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Duchy of Lancaster

European Union

Philip Davies: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, column 18W, on the European Union, whether the European Commission has provided the Government with any information on the cost of European regulation to UK businesses. [108556]

Mr. McFadden: The European Commission does not provide the Government with such information. However, the Government have provided the European Commission with data from their administrative burdens measurement exercise to assist with the development of its strategy to measure and set a target to reduce administrative burdens in the European Union. The results of Government’s measurement exercise were published on 11 December 2006 alongside 500 simplification proposals which, based on the data, should lead to an estimated reduction in administrative burdens of £2 billion.

Futurebuilders Scheme

Tim Loughton: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if she will list the grants paid out under the Futurebuilders scheme; and what the amount was of each. [105511]

Edward Miliband: Futurebuilders investments are primarily loans-based. However, investment packages may include a grant element for capacity building or development.

To date 179 organisations have been offered Futurebuilders investments totalling over £68 million. Of this, £55 million has been offered as loan funding and £13 million as grant funding.

Investee organisations have so far drawn down a mixture of grant and loan funding totalling £15.9 million from the overall £68 million. A table showing the breakdown of each investment package and sums drawn down has been placed in the Library for the reference of Members.

Futurebuilders England (FBE) seeks consent from all of the organisations that it funds to publicise their investment. In some cases (those referred to numerically) this consent has not been given as yet either because the deal is still being discussed with the investee and has not yet been accepted, or because the
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organisation has specifically asked that FBE does not publicise their project. Organisations who do not want FBE to publicise their project do so for a number of reasons. For example, they may be in the midst of negotiations to purchase a property and would regard details of the investment as commercially sensitive, or are engaged in sensitive work such as running a women’s refuge and do not want to publicise their work or their location.

Renewable Energy

Charles Hendry: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, column 189W, on renewable energy, what plans her Department has to increase the amount of energy acquired from renewable sources. [109787]

Edward Miliband: The Cabinet Office has exceeded the target set for individual Government Departments to source at least 10 per cent. of electricity from renewable sources by 31 March 2008. There are currently no plans to increase the amount of electricity purchased from renewable sources.

Home Department

Antisocial Behaviour Orders

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued by Humberside police force in the last five years; and how many of them were breached in each year; [103410]

(2) how many people were jailed for the breach of an antisocial behaviour order issued by Humberside police force in the last five years; [103411]

(3) what average number of antisocial behaviour orders was issued by police forces in England and Wales in each of the last five years. [103608]

John Reid: Antisocial behaviour orders are issued by the courts. ASBOs may be issued on application or conviction. Those issued on application may be applied for by the police or other relevant authorities. The available information is given in the tables.


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Table A: Number of ASBOs issued at all courts, as notified to the Home Office by the Court Service, in the Humberside( 1) criminal justice system area, on application and conviction, 1 June 2000( 2) to 30 September 2005 (latest available)
Issued following application by:
Period Police Other applicants Total Issued on conviction Total issued

June-December 2000

9

9

n/a

9

2001

4

4

n/a

4

2002

4

4

4

2003

2

2

4

2

6

2004

14

10

24

42

66

January- September 2005

15

17

32

69

101

Total

40

37

77

113

190

n/a = not applicable
(1) Coterminous with the Humberside police force area.
(2) Prior to this date ASBO data were collected on aggregate numbers only.
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.

Table B: Number of ASBOs issued in Humberside and proven in court to have been breached, as reported to the Home Office, in each year from 1 June 2000( 1) to 30 September 2005
ASBO breached
Period Total issued Total in each year( 1) Persons given a custodial sentence on at least one occasion( 2)

From June 2000(3)

9

1

2001

4

1

2002

4

3

2

2003

6

6

4

2004

66

n/a

n/a

To September 2005

101

n/a

n/a

Total

190

11

6

n/a = not currently available.
(1) An ASBO can be issued in one year and breached in another. Also one of the ASBOs given in the table was breached in two different years and is counted in both.
(2) The year is determined by the occasion of the severest penalty, which may or may not correspond to the occasion of the first breach.
(3) Prior to this date data on ASBO issues were collected on aggregate numbers only. None were reported as being issued in the Humberside police force area during the period.
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.


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Table C: The number and average number of ASBOs issued at all courts in England and Wales, as notified to the Home Office by the Court Service, 1 June 2000( 1) to 30 September 2005 (latest available)
Issued following application by:
Period Police Other applicant Total Issued on conviction Total issued Average number issued( 2)

2000 (June to December)

66

69

135

n/a

135

3

2001

99

224

323

n/a

323

8

2002

140

263

403

1

404

10

2003

133

448

581

462

1,043

25

2004

230

770

1,000

1,668

2,668

64

2005 (January to September)

193

616

809

1,870

2,679

64

Total

861

2,390

3,251

4,001

7,252

173

n/a = not applicable
(1) Prior to this date ASBO data were collected on aggregate numbers only.
(2) Across the 42 criminal justice system areas. Figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
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.

Asylum Seekers

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of asylum seekers who arrived in the United Kingdom between 2005 and 2006 now reside in Scotland. [105986]

Mr. Byrne: The percentage of asylum seekers who arrived in the United Kingdom between 2005 and 2006 who now reside in Scotland is not available and could only be produced at disproportionate cost.

Statistics on the location of asylum seekers in the UK are linked to the available information on the support that the asylum seeker receives. The number of asylum seekers in receipt of support from IND are published on a quarterly and annual basis, broken down by Government Office Region and local authority. The latest publication covering the third quarter of 2006 is available on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics website at:

Further breakdowns by parliamentary constituency are also available from the Library of the House.

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Ugandan nationals have applied for political asylum in the UK in the last 10 years; and how many of these applications have been turned down. [112957]

Mr. Byrne: Information on asylum applications, grants of asylum at initial decision and appeal outcomes for Ugandan nationals is published quarterly and annually. Copies are available from the Library of the House and on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

Information on how many of those applications lodged in the last 10 years have been turned down is not available.

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Ugandan nationals whose applications for asylum in the UK were subsequently turned down had indicated during the application process that they belonged to the opposition Forum for Democratic Change. [112958]


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