Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
25 Jan 2007 : Column 2010Wcontinued
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his most recent estimate is of the likely duration of the Temporary International Mechanism. [110621]
Hilary Benn: The Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) was most recently extended by the Quartet (EU, US, UN, Russia) until March 2007. The TIM is expected to remain in place for long as it is needed or until the situation in the Palestinian territory changes significantly.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the total amount of food spoilage from UNICEF stocks was in 2006. [117110]
Mr. Thomas: UNICEF does not hold food stocks.
Mr. Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps he is taking to seek progress on productive negotiations on the development aspects of world trade talks. [110873]
Hilary Benn: We welcome the recently renewed discussions on Doha and are working closely with EU member states, the US and other World Trade Organisation (WTO) members at all levels to help break the deadlock in negotiations. We continue to encourage all parties to show flexibility in their approach and are continuing to push for progress on the issues of greatest concern to developing countries, especially improved market access and a reduction in trade-distorting subsidies.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people arrested in 2005-06 were on bail. [115305]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested is not available centrally.
This information is held locally however and is one of the factors that can be considered by the courts when deciding whether or not to grant bail in a particular case.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many referrals to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of British prisoners (a) released and (b) deported from abroad have been made by the Consular Division of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in each of the last five years. [116275]
Dr. Howells: I have been asked to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) on 15 January 2007, Official Report, column 830W, and 19 January 2007, Official Report, column 1405W.
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers there are in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency. [110465]
Mr. McNulty: Data for police strength by constituency area are not collected centrally as part of the police statistics series. Data for police community support officer (PCSO) strength by Basic Command Unit (BCD) are available. As at 30 June 2005 there were 32 PCSOs in the Northern Division BCD of Lancashire police.
These data are published by the Police Human Resources Unit and can be downloaded from the following link:
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/community-policing/CSO_numbers_June_2005.pdf
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fully qualified and substantive Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers completed CID training courses in each police force in each of the last 10 years. [117178]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 23 January 2007]: This information is not collected by the Home Office. The training of officers for particular duties is a matter for chief officers.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure that the national guidance laid down by his Department on language service professionals for deaf people in the criminal justice system results in access to the justice system for deaf people. [115954]
Mr. McNulty: The revised national agreement on the use of interpreters in the Criminal Justice System will give clear guidance on identifying the right mode of access and communication for a deaf person and on finding an appropriate language service professional. The text will be sent to all criminal justice agencies, and it is their responsibility to ensure that the guidance is implemented appropriately.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to create a national single contact register of language service professionals for deaf people available to police constabularies on a 24-hour basis. [115955]
Mr. McNulty:
The Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People already provides a searchable register of language service professionals. The database is available to subscribers on a 24-hour basis. The revised national agreement will provide additional guidance on other sources of language
services professionals to assist in communication with deaf people in the criminal justice system.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to amend the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to define interpreters as regards deaf people to mean those as appropriate to the communication needs of a deaf person, to include language service professionals who are BSL/English interpreters, lipspeakers, deaf blind interpreters and speech to text reporters. [114913]
Mr. McNulty: Section 13 of PACE Code C states that wherever possible, interpreters for the deaf are drawn from the Directory of BSL/English interpreters.
However, we are content to consider amending this Section of PACE Code C in any future revision of the Codes of Practice, and lipspeakers, deaf blind interpreters and speech to text reporters will be added to the Register of Changes which is found on the Home Office PACE Codes web page.
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/operational-policing/powers-pace-codes/pace-code-intro/
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what steps police constabularies are taking to meet their duties to deaf people under the Disability Discrimination Acts and the Disability Equality Duty; [114915]
(2) what assessment he has made of the extent to which delays take place in police stations when a deaf detainee is being processed because of the time taken to find a British Sign Language/English interpreter or lipspeaker; [114917]
(3) if he will take steps to ensure that all language service professionals attending police stations are provided with (a) the Police and Criminal Evidence Act guidelines Code of Practice A-G and (b) other essential documents of police procedure; [114922]
(4) how many people (a) with and (b) without a hearing disability were processed at police stations in the last 12 months. [115956]
Mr. McNulty: This information is not held centrally and is a matter for individual chief police officers.
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/operational-policing/powers-pace-codes/pace-code-intro/.
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the 20 countries to which the largest numbers of people have been deported from the UK in each of the last five years. [116212]
John Reid: The information requested is not currently available and could be obtained by an examination of individual case records only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of the population have their details stored on the national DNA database, broken down by region. [115988]
Joan Ryan: The following table contains details of the individuals from each police force area, held on the National DNA Database as at 31 October 2006, grouped into ACPO regions. It should be noted that the Database shows which force took a DNA sample from the individual concerned, not which force area the person resides in.
Next Section | Index | Home Page |