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Crime Statistics

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of (a) speeding cases and (b) reported violent crimes led to (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction in each of the last two years for which figures are available. [39713]

Hazel Blears: The information is not available in the form requested. Because recorded crime and speeding data refers to offences and court proceedings refers to defendants, the data are not directly comparable. In addition, recorded crime data is on a financial year basis and speeding offences and court proceedings data is on a calendar year basis.

The available information relating to speeding offences and violent crime is provided in the table.
Defendants⁽⁷⁹⁾ proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for violent crime offences⁽⁸⁰⁾, England and Wales

Number
	Proceeded against	Found guilty
2003	102,465	49,694
2004	93,735	51,415

⁽⁷⁹⁾ These data are on the principal offence basis.
⁽⁸⁰⁾ Violent crime includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery offences

Criminal Injuries Compensation

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has for transferring the cost of compensation for criminal injuries at work to employers. [37167]

Fiona Mactaggart: We are currently consulting on the issue of removing from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme cases where someone is injured while at work. We are considering if employers, whether in the public or private sector, are best placed to protect their employees, minimise the risk to them and bear the risk of compensating them for their injuries if they fail to do so.

In our Green Paper Rebuilding Lives; supporting victims of crime" we ask for views on this issue.

Mr. David Hamilton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many employees of rail companies in England and Wales have claimed criminal injuries compensation in relation to incidents in the course of their employment in 2005. [35064]

Fiona Mactaggart: The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) record applications arising from injuries connected with the railway by type of incident rather than by occupation. The available
 
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information is that in the period 1 January 2005 to 30 November 2005 CICA received 172 applications from England and Wales where the incident type was listed as suicide or trespass on the railway or the London underground. Without going through each file individually it is not possible for CICA to say definitively whether all such claimants were in fact employees of rail companies and whether the injuries were sustained in the course of their employment.
 
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Departmental Assets

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the 10 most valuable (a) movable and (b) immovable assets owned by his Department. [27383]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The list of the 10 most valuable (a) movable and (b) immovable assets owned by the Home Department is in the following tables:
Moveable assets

Directorate	Moveable asset name	Net book value @ 31 March 2005 (£)
1 . Criminal Justice	Snaresbrook Pilot Development and Set Up	11,583,568.46
2. Immigration & Nationality	Gloucester Data Centre	8,433,768.13
3. Crime Reduction & Community Services Group	Computer Systems Under Construction—Networks	7,748,133.01
4. Immigration & Nationality	System Development For Programme Plan	7,467,472.85
5. Criminal Justice	Snaresbrook Exchange Development and Set Up	5,582,251.87
6. Criminal Justice	Construction and Infrastructure of Snaresbrook Exchange	4,925,437.77
7. Immigration & Nationality	Computer Equipment Relating to Semaphore and E-borders	3,673,172.23
8. Crime Reduction & Community Services Group	Computer Systems Under Construction—Project	2,594,909.99
9. Crime Reduction & Community Services Group	Computer Systems Under Construction—Forensics	2,453,689.47
10. Criminal Justice	Snaresbrook Pilot Development and Set Up (2)	2,150,474.19

Notes:
1. The definition of a movable asset is taken as all assets that are not Land and Buildings.
2. Assets are shown at their individual asset values based on their Net Book Value at 31 March 2005.





Immoveable assets

Directorate	Immoveable asset name	Net book value @ 31 March 2005 (£)
1 . Correctional Services	HMP Doncaster	92,617,364.60
2. Correctional Services	HMP Altcourse (Fazakerly)	67,266,506.38
3. Correctional Services	HMP Peterborough	64,292,666.67
4. Correctional Services	HMP Dovegate (Marchington)	61,766,013.55
5. Correctional Services	HMP Wolds	53,808,308.64
6. Correctional Services	HMP Ashford (Bronzefield)	46,445,833.33
7. Correctional Services	HMP Pare (Bridgend)	44,306,598.43
8. Correctional Services	HMP Agecroft (Forest Bank)	43,920,924.16
9. Correctional Services	HMP Rye Hill (Onley)	37,295,794.75
10. Immigration & Nationality	Harmondsworth Detention Centre	28,638,663.33

Note:
Assets are shown at their individual asset values based on their Net Book Value at 31 March 2005.

Departmental Finance

Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the expenditure on (a) buildings and (b) insurance of buildings and staff was of (i) his Department and (ii) each (A) non-departmental public body, (B) executive agency and (C) other public body for which his Department is responsible in each English region in each of the last three financial years; and what the planned expenditure is for 2005–06 in each case. [40076]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The Department generally self-insures its buildings and its staff liabilities. The remaining information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on bottled water in 2004–05. [40333]

Mr. Charles Clarke: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However I can confirm that on the Department's central London headquarters' estate the amount spent on bottled water dispensers for financial year 2004–05 was £46,665.34. Bottled water dispensers are provided in only a few selected areas in 2 Marsham Street and so this cost will reduce substantially for subsequent years.

Deportations

Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of extreme Islamic groups have been deported to (a) Jordan and (b) Libya since the Government signed memoranda of understanding with those countries. [28628]

Mr. McNulty: A memorandum of understanding was signed with Jordan on 10 August 2005, and a second memorandum was signed with Libya on 18 October 2005.

To date, no-one has been removed to either country in reliance on assurances obtained under those documents. There are several cases where we intend to deport on the strength of assurances, but removal cannot take place while an appeal against the decision to make the deportation order is pending.

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with which countries his Department is in negotiation concerning Memoranda of Understanding on deportation; and if he will make a statement. [41340]

Mr. McNulty: My right hon. Friend announced at the start of last year that we were seeking to negotiate Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with certain key middle-eastern and North African countries.
 
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Since then we have signed MoUs concerning the provision of assurances in respect of persons subject to deportation with Jordan, with Libya and with the Lebanon. We are also negotiating with Algeria.

Our discussions with other countries are less advanced, and it would not be helpful to identify the countries concerned.

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what medical checks are carried out before the removal of deportees from the UK; and what steps are taken to ensure their wellbeing (a) during and (b) following their journey home. [38813]

Mr. McNulty: If a person subject to removal is not detained prior to removal, it is the responsible of that individual to notify the Immigration Service (IS) of any medical conditions which might be a reason to delay or discontinue their removal from the UK.

Immigration staff will then (with the person's consent) get from the individual's doctor or hospital details of the specific medical condition, the treatment being prescribed, and the fitness of the person to travel. Immigration staff will also make checks to establish the availability of treatment in the person's country of origin and an assessment of any diminution of life expectancy if removal takes place.

If the person being removed is in detention they will receive a medical examination within 24 hours of their arrival at a removal centre. During detention individuals have access to the centre's healthcare team which includes a medical practitioner as well as nursing professionals. When there are concerns about an individual's health, the healthcare team will indicate to the Immigration Service whether or not an individual is fit to travel.

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