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Immigration Detention Centres
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of places in the immigration detention estate was taken up by former prisoners whose sentences had expired on30 September 2006. [106771]
Mr. Byrne: The director general of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate will be writing to the Home Affairs Committee early next year regarding the progress being made in the deportation of foreign national prisoners. The director general will provide the Committee with the most accurate and robust information which the Department holds in this area.
Indefinite Leave to Remain
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long it took on average to determine applications for indefinite leave to remain in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [105547]
Mr. Byrne: This information is not readily available and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Individual Support Orders
Jon Cruddas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many individual support orders have been issued, broken down by (a) area and (b) year of issue; [105117]
(2) how much funding has been allocated to issuing individual support orders in each year since their introduction; and how much of that funding has been spent. [105118]
Mr. McNulty: Individual support orders (ISOs) were introduced in May 2004 and courts are obliged to consider making one when making a stand alone antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) on a 10 to 17-year-old. We provided 500,000 to Youth Justice Board (YJB) in June 2005 to fund ISOs.
Funding for this financial year and from now on is available through the £45 million uplift given to the Youth Justice Board as part of their youth prevention budget. The funding is allocated to youth offending teams based on a formula and they have submitted plans to the Youth Justice Board on how they plan to spend it—some have specific ISO schemes and others have looked to embed the work into Youth Inclusion Support Panels. Funding for individual support orders is not broken down by local authority areas.
A table giving the number of ISOs issued by magistrates courts, in addition to an antisocial behaviour order, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, up to 30 December 2005 (latest available) follows.
| The number of individual support orders( 1) given at the magistrates court, in addition to an antisocial behaviour order, as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, by Criminal Justice System (CJS) area and year, from 1 May2004 to 31 December 2005 (latest available). | |||
| CJS area | 2004 | 2005 | Total |
| (1) Available at the magistrates' court only for juveniles (10-17) with ASBOs issued on application. Commencement date 1 May 2004. Note: 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 the courts. 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. | |||
Internet: Extremist Groups
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the use of the internet by extremist groups; and if he will make a statement. [107916]
Mr. McNulty:
The new offences of ‘Encouragement to Terrorism’ and ‘Dissemination of Terrorist Publications’, as set out in the Terrorism Act 2006 prohibits the
publishing of material that encourages terrorism, or is wholly or mainly of assistance to terrorists. They also cover the dissemination of this material by e-mail, or other electronic means.
The Act allows for a notice-and-takedown procedure to allow the police to issue notices to individuals responsible for websites where unlawful material has been published, ensuring that they either remove this material, or are seen to have endorsed it.
In addition, we are working with our partners in industry to continue pursuing a self-regulatory approach, allowing for the fast and responsive removal of any illegal material from the internet. In practice, where a UK ISP is advised—usually by law enforcement—that they are hosting material which is illegal, they have an excellent record in removing it.
IT Projects
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many information technology projects within the responsibility of his Department, its agencies and their predecessors have been cancelled since 1997; what the total cost was of each project at cancellation; and if he will make a statement. [105477]
Mr. Byrne: There have been no information technology projects valued at more than £5 million cancelled by the Home Office or its predecessors since 1997.
Due to the large number of IT projects undertaken by the Home Office it has not been feasible to centrally collate such information relating to projects valued at less than £5 million.
Licence Breaches
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the circumstances were of the licence breaches which necessitated 12 level three offenders and 51 level two offenders under the multi-agency public protection panel and multi-agency risk assessment conference management being returned to custody in South Wales in 2005-06. [108428]
Mr. Sutcliffe: South Wales probation area advise that, of the 12 level three offenders, 10 were recalled due to a failure to comply with the requirements of their licence and two were recalled following offending whilst on licence. Of the 51 level two offenders recalled to prison, 33 were recalled due to a failure to comply with the requirements of their licence and 18 were recalled following offending while on licence.
Membership of Organisations
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the organisations of which his Department’s staff are required to declare membership. [107778]
Mr. Byrne: Staff in the Home Office are not required to declare membership of any named non-proscribed organisation. Prison Service staff must not be a member of the British National Party, Combat 18, the National Front or any other group or organisation with racist philosophy, aims, principles or policies.
Miles Per Hour 2006 Show
Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State forthe Home Department pursuant to the answer of29 November 2006, Official Report, column 777W, how many hours of police staff time were used in (a) organising and (b) manning the Metropolitan police traffic operational command unit's exhibit at the Miles Per Hour 2006 show at Earl's Court. [109172]
Mr. McNulty: This is an operational matter for the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Ministerial Visits
Sir Peter Soulsby: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which Ministers in his Department have visited Leicester in the last year; and where they visited in Leicester. [108684]
Mr. Byrne: My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Mr. Coaker), the Under-Secretary of State, visited Leicester on12 July 2006. He visited the Leicestershire constabulary force headquarters.
Mr. Litvinenko
Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether (a) the Security Service and (b) the Secret Intelligence Service warned Mr. Litvinenko of a threat to his safety; [106549]
(2) whether Mr. Litvinenko was notified of a threat to his safety by (a) the police, (b) his Department and (c) another Government agency; [106555]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 30 November 2006]: It has been the standard practice of successive Governments not to comment on threats to individuals.
National Identity Register
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means checks on identity within the National Identity Register will be made; and what technology systems have been procured for this process. [104611]
John Reid: Checks on identity against information held in the National Identity Register may be made under sections 12, 15 and 17 to 21 of the Identity Cards Act 2006. These relate to the provision of information with an individual's consent to accredited private sector organisations and the provision of information to public authorities for purposes such as the prevention and detection of crime and the efficient and effective provision of public services.
It is planned to develop the range of identity checking services over time, to maximise benefits for users of the scheme. In support of that development, we will consider the range of technology procurement options that are available, selecting the procurement routes which offer the most effective delivery in balancing factors such as cost and lead times. No system has yet been procured specifically for identity card checking.
National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to makethe reporting of attacks one of the functions of the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre. [107572]
Mr. McNulty: Those organisations which run the critical services within the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) are responsible for detecting attacks on their systems.
Government CNI organisations are obliged to report attacks to the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), and NISCC encourages private sector organisations to do the same.
NISCC provides the best possible advice on protective security measures to minimise the risk of electronic attack against the CNI.
It is more valuable for NISCC to report on vulnerabilities, threats and mitigation techniques.
National Non-emergency Phone Number
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost has been of the trial schemes of a national non-emergency telephone number; and when he plans to publish a report of the trials. [105973]
Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the letter I sent him on 4 December 2006.
National Offender Management Service
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding will be made available to regional offender managers under the National Offender Management Service for the financial year 2007-08. [106166]
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget will be for regional offender managers under the National Offender Management Services structure for 2007-08. [107441]
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what he expects the budget to be for regional offender managers under the National Offender Management Services structure in 2007-08. [107779]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Regional Offender Managers’ (ROMs') funding for 2007-08 is not finalised. The indicative allocation for 2007-08 for the ROMs’ direct expenditure is £11.646 million.
The ROMs will agree the level of resources for Prisons (excluding high security prisons and private sector prisons) and Probation Boards, through the Service Level Agreement process. These figures are not yet available.
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