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Terrorism Offences

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been (a) arrested and (b) charged with an offence under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000 in each year for which records are available; [187595]

(2) how many convictions have been secured for each category of offence under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2000 in each year for which records are available. [187596]

Mr. Blunkett: The figures requested are not routinely collected centrally by the police in the form requested. However, their records show that, cumulatively from
 
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11 September 2001 until 30 June 2004, 609 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000. 61 of these were charged under the Act and 38 under both the Terrorism Act and other legislation. The remainder were either released without charge, bailed to return, cautioned, charged under other legislation (such as that for murder, grievous bodily harm and use of firearms or explosives), or dealt with under immigration or mental health legislation. Of the 99 individuals charged under the Terrorism Act, 15 have been convicted.

The above figures now appear on the Home Office website and will be updated every six months.

Home Office Research Development and Statistics publish an annual Command Paper and supplementary volumes of criminal statistics. A breakdown of prosecutions and convictions under the Terrorism Act 2000 for 2001 and 2002 is in the accompanying table. Figures for 2003 will not be available until later in the year.

We are currently undertaking further work on the numbers of those arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequently charged under other legislation. We will publish these figures once they are available. Previous estimates, which are likely to under-estimate those charged in this way, had suggested up to January 2004. Of the 530 people then arrested under the Terrorism Act, 263 are known to have been released without further sanction. Of the remaining 267, 165 had been charged (94 under the Act and 71 under other legislation). Others were released to immigration service detention, sectioned under the Mental Health Act, bailed, cautioned or at that point still not dealt with.
Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for offences under the Terrorism Act 2000, England and Wales 2001 and 2002 1

		2001		2002
Offence description	Statute	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty
Relating to membership of proscribed organisations	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 11	3	—	1	1
Wearing any item of dress in support of a proscribed organisation	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 13a	—	—	—	—
Wears, carries or displays any article in support of a proscribed organisation	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 13b	—	—	1	1
Contributions towards acts of terrorism	Terrorism Act 2000, secs. 15–18 and 22	1	—	8	1
Failure to disclose knowledge or suspicion of acts of terrorism	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 19	—	—	—	—
Failure to leave a cordoned area immediately when ordered to do so by a constable in uniform	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 36(1)(a)	—	—	1	—
Failure to leave premises, which abut or are wholly or partially within a cordoned area, immediately if ordered to do so by a constable in uniform	Terrorism Act 2000 sec. 36(1)(b)	—	—	1	—
Failure of driver or person in charge of a vehicle which is in a cordoned area to immediately move the vehicle if ordered to do so by a constable in uniform	Terrorism Act 2000 sec. 36(c)(d)(e)	—	—	—	—
Contravention or a prohibition or restriction order made by a constable in uniform to a cordoned area	Terrorism Act 2000 sec. 36(f)	—	—	—	—
Making any disclosure likely to prejudice an investigation about acts of terrorism or failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism	Terrorism Act 2000 sec. 39	—	—	—	—
Failure to stop (Power to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians)	Terrorism Act 2000, secs. 43, 44 and 47(1)(a)(b)(2)	1	—	1	—
Wilful obstruction (Power to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians)	Terrorism Act 2000, secs. 43, 44 and 47(1)(c) and (2)	—	—	—	—
Failure to move vehicle when ordered to do so by a constable in uniform (vehicle had been permitted to remain at rest in contravention of any prohibition or restriction)	Terrorism Act 2000, secs. 48 and 51(2)	—	—	—	—
Leaves a vehicle or permits a vehicle to remain at rest, on a road in contravention of a prohibition or restriction	Terrorism Act 2000, secs. 48 and 51(1)	—	—	—	—
Provides instruction; invites another to receive instruction in weapon training	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 54	1	—	1	—
Directing terrorist training	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 56	—	—	1	—
Collect, record or possession of information or articles likely to be of use to terrorists	Terrorism Act 2000, sec. 57 and 58	—	—	3	1
Failure to furnish information when required by examining officer	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 7(5)(a) and (18)	—	—	1	—
Failing to produce either a valid passport or identifying document when required by examining officer	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 7(5)(b)and(18)	—	—	—	—
Failing to declare or produce any relevant documents when required by examining officer	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 7(5)(c)(d)and(18)	—	—	—	—
Failing to submit to search by examining officer or person acting on his/her behalf	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 7(7)(8)and(18)	—	—	—	—
Failing to complete and produce an embarkation card when required to by examining officer	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 7(16) and (18)	—	—	1	—
Wilfully obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty in a cordoned area	Terrorism Act 2000, sch. 5, sec. 36(1)(2)	—	—	—	—
Wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate the object of a search in a cordoned area	Terrorism Act 2000, sch.(1–3)	—	—	—	—
Total		6	—	20	4

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TimeBank and Do-It

Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to publish the research commissioned by his Department into (a) TimeBank and (b) Do-it. [186687]

Fiona Mactaggart: The Home Office research into the work of TimeBank and the do-it website was commissioned for internal Home Office use and it is not intended that it should be published in full, as it contains commercially sensitive information. However summaries of the main findings of this research are:

TimeBank

TimeBank's performance does not compare unfavourably with that of other Government funded programmes.

TimeBank has managed to attract people into volunteering who have never volunteered before and has managed to broaden the base from which volunteers are recruited to some extent by attracting significant numbers of young people and people from black and minority ethnic communities.

Perhaps its biggest success has been its targeted campaigns which have been extremely well received by the Campaign Partners, but less so by TimePartners.

There are ongoing difficulties with the TimePartner system and the link-up with the do-it database.

The functions of TimeBank and other key, strategic volunteering agencies such as do-it, the Community Channel and the National Centre for Volunteering overlap.

do-it

do-it has made a good start. In October 2001 it reported 9,000 page impressions per week, and by January 2002 it was up to 17,000. In March 2003 do-it was receiving 100,000 unique users per month. Opportunities cover a broad spectrum of service areas and skill levels.

There are gaps in the evaluation that need to be addressed. There are currently no systematic data to indicate how many people have started to volunteer as a result of their contact with do-it, or indeed any feedback from users on the services that do-it provides.

 
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In the absence of user feedback, feedback from organisations was mixed. Three quarters of organisations that responded said they had received volunteers through do-it (average of 22 in the last year per organisation). Three in five organisations felt that do-it had been an effective recruitment tool.

The capital modernisation scheme was felt to have been a great success, both by recipient organisations and representatives from the wider voluntary sector.

These issues are currently being addressed by both organisations.

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