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Internet Terrorism
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward proposals for a legal definition of internet terrorism. [98408]
Mr. McNulty: There are currently no plans to provide a specific definition of ‘internet terrorism’. Terrorism itself has already been defined in the Terrorism Act 2000, and any Acts or omissions which breach criminal law are illegal whatever media is involved, including the internet.
IT Contracts
Mr. Godsiff:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) projected cost at the
time of tender and (b) actual cost at the time of completion was for each IT contract commissioned by his Department in the last five years. [2576]
Mr. Byrne: Please see the following tables.
| Desktop services | ||||
| Business | IT Unit | Projected cost (£ million) | Actual cost | Year |
The following table outlines those details that are centrally held in relation to major IT projects with a value over £10 million. The Home Office runs a number of smaller IT projects but details of these is not recorded or held centrally.
| Business | Programme | Projected cost (£ million) | Actual cost | Year |
Leave to Remain
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women from (a) India and (b) Pakistan were granted permission to live in the UK with their UK-resident husbands in each of the last five years. [95476]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 20 October 2006]: Statistics on women, who are nationals of India and Pakistan, granted settlement on the basis of marriage to a British citizen or a person already settled in the United Kingdom, 2001 to 2005, are given in the following table.
Statistics on immigration control are published annually in Command Papers entitled “Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom”. These publications are available from the Library of the House and via the Home Office website at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
| Women granted settlement on the basis of marriage( 1) to a British citizen or a person already settled in the United Kingdom, nationals of India and Pakistan, 2001 to 2005( 2) , United Kingdom | ||
| Number of persons | ||
| India | Pakistan | |
| (1) Includes unmarried partners. (2) Data from 2003 exclude dependants of EEA and Swiss nationals in confirmed relationships granted permanent residence. (3) Provisional data subject to change. Note: Data rounded to the nearest 5. | ||
Legislation
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) Acts and (b) parts of Acts received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and June 2006 for which his Department has policy responsibility; and which provisions within those Acts (i) have not yet come into force, (ii) have been replaced prior to coming into force and (iii) have been replaced after coming into force. [77445]
Mr. McNulty: The provisions of the following Acts (which received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and June 2006) for which the Home Secretary has policy responsibility are fully in force:
The Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997
The Special Immigration Appeals Act 1997
The Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Act 1997
The Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) (Amendment) Act 1998
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
The Football (Offences and Disorder) Act 1999
The Criminal Cases Review (Insanity) Act 1999
The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000
The Football Disorder Act 2000
The Terrorism Act 2000
The Mobile Telephones Reprogramming Act 2002
The Football Disorder (Amendment) Act 2002
The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
The Sexual Offences Act 2003
The Extradition Act 2003
The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005
Terrorism Act 2006
The following table lists provisions of Acts for which the Home Office has policy responsibility which received Royal Assent between 1 May 1997 and June 2006 which are not yet in force.
Sections and provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 yet to come into force is provided in
the table placed in the House Library.
It is not possible to provide lists of provisions which have been replaced prior to coming into force or which have been replaced after coming into force without incurring disproportionate cost.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what checks are in place of fundraising charities associated with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the United Kingdom; [99675]
(2) which fundraising organisations in the United Kingdom have been identified as having links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [99679]
Mr. McNulty: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) were proscribed under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in March 2001. It is an offence to be a member of the LTTE, or provide or show support for it.
Life Prisoners
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to transfer lifer prisoners resident in prisons no longer classified as lifer establishments to suitable prisons. [99108]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Governor of the holding prison is required to identify appropriate prisons for the onward transfer of each life sentence prisoners as part of the life sentence management process governed by national guidance available on the Prison Service website. The physical transfer of the prisoner is then arranged centrally with the inter-prison transfer contractors.
Light Bulbs
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of light bulbs purchased by his Department in 2005 were of the compact fluorescent type. [98259]
Mr. Byrne: This information is not held centrally, however, 6 per cent. of all the light bulbs or tubes purchased last year for our offices at 2 Marsham Street were of the compact fluorescent type. General office lighting is provided using fluorescent tubes. Compact fluorescent bulbs are used where appropriate and required.
Liquid Explosives
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to develop ways of detecting liquid explosives. [95328]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Office is involved in a number of interdepartmental initiatives regarding the detection of liquid explosives, the detail of which is classified.
London Bombings (Compensation Payments)
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many non-British amputees of the London bombings on 7 July 2005 are eligible for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority scheme; [98913]
(2) how many families of those killed in the London bombings on 7 July 2005 are eligible for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority; [98936]
(3) how many non-British survivors of the London bombings on 7 July 2005 are eligible for compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority scheme. [98937]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) does not record the nationality of claimants since this is not a criterion for eligibility under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.
The immediate family of people killed in the London bombings are eligible for compensation. Parents, children (of any age), spouse, civil partner or co-habiting partner (of either sex) count as immediate family.
Of the 560 applications received by CICA to date in respect of the London bombings, 98 relate to 45 of those who were killed.
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