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Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the Metropolitan Police’s property strategy is; how it applies in areas where there are significant property deficiencies for operations; and if he will make a statement. [97346]

Mr. McNulty: The property strategy of the Metropolitan Police is a matter for the Commissioner.

Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he plans to implement in full the recommendations of the Police Arbitration Panel in connection with police pay; and if he will make a statement. [98468]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 31 October 2006]: The police pay settlement for 2006 is currently being considered by the Police Arbitration Tribunal. I do not wish to say anything that could prejudice the outcome of the arbitration, but of course my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I will consider the outcome very carefully.

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by police forces in England and Wales on translation services in 2005-06. [94624]

Mr. McNulty: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department under what legislation a serving police officer can be (a) prosecuted and (b) cautioned for alleged offences committed whilst on duty; and if he will make a statement. [97942]

Mr. McNulty: Police officers are subject to the same laws as any other citizen. Any officer who commits a criminal offence can be charged and prosecuted or cautioned under any act that is appropriate to their particular crime. This is, however, subject to the necessary evidential and public interest tests applied by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers facing disciplinary charges in each police area in England and Wales retired on grounds of ill health (a) before and (b) after disciplinary hearings were completed in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [99279]

Mr. McNulty: The statistics for police officers facing disciplinary charges, who retired on grounds of ill health before or shortly after disciplinary hearings are not centrally held.

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers in Durham (a) retired and (b) took ill health retirement in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [93534]

Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the following tables:

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Police Officer Retirements( 1) (FTE)( 2) for Durham Police Force from 2001-02 to 2005-06( 3)
	Number
2001-02	51
2002-03(4)	10
2003-04	39
2004-05	46
2005-06	50
(1) Retirements include all medical retirements and ordinary retirements. (2) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. (3) Financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March inclusive. (4) In 2002-03 leaving figures were not available for Q1, Q2 and Q3 (April to December 2002 inclusive).

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Police Officer Medical Retirements( 1) (FTE)( 2) for Durham Police Force from 2001/02 to 2005/06( 3)
	Number
2001-02	15
2002-03	11
2003-04	6
2004-05	7
2005-06(4)	n/a
(1) Data collated on behalf of and published by HMIC. (2) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (3) Financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March inclusive. (4) Data not available. Data for 2005-06 have been collated but not yet been validated. Figures will be available in the HMIC Annual Report 2005-06 due for publication by March 2007.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers in each police force area in England and Wales retired on grounds of ill health in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [99280]

Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the following table.

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Police officer medical retirements( 1) (FTE)( 2) by force from 2000-01 to 2004-05( 3)
Police force	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05
Avon and Somerset	42	42	34	10	16
Bedfordshire	18	8	7	1	3
Cambridgeshire	11	10	8	4	1
Cheshire	22	22	25	15	11
City of London	9	8	4	8	4
Cleveland	9	21	11	11	11
Cumbria	24	7	7	4	3
Derbyshire	12	9	12	2	9
Devon and Cornwall	15	19	9	6	9
Dorset	12	10	3	9	4
Durham	8	15	11	6	7
Dyfed-Powys	14	13	11	7	9
Essex	34	32	21	16	13
Gloucestershire	7	10	13	5	2
Greater Manchester	110	57	33	10	14
Gwent	16	24	22	8	13
Hampshire	17	19	11	11	8
Hertfordshire	13	8	7	3	1
Humberside	20	11	10	2	10
Kent	29	38	21	9	6
Lancashire	30	39	22	13	11
Leicestershire	28	7	9	6	8
Lincolnshire	4	3	10	3	7
Merseyside	47	58	51	25	25
Metropolitan Police	225	219	150	60	64
Norfolk	10	16	13	6	10
Northamptonshire	8	6	3	3	3
Northumbria	28	33	21	9	4
North Wales	31	20	14	6	7
North Yorkshire	37	16	9	8	8
Nottinghamshire	16	14	16	12	15
South Wales	76	50	33	14	8
South Yorkshire	30	30	17	12	3
Staffordshire	9	24	22	14	13
Suffolk	14	13	12	8	3
Surrey	18	24	12	10	6
Sussex	16	16	9	4	12
Thames Valley	20	17	29	17	8
Warwickshire	15	7	8	4	3
West Mercia	28	28	20	11	10
West Midlands	29	30	21	13	12
West Yorkshire	44	61	23	11	5
Wiltshire	5	3	15	2	6
Total	1,209	1,114	819	418	405
(1) Data collated on behalf of and published by HMIC. Data for 2005-06 have been collated but not yet been validated. Figures will be available in the HMIC annual report 2005-06 due for publication by March 2007. (2) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (3) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive.

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