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Issues and Focus Magazines

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library copies of the last 10 editions of (a) Issues magazine and (b) Focus magazine. [109838]

Mr. Byrne: Copies of the last 10 issues of Focus magazine will be placed in the Library.

The Home Office is not aware of the Issues magazine referred to in the question.

Members: Correspondence

Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when officials in the Immigration and Nationality Directive will reply to the letter of 14 June 2006 from the right hon. Member for Birmingham Ladywood on behalf of Shelley Riley (née Morgan), Home Office Reference M1047313. [119797]

Mr. Byrne: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 12 February 2007.

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will reply to the letter of 15 December 2006 from the hon. Member for North Down on the deportation of Vietnamese children from the United Kingdom. [120926]

Mr. Byrne: My hon. Friend, the Under-Secretary of State for Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration, Joan Ryan, has replied on 7 February 2007 on my behalf.

Ministry of Defence Police: Colchester

Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the potential effect of reductions in Ministry of Defence policing at Colchester on the (a) workload of the Essex police and (b) community safety in the Colchester and Tendring police sub-division; and if he will make a statement. [110636]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 23 January 2007]: These are matters for the chief constable of Essex police.

Naturalisation: English Language

Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to apply the English language requirement in the process of naturalisation as a British citizen under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. [121234]

Mr. Byrne: Since November 2005, people seeking naturalisation as British Citizens have had to pass a test of their knowledge of the UK which requires English proficiency to the standard of English for Speakers of
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Other Languages (ESOL) Entry 3 level; or alternatively to complete successfully an ESOL course using specially developed citizenship materials.

Offenders: Deportation

Mr. Meale: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been deported from the UK because of visa irregularities since 5 May 2005. [119067]

Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not available; it would be available by examination of individual records only at disproportionate cost.

Published statistics on immigration and asylum are available on the Home Office’s Research Development and Statistics website at:

Police: Gloucestershire

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers per capita population there were in Gloucestershire in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [121989]

Mr. McNulty: The available data are given in the following table.

Data are taken from Home Office Statistical Bulletin series; Police Service Strength, England and Wales.

Police officers per 100.000 of the population for Gloucestershire police force, as at 31 March 1997 to 31 March 2006 (FTE)( 1)
Police officers

31 March 1997

205

31 March 1998

198

31 March 1999

197

31 March 2000

200

31 March 2001

209

31 March 2002

209

31 March 2003

219

31 March 2004

229

31 March 2005

230

31 March 2006

228

(1) Full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Figures up to 31 March 2002 exclude staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. The figures for 31 March 2003 onwards figures include those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave.

Prisons

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prisoners were housed in open prisons in each year since 2000, broken down by (a) category recommended for each prisoner upon beginning their sentence and (b) length of sentence (i) originally handed down and (ii) remaining when transferred to open prison; [117740]

(2) how many prisoners housed in open prisons in each year since 2000 were originally convicted of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) robbery, (d) manslaughter, (e) sexual assault, (f) non-fatal criminal assault with knives and bladed instruments, (g) possession with intent to supply drugs, (h) simple possession of drugs, (i) grievous bodily harm with intent, (j) grievous bodily harm, (k) actual bodily harm and (l) assault. [117741]


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Mr. Sutcliffe: Information on the numbers of prisoners in prison establishments in England and Wales detained in open prisons in each year since 2002, by:

Comprehensive information on the sentence time remaining at the date of transfer to open prison is not held centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost; information on the numbers of prisoners by the categories of offence listed is not available because the numbers are small and the accuracy at this level of detail cannot be guaranteed.

The figures provided have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, and the figures have been rounded.

Immediate custodial sentenced population in open prisons( 1) by offence group on 30 June 2002-06
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

All

4,300

4,600

4,600

4,600

4,000

Violence against the person

1,060

1,160

1,260

1,270

1,090

Sexual offences

50

40

50

50

50

Robbery

360

450

430

430

390

Burglary

480

480

400

350

310

Theft and handling

450

340

330

290

260

Fraud and forgery

380

340

310

360

310

Drug offences

810

1,040

1,230

1,250

1,090

Motoring offences

280

280

210

210

130

Other offences

370

360

350

340

320

Offence not recorded

70

70

50

40

30

(1) Open prisons are those stated on the prison service annual report (Ford, Hewell Grange, Hollesley Bay, Kirkham, Leyhill, North Sea Camp, Standford Hill, Sudbury, Askham Grange, East Sutton Park and Thorn Cross) and Moorland Open, Frescoed and Spring Hill. It does not include semi-open prisons.
Data sources and quality:
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so although shown to the last individual, the figure may not be accurate.


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Immediate custodial sentenced population in open prisons( 1) by sentence length on 30th June 2002-06
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

All

4,300

4,600

4,600

4,600

4,000

Less than or equal to 6 months

430

410

330

350

210

Greater than 6 months to less than 12 months

220

170

180

170

140

12 months to less than 4 years

1,920

1,740

1,490

1,500

1,270

4 years or more (excluding indeterminate sentences)

1,290

1,790

2,160

2,100

1,940

Indeterminate sentences

440

450

460

450

410

(1) Open prisons are those stated on the prison service annual report (Ford, Hewell Grange, Hollesley Bay, Kirkham, Leyhill, North Sea Camp, Standford Hill, Sudbury, Askham Grange, East Sutton Park and Thorn Cross) and Moorland Open, Frescoed and Spring Hill. It does not include semi-open prisons.
Data sources and quality:
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so although shown to the last individual, the figure may not be accurate to that.

Immediate custodial sentenced population in open prisons( 1) by security category of prisoner on 30 June, 2002-06
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

All

4,300

4,600

4,600

4,600

4,000

A

0

0

0

0

0

B

10

0

10

10

0

C

110

110

230

270

280

D

3,370

3,840

3,760

3,710

3,180

Other

800

600

610

570

510

(1) Open prisons are those stated on the prison service annual report (Ford, Hewell Grange, Hollesley Bay, Kirkham, Leyhill, North Sea Camp, Standford Hill, Sudbury, Askham Grange, East Sutton Park and Thorn Cross) and Moorland Open, Prescoed and Spring Hill. It does not include semi-open prisons.
Data sources and quality:
These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system, and so although shown to the last individual, the figure may not be accurate to that level. These figures have been rounded.

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