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Antisocial Behaviour Orders
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in (a) Guildford, (b) Waverley and (c) Surrey in each year since their creation. [3377]
Hazel Blears: The available information is given in the table.
(13) Between 1 April 1999 to 31 May 2000 data were collected on aggregate numbers only by police force area (pfa). During this period no ASBOs were reported as issued within Surrey pfa.
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in Devon and Cornwall since 1 January 2004; and if he will make statement. [3039]
Hazel Blears [holding answer 13 June 2005]: The number of antisocial behaviour orders issued at all courts in Devon and Cornwall, as notified to the Home Office, from 1 January to 30 September 2004 (latest available) is 49.
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders have been issued in (a) Bolton metropolitan borough council, (b) Bury metropolitan borough council, (c) Manchester city council, (d) Oldham metropolitan borough council, (e) Rochdale metropolitan borough council, (f) Salford city council, (g) Stockport metropolitan borough council, (h) Tameside metropolitan borough council, (i) Trafford metropolitan borough council and (j) Wigan metropolitan borough council since April 1999. [3133]
Hazel Blears: The available information is given in the table.
n/a = Not available.
(14) Between 1 April 1999 to 31 May 2000 data were collected on aggregate numbers only by police force area (pfa).
Asylum Seekers
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to bring forward proposals to hear asylum applications offshore; and if he will make a statement. [2843]
Mr. McNulty: The Government have no plans to introduce offshore processing of asylum applications.
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to speed up the asylum process. [2844]
Mr. McNulty: Our current targets for the processing of asylum claims are to: decide 75 per cent. of new asylum applications within two months; ensure that 65 per cent. of new substantive asylum applications are decided, including final appeal, within six months; take 60 per cent. of detained NSA designated list claimants who were certified as clearly unfounded and detained throughout the process from claim to removal within 14 days. In addition, as we made clear in the five-year strategy for asylum and immigration, Controlling our Borders: Making migration work for Britain" which was published in February 2005 [Cm 6472], we are planning to introduce faster, tightly-managed processes for all new asylum claimants. Existing detained processes will continue alongside new, faster, non-detained processes which are currently being developed and will be implemented in phases which will include tight case-management as a specific feature.
Cannabis
Mrs. Gillan:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance he has given to police
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officers on differentiating between varieties of cannabis with a high tetrahydrocannobinal content and varieties of lesser strength. [4057]
Paul Goggins: None. All varieties of cannabis are Class C drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Offences under the Act are not determined by cannabis's relative strength and neither is police action.
Children (Penal Custody)
Dr. Vis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have been received into penal custody on remand in each year since 1990, broken down by age. [900]
Fiona Mactaggart: The number of persons aged under 18 received into prison establishments on remand, as recorded on the Prison Service IT system, is provided in the table. Information is not available for 1990 or 1991.
(15) Age at date of reception.
Community Support Officers
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide financial assistance to large rural parish councils that receive no regular police patrols to employ community support officers. [2791]
Hazel Blears:
Community Support Officers (CSOs) are employed by police authorities, and their deployment is an operational matter for the chief constable. At the end of March there were 6,300 in England and Wales. Funding is being made available over the next three years to assist in the recruitment of 24,000 CSOs by 2008. The investment will help deliver
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our commitment that by 2008 every area in England and Wales will benefit from a dedicated, visible, accessible and responsive neighbourhood policy team.
Convictions
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions for each category of offence there were in (a) England and (b) Essex in the last year for which figures are available. [399]
Fiona Mactaggart: The information contained in the table gives the number of offenders found guilty at all courts by category of offence for England and Essex, 2003.
Statistics for 2004 will be available in the autumn.
(16) These data are on the principal offence basis
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