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Departmental Website
Judy Mallaber: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department's website was last updated to make it more user-friendly; and if the Department will take steps to ensure that audio-visual material is used in addition to text. [88386]
Mr. Byrne: The Home Office website was redeveloped throughout 2005 and a more user-friendly version was published in October that year, aimed specifically at the general public. The new site was developed according to principles of user-centred design and was recognised in a recent independent report published by Porter & Precedent as being the best of the 32 UK public sector websites they assessed. Particular praise was given to the accessible, user-friendly site design and navigation. The Home Office will publish audio-visual material on the site if it is appropriate to do so and if there is relevant material. Audio-visual content is already published on some parts of the Home Office website.
Deportation
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average cost was of deportation evaluations of foreign prisoners carried out by his Department in the latest period for which figures are available. [70100]
Mr. Byrne: This information is not available other than at disproportionate cost.
Stephen Pound: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what account is taken of whether Irish nationals have been resident in the UK from birth when considering cases for deportation from the UK to Ireland. [75388]
Mr.
Byrne: Under section 7 of the Immigration Act 1971, Irish
citizens who were ordinarily resident in the
United Kingdom on 1 January 1973 (the date of the coming into force of
the that Act) and who have been ordinarily resident five years prior to
a court recommendation or decision to make a deportation order are
exempt from deportation. Those Irish nationals who do not fall into
this category may be removed under the Immigration (European Economic
Area) Regulations 2006 if it is decided that removal is justified on
the grounds of public policy, public security or public
health.
Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were deported from the UK in each year since 1997, broken down by nationality. [73675]
Mr. Byrne: The total number of deportations from the UK broken down by nationality is not available.
The Immigration and Nationality Directorate is currently putting in place new processes to improve its data collection systems for the future in this area.
Detection Rates
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the detection rate was in 2005-06 for (a) theft and handling stolen goods, (b) fraud and forgery, (c) criminal damage, (d) violence against the person, (e) sexual offences, (f) robbery and (g) all violent crime calculated by the methodology used to calculate the figures presented in Table 7.03 of Crime in England and Wales 2004-05. [89151]
John Reid: The information requested is given in the following table:
| Overall detection rates for crime in England and Wales 2005-06 | |
| Offence group | Percentage detected |
DNA Database
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many DNA profiles are held of individuals who are (a) under 16, (b) 16 to 18, (c) 19 to 21 and (d) over 21 years, broken down by police force area. [86528]
John Reid: The information requested for the police forces in England and Wales is shown in the following table. The figures given are the number of DNA subject sample profiles held on the National DNA Database as at 18 July 2006 and not the number of individuals. Some individuals may have more than one profile on the Database due to replicate sampling. It is estimated that the current level of replication on the Database is about 10 per cent.
| Number of DNA subject profiles on the National DNA Database | ||||
| Force | Under 16s | 16-18 | 19 to 21 | Over 21 years |
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