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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.
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.
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.
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
Other Languages (ESOL) Entry 3 level; or alternatively to complete successfully an ESOL course using specially developed citizenship materials.
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 Offices Research Development and Statistics website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
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 | |
(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. |
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]
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:
(i) offence group;
(ii) original sentence length; and
(iii) security category, can be found in the following tables.
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 | |
(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. |
Immediate custodial sentenced population in open prisons( 1) by security category of prisoner on 30 June, 2002-06 | |||||
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
(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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