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Forensic Practitioners (Complaints)
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the transparency of the complaints procedure of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. [45519]
Andy Burnham: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has no responsibility for the procedures adopted by the Council for handling complaints. The Home Secretary has, therefore, not undertaken any formal assessment of the Council's procedures.
Fresh Talent Working in Scotland
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications have been received for the fresh talent working in Scotland scheme; how many of these (a) were successful, (b) were unsuccessful and (c) are yet to be considered, broken down by (i) country of origin of applicant and (ii) month of application. [29587]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 21 November 2005]: Applications have been received for the fresh talent: working in Scotland scheme at UK visas and the immigration nationality directorate (IND). Data to the end of December 2005 for the IND applications only are in the following table.
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(63) Indicates 1 or 2.
Notes:
1. This information has not been quality assured, and is not a national statistic.
2. It should be treated as provisional management information.
3. Main applicant only.
4. Charged and non charged applications.
5. Report produced through GSMIS
6. All figures are rounded to nearest 5.
7. Statistics to be used publicly, or for other Government Departments or agencies, must be agreed with Immigration Research and Statistics Service (IRSS).
8. Invalid figures include rejections and void cases
Gambling
Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of (a) the proportion of all recorded crimes and (b) the total number of crimes which were related to internet gambling addiction in the last year for which figures are available. [44288]
Paul Goggins: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Glass Attacks
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many violent incidents involving glasses or glass bottles were reported in West Lancashire in 2004–05 resulting in injuries. [45034]
Hazel Blears: The information requested is not collected centrally in the recorded crime series. Details of the individual circumstances of offences do not feature in the data series.
Highways Act
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and
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(b) females were (i) prosecuted and (ii) convicted during 2004 of an offence under section 131(2) of the Highways Act 1980, including that provision as applied by section 27(6) of the Countryside Act. [41011]
Paul Goggins: Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of males and females proceeded against and found guilty at the magistrates courts for offences under a number of sections including section 131 of the Highways Act 1980, England and Wales, 2004 are given in the table. It is not possible to separately identify those offences under section 131 from offences under other sections collected within the same code group.
(64) These data are provided on the principal offence basis.
Historical Sex Abuse Investigations
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the work of the National Centre for Policing Excellence in relation to historical sex abuse investigations. [45521]
Paul Goggins: The National Centre for Policing Excellence (NCPE) was established on 1 April 2003. Its primary goal is professionalism of policing" through enhancement of the capabilities of those involved in tackling crime.
Any number of forces may be investigating historic child abuse cases at any one time and, as individuals involved in such cases may have moved around the country, there was a chance that individuals could be investigated by more than one police force at the same time. To avoid this duplication the Association of Chief Police Officers asked the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS), part of NCPE, to take over the Historical Institutional Child Abuse Database and keep it operating as long as required. A recent evaluation has indicated that there is still a requirement for such a database.
Guidance on Investigating Serious Sexual Offences was published on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) by the National Centre for Policing Excellence in September 2005. This document touches on the investigation of historic child abuse cases.
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