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Asylum Seekers

Mrs. James: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey were (a) refused asylum in the UK and (b) deported in 2005. [56002]

Mr. McNulty: Information on how many Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey were refused asylum and deported is not available. Data on the ethnic origin of asylum seekers are not collated centrally and could be produced only by examination of individual case-files at disproportionate cost.

Information on asylum initial decisions, appeal outcomes and removals by nationality are published quarterly and annually. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Mrs. James: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Somalian, (b) Ivorian, (c) Pakistani, (d) Algerian and (e) Iranian asylum seekers were (i) granted asylum in the UK and (ii) deported in 2004–05. [56003]

Mr. McNulty: The table shows the number of Somalian, Ivorian, Pakistani, Algerian and Iranian asylum seekers granted asylum and deported in the financial year 2004–05. Information on asylum initial decisions and removals by nationality are published quarterly and annually. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
Removals and voluntary departures⁽²⁵⁾ of asylum applicants, excluding dependants, for nationals of Somalia, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Algeria and Iran, in the financial year 2004–052, 3, 4

Nationality	Number of principal applicants
Somalia	70
Ivory Coast	15
Pakistan	340
Algeria	120
Iran	350

⁽²⁵⁾ Includes persons departing voluntarily" after enforcement action had been initiated against them, persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration, those who it is established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities.
⁽²⁶⁾ Figures rounded to the nearest five.
⁽²⁷⁾ Figures exclude dependants of asylum seekers removed.
⁽²⁸⁾ Provisional figures.



 
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Cash-in-transit Crime

Mr. McGovern: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has undertaken into combating cash-in-transit crime. [42644]

Hazel Blears [holding answer 17 January 2006]: The following is the list of research reports published by the Department where cash-in-transit crime has been referred to.

Preventing robberies at Sub-Post Offices: an evaluation of a security initiative", Paul Ekblom, 1987.

The prevention of robbery at Building Society branches": Claire Austin, 1988.

Making Crime Prevention Pay: initiatives from business", John Burrows, 1991.

Armed Robbery: two police responses", Roger Matthews, 1996.

 
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Home Office Research Study 182 The Prevention of cheque and credit card fraud revisited": Michael Levi and Jim Handley, 1998.

Not rocket science? Problem-solving and crime reduction": Tim Read and Nick Tilley, 2000.

Problem-solving street crime: practical lessons from the Street Crime Initiative": Nick Tilley et al, 2004.

Criminal Damage

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded cases of criminal damage there were in each police force area in (a) England and (b) England and Wales in each year since 1998. [54549]

Hazel Blears: Available information relating to recorded criminal damage offences is given in the tables.
Table 1: Criminal damage offences recorded by police force area, 1998–99 to 2001–02⁽²⁹⁾

