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Disability Discrimination Act
Mr. Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what measures his Department is taking to prepare (a) businesses and (b) service providers for the implementation of the parts of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 which come into effect later this year. [160692]
Maria Eagle: We are making significant changes to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) on 1 October 2004 to improve access to employment and to goods and services for all disabled people in this country. Employers with fewer than 15 staff will be covered by
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the employment duties for the first time. Service providers will also be under new duties to make reasonable adjustments to physical barriers which prevent disabled people accessing their services.
We are taking action on three fronts to prepare employers and service providers for these changes:
- undertaking targeted campaigns using a range of press, broadcast and web-based media to raise awareness of the new duties;
- directly mailing around a million individual small businesses to explain their responsibilities under the DDA and the business benefits of making adjustments for disabled people; and
- running another Access All Areas award to encourage the spread of best practice among service providers.
This activity complements the Disability Rights Commission's Open4All campaign, which is targeted at small service providers.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Burglary
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) found guilty of burglary in Greater London in each year since 1997; how many of these were under (i) 16, (ii) 18 and (iii) 21 years; and how many of those found guilty were given (A) custodial and (B) non-custodial sentences, broken down by age group. [159219]
Paul Goggins: The available information is contained in the table and relates to offenders proceeded against at the magistrates courts and found guilty and sentenced at all courts for burglary of all types in Greater London, 1997 to 2002.
Statistics on court proceedings for 2003 will be published in the autumn.
(19) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(20) Metropolitan and City of London police force areas.
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Correspondence
Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letters of 31 July 2003 and 24 November 2003 from the hon. Member for Maidstone and the Weald about Mrs. Rosa Wiles. [157997]
Beverley Hughes: Our records show that I wrote to the right hon. Lady on 4 August 2003 in response to a previous letter of 23 July 2003. The right hon. Lady's office confirmed this reply dealt with the points raised in the right hon. Lady's letter of 31 July 2003 and that a further reply was not required. Although there was no record of the right hon. Lady's letter of 24 November 2003 having been received by the Home Office your office sent a copy and I wrote to the right hon. Lady on 11 March.
Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 28 January from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. J. Hussain. [158696]
Mr. Blunkett: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 11 March.
Mr. Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 15 January from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. A. Nicholls; [159987]
- (2) when his Department will reply to the letter to him from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 15 January with regard to Mr. A. Nicholls. [160489]
Mr. Blunkett: The Minister of State wrote to my right hon. Friend on 11 March.
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Corruption
Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department intends to establish a specialised authority to combat corruption in line with Article 36 of the UN Convention Against Corruption. [158356]
Caroline Flint: The UK is already in compliance with article 36 of the UN Convention against Corruption which stipulates that each State Party shall ensure the existence of a body or bodies or persons specialised in combating corruption through law enforcement. There are persons specialised in combating corruption in a number of law enforcement authorities which have responsibility for investigating or prosecuting corruption offences, such as the CPS and the Metropolitan Police.
Curfew Orders
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many curfew orders have been made in Chorley in each of the last five years. [157114]
Paul Goggins: The information requested is contained in the table and relates to offenders sentenced to a curfew order for all offences in the Chorley Petty Sessional Area (PSA) and at the Crown court when committed from the Chorley PSA, in the years 1998 to 2002.
| Sentenced to a curfew order | |
|---|---|
| 1999 | — |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 11 |
(21) These data are on the principal offence.
(22) Curfew orders were introduced nationally in December 1999
Statistics on court proceedings for 2003 will be published in the autumn.
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) home and (b) child curfew orders have been made in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London borough in each of the last five years. [159218]
Paul Goggins: It is not possible, from the statistics collected centrally, to identify persons released from custody on Home Detention Curfew orders by area.
The available information is contained in the table and relates to juveniles aged 10–17 sentenced to a curfew order for all offences in the Greater London area, each borough in outer London and each magistrates court in inner London (it is not possible from the statistics collected centrally to identify boroughs in inner London). The figures include curfew orders imposed at the Crown Court when committed for trial or sentence from the courts/boroughs shown.
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| Sentenced to a curfew order | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magistrates court/borough | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Inner London magistrates courts(24) | |||||
| Bow Street | — | — | — | — | — |
| Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge | — | — | 1 | 6 | 24 |
| Guildhall Justice Rooms | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greenwich/Woolwich | — | — | — | — | — |
| Highbury Corner | — | — | — | — | — |
| Horseferry Road | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Marylebone | — | — | — | — | — |
| South Western | — | — | 3 | 30 | 56 |
| Thames | — | — | 11 | 33 | 36 |
| West London | — | — | 5 | 16 | 46 |
| Outer London boroughs | |||||
| Barking and Dagenham | — | — | — | 4 | 11 |
| Barnet | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Bexley | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Brent | 9 | 5 | — | 3 | 2 |
| Bromley | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Croydon | — | — | — | 1 | 12 |
| Ealing | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 6 |
| Enfield | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 |
| Harringey | — | — | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| Harrow | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Havering | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Hillingdon | — | 3 | 2 | 9 | — |
| Hounslow | — | — | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Merton | — | — | — | 4 | 13 |
| Newham | — | — | — | 2 | 13 |
| Redbridge | — | — | — | 1 | 5 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | — | — | — | 3 | 5 |
| Sutton | — | — | — | 1 | 7 |
| Waltham Forest | — | — | — | 9 | 6 |
| Total | 13 | 13 | 42 | 142 | 292 |
(23) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(24) Information held centrally does not allow a breakdown of cases by borough in the inner London area.
Statistics on court proceedings for 2003 will be published in the autumn.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many home curfew orders have been made in (a) Ribble Valley and Fulwood and (b) Lancashire in each of the last five years. [156501]
Paul Goggins: The available information is contained in the table and relates to persons sentenced to a curfew order for all offences at all courts in the Lancashire police force area, 1998 to 2002. It is not possible to separately identify the areas of Ribble Valley and Fulwood in the statistics collected centrally.
| Sentenced to a curfew order | |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2000 | 58 |
| 2001 | 61 |
| 2002 | 195 |
(25) These data are on the principal offence basis
(26) Curfew orders were introduced nationally in December 1999
Statistics on court proceedings for 2003 will be published in the autumn.
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