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Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Wrexham of 23 October 2003 in connection with Mr. Jama Ali Farah (ref. F1036752). [172199]
Mr. Browne: Officials at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate replied on 3 November 2003 to my hon. Friend's letter of 23 October 2003.
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the hon. Member for West Worcestershire will receive a response to his letter of 7 April 2004, reference PO4301/4. [174749]
Mr. Browne [holding answer 20 May 2004]: I wrote to the hon. Member's letter on 25 May 2004.
David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Transport on reform of the criminal justice system. [172844]
Paul Goggins: The Home Office is in regular contact with the Department for Transport on criminal justice issues, including sentencing, support for victims of road crash incidents and road traffic policing.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget is for each local criminal justice board in 200405; and what the proposed budget is for 200506. [172957]
Paul Goggins:
The amount of funding from the centre to support the activities of each Local Criminal Justice Board in 200405 has yet to be agreed but it is hoped that it will be at least equal to the £40,000 that was provided to each Local Criminal Justice Board in 200304. The final sum provided in 200405 will be in addition to the salary cost paid by the centre for the support provided by the Performance Officer to each Local Criminal Justice Board area. The proposed
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budget for 200506 will not be known until after the outcome of the 2004 Spending Review has been considered.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the criminal justice boards where representatives of Victim Support are (a) full members of the Board and (b) attend board meetings. [172958]
Paul Goggins: The four Criminal Justice Boards where representatives of Victim Support are full members of the Board are Avon and Somerset, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and London.
Attendance at Local Board meetings is a matter for each Board's discretion. However, Boards where the Victim Support representative may, on occasion, attend board meetings as a member of a Victim and Witness sub-group include Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Devon and Cornwall, Durham, Dyfed Powys, Essex, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Thames Valley, Warwickshire and West Yorkshire. In addition to this, a Victim Support representative is a member of the Merseyside Advisory Group and therefore may possibly attend some of the Board meetings.
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drugs testing and treatment orders were issued in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. [163092]
Paul Goggins [holding answer 22 March 2004]: Drug Treatment and Testing Orders (DTTOs) have been available since October 2000 when they were rolled out nationally following an 18-month pilot period in three areas. The London Probation Area is required to submit monthly figures to the National Probation Directorate pertaining to the number of Orders made but is not required to break this down by boroughs. The breakdown by borough shown in Annexes A and B has been obtained from London Probation Area records.
The number of orders made in each year from October 2000 to February 2004 is as follows:
Number | ||
---|---|---|
October 2000 to March 2001 | 251 | (not available by borough) |
April 2001 to March 2002 | 556 | (not available by borough) |
April 2002 to March 2003 | 715 | (by borough at Annex A) |
April 2003 to February 2004 | 941 | (by borough at Annex B) |
Number | |
---|---|
Bexley | 8 |
Greenwich | 37 |
Brent | 30 |
Harrow | 14 |
Eating | 37 |
Hillingdon | 27 |
Hounslow | 24 |
Barnet | 22 |
Enfield | 31 |
Haringey | 41 |
Bromley | 23 |
Croydon | 35 |
Camden | 47 |
Islington | 35 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 24 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 16 |
Westminster | 34 |
City | 0 |
Hackney | 34 |
Newham | 35 |
Tower Hamlets | 44 |
Lambeth | 53 |
Lewisham | 47 |
Southwark | 62 |
Barking and Dagenham | 21 |
Havering | 7 |
Redbridge | 17 |
Waltham Forrest | 30 |
Kingston | 7 |
Merton | 15 |
Richmond | 6 |
Sutton | 19 |
Wandsworth | 53 |
Total | 935 |
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of fines was collected by each local criminal justice board in the last year for which figures are available. [173777]
Paul Goggins: Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) do not directly collect fines. Fine enforcement is the responsibility of local Magistrates' Courts Committees (MCCs). But, given the importance of fine enforcement to public confidence in the Criminal Justice System, LCJBs are encouraged to monitor and to work jointly to improve payment rates within their local areas.
The table shows the payment rate for April 2003 to March 2004 for each of the 42 local MCCs. This represents the total value of fines (excluding confiscation orders) collected as a percentage of the total value of fines imposed over this period. The Department for Constitutional Affairs set MCCs a target of 75 per cent. for the year ending March 2004. Note that it is possible for an area's payment rate to exceed 100 per cent. if a sufficiently high value of fines imposed prior to April 2003 are collected.
Payment rate (Percentage) | ||
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Magistrates' Court Committee | Q4 (January to Mar 2004) | Year 200304 |
Avon and Somerset | 77 | 83 |
Bedfordshire | 84 | 80 |
Cambridgeshire | 110 | 100 |
Cheshire | 78 | 82 |
Cleveland | 114 | 91 |
Cumbria | 91 | 93 |
Derbyshire | 89 | 79 |
Devon and Cornwall | 55 | 68 |
Dorset | 69 | 72 |
Durham | 93 | 90 |
Dyfed Powys | 102 | 81 |
Essex | 109 | 94 |
Gloucestershire | 61 | 95 |
Greater London | 82 | 66 |
Greater Manchester | 72 | 64 |
Gwent | 84 | 85 |
Hampshire and Isle of Wight | 68 | 86 |
Hertfordshire | 63 | 68 |
Humberside | 87 | 96 |
Kent | 78 | 78 |
Lancashire | 90 | 86 |
Leicestershire | 73 | 69 |
Lincolnshire | 75 | 75 |
Merseyside | 51 | 59 |
Norfolk | 85 | 79 |
North Wales | 75 | 89 |
North Yorkshire | 138 | 98 |
Northamptonshire | 81 | 96 |
Northumbria | 81 | 82 |
Nottinghamshire | 68 | 72 |
South Wales | 76 | 76 |
South Yorkshire | 101 | 81 |
Staffordshire | 67 | 78 |
Suffolk | 71 | 80 |
Surrey | 77 | 74 |
Sussex | 95 | 100 |
Thames Valley | 63 | 65 |
Warwickshire | 80 | 94 |
West Mercia | 74 | 79 |
West Midlands | 54 | 53 |
West Yorkshire | 69 | 58 |
Wiltshire | 92 | 94 |
England and Wales | 76 | 74 |
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