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Embarkation Controls
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the commitment given by his predecessor to reintroduce embarkation controls will be implemented. [72945]
Joan Ryan: The five year immigration strategy for asylum and immigration, published in February 2005,
contains details of our plans, through the e-Borders programme, to strengthen and modernise our border control including providing an electronic record of all those entering and leaving the UK. This is scheduled to commence in 2008.
Entry Visas
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to identify the persons granted entry visas to the UK in the last five years who have subsequently (a) applied for asylum on entry and (b) overstayed the time allowed by the visa; and if he will make a statement. [70864]
Mr. Byrne: The Government are already committed to detecting those who fail to comply with their conditions of entry, including overstayers. Key initiatives to tackle such immigration abuse include: sharing information with other Government agencies and acting upon any intelligence we receive where appropriate; and targeting embarkation controls at major UK ports to detect immigration offenders who are leaving the UK.
Roll-out of a programme to capture biometrics details of visa applicants will be completed by 2008. This will enable IND to identify those who applied for a visa and subsequently claim asylum in the UK without documentation. UK Visas’ Central Reference System is used to access further details when someone applying for asylum has retained their original documentation and identity.
Foreign Prisoners
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what offences each of the 1,023 foreign national offenders released from prison without consideration for deportation were originally imprisoned. [68788]
John Reid: I refer to the written ministerial statement I made on 15 May.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the crimes committed by those foreign prisoners released into the community without proper application of the deportation review process. [71448]
Mr. Byrne: I refer to the written ministerial statement made by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on 15 May 2006.
IND Contracts
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were employed by the immigration and nationality directorate on temporary contracts in each of the last five years. [68721]
John Reid: The number of people employed on temporary contracts by the immigration and
nationality directorate is recorded in the following table. Additionally, the directorate has contracts with employment agencies for the provision of temporary workers and these figures have also been included in order to provide a full picture.
The figures in the following table show the average numbers of temporary workers in the organisation beginning with the financial year 2002-03. The earliest date for which figures are available is 2002. The final figure relates to 31 March 2006 and represents the latest actual position.
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Leave to Remain
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been refused leave to remain in the UK because they did not fulfil the criteria for international protection since the policy came into effect, broken down by ethnic origin; and if he will make a statement. [72161]
Mr. Byrne: Where a person is excluded from international protection, we would normally seek to remove them from the United Kingdom, unless to do so would breach our obligations under the European convention on human rights. Under published policy, an excluded person who cannot be removed for legal reasons may either be granted six months’ discretionary leave or placed on temporary admission or granted temporary release. Home Office records show that since 30 August 2005, the policy has been applied in a total of 10 cases to keep the individuals concerned on temporary admission or temporary release. Of those cases, nine were Afghan nationals and one was a national of Burundi.
This information is based on internal management information and as such is not published within the official statistics.
Passports
Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of British passports were issued to foreign-born British citizens in each of the last five years. [72383]
Joan Ryan: The Identity and Passport Service does not hold readily accessible data about numbers of foreign-born British passport holders.
Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many British passports have been issued to (a) asylum seekers and (b) those granted indefinite leave to remain in each of the last eight years. [72384]
Joan Ryan: British passports cannot be issued to asylum seekers because they do not hold British nationality. The grant of indefinite leave to remain does not qualify a person to hold a British passport.
A person granted indefinite leave to remain may in due course qualify to apply for naturalisation as a British citizen after meeting the residence and other requirements. Persons granted naturalisation may then apply for British passports. The Identity and Passport Service does not hold readily accessible data about numbers of passports issued to people who have been naturalised and does not hold information on whether such applicants have previously been asylum seekers.
Police
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the annual cost is of employing (a) a police officer and (b) a probation officer in each police authority area; and what the equivalent figure was in each of the last five years. [71842]
Mr. McNulty: The answers are given in the following tables.
| Constable salaries in England and Wales | |||||||||
| September | Non-London minimum salary (£) | Non-London maximum salary (£) | London minimum salary (£) | London maximum salary (£) | Employment costs (Percentage) | Total cost (non-London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (non-London) of maximum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of maximum salary (£) |
| Sergeant salaries in England and Wales | |||||||||
| September | Non-London minimum salary (£) | Non-London maximum salary (£) | London minimum salary (£) | London maximum salary (£) | Employment costs (Percentage) | Total cost (non-London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (non-London) of maximum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of minimum salary (£) | Total Cost (London) of Maximum Salary (£) |
| Inspector salaries in England and Wales | |||||||||
| September | Non-London minimum salary(£) | Non-London maximum salary (£) | London minimum salary (£) | London maximum salary (£) | Employment costs (percentage) | Total cost (Non-London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (non-London) of maximum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of maximum salary (£) |
| Notes: 1. South-east England allowance: This was introduced on 1 April 2001 for all officers appointed on or after 1 September 1994 and has been paid since 1 April 2001 at the following rate: Essex, Herts, Kent, Surrey, Thames Valley-£2,000 p.a. Bedfordshire, Hampshire, Sussex-£1,000 p.a. 2. Officers in all three ranks are eligible for a competence-related threshold payment when they have been at the top of the salary scale for 12 months. This payment was worth £1,002 (2003), £1,032 (2004) and £1,062 (2005). 3. Please note the figures in the table do not include the figures above. |
| Probation officer pay in England and Wales | ||||||||||
| Non-London minimum basic salary (£) | Non-London maximum basic salary (£) | London weighting (£) | London minimum basic salary (£) | London maximum basic salary (£) | Employment costs (%) | Total cost (not London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (not London) of maximum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of minimum salary (£) | Total cost (London) of maximum salary (£) | |
| Notes: 1. Salaries quoted are for qualified probation officers and exclude allowances. 2. Probation officer pay is determined by national negotiations. 3. Spine point range for probation officers is 107-137. 4. London weighting added where appropriate. 5. Pay in 2001-02 was part of a two year deal from April 2000. 6. Employment costs are 22.92 per cent. of salaries. |
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