Number of offences
Police force area	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02
Avon and Somerset	20,605	20,519	22,479	26,990
Bedfordshire	7,893	8,048	7,892	8,193
Cambridgeshire	11,925	12,110	13,197	13,972
Cheshire	11,596	12,627	13,078	16,546
Cleveland	10,681	10,812	10,684	13,446
Cumbria	8,405	8,943	8,922	10,126
Derbyshire	14,316	15,207	14,997	17,125
Devon and Cornwall	17,722	18,490	18,284	19,875
Dorset	8,303	8,408	9,419	10,768
Durham	11,122	10,654	10,375	12,836
Essex	18,834	21,766	24,673	26,990
Gloucestershire	6,570	7,990	9,087	9,264
Greater Manchester	67,052	75,201	77,154	84,631
Hampshire	25,100	28,125	28,714	31,624
Hertfordshire	10,177	11,560	13,839	15,323
Humberside	21,486	20,739	20,910	22,756
Kent	23,049	24,806	27,947	28,708
Lancashire	21,360	22,776	25,445	31,925
Leicestershire	15,143	16,889	16,664	18,911
Lincolnshire	7,728	8,391	9,078	11,282
London, City of	297	409	260	365
Merseyside	27,465	30,822	30,593	33,899
Metropolitan Police	136,870	151,590	144,231	147,804
Norfolk	10,393	10,978	11,481	13,069
Northamptonshire	11,771	11,736	11,448	12,960
Northumbria	31,634	30,436	29,775	34,029
North Yorkshire	8,372	8,617	9,167	11,438
Nottinghamshire	23,953	23,692	23,187	25,665
South Yorkshire	24,198	25,305	24,173	27,513
Staffordshire	15,668	18,442	21,655	25,409
Suffolk	7,898	9,547	10,150	12,095
Surrey	7,576	8,602	12,318	13,044
Sussex	23,828	26,361	27,219	27,375
Thames Valley	26,006	28,630	29,719	32,152
Warwickshire	6,888	7,439	7,290	8,008
West Mercia	15,346	17,410	16,817	22,778
West Midlands	50,407	61,422	57,459	61,010
West Yorkshire	49,239	48,106	49,568	59,262
Wiltshire	6,644	7,151	7,452	8,401
Total for England	823,520	890,756	906,800	1,007,567
Dyfed Powys	4,497	4,417	4,571	4,956
Gwent	11,690	12,253	11,221	9,940
North Wales	9,652	10,102	12,182	14,417
South Wales	30,227	28,154	25,313	27,590
Total for Wales	56,066	54,926	53,287	56,903
Total for England and Wales	879,586	945,682	960,087	1,064,470

⁽²⁹⁾ The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.





 
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Table 2: Criminal damage offences recorded by police force area, 2002–03 to 2004–05⁽³⁰⁾

Number of offences
Police force area	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Avon and Somerset	26,430	29,949	31,642
Bedfordshire	10,050	11,065	10,561
Cambridgeshire	16,153	16,534	16,227
Cheshire	18,921	22,556	24,365
Cleveland	14,591	16,958	16,941
Cumbria	10,305	11,629	12,858
Derbyshire	17,789	18,932	17,991
Devon and Cornwall	26,883	30,116	31,021
Dorset	12,229	13,428	12,297
Durham	14,067	14,244	15,176
Essex	30,337	34,253	32,406
Gloucestershire	10,103	10,847	10,802
Greater Manchester	76,960	81,123	73,662
Hampshire	34,736	43,557	42,210
Hertfordshire	17,988	19,887	20,762
Humberside	24,362	28,635	28,202
Kent	29,068	34,537	35,274
Lancashire	30,733	39,447	40,863
Leicestershire	19,210	19,480	18,955
Lincolnshire	13,694	15,176	14,934
London, City of	366	319	311
Merseyside	37,455	39,966	41,838
Metropolitan Police	144,374	147,465	135,684
Norfolk	16,030	17,462	17,470
Northamptonshire	15,687	17,295	16,842
Northumbria	42,222	42,523	41,248
North Yorkshire	13,253	14,732	13,610
Nottinghamshire	23,980	26,308	29,022
South Yorkshire	29,861	30,933	35,384
Staffordshire	23,271	24,447	23,262
Suffolk	11,497	12,817	12,781
Surrey	13,669	16,571	17,271
Sussex	25,548	28,792	30,830
Thames Valley	33,693	37,320	37,338
Warwickshire	8,514	9,318	9,728
West Mercia	21,258	23,615	21,962
West Midlands	57,319	59,150	56,641
West Yorkshire	61,447	68,476	63,666
Wiltshire	9,246	9,446	9,020
Total for England	1,043,299	1,139,308	1,121,057
Dyfed Powys	4,920	7,032	8,186
Gwent	13,126	13,681	13,494
North Wales	17,090	17,036	15,093
South Wales	30,935	28,519	27,558
Total for Wales	66,071	66,268	64,331
Total for England and Wales	1,109,370	1,205,576	1,185,388

⁽³⁰⁾ Data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

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