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Criminal Assets
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Home Office Annual Report, what percentage of the £84 million of criminal assets recovered in 2004–05 has been assigned to (a) front-line capacity and (b) local community objectives; and if he will make a statement. [32802]
Paul Goggins: Of the £84 million of criminal assets recovered in 2004–05, 34 per cent. (£28.5 million) was assigned to frontline capacity and 8.3 per cent. (£7 million) to local community projects.
Cycling (Blue Flashing Lights)
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the extent of the use of blue flashing lights by cyclists; and what guidance (a) he and (b) the Association of Chief Police Officers has issued regarding the implications for their use of the 1989 Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations. [38256]
Paul Goggins: No such assessment has been made and no such guidance has been issued.
Chief officers of police are best placed to assess the nature and cause of cycling offences locally and to decide the most appropriate response.
Under the 1989 road vehicles lighting regulations (as amended) blue flashing lights on pedal cycles are prohibited, unless the pedal cycle is being used for police, fire brigade or ambulance purposes. Flashing lights are now permitted on pedal cycles generally but must be white to the front and red to the rear.
Damages
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the 10 largest amounts of damages paid out by his Department in the last year for which figures are available, indicating in each case the nature of the claim. [27727]
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Mr. Charles Clarke: The Home Office Legal Advisors Branch, Treasury Solicitors Finance and Home Office Finance are unable to produce this information without disproportionate cost being incurred.
Departmental Estate
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which buildings and sites used by his Department and related agencies (a) have ceased to be used in the last year and (b) will be closed under plans for relocation. [31742]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The following buildings and sites formerly occupied by my Department and its agencies have ceased to be used under plans for relocation during the 12 month period to 30 November 2005:
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The following buildings and sites are provisionally due to be closed under plans for relocation during the 12 month period from 1 December 2005:
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) building and (b) refurbishment projects are planned by his Department in (i) 2005–06 and (ii) 2006–07; and what the expected costs are of each project. [37383]
Mr. Charles Clarke:
The information for projects, other than those related to national security and those costing less than £1 million, is set out in the following
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table. Details of projects that cost less than £1 million are not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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