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Care Custody System
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the Care Custody computer system to be fully operational throughout England and Wales. [170722]
Caroline Flint: The current plan proposes that the Custody and Case Preparation software applications will be installed and ready for service in all 43 Police Forces by October 2005 and that Forces will have the systems in full operational use by March 2006.
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether (a) the Care Custody computer system will contain all data held in England and Wales regarding an individual and (b) the information will be limited to locally-held data. [170723]
Caroline Flint: As currently designed the bulk of the Custody and Case Preparation information will be held locally within the force area and only core data and that information required to be recorded on the PNC will be available nationally.
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what timescale targets he intends to set for the input of data into the Care Custody system regarding custody decisions, bail and court decisions. [170724]
Caroline Flint:
The current requirement established by the Association of Chief Police Officers and monitored by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, (HMIC), stipulates that the following
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timeliness performance indicators are required to be met by the Police for entry onto the Police National Computer:
1. Initial key details of arrestee and charge—90 per cent. within 24 hours of arrest.
2. Full entry—90 per cent. within five days
3. Once compliance with 1 and 2 is obtained then a staged improvement to 90 per cent. within 24 hours for full entry.
1. Police bail 100 per cent. within 24 hours
Court Case Results—Police Entered.
2. 100 per cent. entered within 72 hours of the result from the court coming into Police possession.
Court Case Results—Court Entered 1.
100 per cent. within 24 hours.
Correspondence
Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 19 February, with regard to Wajid Shamsul Hasan; [167260]
(2) when he intends to reply to the letter to him from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 25 March with regard to Mr. Amanah Ullah. [172254]
(3) when he intends to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 30 March with regard to Ms S.A. Ntonga. [172255]
(4) when he intends to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 30 March with regard to Mr. Cristian Cornel Peres. [172256]
Mr. Blunkett: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 11 May 2004.
Drugs
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings Ministers have had with their counterparts from (a) Sweden, (b) Greece, (c) Belgium, (d) Denmark, (e) Finland, (f) Spain, (g) the USA, (h) Portugal, (i) Italy, (j) New Zealand, (k) Ireland, (l) Canada, (m) Jamaica, (n) the Netherlands, (o) Switzerland, (p) France and (q) Germany on drug abuse in the past two years. [171622]
Caroline Flint:
Over the past two years, in addition to the regular contacts we have with European colleagues in the Council of Ministers and with other counterparts at other international meetings, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has met counterparts from Greece, Belgium, Denmark, the United States, Italy, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and France; my predecessor as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office with responsibility for drugs issues, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth), met his counterparts from Ireland, Jamaica and France; I have met my counterparts from Jamaica and the Netherlands. As a matter of major concern to Home Affairs and Justice Ministers across the world, drugs will have featured in most of these discussions. Home Office Ministers also have ready
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access to drug policies and practice in those countries through published reports from and about them and through advice from officials and others who keep in close touch with developments.
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what public funds were spent on tackling drugs misuse in Oldham, West and Royton in (a) 1997–98 and (b) 2003–04. [170957]
Caroline Flint: Breakdown of financial allocation to local constituencies is not available to the Home Office. Funding is allocated to Drug Action Team (DAT) areas, in this case Oldham Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT).
The period 1997–98 pre dates the Government's current National Drug Strategy. Expenditure across all appropriate agencies in the area at this time is estimated to have been £977,350. This figure is based on locally held information for the period 1998–99 and has been supplied by Oldham DAAT.
In 2003–04 the total drugs allocation for Oldham was £1,697,123. In order to ensure consistency figures supplied are based on funding streams associated with the National Drug Strategy and are readily verifiable. These funding streams are specifically targeted at tackling the harm caused to individuals, families and communities by the misuse of drugs. Other mainstream funding is made available at a local level, this varies and both in amount and origin as a result it is not possible to provide robust financial information.
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Partnership Capacity | 69,259 |
| Treatment Pooled Budget | 1,016,000 |
| Through Care After Care Pump Priming | 35,000 |
| Building Safer Communities(7) | 386,069 |
| Young people | 190,795 |
| Total | 1,697,123 |
(7) Contains non-drug elements.
Mr. Borrow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what public funds were spent on tackling drugs misuse in South Ribble in (a) 1997–98 and (b) 2003–04. [171656]
Caroline Flint: Breakdown of financial allocation to local constituencies is not available to the Home Office. Funding is allocated to Drug Action Team (DAT) areas, in this case Lancashire DAT.
In 1997–98 (pre-dating National Drugs Strategy) funding available to Lancashire DAT area totalled £670,000.
In 2003–04 the total drugs allocation for Lancashire was £6,015,000. In order to ensure consistency, figures supplied are based on funding streams associated with the National Drug Strategy and are readily verifiable. These funding streams are specifically targeted at tackling the harm caused to individuals, families and communities by the misuse of drugs. Other mainstream funding is made available at a local level; this varies both in amount and origin, as a result it is not possible to provide robust financial information.
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| £ | |
|---|---|
| Partnership capacity | 118,000 |
| Treatment pooled budget | 3,980,000 |
| Through care after care pump priming | 35,000 |
| Building safer communities(8) | 1,147,000 |
| Young people | 735,000 |
| Total | 6,015,000 |
(8) Contains non-drug elements.
Emergency Services
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many administrators were involved, and at what cost, in each police authority, to deal with the paperwork resulting from emergency police vehicles captured on speed cameras contravening speed limits. [170733]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is not collected centrally.
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