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Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether the Minister for Immigration will attend the South London Citizens' Inquiry into Lunar house; [8337]
(2) for what reasons the Minister for Immigration decided not to give evidence to the South London Citizens' Inquiry into Lunar house. [8338]
Mr. McNulty: The Inquiry is focusing on how the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) provides its services at Lunar house. In the light of this it was more appropriate for officials to attend rather than the Minister. Joanna Place and Jeremy Oppenheim, two of the senior directors in IND attended the Inquiry on 30 June.
Mr. Fabian Hamilton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the sources of methadone traded illegally. [6991]
Hazel Blears [holding answer 28 June 2005]: The Home Office have not conducted any systematic assessment of black market" trading in methadone.
Sarah Teather:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been prosecuted for driving (a) without a licence, (b) without insurance and (c) without an MOT in each London borough in each of the last five years; [5451]
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(2) how many people were prosecuted for having an untaxed vehicle in London in each of the last five years. [5450]
Paul Goggins: The following table shows (by London borough) the number of persons proceeded against for failure to produce a driving licence and for using a vehicle uninsured against third party risks. From the Home Office Court Proceedings Database it is not possible to separately identify the specific offence of driving a vehicle without a valid MOT certificate from other vehicle test offences, nor the offence of having an untaxed vehicle from other registration and licence offences.
Mr. Malins:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many persons have been (a) charged with, and (b) convicted of offences relating to unlawful (i) marketing of knives and (ii) publications in connection with the marketing of knives under sections 1 and 2 of the Knives Act 1997 in each of the last four years; and what proportion received a custodial sentence in each year; [6595]
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(2) how many persons have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of an offence under section 6 of the Offensive Weapons Act 1996 in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what proportion received a custodial sentence in each year. [6596]
Hazel Blears: Statistics on the number of persons charged with a crime are not collected centrally. The information contained in the table gives the number of defendants proceeded against at the magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for the offences requested, England and Wales 1999 to 2003. No sentences of immediate custody were given for these offences; the sentence breakdown for each offence has been provided. Statistics on court proceedings for 2004 will be published in the autumn.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been convicted for fraudulently using a UK passport in London in each of the last five years. [8201]
Hazel Blears: Data from the Home Office Court Proceedings database on the number of people found guilty of fraudulently using a UK passport under S.26(1)(d) Immigration Act 1971 in London, 1999 to 2003 is contained in the table.
Number | |
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1999 | 4 |
2000 | 1 |
2001 | 2 |
2002 | 1 |
2003 | 2 |
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