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Security Passes
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many security passes his Department has issued in each of the last five years. [89204]
John Reid: The Home Office has issued approximately 45,000 security passes since January 2001 to date. An annual breakdown is not available.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many security passes issued by his Department have been recorded as (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five years. [89205]
John Reid: The number of Home Office passes recorded as lost or stolen in the last five years is as follows:
| Number of passes lost or stolen | |
Sentencing
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women were sentenced to a term of imprisonment of (a) any length, (b) no more than six months and (c) no more than one month in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [89367]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested, for England and Wales, is contained in the following table.
Although care is taken in collating and analysing the returns used to compile such figures, the data are of necessity subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.
Consequently, although the figures are shown to the last digit in order to provide a comprehensive record of the information collected, they are not necessarily accurate to the last digit shown.
We have started a programme of work in the Home Office looking at the quality of existing court sentencing data and how this might be improved
| Women sentenced to immediate custody at all courts, England and Wales, 2002-04 | |||
| Persons | |||
| Sentence length | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Note: Although care is taken in collating and analysing the returns used to compile these figures, the data are of necessity subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. Consequently, although figures are shown to the last digit in order to provide a comprehensive record of the information collected, they are not necessarily accurate to the last digit shown. Source: RDS NOMS 26 Jul 06 | |||
Serious Organised Crime Agency
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 31 July 2006 to Question 88186 what arrangements are in place for the (a) reporting and (b) accountability of the chair of the Serious Organised Crime Agency to (i) Ministers and (ii) Parliament; and if he will make a statement. [91727]
Mr. Coaker: The Chair of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is appointed by the Home Secretary under section three of Schedule one, Part one of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
The Chair of SOCA has reported on a regular basis, usually monthly, to the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety and reported to the Home Secretary on a quarterly basis. It is expected that these meetings will resume once Parliament is back in session.
A copy of SOCA’s overarching framework document was placed in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament on 29 June 2006. Section 7(6) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 requires the Secretary of State to lay a copy of SOCA’s annual report before Parliament.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 1 August 2006 to Question 88238, whether the briefing Sir Stephen Lander, Chair of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, gave to the Guardian newspaper and published on 1 April represents Government policy. [91728]
Mr. Coaker: Comments made by the Chair and Director General of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, around the time of its launch, relate to matters within their discretion, but are in line with the Government’s intentions when setting up the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Sex Offenders
John Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places in approved hostels in England and Wales are occupied by persons convicted of sexual offences (a) on licence and (b) as a condition of a community penalty. [90126]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Statistical information about the type of offences committed by offenders residing in Approved Premises is not collected centrally.
Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sex offenders from the Isle of Man have subsequently committed similar offences in England in each year since 1997; and how many of those had been issued with supervision orders in the Isle of Man. [89902]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is not available centrally.
The most recent national information on two year re-offending rates of adults in England and Wales was published in December as “Adult re-offending: results
from the 2002 cohort”. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 25/05'. The report is available on line at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs05/hosb2505.pdf and covers offenders starting community sentences or being discharged from prison in England and Wales in the first quarter of 2002.
This information is not available on a sub national basis.
Soliciting
Mr. Weir:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions the charge of
soliciting has been applied to people under the age of 18 years in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) sex. [89465]
Mr. Coaker: Data on charging are not collected, however information from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform showing the number of defendants aged 10-17 proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for soliciting offences, broken down as requested, is provided in the following table.
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