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David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of drug testing and treatment orders have been breached in each year since their introduction, broken down by local authority area. [205326]
Paul Goggins: It is not possible to calculate accurately the total number or percentage of orders breached in any one year. Some orders made in one year were breached in the following year; some cases are subject to multiple breach proceedings; some breach proceedings have been instigated and not yet dealt with by the courts; and 7,640 orders (30 per cent. of the orders made since roll-out) are still running. A completion target for Drug Testing and Treatment Orders (DTTO) of 35 per cent. was introduced from April 2004. The overall completion rate between AprilOctober 2004 was 34 per cent. and each probation area's completion rate for the same period is shown in the table.
Mr. Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out the offences for which fixed penalty notices can be issued; and what guidance has been issued to authorities by his Department about circumstances in which such notices can be delivered. [206771]
Ms Blears: The penalty notice for disorder scheme was extended by the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Amendment) and Police Reform Act 2002 (Modification) Order 2004 (SI 2540/2004), made on 27 September this year, to add a further 10 offences to the existing 11 offences. A complete list of the offences and penalties is shown in the table.
Operational guidance is provided to the police on issuing penalty notices for disorder. This has been revised to take into account the new offences and will be published on the Home Office website shortly at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crimpol/police/penalty/index.html
Copies of the revised police operational guidance will be placed in the Library at the same time.
Mr. Lilley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the source is of the figure that about 35 per cent. of terrorists use false or multiple identities, as referred to in the answer of 17 May 2004, Official Report, column 773W, to the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb). [207467]
Mr. Browne [holding answer 10 January 2005]: During an oral evidence session to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 4 May 2004, the then Home Secretary my right hon. Friend, the Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) said:
"I have been very circumspect and I have indicated what the security services have said to me, which is they believe that in excess of a third of those who are engaged in supporting terrorism use multiple identities in order to be able to evade detection and to evade us being able to disrupt their activities."
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the likely size of the national identity register in (a) 2010, (b) 2020 and (c) 2030. [207623]
Mr. Browne: The current working assumption is that the following number of enrolments will be recorded on the National Identity Register at the end of the financial year which begins in:
Number (million) | |
---|---|
(a) 2010 | 11.3 |
(b) 2020 | 70.0 |
(c) 2030 | 111.3 |
The National Identity Register will continue to hold records of deceased persons and those who have registered and then left the country, to avoid fraudulent use of these identities.
John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions which have resulted in custodial sentences there have been for (a) drink-driving and (b) other motoring offences, broken down by (i) type and (ii) gender in each year since 1997; and what each figure represents as a percentage of the total. [204719]
Paul Goggins:
Information taken from the Home Office court proceedings database on convictions and custodial sentences for drink-driving and other motoring offences by gender 1997 to 2002 (latest
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available) is given in tables, which have been placed in the Library. Data for 2003 will be available early in 2005.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representation the relevant trade unions have on the National Offender Management Service Board. [204892]
Paul Goggins: Having initially agreed to accept my invitation to join the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Board, Ms Judy McKnight (General Secretary of NAPO) and Mr. Colin Moses (National Chairman of POA) recently announced their resignation.
I have made it clear that I strongly support regular and open dialogue with Trade Unions as part of the development of NOMS. The NOMS Joint Consultative Council (JCC) provides a forum for communication, discussion, consultation and information sharing between the NOMS and the Trade Unions representing staff within the National Probation Service, Her Majesty's Prison Service and the core Home Office on those issues that fall outside the remits of the existing service-specific consultation frameworks.
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