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Police Response Times
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average response time to an emergency call to the police was in Uxbridge in each year since 1998. [46605]
Hazel Blears: Data on time taken to respond to emergency calls is not collected centrally. This is essentially an operational matter for the commissioner and this query could therefore be directed to the Metropolitan police.
Polygamy
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men who were not UK citizens were permitted to enter the UK with more than one wife in each of the last five years. [47160]
Dr. Howells: I have been asked to reply. Entry to the United Kingdom that results in the formation of a polygamous household is not permitted under the immigration rules. Therefore, no men have been given entry clearance to settle in the UK, or for other long-term purposes (.g students, work permit holders), with more than one wife.
However, the immigration rules do not prevent polygamous households from entering the UK for the purpose of a visit. If an entry clearance officer overseas is satisfied that each applicant meets the requirements of
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paragraphs 40 and 41 of the immigration rules relating to visitors, they may grant a man and more than one of his wives entry clearance as visitors at the same time. UKvisas does not have a separate record of how many such visit visas are issued.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners who had committed two violent offences previously were released on parole in the last five years; and how many of those released reoffended (a) within two years and (b) within five years. [46420]
Fiona Mactaggart:
The information requested is not centrally collated. National two-year re-offending rates are published on the Home Office's website. The data relates to offenders who were discharged from prison or
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began a community sentence in the first quarter of 2002. www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb2505.pdf. Five-year re-offending rates are not available.
Prisoner release rates are available from the Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004 publication. www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb1705.pdf.
Prisoners
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) female and (b) male prisoners who declare themselves as Muslim were held in each prison establishment in England and Wales for each of the last five years for which figures are available. [45849]
Fiona Mactaggart: The information requested, as recorded on the Prison Service IT system, is provided in the following table.
(37) Bronzefield opened June 2004
(38) Dovegate opened July 2001
(39) Highpoint North became Edmunds Hill in October 2003
(40) Hatfield was renamed Moorland Open in 2002
(41) Highpoint was divided into Highpoint North (female) and Highpoint South (male)
(42) Peterborough opened in March 2005
(43) Warren Hill opened as a separate prison in August 2002, was formerly part of Hollesley Bay
(44) Warrington has only young persons
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David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are to be deported upon their release; and if he will make a statement. [45872]
Fiona Mactaggart: The immigration and nationality directorate (IND) considers the cases of foreign nationals sentenced to a term of imprisonment to determine their liability to removal and whether removal is appropriate.
As each prisoner's case is assessed on its own merits, it is not possible to predict how many will be deported at the end of their custodial sentences.
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