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Illegal Immigrants

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what types of machinery and
 
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equipment are used by immigration officials to detect illegal immigrants at the (a) Hull, (b) Dover, (c) Portsmouth and (d) Southampton ports of entry; and how many hours per day on average each was used in the last period for which figures are available. [3140]

Mr. McNulty: The following detection systems are used by the Immigration Service port operators and carriers:

Dover

Calais

Dunkerque

Boulogne

Hull, Southampton, Portsmouth

In addition to these checks the Mobile Freight Search Team operates at all UK seaports and at juxtaposed locations and is deployed on a risk assessed, intelligence led basis. The team uses a gamma ray scanner, CO2 probes and body detection dogs.

It is not possible to provide details of how many hours per day these systems are operated as these figures are not collated.

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants were detected at the (a) Hull, (b) Dover, (c) Portsmouth and (d) Southampton ports of entry in the last six months for which figures are available. [3141]

Mr. McNulty: All figures in this response are locally collated management information.

The numbers of illegal immigrants detected in the ports specified are as follows:
20042005
DecemberJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMay
Hull200000
Dover458637332750
Portsmouth1274101618
Southampton000000

From 1 December 2004 to 22 May 2005 3,268 persons were prevented from boarding by port authorities checks and 2,590 were detected by the Immigration Service at juxtaposed locations serving Dover from 1 December to 31 May 2005. 2,560 were reported by carriers as the number of persons off-loaded at ports with services to Portsmouth in the same period.

Motoring Offences

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been fined under the offence of using a hand held mobile phone while driving; how many people have contested the fines; and what revenue has been raised through fines, broken down by (a) month and (b) police authority region. [2294]


 
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Hazel Blears: Available information on the number of fixed penalty notices and court fines ordered to be paid for the new offence (introduced as from 1 December 2003) of driving while using a hand held mobile telephone is given in the table. Statistics are not collected centrally on appeals against court fines by type of offence. Information on revenue raised through fines is also not available centrally but data are given in the
 
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table on the amount of fines imposed by the courts and on the estimated revenue from fixed penalties. Fixed penalty notice data are submitted to the Home Office on a calendar year basis from police forces and as such it is not possible for a month by month break down.

2004 data will be available in early 2006.

Use of a hands free mobile phone is not part of the new offence.
Fixed penalty notices and court proceedings data for the offence of use of hand held mobile phone while driving(31) by police force area, England and Wales 2003

Number of offences
Type of action
Court proceedings(32)
Fixed penalties
Total findings of guiltAmount of fines (£)Number of tickets(33)Estimated revenue (£)(34)
Avon and Somerset
Bedfordshire(35)13010300
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cleveland13390
Cumbria13390
Derbyshire13390
Devon and Cornwall34510,350
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire1474,410
Greater Manchester
Hampshire541,620
Hertfordshire
Humberside
Kent15450
Lancashire341,020
Leicestershire17510
Lincolnshire7210
London, City of451,350
Merseyside
Metropolitan Police68120,430
Norfolk17510
Northamptonshire130
Northumbria561,680
North Yorkshire5150
Nottinghamshire
South Yorkshire28840
Staffordshire12360
Suffolk421,260
Surrey1644,920
Sussex
Thames Valley25750
Warwickshire
West Mercia
West Midlands1444,320
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire
Dyfed Powys
Gwent
North Wales
South Wales
England and Wales1301,88856,640


(31) Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction & Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3). Introduced 1 December 2003.
(32) Includes cases where fixed penalty notices were originally issued but not paid and subsequently referred to court.
(33) Only covers tickets paid where there is no further action.
(34) Estimate based on fixed penalty charge of £30.
(35) In the month of December 2003.



 
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Policing

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent per capita from central Government funds on policing in (a) the East Riding of Yorkshire, (b) Humberside and (c) England in each of the last five years. [3601]

Mr. Charles Clarke: I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 7 June 2005, Official Report, column 514W.

Information on spend for policing in the East Riding of Yorkshire is not held centrally. The distribution of resources within a force area is a matter for the chief constable and the police authority.

Probation Reports

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports were prepared by probation officers for people convicted of any offence in each year since 2000 in (a) Essex and (b) England; and how many of those reports were challenged and subsequently found to be unreasonable. [1219]

Fiona Mactaggart: The number of pre-sentence reports and specific sentence reports (now replaced by the Fast Delivery PSR) written by probation officers in the Essex probation area and in all probation areas in England in each year since 2000 is given in the following table. Information on the number of reports which were challenged and subsequently found to be unreasonable is not collected centrally.
Number of pre-sentence reports and specific sentence reports

EssexEngland
20004,894236,984
20013,300231,510
20023,967236,750
20034,205228,519


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