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Criminal Records Bureau
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total amount was paid to Capita as (a) service payments and (b) performance-related payments during each year of the Criminal Records Bureau’s operation. [75298]
Joan Ryan: Capita do not operate the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). The disclosure service operates as a contract between the Criminal Records Bureau and Capita Business Services based upon a public private partnership agreement. Under this agreement, Capita are required to perform contractually specified services and to develop, deliver and maintain the technical infrastructure of the disclosure service. This is to enable the Home Office to discharge its responsibilities under part V of the Police Act 1997 and other supporting legislation, including the Protection of Children Act 1999, to make available to approved organisations information regarding the criminal or related background of individuals.
Other services carried out by the Criminal Records Bureau that are not undertaken by Capita are carried out by civil servants and include the sensitive matching of an applicants personal details to records held on the Police National Computer (PNC) and other lists held by the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills.
A contract schedule sets out the service levels for Capita to meet. A further schedule sets out the service credits that apply should Capita fail to meet the agreed service levels. There is provision within this contract for liquidated damages to be charged in the event of late delivery to agreed changes in the service.
In each year since financial year 2001-02, the following payments have been received from Capita for service credits and liquidated damages:
| Amount (£) | |
The hon. Member will appreciate that with a contract of this size and complexity, the CRB would not be able to list and explain the context of each occasion when service credits and liquidated damages have occurred without employing disproportionate resources.
However, as an illustration, between August 2001 and November 2001, liquidated damages were applied due to the delays in launching the disclosure service and some of the associated services. Subsequent service credits were also applied in 2003 for operational delays within the disclosure process. These payments relate to the early years of the service.
The contract was originally estimated at £400 million to run over 10 years. In each year since financial year 2001-02, CRB have paid Capita the following as service payments:
| £ million | |
| Amount | |
There have been no performance related-payments made in any of the above financial years.
Departmental Grants
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which faith-based organisations his Department has made grants in each of the lastfive years, broken down by (a) the amount and (b) purpose. [74596]
John Reid: The information could be gathered only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Legislation
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what legislation has been introduced by his Department in each year since 1996, broken down by type; and whether Royal Assent was given in the case of each Bill. [74597]
John Reid: The following is a list of all Government Bills and Private Member's/Peer's Bills on Home Office subjects that have received Royal Assent since the beginning of the 1995-96 session.
Royal Assent received during the 1995-96 session
Wild Mammals (Protection) Act
Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Act
Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act
Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act
Sexual Offences (Conspiracy and Incitement) Act
Offensive Weapons Act
Security Service Act
Civil Aviation (Amendment) Act
Hong Kong (War Wives and Widows) Act
Prisoners' Earnings Act
Asylum and Immigration Act
Royal Assent received during the 1996-97 session
Theft (Amendment) Act
Horserace Totalisator Board Act
Firearms (Amendment) Act
Knives Act
British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act
Crime (Sentences) Act
Police Act
Police and Firemen's Pensions Act
Protection from Harassment Act
Sex Offenders Act
Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act
Confiscation of Alcohol (Young Persons) Act
Prisons (Alcohol Testing) Act
Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Act
Police (Health and Safety) Act
Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act
Police (Property) Act
Police (Insurance of Voluntary Assistants) Act
Dangerous Dogs Amendment Act
Royal Assent received during the 1997-98 session
Firearms (Amendment) (No.2) Act
Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act
Criminal Justice (International Co-Operation) Act
Data Protection Act
Crime and Disorder Act
Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Act
Human Rights Act
Registration of Political Parties Act
Royal Assent received during the 1998-99 session
European Parliamentary Elections Act
Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act
Football (Offences and Disorder) Act
Criminal Cases Review (Insanity) Act
Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act
Immigration and Asylum Act
Royal Assent received during the 1999-2000 session
Representation of the People Act
Terrorism Act
Football (Disorder) Act
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
Licensing (Young Persons) Act
Disqualifications Act
Freedom of Information Act
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act
Race Relations (Amendment) Act
Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act
Criminal Justice and Court Services Act
Royal Assent received during the 2000-01 session
Vehicles (Crime) Act
Election Publications Act
Elections Act
Criminal Justice and Police Act
House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Act
Private Security Industry Act
Royal Assent received during the 2001-02 session
Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act
Football Disorder (Amendment) Act
Proceeds of Crime Act
Police Reform Act
Mobile Telephones (Reprogramming) Act
Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act
Royal Assent received during the 2002-03 session
Criminal Justice Act
Sexual Offences Act
Crime (International Co-operation) Act
Extradition Act
Antisocial behaviour Act
Female Genital Mutilation Act.
Royal Assent received during the 2003-04 session.
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act
Domestic Violence, Crime & Victims Act
Royal Assent received during the 2004-05 session
Prevention of Terrorism Act
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
Drugs Act
Royal Assent received during the 2005-06 session
Racial & Religious Hatred Act
Identity Cards Act
Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Act
Terrorism Act
The following Bills on Home Office subjects are currently before Parliament:
The Charities Bill
The Fraud Bill
The Police and Justice Bill
The Violent Crime Reduction Bill
The following table lists the number of statutory instruments, Orders in Council and local orders made by the Home Office in each year since 1996:
| SIs, Orders in Council, and Local Orders 1996 to 2006 (up to 25 May 2006) | ||||
| Statutory Instruments | Orders in Council | Local Orders | Total | |
Deportations
Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment his Department has made of its potential liability for compensation to the victims and their families following an offence committed by an individual who has been released from prison and has failed to have been deported or removed by the Home Office and its responsible agencies. [67857]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 3 May 2006]: We would not expect there to be any significant exposure to liability in civil law applying the normal principles. Victims of violent crime are of course entitled to apply for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in the normal way.
DNA Database
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests have been received from other nations for details from the national DNA database concerning people who were added to the database when they were under 18 years and not charged or cautioned with any offence. [79025]
Joan Ryan: Requests for the exchange of DNA information between the United Kingdom and other countries are usually made through the United Kingdom National Central Bureau for Interpol (UK NCB) based at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Other requests may be made as a result of bi-lateral direct liaison between law enforcement authorities; and formal mutual legal assistance channels.
We understand from SOCA that it has not received any requests from other countries for details from the National DNA Database concerning people who had a DNA sample taken and added to the database when they were under 18 years of age and who were not charged or cautioned with any offence. No data are available on the number, if any, of exchanges of DNA information in such cases which occur through direct liaison between law enforcement authorities or formal mutual legal assistance channels.
Drug Intervention Programme
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases in the Drug Intervention Programme (a) handling stolen goods, (b) attenuated acquisitive crime and (c) begging was the trigger for a drugs test in 2004-05. [69542]
Mr. Coaker: I refer to the answer given to the hon. Member on 1 March 2006, Official Report, column 811W.
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