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Cannabis

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his statement of 19 January 2006, Official Report, columns 982-83, on cannabis regulation, when the education campaign on cannabis will take place. [81979]

Mr. Coaker: A widespread education campaign on the harms of cannabis and all illegal drugs is underway. In partnership with DfES the Home Office has produced ‘Understanding Drugs’, a comprehensive teacher and pupil information pack which is now available to every secondary school in England. The FRANK campaign has updated its cannabis information resources with new TV and radio ads and information leaflets coming on stream. In addition, the Department of Health will be issuing a toolkit for mental health practitioners on the links between cannabis and mental health in the autumn.

Control Orders

Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many control orders involving (a) access to designated people to a home, (b) the surrender of a passport, (c) a specific 24 hour ban on movement, (d) requirements of (i) attendance and (ii) reporting at places or areas at specified times of day, (e) electronic tagging or other means of monitoring, (f) prohibitions on travel (A) within and (B) outside the UK, (g) the removal of items from a home for testing, (h) restrictions on access, congress or association of specified persons, (i) restrictions on work activity, (j) restrictions on use of the (1) internet and (2) telephone and (k) prohibition on possession or use of specified items or substances have been served since their introduction. [95262]

Mr. McNulty: We are not prepared to give a running commentary on the obligations imposed in individual control order cases.


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Crime (Coventry)

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people were arrested for shoplifting in Coventry South in the last 12 months; [97162]

(2) how many people were arrested for car theft in Coventry South in the last 12 months. [97164]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available centrally. Information on arrests held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform is based on persons arrested for recorded crime “notifiable offences” by main offence group (i.e. theft and handling stolen goods, drugs, robbery, sexual offences, violence against the person, criminal damage etc.) at police force area only. Information is therefore not available to the detail required.

Deepcut

Mrs. Humble: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those documents originating from the Surrey police and concerning deaths in Deepcut barracks that have been (a) requested and (b) placed in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. [96586]

Mr. McNulty: The following requests for documents originating from Surrey police, relating to deaths in the Deepcut barracks, have been received:

These requests have resulted in the following actions:


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Departmental Contracts

Mr. Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the value is of his Department’s contracts with (a) ER Consultants and (b) Praesta in each of the last three years; and which Ministers have made use of the services in each case. [90782]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 7 September 2006]: The value of the Department’s contracts with (a) ER Consultants and (b) Praesta in each of the last three years is as follows:

Financial year ER consultants Praesta

2004-05

51,688

0

2005-06

291,831

96,938

2006-07

(1)0

(1)42,676

(1)To date.

Ministers have not made use of the services provided by either company.

DNA Database (Hendon)

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Hendon residents are on the National DNA Database. [96934]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available. The National DNA Database records, inter alia, the police force which took the person’s DNA sample but not the person’s address.

Drinking Offences

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions for (i) being drunk and disorderly, (ii) being found drunk on a highway, public place or on licensed premises and (iii) being drunk in or when entering a designated sports event there have been in each police force area in England and Wales in each year since 1997. [95453]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Data from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for the offences requested, in England and Wales from 1997-2004 are provided Table 1. The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.

In addition to this, the penalty notice for disorder (pnd) scheme was introduced in England and Wales in 2004. Under the scheme, the police are able to issue to persons suspected of committing specified minor offences, including (i) being found drunk in a highway, public place or licensed premises, and (ii) drunk and disorderly with a fixed penalty notice. No admission of guilt is required and payment of the penalty discharges all liability to conviction for the offence. Data on the number of pnds issued for these offences in 2004 and 2005 can be found in Table 2.


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Number of PNDs issued to offenders aged 16 and over, for selected offences England
DA06 drunk and disorderly DB05 drunk in a highway
Police force area 2004 2005 2004 2005

Avon and Somerset

176

286

22

92

Bedfordshire

144

265

13

43

Cambridgeshire

189

357

34

90

Cheshire

409

190

13

13

Cleveland

368

722

2

Cumbria

403

657

7

21

Derbyshire

372

558

9

13

Devon and Cornwall

988

1,519

158

195

Dorset

82

127

2

2

Durham

441

762

17

21

Essex

714

634

24

38

Gloucestershire

282

320

10

31

Greater Manchester

333

491

31

82

Hampshire

1,074

967

73

79

Hertfordshire

208

319

9

30

Humberside

604

679

1

5

Kent

498

1,514

45

89

Lancashire

2,869

4,651

79

105

Leicestershire

67

79

6

12

Lincolnshire

174

71

7

7

London, City of

32

101

3

12

Merseyside

2,728

3,619

20

55

Metropolitan

4,081

3,058

1,159

930

Norfolk

79

93

34

56

North Yorkshire

373

697

106

113

Northamptonshire

246

618

12

39

Northumbria

126

1,426

3

9

Nottinghamshire

477

661

8

9

South Yorkshire

1,590

2,261

10

9

Staffordshire

452

380

52

74

Suffolk

267

377

35

27

Surrey

80

278

25

123

Sussex

1,029

1,419

65

143

Thames Valley

396

258

7

74

Warwickshire

250

123

8

4

West Mercia

141

423

10

27

West Midlands

1,580

1,664

100

94

West Yorkshire

923

1,961

105

93

Wiltshire

346

311

63

71

Dyfed Powys

183

315

37

103

Gwent

127

222

22

9

North Wales

639

1,173

14

33

South Wales

69

432

37

63

England and Wales

26,609

37,038

2,497

3,138

(1) 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 police forces. 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.

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