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Antisocial Behaviour Orders
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many juveniles were received into prison service custody for breaching antisocial behaviour orders in each month of (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004. [200434]
Paul Goggins: The available information relates to those aged 10–17 given a custodial sentence in 2002 for breaching their antisocial behaviour order. Figures for 2003 will be available in the near future.
Notes:
1. If a person breached their ASBO more than once, the table counts the severest sentence across all breaches.
2. Breaches are counted for ASBOs reported to the Home Office
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Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) juveniles, (b) young offenders and (c) adults in England and Wales were sentenced to immediate custody for breach of an antisocial behaviour order in 2003. [201388]
Paul Goggins: Breach data for 2003 are not yet available.
Armed Forces Veterans
Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will extend provision of free passports to veterans of the armed forces who joined up during the Second World War, but who are under the age of 75 years. [205924]
Mr. Browne: There are currently no plans to provide free concessionary passports to any individual born after 2 September 1929. This date was chosen to provide free passports to people who were 16 years of age or older at the end of the Second World War.
Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the cost of providing free passports to (a) all veterans of the armed forces who joined up during the Second World War and (b) all people born on or before VE Day. [205925]
Mr. Browne: The scheme for free passports for all those born on or before 2 September 1929 introduced on 18 October this year will include all veterans of the armed forces who joined up during the Second World War. It is not possible accurately to state how many of those in the scheme were members of the armed forces but current estimates of the cost of this scheme is £5 million (year 1) gradually reducing over time.
It is estimated that issuing free passports to all those born on or before VE Day would involve in excess of 600,000 passports per year, at current cost levels resulting in a cost of approximately £30 million per year.
Asylum Seekers
Andrew Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria are used to determine whether permanent leave to remain should be granted to an applicant who has been granted a work permit in four consecutive years; and whether his policy is to consider such applications only from people in certain professions or trades. [204071]
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Mr. Browne: In considering applications for indefinite leave to remain by work permit holders, caseworkers must be satisfied that applicants:
Grants of indefinite leave to remain under this category are not affected by a person's profession or trade.
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the construction of the accommodation centre for asylum seekers near Bicester to be completed; when he expects it to be ready to accept asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement. [204786]
Mr. Browne: It is expected that construction of the accommodation centre near Bicester will be completed in late 2006. It is planned that occupation of the centre will be built up over a period of between three and four months from the opening date.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the estimated number of asylum seekers residing in each parliamentary constituency is. [205114]
Mr. Browne: Figures for asylum seekers (including dependants) in receipt of NASS accommodation support in each parliamentary constituency as at the end of September 2004 are presented in the following table. Corresponding figures for those not in receipt of NASS support are not available.
Information on the number of asylum seekers supported by NASS is published quarterly on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
(65) Figures have been rounded to nearest 5, with (*) = 1 or 2, and are provisional.
(66) Asylum seekers that have been allocated NASS accommodation and have been confirmed as having arrived in that accommodation.
(67) Excludes unaccompanied asylum seeking children supported by local authorities, estimated at around 7,000 in May 2004. Excludes cases that pre-date the establishment of NASS in April 2000, administered under arrangements with local authorities, estimated at up to 16,000 cases in May 2004 (the number of such cases is falling).
(68) Excludes cases where support has been ceased by the National Asylum Support Service.
(69) Only those Parliamentary constituencies where NASS dispersed or disbenefitted cases are resident are shown.
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Mrs. Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people entering England seeking asylum as an unaccompanied minor in each year since 2000 were subsequently deported after their 18th birthday; and if he will make a statement. [206701]
Mr. Browne [holding answer 21 December 2004]: The information requested on removals is not available. Although statistics of the removal of failed asylum seekers include young people who entered the UK seeking asylum as unaccompanied minors, they do not separately identify such persons.
Asylum seekers apply for asylum in the UK rather than specifically in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
The table shows total number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the year stated.
| Number of principal applicants | |
|---|---|
| 2000(73) | 2,735 |
| 2001(73) | 3,470 |
| 2002(74) | 6,200 |
| 2003(74)(75) | 3,180 |
(70) Figures are rounded to the nearest five.
(71) Unaccompanied at point of arrival, aged (or if no proof) determined to be 17 or under and not known to be joining a relative or guardian in the United Kingdom.
(72) Figures exclude disputed age cases.
(73) May exclude some cases lodged at Local Enforcement Offices.
(74) Not comparable with manual counts data prior to 2002.
(75) Provisional figures.
Information on asylum applications and removals are published quarterly on the Home Office website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
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