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| Robbery | |||||
| 2001-02 | ( 1) 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
| (1) Because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002 figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. | |||||
Scottish Criminal Records Office
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many cases in England and Wales fingerprint evidence has been challenged on the basis of the misidentifications made by the Scottish Criminal Records Office in the case of Shirley McKie and David Asbury. [74091]
Joan Ryan: We are unable to answer this question as the information requested is not recorded.
Sea-going Vessels (Thefts)
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sea-going vessels were stolen from around the coast of the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many were recovered. [86719]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available centrally.
Security Industry
Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what structure has been put in place for the renewal and re-evaluation of door supervisor licences. [82835]
John Reid: The Security Industry Authority (SIA) will not be making any major changes to the SIA licence core competency specifications for the first round of licence renewal, which commences in April 2007 with the door supervisor sector.
On first renewal of their licence, all door supervisors will have their criminality re-checked by the Criminal Records Bureau to ensure that no inappropriate criminal activity has taken place since the issue of the initial licence. They will not be required to undergo
refresher training or undertake a new qualification. The core competency specifications themselves will be reviewed in due course.
Dr. Starkey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for door supervisors’ licences are waiting for (a) approval and (b) processing by the Security Industry Authority. [81126]
Mr. Coaker: On the 5 July, there were 8,845 licence applications from door supervisors in the SIA’s processing system. There was also a total of 4,694 applications from all licensable sectors waiting to enter the processing system, but it is not possible to calculate how many of these were from door supervisors because they had not been opened.
Sentences
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average minimum sentence was, before being considered for parole, for people convicted of (a) kidnapping, (b) rape and (c) sexual assault of children in each of the last five years. [79053]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the average custodial sentence lengths for determinate sentences for these offences is contained in the table.
Under the Criminal Justice Act 1991, those sentenced to determinate sentences of four years or more are eligible for parole half way through their sentence. If parole is not granted then release occurs at the two-thirds point of the sentence (or at a subsequent parole review if earlier). Release, when it occurs, is on licence and subject to supervision up to the three-quarters point (or to the end of the sentence in the case of some sex offenders), and they are liable to recall if they breach any of the licence conditions. All offenders risk serving the rest of their sentence in custody if they commit another offence before the end of the original sentence.
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 introduced new arrangements for the release on licence of determinate sentence prisoners. They apply only to offences committed on or after 4 April 2005. A new indeterminate public protection sentence was introduced. Those offenders judged to be dangerous, and who have committed serious sexual or violent offences, can be kept in prison until the parole board judges it is safe to release them. If they have committed less serious offences they may serve a determinate sentence followed by an extended period on licence after release of up to eight years for sexual offences and five years for violent offences.
Unless considered dangerous, those sentenced to 12 months or more will be released on licence at the halfway point of their sentence. They will remain on licence, subject to a recall if they breach the conditions of their licence, for the entire remaining period of their sentence instead of to the three-quarter point as under the 1991 Act.
| Average custodial sentence length imposed (excluding life) for kidnapping, rape and sexual assault of persons under 16, all courts, England and Wales, 2000-04 | |||||
| Months | |||||
| Offence | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| (1) Not shown separately as less than 100 persons sentenced to custody. Source: RDS NOMS. | |||||
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