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World Cup
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the likelihood of known British football hooligans travelling to the World Cup using fraudulently obtained documents; and if he will make a statement. [63684]
Paul Goggins: The Passport Agency has details of all persons subject to a football banning order and checks their records for duplicate applications. There is no evidence that any banned person has fraudulently obtained a passport. The World Cup Control period commences on 30 May. All individuals subject to a football banning order will be required to report to a designated police station and surrender their passport on this date. Thereafter, they will be required to report on the day of each England game to ensure they have not attempted to travel.
To ensure compliance, the police will monitor all fans travelling to Germany or a transit country. It is rare for individuals to breach the conditions of their banning orders and no banning order subject attempted to travel to Euro 2004. The maximum penalty for breach of banning order conditions is a six month custodial sentence, a £5,000 fine and a further banning order.
Yarl's Wood Detention Centre
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 28th February 2006 how many women at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre had been held for more than (a) one week, (b) one month and (c) one year. [63821]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Office publishes a quarterly snapshot" of people detained solely under Immigration Act powers on the last Saturday of each quarter. The latest published information pertains to people detained as at 31 December 2005.
The accompanying table shows the number of females detained solely under Immigration Act powers in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre as at 31 December 2005. Separate data are provided on the length of detention but are not broken down to show the length of detention at specific removal centres.
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Information on the number of women who had been held in detention on the day in question together with the time spent in detention is not available.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available on the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
(152) Figures rounded to the nearest 5, with * = 1 or 2, may not sum due to rounding and exclude persons recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers.
(153) Relates to current period of sole detention only.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 28 February 2006 how many children at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre had been held for more than (a) one week and (b) one month. [63822]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Office publishes a quarterly snapshot" of people detained solely under Immigration Act powers on the last Saturday of each quarter. The latest published information pertains to people detained as at 31 December 2005.
The accompanying table shows the number of minors detained solely under Immigration Act powers in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre as at 31 December 2005 broken down by length of detention.
The number of children detained with their families solely under Immigration Act powers will change from day to day. However, internal management information shows that, as at 28 February 2006, 31 children were detained for longer than one week, and 14 children were detained for longer than one month at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
Minors are detained only in two limited circumstances: first, as part of a family group whose detention is considered appropriate; second, when unaccompanied, while alternative care arrangements are made and normally just overnight. While the detention of families with children is very regrettable, it nevertheless remains necessary in appropriate cases in order to maintain an effective immigration control and to tackle abuses of the asylum system.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available on the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
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(154) Figures rounded to the nearest 5, may not sum due to rounding and exclude persons recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers.
(155) Relates to current period of sole detention only.
(156) People recorded as being under 18 on 31 December 2005.
Young Offenders
Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what national target he has set for reducing the number of young people who re-offend in each year to 2009. [45530]
Fiona Mactaggart: The Home Office has a PSA to reduce crime by 15 per cent. and further in high crime areas, by 2007–08. The Home Office's Strategic Plan 2004–08 Confident Communities in a Secure Britain set a target to reduce re-offending by 5 per cent. by 2008 compared to 2002–03, working towards 10 per cent. by the end of the decade.
Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what national target he has set for reducing the number of young people who offend for the first time in each year to 2009. [45531]
Fiona Mactaggart: The Home Office has a public service agreement (PSA) to reduce crime by 15 per cent. and further in high crime areas, by 2007–08. In support of this PSA the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales has a target to reduce the numbers of first-time entrants to the youth justice system by 5 per cent. by March 2008 compared to the March 2005 baseline.
Mr. Amess:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) support services and (b) training are available to help children of school age
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who have been convicted of a crime in (i) the Southend, West constituency, (ii) Essex county council, (iii) the Metropolitan police area of London and (iv) England and Wales. [62884]
Hazel Blears: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) on 16 January 2006, Official Report, column 1152W.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals who had spent time in a youth detention centre subsequently offended as an adult in each of the last 10 years. [63020]
Fiona Mactaggart: The data are not routinely collected.
The most recent information on the re-offending of juveniles was published in February 2005 as 'Juvenile reconviction: results from the 2003 cohort'. Home Office On-Line Report 08/05'. The report is available on line at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/onlinepubs1.html
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals from (a) Romford and (b) Havering were in (i) secure training centres, (ii) local authority secure children's homes and (iii) young offender institutions in each of the last 10 years. [63021]
Fiona Mactaggart: This information is not collected centrally.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were sentenced to terms in (a) secure training centres, (b) local authority secure children's homes and (c) young offender institutions in each of the last 10 years. [63022]
Fiona Mactaggart: Information on the numbers of individuals held in secure training centres and local authority secure children's homes, and the numbers of young persons held within prison service establishments for each year since 1994, as recorded on the prison service IT system, is provided in the following table.
(157) Figures for 2000–2004 from Youth Justice Board, as at 30 June each year; figures before 2000 from DfES returns as at 31 March each year.
(158) Not including those held on remand.
Notes:
1. Young persons are held in local prisons as well as in young offender and juvenile institutions.
2. Young persons are aged under 21 but include 21 year old prisoners who were aged 20 or under at conviction who have not been reclassified as part of the adult population.
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