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Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many overcrowding notifications the Department received from each prison in each year since 2000. [91363]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Operational capacity of a prison is determined and approved by Senior Managers and the Prison Service in accordance with PSO 1900 Certified Prisoner Accommodation. These decisions are based on these managers’ knowledge of establishment regime and infrastructure.
It is not possible to identify separately from the notifications all the changes to prison capacity due to overcrowding.
Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Welsh-speaking prisoners are held in each institution in England and Wales; and how many of these are (a) sentenced adult male prisoners, (b) remanded adult male prisoners, (c) sentenced women prisoners, (d) remanded women prisoners, (e) sentenced young offenders and (f) remanded young offenders. [93588]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information regarding the number of prisoners detained in prison establishments in England and Wales who speak Welsh is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Serious Organised Crime Agency
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 2 August 2006 to question 88351, whether those Serious Organised Crime Agency staff deployed to Colombia who enjoy diplomatic immunity are subject to UK law. [91729]
Mr. Coaker: By virtue of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, all staff with diplomatic accreditation are under a duty to respect local law. SOCA officers stationed overseas are liable, as persons in public employment, to be prosecuted in England for offences committed in the course of their employment overseas.
Spam E-mail
Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to host a world event to discuss increasing levels of spam e-mail since the introduction of the Privacy and Communications Act 2003. [92756]
Margaret Hodge: I have been asked to reply.
We have no plans to host an international event on spam. The subject is on the agenda of relevant multilateral bodies and we expect it to be one of the subjects discussed in the forthcoming Internet Governance Forum in Athens.
Thames Valley Police
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what restrictions there are within Thames Valley Police for officers who wish to transfer (a) from Milton Keynes Basic Command Unit and (b) to Milton Keynes Basic Command Unit from other basic command units in the force. [91483]
Mr. McNulty: The policy on transfers within a force is a matter for the Chief Constable.
Zimbabwe
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were deported to Zimbabwe in each of the last five years. [92200]
Mr. Byrne: The following table shows the number of persons removed from the UK to Zimbabwe in 2004 and 2005. Information on the destination of persons removed from the UK has only been available since 2004.
Published information is available on the total number of persons removed as a result of deportation action for years up to 2002 in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom Command Paper. Published editions of this Command Paper and other information on immigration and asylum are available on the Home Office's Research Development and Statistics web site at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
Information on deportation action is not available for 2003, 2004 and 2005 due to data quality issues. The Immigration and Nationality Directorate is currently putting in place new processes to improve its data collection systems for the future in this area.
| Removals, voluntary departures and assisted returns of persons to Zimbabwe( 1,2) | |||
| Number of persons | |||
| 2004 | 2005( 3,5) | Total( 2,5) | |
| (1 )Figures rounded to the nearest five and may not sum due to rounding. (2 )Includes enforced removals, persons departing “voluntarily” after enforcement action had been initiated against them and persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organization for Migration. (3 )Removals in 2005 include those who it is established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. (4) Persons who had sought asylum at some stage, excluding dependants. (5 )Provisional figures. | |||
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in the UK are awaiting deportation to Zimbabwe. [92201]
Mr. Byrne: This information is not available.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available on the Home Office’s Research Development and Statistics website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.
Treasury
Alternatively Secured Pensions
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the Government’s policy is on the future availability of Alternatively Secured Pensions; and if he will make a statement; [93713]
(2) whether there is a requirement to be a member of the Plymouth Brethren for the purposes of taking out an Alternatively Secured Pension; [93715]
(3) whether he has had discussions with the Financial Services Authority on issuing guidance to regulated firms on the sale of Alternatively Secured Pensions; [93716]
(4) whether future changes to the tax treatment of Alternatively Secured Pensions will apply to existing contracts; [93717]
(5) what assessment he has made of the extent to which the rules on Alternatively Secured Pensions discriminate against any individuals on the grounds of their religious faith. [93718]
Ed Balls: The information requested can be found at paragraph 5.61 and 5.62 of the Budget 2006: A strong and strengthening economy (HC 968).
The Government have extensive discussions with the FSA on a wide range of issues. As an independent regulator the FSA is responsible for its own guidance to regulated firms.
Average Incomes
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average income was in each of the last 30 years at today’s prices. [93511]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on what the level of average income was in each of the last 30 years at today’s prices. (93511)
Average income at today’s prices is taken to be real households’ disposable income which is shown in the attached table. Further data are available from table 2.4 (Income, product and spending per head) in Economic Trends which is available at the following address: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=308&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=422
Average real households’ disposable income is calculated using the total resident population for the United Kingdom
The estimates for real household disposable income is the national accounts series for the combined household and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) sectors. Estimates for households alone are not available. NPISHs are legal entities which are principally engaged in the production of non-market services for households and whose main resources are voluntary contributions by households. For example, charities; relief and aid organisations; educational establishments; Trade Unions; Professional Associations, Political Parties and Religious Organisations, and Sports Clubs and Associations.
| Real households’ disposable income per head (£), 1976-2005 | |
| Real households’ disposable income per head (£) | |
Cancer
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) breast cancer in women and (b) lung cancer in men death rates were in each of the last 20 years. [93837]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the (a) breast cancer in women and (b) lung cancer in men death rates were in each of the last 20 years. (93837)
The most recent year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the age-standardised death rate from breast cancer for females and lung cancer for males in England and Wales for the years 1985 to 2004.
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