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Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff in his Department were (a) civil servants, (b) contractors and (c) other staff in each year since 1997. [27446]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The number of staff who were (a) civil servants, (b) contractors, (c) other staff in each year since 1997 is as in the following table:
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civilian staff employed by his Department have been made redundant in each year since 1995; and if he will make a statement. [34329]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The number of civilian staff employed by the Home Office Department who have been made redundant in each year since 1995 are as follows:
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for theHome Department how many contracts for direct mail were signed by his Department in (a) 200506 to date and (b) 200405; and what the value was in each case. [27783]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The Department has awarded one contract for direct mail in 200506. The value of the spend to date is £17,200. The Department did not award any contracts for direct mail in 200405.
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who have not been charged or cautioned for an offence have DNA profiles stored in the police national database; and if he will make a statement. [34330]
Andy Burnham: There are 139,463 people who have a DNA profile on the national DNA database (NDNAD) who have not been charged or cautioned with an offence.
This figure comprises: 124,347 people who have a DNA profile on the NDNAD who have been arrested and subsequently not been charged or cautioned with an offence. This information was provided by the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) and obtained from the police national computer (PNC) which is linked to the NDNAD; and 15,116 volunteer sample profile records retained on the NDNAD.
A volunteer sample is a DNA sample taken from an individual in relation to the investigation of an offence for elimination purposes and not as a result of the individual having been arrested in connection with an offence. The volunteer must give written consent to provide the sample; and can also volunteer to have their DNA profile held on the database by providing separate written consent for this. Volunteer samples may be taken from, for example, the victim of a crime, a third party, a member of a population identified for an intelligence-led screen or from an individual at their request.
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children under the age of 18 years have been added to the national DNA database in each year since 1996. [38505]
Andy Burnham:
The estimated number of records of individuals aged 1017 years added to the national DNA database in each year since 1995 is shown in the following table. The figures take account of replicate sample records on the database.
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Estimated number of 10 to 17-year-olds added to the database | |
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1995 | 3,163 |
1996 | 11,719 |
1997 | 18,387 |
1998 | 32,810 |
1999 | 42,631 |
2000 | 70,627 |
2001 | 95,471 |
2002 | 96,359 |
2003 | 86,291 |
2004 | 101,503 |
2005 to date | 126,787 |
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2005, Official Report, column 1253W, on domestic violence, what surveys on child and elder abuse have been undertaken by his Department in each of the last five years. [29559]
Hazel Blears: The Home Office has not undertaken any dedicated surveys on child and elder abuse.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) unit cost per test and (b) cost of the necessary equipment for testing for drugs while driving is using the latest methods of testing saliva; whether he plans to make these tests available for roadside testing; and if he will make a statement. [28590]
Paul Goggins:
The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 amends the Road Traffic Act 1988 to authorise the police to conduct compulsory roadside test for impairment and for the presence of drugs. Any equipment used to test for drugs by testing a specimen of sweat or saliva must be of a type approved by the Secretary of State. Since there is as yet no such equipment, tests cannot at present be conducted. It is therefore not possible to give the unit cost per test or the cost of the equipment necessary to conduct the test.
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A detailed device specification is currently in preparation. We hope this will be available in early 2006. Manufacturers will then be able to submit to the rigorous type approval process any device they have developed which complies with the specification.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will publish drug seizure and offender statistics for England and Wales for 2003; and what the reasons are for the delay in publication. [37900]
Paul Goggins: These statistics have been published within Drug offenders in England and Wales 2003" (findings 256, 1 March 2005) and Seizures of drugs in England and Wales, 2003" (findings 265, 25 August 2005). Both of these publications, along with respective supplementary tables, are available online at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/rfpubs1.htm.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were sentenced to immediate custody for unlawful possession of cannabis in 2004 in cases where that was the most serious offence for which the individual was sentenced. [37901]
Paul Goggins: There were 161 persons sentenced to immediate custody for possession of cannabis, out of 13,302 sentenced for this offence in 2004. These figures relate to cases where the possession offence attracted the highest penalty.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests, (b) convictions and (c) cautions for offences relating to (i) possession and (ii) dealing in class (A) A, (B) B and (C) C drugs there were in each police authority area in 2004. [35467]
Paul Goggins: Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of cautions and convictions for possession of and dealing in drugs in 2004, broken down by class of drug, is provided in the following table.
The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.
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