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| Table B: Total amount of court imposed fines for motoring offences (excluding offences detected by camera), by Government Official Regions, England and Wales, 1997-2004 | |||||||||
| £ million | |||||||||
| Government Official Regions | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings, in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. Work is under way to ensure that the magistrates courts case management system currently being implemented by the Department for Constitutional Affairs reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated. 2. 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 and police forces. 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. | |||||||||
Safer Neighbourhood Teams
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received regarding Safer Neighbourhood teams in London. [100643]
Mr. McNulty: There have been 18 parliamentary questions on Safer Neighbourhoods in London since the programme began its phased roll out in April 2004.
Strip Search
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders were subject to a strip search in each of the last five years, broken down by institution; and if he will make a statement. [109620]
John Reid: This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Terrorism
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department is taking to tackle attempts to support terrorism in the UK via the internet. [107295]
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.
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals arrested in connection with terrorist crimes in the last 10 years have subsequently been charged. [103523]
Mr. McNulty: Details of the numbers of those charged are contained in the following table. Statistics compiled from police and Home Office records show that from January 1996 to 18 February 2001, 317 people were detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989. Of these 19 individuals were charged under the Act and 128 were charged under other legislation.
Between 11 September 2001 and 30 September 2006, statistics compiled from police records show that there have been 1,113 arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000. Of these 104 people have been charged under the Act, 100 have been charged under the Act and other legislation and 182 have been charged under other legislation. We do not hold the relevant information for 18 February 2001 to 10 September 2001.
| Terrorism Act 2000 | |||
| Number of Persons charged under the Act | Number of persons charged under the Act and other legislation | Number of Persons charged under other legislation | |
| (1) This is from 11 September 2001. (2) This is up to 30 September 2006 | |||
Tilon Number Plate Recognition
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will bring forward measures to require insurance companies to provide details of drivers’ insurance details for the use on the police car Tilon number plate recognition system. [107288]
Mr. McNulty
[holding answer 6 December 2006]: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and the Disclosure of Vehicle Insurance Information
Regulations 2005, made under s 153, require the Motor Insurers’ Information Centre to make available to the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) information on vehicles the use of which was but is no longer insured. PITO processes this information for use by the police.
Westminster City Council
Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will respond to the Leader of Westminster City council’s request for an urgent meeting to discuss the issue of A8 nationals sleeping rough in central London. [101709]
Mr. Byrne: Officials from the Home Office have met with the Department for Communities and Local Government, Westminster City council and other interested parties to discuss this issue. A positive outcome from these meetings is that the Department for Communities and Local Government has agreed to provide additional funding of £100,000 to Westminster City council to continue the work they have started in respect of A8 nationals. The Home Office is considering whether it too can provide some financial support in the 2007-08 financial year.
Wheel Clamping
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of a mandatory scheme for regulating the behaviour of wheel clamping operators (a) on private land and (b) elsewhere; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of existing regulations. [108841]
Mr. Coaker: In January 2004 the Home Office published a full regulatory impact assessment entitled “Regulations to implement the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (the 2001 Act) in respect of Door Supervisors and Vehicle Immobilisers” which considered the merits of a mandatory scheme for regulating wheel-clamping operators in the private security industry. This publication is available on the Security Industry Authority’s (SIA) website at:
http://www.the-sia.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2AE9A564-0443-4E47-AFCF-95BF8820A2B7/0/sia_ds_vi_ria.pdf.
This covered individual vehicle immobilisers operating on private land where wheel-clamping is not governed by the Road Traffic Act 1991, as this was the scope defined by the 2001 Act. Licensing for these vehicle immobilisers was rolled out in February 2005. The Home Office is keeping the situation under review and will be formally assessing the effectiveness of this licensing work in due course.
The Department for Transport is considering the results of a recent consultation on regulations and statutory guidance to be made under Part six of the Traffic Management Act 2004, including the regulation of wheel-clamping activity on public land, and hopes to lay new regulations in Parliament in early 2007.
Work and Pensions
Benefits
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the estimated (a) on-flows and (b) off-flows for incapacity benefits are for each year to 2019-20. [102183]
Mrs. McGuire: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for BurySt. Edmunds (Mr. Ruffley) on 8 November 2006, Official Report, column 1630W.
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in Cleethorpes constituency are in receipt of winter fuel allowance. [110037]
James Purnell: In winter 2005-06 there were 14,990 households in the Cleethorpes constituency that received a winter fuel payment. We expect the number to be similar this winter.
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