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Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will centrally collate the amount police forces in England and Wales have spent on interpreters in the last financial year; and if he will make a statement. [107253]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 4 December 2006]: We already have informed estimates that police forces in England and Wales spent some £21 million on interpreters and translators in the last financial year.
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what provision is made for the use of (a) video conferencing and (b) other forms of technology in the treatment of a prisoner with a gambling addiction detained at a prison which does not provide any specific support for that addiction. [106086]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 28 November 2006]: Prison video links are installed in all local prisons and are primarily used for court appearances. They can be used for other purposes at the discretion of local managers.
No interventions are currently being delivered to assist with the treatment of gambling addiction using video links or other technology.
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effect on overcrowding in prisons of delays in categorisation of inmates; and if he will make a statement. [107965]
Mr. Sutcliffe: All convicted prisoners are categorised as soon as possible after sentencing. Arrangements are in place to ensure that documents vital to the risk assessment process, without which categorisation cannot proceed, are obtained as quickly as possible.
The Prison Service is not aware of any significant delays in the categorisation process affecting overcrowding in prisons.
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reasons the Sudanese Minister Salah Abdallah Gosh was granted a visa to visit the UK. [105038]
Mr. McCartney: I have been asked to reply.
General Salah Abdallah Al Ghosh was granted a visa to visit the UK for medical treatment.
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what mechanisms exist online to report securely extremist and terrorist activities; and if he will make a statement. [105255]
Mr. McNulty: The website for the Security Service has a contact page through which members of the public can send messages about threats to national security over a secure connection. The page can be accessed at the following address:
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page6.html
Additionally, the website for the police service has a mechanism to report a crime online at:
http://www.online.police.uk/english/default.asp
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will ask the Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire to investigate the issue of a dispersal order for the Werrington Centre in Peterborough; and if he will make a statement. [107668]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 5 December 2006]: This is an operational decision for the Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average number of (a) GCSEs, (b) GNVQs, (c) NVQs, (d) AS levels, (e) A-levels and (f) all qualifications held by (i) young adult and (ii) juvenile offenders was (A) upon entering secure accommodation and (B) when released from secure accommodation in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [106974]
Mr. Dhanda: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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