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Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what national police responsibilities are tasked to Northumbria constabulary. [99831]
Mr. McNulty: My hon. Friend’s request has been formally passed to the chief officer of Northumbria police to respond to him direct.
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the implementation of neighbourhood policing in Sunderland. [99885]
Mr. McNulty: I will write to my hon. Friend with the information requested.
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many call cases are under examination by the police. [99993]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by all police forces in England on interpreters in each of the last five years. [100064]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when information and communication technology infrastructure will be standardised across police authorities. [100465]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the Public Services Union on the use of volunteers by the Metropolitan police. [100469]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many serving police officers have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted of a criminal offence in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) sex, (ii) age and (iii) police force; and how many (A) were suspended from duty, (B) were demoted, (C) were dismissed and (D) received a police caution. [97943]
Mr. McNulty: The Independent Police Complaints Commission is responsible for the management of the police complaints system.
I will ensure that the chairman receives a copy of the question and replies to the hon. Member directly.
Copies of the letter containing the IPCC’s response will be placed in the House Library.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recruitment guidelines are issued to police forces on (a) gender, (b) ethnic origin, (c) sexual orientation and (d) social class to ensure that local police forces reflect the population they serve. [99483]
Mr. McNulty: I will write to my hon. Friend with the information requested.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the ratio of regular police officers to residents is in each London borough. [99536]
Mr. McNulty: Statistics of police officer strength per 100,000 resident population by London borough as at 31 March 2006 are given in the following table.
| Police officer strength (FTE)( 1) per 100,000 resident population for London boroughs as at 31 March 2006( 2) | |
| Borough | Police officer strength per 100,000 residents |
| (1) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. (2) Population data at the Basic Command Unit/borough level are taken from mid-2004 Population Estimates (ONS). (3) Caution should be exercised; the City of London has so few residents the comparative police strength appears inflated. | |
Police Finance
Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the annual budget for the Police Service in (a) England and Wales and (b) each police authority area was in each of the last 30 years; and what the percentage change was in each year. [93556]
Mr. McNulty: Consistent information is only available from 1995-96 I have placed the available information in the Library of the House.
Police Force Mergers
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when compensation will be paid to the Cumbrian police authority to cover the costs of the aborted merger plans. [97795]
Mr. McNulty: I will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost of the recent plans to merge a number of the UK's police forces; and if he will make a statement. [99517]
Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the written statement made on 30 October, Official Report, column 3WS.
Politically Motivated Crime
Martin Salter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance has been issued to police officers on what material can be defined as politically motivated under the Serious and Organised Crime Act 2005. [99473]
Mr. McNulty: I will write to my hon. Friend with the information requested.
Prisoners' Property
Mr. Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenses will be paid to prisoners discharged by a court when they have to return to the prison where they had been held to reclaim their property. [98890]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 6 November 2006]: Where a prisoner's property does not accompany them to court, the prison will arrange for it to be sent to them in the event of their discharge.
Prisons
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has decided how many adult offenders will be released early to ease prison overcrowding; and how he plans to stop the prison estate exceeding its total operational capacity before the planned 8,000 new places become available. [90855]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 11 September 2006]: I will write to the hon. and learned Member with the information requested.
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) prisoner on prisoner and (b) prisoner on officer assaults were recorded in each of the last 10 years, broken down by prison establishment. [93814]
John Reid: I will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many claims for compensation have been received from foreign national prisoners who were detained awaiting deportation after serving their sentence. [94921]
John Reid: The Treasury Solicitor’s Department is responsible for dealing with such claims on behalf of the Department.
I understand that current provisional management information shows that there are 18 ongoing claims
which have been received since the start of the current financial year. No conclusions can be drawn at this stage about the outcome of these cases although we will seek to contest all claims robustly.
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many escapes from prison occurred in each police district in each year since 2000. [95290]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information is only available for financial years. The details requested are in the following table.
| Escapes from prisons by police district 1999-2000 to 2005-06 | |
| Police district where escape made | Number of escapes |
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