order (monetary) at all courts for all offences, by England and Wales 2000–01⁽²⁷⁾

Police Force Area	Fine	Compensation order	Confiscation order
Avon and Somerset	25,763	2,467	18
Bedfordshire	9,267	659	6
Cambridgeshire	5,652	919	8
Cheshire	20,387	2,028	8
Cleveland	12,397	1,531	4
Cumbria	9,318	1,387	10
Derbyshire	19,099	1,733	41
Devon and Cornwall	24,123	2,641	9
Dorset	10,026	1,076	11
Durham	8,385	1,558	8
Essex	32,515	2,963	5
Gloucestershire	10,699	851	7
Greater Manchester	83,566	5,432	91
Hampshire	32,869	3,605	19
Hertfordshire	16,095	2,173	4
Humberside	15,851	1,703	29
Kent	16,207	2,489	29
Lancashire	34,402	3,765	10
Leicestershire	20,066	1,432	29
Lincolnshire	14,103	1,388	9
London, City of	8,067	214	1
Merseyside	29,560	1,206	56
Metropolitan Police	140,011	17,573	263
Norfolk	9,341	1,297	5
Northamptonshire	9,949	915	16
Northumbria	34,817	3,775	15
North Yorkshire	9,230	1,471	8
Nottinghamshire	17,309	2,266	13
South Yorkshire	25,764	2,400	24
Staffordshire	11,547	2,045	4
Suffolk	10,050	1,253	5
Surrey	13,117	1,423	3
Sussex	21,438	2,778	30
Thames Valley	33,015	3,217	35
Warwickshire	12,682	788	11
West Mercia	18,860	2,379	18
West Midlands	54,163	6,008	60
West Yorkshire	50,347	4,388	13
Wiltshire	10,559	1,319	8
Dyfed Powys	8,921	983	2
Gwent	15,624	1,392	29
North Wales	12,555	1,501	9
South Wales	28,923	2,121	20
England and Wales	1,006,6	104,512	1,003

⁽²⁷⁾ These data are on the principal offence basis (but including primary and secondary schools).

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed penalty notices were issued in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down by police authority in England and Wales; what the total value of these penalty notices was; what proportion of these were paid in full and on time; and what proportion of those fined paid their penalty in full and on time. [152189]

Ms Blears [holding answer 30 January 2004]: Information on fixed penalty notices issued for road traffic offences by police force area can be found in the annual Home Office publication 'Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales Supplementary

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tables'—Tables 20(a) to 20(c) refers. The latest issue covers 2001. Copies are available from the Library. The total value of fixed penalty notices issued is not collected centrally.

Data are also collected centrally on the disposal, (ie. paid, fine registration certificate issued etc.) of fixed penalty notices issued for road traffic offences. However because of the time taken for the procedures for payment to be enforced the data are collected approximately nine months later than the period of issue. Tables 21(a) and 21(b) of the above 2001 publication details 2000 data by number and percentage of fixed penalty notices by result. Tables 20(a) to 20(c) of the 2000 publication cover that period. Information is not available on the number of fines paid in full and on time.

Over 6,000 penalty notices for disorder were issued in the year-long pilots in four police force areas which started in mid-2002. A Home Office Research Findings covering the evaluation of the pilots will be published shortly.

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