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The latest number of Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued in England between April 1999 and September 2005 as reported to the Home Office is
7,026; there were 330 ASBOs issued in Wales, and 13 in Denbighshire, in the same period.
Although we have made much progress there is still much more to be done. We must ensure that our approach is taken nationally so that, no matter where they live, communities should not have to suffer long-term antisocial behaviour problems. Therefore, as part of our work to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of the law abiding majority, we intend to increase the take up of antisocial behaviour powers, and to reduce the variation in local performance.
| Intervention | 1 October 2003 to 30 September 2004 | 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005 |
| (1)This is for the period 20 January 2004 to 30 September 2004. The crack house closure power was introduced in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 and came into force on 20 January 2004. | ||
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many acceptable behaviour contracts have been issued in West Lancashire; and if he will make a statement. [83657]
Mr. McNulty: The data are not available in the form requested. However, for the last two years the Home Office Anti-social Behaviour Unit has carried out a survey of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships in England and Community safety Partnerships in Wales asking about their actions taken to tackle antisocial behaviour. From those who responded to the surveys the results are as follows.
Acceptable Behaviour Contracts 1 October 2003 to 30 September 2004—5,094
Acceptable Behaviour Contracts 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005—8,654
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the recidivism rate of individuals who have received an antisocial behaviour order; and what steps he is taking to reduce the recidivism rate. [86421]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is not available.
National re-offending rates are published annually. The most recent data are published in ‘Adult re-offending: results from the 2002 cohort’. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 25/05’. This is available on the Home Office’s website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/hosbpubs1.html. The start point for calculating these rates is an offender being discharged from a custodial sentence or starting a community sentence. Antisocial behaviour orders are civil orders, not criminal penalties, and are therefore not included in this exercise.
Armed Robbery
Lynne Featherstone:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of robbery
of a premises with a firearm occurred in each London borough in each of the last five years. [86531]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested cannot be provided at a borough level.
| Table A: Offences of robbery recorded by City of London and Metropolitan police in which firearms were reported to have been used by location of offence,2000-01 to 2001-02 | ||
| 2000-01 | 2001-02( 1) | |
| (1 )Figures may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. (2 )These crimes are mostly burglaries where firearms have been used immediately before, or at the time of stealing items from a residential property, and in order to steal these items. If firearms are used in a get-away, then it is classed as a burglary and will not be included here. | ||
| Table B: Offences of robbery recorded by City of London and Metropolitan police in which firearms were reported to have been used by location of offence,2002-03 to 2004-05 | |||
| 2002-03( 1) | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | |
| (1 )Figures may have been inflated by some police forces implementing the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard before 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this. (2 )These crimes are mostly burglaries where firearms have been used immediately before, or at the time of stealing items from a residential property, and in order to steal these items. If firearms are used in a get-away, then it is classed as a burglary and will not be included here. | |||
Chelmsford Prison
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many toilets are provided in the temporary accommodation for visitors to Chelmsford Prison; and how many are connected to the main sewers. [86954]
Mr. Sutcliffe: There are two toilets available in the temporary accommodation for visitors to Chelmsford Prison. One can be used by both able-bodied visitors and those with a disability. The second toilet provides a baby changing facility. Both are connected to the main sewers.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people each week visited prisoners at Chelmsford Prison on average in the last 12 months; and how many he estimates were children aged (a) up to five, (b) six to 11 and (c) 12 to 16. [86955]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Over the past 12 months there has been an average of 533 visitors per week at Chelmsford. Of these an average of 39 were under five years of age, 15 were aged between six-11 years and 10 were aged between 12-16 years.
These figures do not include children visiting the Ormiston Trust or the Homework Club, for which figures are not available.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the temporary accommodation for visitors to Chelmsford Prison was installed; and for how long it was expected to last. [86958]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The first portacabin was installed seven years ago and the second three years ago to accommodate increasing numbers of visitors. The portacabins were always intended to provide a long term facility.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to provide permanent facilities for visitors to Chelmsford Prison; and if he will make a statement. [86959]
Mr. Sutcliffe: As part of a larger £36 million development, a new purpose-built facility is currently under construction and should be available from December 2006.
Child Prisoners
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many safe beds are available for child prisoners. [86240]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The term “safe beds” is not used in the young people’s estate, but there are several design specifications that make rooms safer in terms of protecting young people from self-harm. The different specifications reflect improvements in design over time. Information on the number of rooms of the different safer specifications is not held centrally.
Communications Masts
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the rollout of the TETRA mast network; and what plans the Government has to ensure inter-operability and improve communications between the police and the other emergency services. [86846]
Mr. McNulty:
Airwave is the new radio communications system for the police service in England, Wales and Scotland. The rollout of the TETRA mast network is the responsibility of O2 Airwave who own the network. The network is already in place. Officers across the country using the network
are able to communicate directly with each other, regardless of location. The other emergency services are currently updating their radio communications networks on a national basis and will also be using the Airwave service. When their new systems are fully operational their communications systems will interoperate seamlessly with the police network. Existing interoperability arrangements on the old radios used by the services will be maintained until the new systems are fully operational.
Community Punishments
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of community punishments in each region were completed in each year since 2001; in how many cases a period of imprisonment was then imposed for the original offence; and if he will make a statement. [86951]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information for England and Wales on the completion rates the main types of community sentence, for each year since 1994, can be found in Table 5.1 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin: Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004, a copy of which can be found in the House of Commons Library. Information on the numbers and percentages of those given immediate custody for breach of the main types of community sentence can be found in Table 5.5 of the same publication. Provisional data on completion rates in 2005 has been published in the latest Offender Management Caseload Quarterly Brief (October to December 2005) which is available on the Home Office website. The reliability of this data at the regional level is not sufficiently robust for publication.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so is not necessarily accurate to the last whole number.
Community Support Officers
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers are in training; what the cost is per person for such training; and if he will make a statement. [86313]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers are employed in Lancashire. [88269]
Mr. McNulty: At the end of September 2005 Lancashire constabulary had 159 police community support officers (PCSOs). With the additional funding we are providing in 2006-07 Lancashire has a target to reach a total of 417 PCSOs by April 2007.
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers were in training in Humberside Police Authority area on the last date for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [86905]
Mr. McNulty: Humberside Police are currently in the process of training 34 police community support officers (PCSOs). They expect to train 195 during 2006-07.
Controlled Drugs
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he has given to a re-assignment of the duties of the inspectorate responsible for controlled drugs; and if he will make a statement. [87264]
Mr. Coaker: The Home Office continues to examine ways of improving and streamlining existing Home Office licensing and inspection activities but no final decisions have yet been made.
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