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Criminal Assets
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what value of criminal assets were recovered in each of the last five years. [88654]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is set out in the Table.
| Recovered criminal assets (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) | |
| Total recovered (£ million) | |
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what sums from recovered criminal assets were allocated to police forces in each of the last five years. [88660]
Mr. McNulty: The allocation of recovered criminal assets to police forces was first introduced in 2004-05 under a new incentive scheme. A total of £13 million was distributed to police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the basis each force’s asset recovery performance in that year. A further £26 million was allocated to forces on the basis of performance in 2005-06.
Criminal Justice Boards
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what targets have been set for local criminal justice boards. [88661]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The targets that the Lord Chancellor the Attorney General and I have agreed with local criminal justice boards (LCJBs) for 2006-07 are set out in the Criminal Justice System Business Plan 2006-07. Each LCJB has targets to: improve confidence in the CJS; increase victim and witness satisfaction; bring more offences to justice; improve the enforcement of fines, failure to appear warrants, community penalties and confiscation orders; and meet the Persistent Young Offender pledge. The CJS Business Plan 2006-07 can be accessed at http://www.cjsonline.gov.uk/downloads/application/pdf/CJSpercent20Businesspercent20Planpercent202006-7.pdf
Criminal Justice IT Programme
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the operation of the criminal justice IT programme. [58652]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The organisations that make up the Criminal Justice System use a variety of information systems designed to meet their local needs, but which were not originally designed to share information with colleagues working in other criminal justice organisations.
This is why, in response to the “Justice for All” Government White Paper, the Criminal Justice System Information Technology (CJS IT) programme was established in 2002 with the following vision: “By March 31 2008, anyone involved in the CJS—users of it or people working within it—should have access from any browser enabled device, to a seamless, coherent set of computer systems and information to cover the breadth of their dealings”.
The overall cost of the CJS IT programme, across both SR2002 and SR2004, is £1.95 billion. This funding is ring-fenced, with spending controlled by five key-holders: the Home Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Lord Chancellor, the Minister for the CJS and the Director of Criminal Justice IT (CJIT).
The programme
sits under its own NCJB (National Criminal Justice Board) Sub-Group,
chaired by the Minister for the CJS (delegated to the Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State, Gerry Sutcliffe MP),
dedicated to tracking progress and assisting in the resolution of
cross-cutting
issues.
The programme also reports to the Operational Board of the Office for Criminal Justice Reform—a cross-departmental organisation that supports all criminal justice agencies in working together to provide an improved service to the public and which reports on an equal basis to the Home Office, Department for Constitutional Affairs and Law Officers' Departments.
Criminal Justice IT (CJIT), which was created to co-ordinate the CJS IT programme, is working with the criminal justice organisations to identify and implement ways to join up the individual processes, systems and services.
CJIT has developed a set of key tools, techniques and repeatable processes to ensure successful delivery of this large-scale IT programme, many of which are creating best practice. These include evidence-based CJS IT portfolio prioritisation/investment appraisal, active benefits realisation, performance management, and full open, factual and transparent reporting to all stakeholders.
Expenditure and deliverables for the CJS IT programme are approved annually by the five key-holders and monthly progress reports are provided to various governance bodies (including the Operational Board of the Office for Criminal Justice Reform) and key stakeholders (including Her Majesty's Treasury).
Criminal Records Bureau
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications were made to the Criminal Records Bureau for (a) enhanced and (b) standard checks in the last year for which figures are available. [48697]
Joan Ryan: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 8 February 2006, Official Report, column 1268W. In 2005, the Bureau received 293,615 standard disclosures and 2,443,207 enhanced disclosures.
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long on average an applicant to the Criminal Records Bureau in (a) November 2005 and (b) February 2006 waited for a reply. [88623]
Joan Ryan: I refer the hon. Member for Birkenhead to my written answer of 6 July 2006, Official Report, column 1325W.
Custody
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) name, (b) age, (c) date, and (d) place of death was of each child and young adult that died in custody in each of the last 30 years. [86207]
Mr. Sutcliffe: As publishing such details can cause distress to the families of those bereaved by a death in custody, I will write separately to the hon. Member with the information available.
Mr.
Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Department what additional resources have
been made available to the Probation Service to implement Custody Plus
under the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
[88487]
John Reid: In the Review of the Criminal Justice System published on 20 July we said that Custody Plus will not go ahead in autumn 2006 as previously planned.
Preparatory work for Custody Plus was not accounted for separately from funding provided for the implementation of other sentencing provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many custody suites there are in each constituency in Wales; where they are located; and if he will make a statement. [89023]
Mr. McNulty: This is an operational matter for chief constables.
| Constituency | Location |
| (1)
Not used—no exercise
facility | |
Damages
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 3 July 2006, Official Report, column 875W, on damages, what the cost is of obtaining the information requested; how many of his Department’s lawyers worked on such cases of damages against his Department in the last period for which figures are available; how damages payments are accounted for in his Department’s accounts; what steps he takes to minimise future claims; which Minister is responsible for monitoring such claims; and if he will make a statement. [87734]
Mr. Byrne: No central record is kept by either the Home Department or the Treasury Solicitors Department of the number of cases in which damages were paid or what the total sum paid out was. This information could be obtained only by searching through some 10,000 transaction sheets and then identifying the damages elements of these payments. This would involve a disproportionate cost. Detailed figures are not kept on how many lawyers are or have been involved in claims against the Home Office. Such information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The way that damages payments are accounted for in the departmental accounts is seen in section 29, Losses and Special Payments, of the annual Resource Accounts. Also in the 2004-05 accounts there is a record in section 25, Contingent Liabilities, concerning the claims for compensation received by the Criminal Records Bureau. Ministers take responsibility for their own areas. Therefore ministerial responsibility for claims against the Home Office will depend on the particular area of the Department that the claim is made against.
Data Sharing
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans the Government have (a) to link and (b) to enable data-sharing between the Children’s Information Sharing Index and the National Identity Register. [86847]
Joan Ryan: The National Identity Register will not be linked to the Children’s Information Sharing Index, nor are there plans for data-sharing between them.
Defendants' Anonymity
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received regarding anonymity for defendants in certain cases. [87942]
Mr. Sutcliffe: As on 25 July we had received seven items of correspondence since the beginning of this year, all of which concern defendant anonymity in sexual offences cases.
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