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Foreign Criminals
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the entitlement to compensation for victims of crimes committed by those foreign nationals released but not assessed for deportation. [68750]
Mr. Byrne: Victims of violent crime are of course entitled to apply for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in the normal way.
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) convicted prisoners and (b) those held on remand in prison pending trial are non-British nationals. [94966]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the numbers of (a) convicted prisoners and (b) untried prisoners held pending trial can be found in the Offender Management Caseload Quarterly Brief, October to December 2005, Table 2.11 a, at: http://www.home office.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/omcsq405.pdf.
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and although shown to the last individual the figure may not be accurate to that level.
Fraud
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were convicted of fraud in (a) Brent and (b) London in each year since 1997. [91579]
Mr. Coaker: Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for the number of people convicted of fraud in (a) Brent and (b) London in each year since 1997 can be found in the following table.
Data for 2005 will be available in November.
| Number of defendants convicted at all courts, for offences relating to fraud in London, 1997 to 2004( 1,2) | ||||
| Offence class | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Offence class | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| (1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Includes the following: False statements by company directors, etc., Other fraud by a company director, and giving false information for Confidentiality Order, or providing confidential information in breach of the regulations under S.723C. (4) Includes the following: False accounting, failing to keep proper accounting records, authorising failure to keep proper accounting of records, permitting failure to keep proper accounts, failing to keep proper accounts, failing to secure preservation of accounting records, and, failing to keep accounting records open to inspection. (5) Includes the following: Obtaining property by deception, Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, Conspiracy to defraud. Purporting to act as a spiritualistic medium for reward, Taking marks from HM property in any store, Fraudulent issue of money order by Post Office servant. Fraudulently retaining, secreting, etc. postal packet or mail bag, Fraudulently printing, mutilating or re-issuing stamp. Frauds by farmers in connection with agricultural charge, Cheating at play, etc. Dishonestly destroying, defacing or concealing a document. Dishonestly procuring execution of a document. Railway frauds, Frauds in connection with sale of land, etc.(triable only on indictment). Frauds in connection with sale of land, etc. (triable-either-way). Obtaining services by deception (except railway frauds). Evasion of liability by deception (except railway frauds). Making off without payment. Assisting another to retain the benefit of criminal conduct. Acquisition, possession or use of proceeds of criminal conduct. Concealing or transferring proceeds of criminal conduct. Disclosure of information likely to prejudice an investigation. Insider dealing. Obtaining a money transfer by deception. Dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit. Dishonest representation for obtaining benefit etc. Unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offences. Unauthorised modification of computer material. Knowingly concerned in fraudulent evasion of contributions. Cartel offences. Corrupt transactions with agents. Other fraud. Source: RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform | ||||
Greater Manchester Police
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to improve Greater Manchester police’s ability to tackle gun crime. [93006]
Mr. McNulty: As part of the Violent Crime Reduction Bill, the Government are tightening legislation on firearms to give police additional powers to tackle gun crime, including a ban on the sale, manufacture and importation of realistic imitation firearms and introducing a new offence of using someone to mind a weapon.
In April 2006, the Home Office and ACPO established the National Ballistics Intelligence Programme and we are the first country to procure the technologically advanced 3D version of the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) which will be located in the Metropolitan police, Greater Manchester police, and West Midlands police areas. Greater Manchester police are being supported to introduce a dedicated firearms forensic facility to service investigative needs in the north of England. These facilities will ensure that officers have access to every service they require in their efforts to combat gun crime.
The National Ballistics Intelligence Programme also includes the development of a computer system which will share and coordinate all the information generated in gun crime enquiries. This will ensure that criminals and guns are tracked and pursued as they move around the country.
To underpin this work we are also supporting a multi-agency Joint Intelligence Cell, a National Independent Advisory Group relating to the criminal use of firearms, and we continue to support the ACPO Criminal Use of Firearms Secretariat which performs an important national co-ordination function relating to strategy and delivery plans.
Hampton Review
Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what input (a) his Department and (b) its (i) agencies and (ii) non-departmental public bodies had into the Hampton review and its report ‘Reducing Administrative Burdens: Effective Inspection and Enforcement’. [89464]
Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Question number 89473.
Hunting
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice he is offering to police forces on how to monitor the activities of hunts; and what measures have been put in place to ensure the protection of hunt monitors. [93080]
Mr. McNulty: The enforcement of the Hunting Act and the protection of hunt monitors is a matter for chief officers and the Association of Chief Officers (ACPO) have issued guidance for police forces on the practical aspects of enforcing this legislation.
Illegal Immigrants
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of people arriving illegally in the UK through ports and airports in Wales in each year since 2000. [84596]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 11 July 2006]: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Lilley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action the Immigration and Nationality Directorate is taking to trace the 17 suspected illegal immigrants seen leaving a lorry in Wheathampstead on 14 July. [83386]
Mr. Byrne: The Immigration Service (IS) is committed to responding to requests by the police to attend clandestine events, such as lorry drops, whenever and wherever operationally possible. In this instance on 30 June Hertfordshire police advised the Immigration Services that three people had been identified after the police responded to a report that approximately 15 individuals had been seen leaving a vehicle in Wheathampstead.
They were arrested and taken to Hemel Hempstead police station. Since they were unaccompanied children they were subsequently released into the care of social services.
Immigration and Nationality Directorate
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the current backlog of (a) immigration and (b) asylum cases is at the immigration and nationality directorate. [18949]
Mr. Byrne: On immigration cases, the data available for in-time in-country applications for leave to remain and for travel documents as at 31 March this year are shown in table 1 as follows.
The number of outstanding applications for each of the work permit schemes as at 31 March this year is shown in table 2 as follows.
Information on the number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision is published quarterly on the Home Office website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.htm.
| Table 1 | |
| General Group | 31 March 2006( 1) |
| (1 )Provisional figures obtained from electronic local management records, subject to revision. | |
| Table 2 | |
| Work Permits (UK) Area | 31 March 2006( 1) |
| (1 )Provisional figures obtained from electronic local management records, subject to revision. | |
Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the backlog of immigration and asylum cases was in March of each year since 1996-97. [74518]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 5 June 2006]: I am advised that information is not fully available in the format requested for in-country immigration applications and work permit applications. The data available as at 31 March 2006 for in-time in-country applications for leave to remain and for travel documents are shown in table 1 as follows:
The number of outstanding applications for each of the work permit schemes is shown in table 2 as follows:
Information on the number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision is published quarterly on the Home Office Website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.htm
| Table 1 | ||
| General Group | 31 March 2005( 1) | 31 March 2006( 1) |
| (1) Provisional figures obtained from electronic local management records, subject to revision. | ||
| Table 2 | ||
| Work Permits (UK) Area | 31 March 2005( 1) | 31 March 2006( 1) |
| (1) Provisional figures obtained from electronic local management records, subject to revision. | ||
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