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Home Department

Alcoholic Drinks: Young People

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding has been allocated to the Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol campaign to be launched in May. [128217]

Mr. Coaker: Total funding available for allocation to the Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol Campaign is £1.2 million. Police basic command units that intend to participate (in partnership with Trading Standards) must complete a bid form to be entitled to funding, payable on proof of completion of the operations undertaken.

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what performance measures he plans to use to assess the Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol campaign. [128218]

Mr. Coaker: The Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol campaign is likely to result in the issuing of penalty notices for disorder and additionally licence
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reviews and prosecutions for the illegal sale of alcohol to minors. Details of these will be recorded and analysed centrally. Informal qualitative feedback will also be considered. Test purchase failure rates will not be used as an overall generic indicator of performance, as the campaign specifically aims to target problem premises, selected at the discretion of local enforcement agencies. Local police commanders and partnerships will use the results of the activity to focus their efforts and resources on key local hot spots.

Antisocial Behaviour

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 28 February 2007, Official Report, column 1351W, on anti-social behaviour; what criteria the Government plan to use to determine whether an area is eligible for respect zone funding. [128663]

(2) how much has been allocated to respect zones for 2006-07; and how much each participating Government Department contributed towards such funding. [128667]

Mr. Coaker: Respect Areas were confirmed on 22 January 2007. The only additional funding which is currently available in return for securing Respect Area status, is access to up to £125,000 from the Department for Education and Skills to help improve parenting programmes linked to tackling antisocial behaviour. This funding is available for 2007-08 only.

Respect Areas have been identified from a longer list of 77 areas with significant challenges, based on an index of data covering rates of deprivation, public perceptions of antisocial behaviour, teenage pregnancy, truancy and use of antisocial behaviour orders. The 40 Respect Areas have been identified as having a track record in taking action to tackle antisocial behaviour and have demonstrated a commitment and capacity to do more.

Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Custodial Treatment

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders occurred in 2006; and how many of these ended in custodial detention. [122462]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 22 February 2007]: ASBO breach data are currently available up to 31 December 2005 only. Data for 2006 are expected to be available later this year.

Asylum

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his estimate is of the number of failed asylum seekers (a) living in the UK and (b) who were living in the UK in each of the last five years. [124070]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 28 February 2007]: As the Home Secretary set out in his evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 23 May 2006, no
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Government have been able to produce an accurate figure for the number of people who are in the country illegally, and that remains the case.

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time was between final refusal and deportation for asylum seekers who exhausted all avenues of appeal in the latest period for which figures are available. [110846]

Mr. Byrne: Since the abolition of embarkation controls in 1994 we cannot assess with any certainty the numbers of people who remain in the UK. In this context it is very difficult to provide an accurate average time it may take to remove those who have no right to remain here.

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers his Department has recorded as missing from their last registered address in each of the last five years. [111220]

Mr. Byrne: The information could be provided only by individual examination of case records and the cost of obtaining it would therefore be disproportionate.

Asylum: Deportation

Mr. Mullin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which countries failed asylum seekers were returned in 2006; and how many were returned in each case. [124854]

Mr. Byrne: The following table shows provisional figures rounded to the nearest five of persons who had claimed asylum at some stage who were removed from the United Kingdom in 2006, by destination.

Information on asylum removals, including and excluding dependants, is published quarterly and annually. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

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Removals and voluntary departures( 1 ) of asylum( ) applicants, by destination, 2006( 2,3)
		Of whom:
Destination( 4)	Total asylum seekers removed	Principle asylum applicants	Dependants of asylum applicants
Albania	1,345	1,250	95
Macedonia	25	20	5
Moldova	55	45	5
Romania	380	245	135
Russia	110	75	35
Serbia and Montenegro	855	770	85
Turkey	1,695	1,590	105
Ukraine	105	90	20
EU Accession States	175	165	10
Other Former USSR	220	175	45
Europe other	2,035	1,885	150
Europe total	7,005	6,310	690
Colombia	210	170	40
Ecuador	100	70	30
Jamaica	430	365	65
Americas other	200	145	55
Americas total	940	750	190
Algeria	300	210	90
Angola	125	95	30
Burundi	10	5	*
Cameroon	45	40	*
Congo	65	60	10
Democratic Republic of Congo	115	105	10
Eritrea	*	*	.
Ethiopia	85	80	5
Gambia	70	70	*
Ghana	170	155	15
Ivory Coast	35	30	5
Kenya	135	120	15
Liberia	20	15	5
Nigeria	690	635	55
Rwanda	15	15	*
Sierra Leone	90	90	5
Somalia	45	40	5
Sudan	75	75	*
Tanzania	60	50	10
Uganda	230	220	15
Zimbabwe	270	220	50
Africa other	325	265	60
Africa total	2,980	2,590	385
Iran	475	420	55
Iraq	1,775	1,725	50
Libya	45	35	15
Syria	55	40	15
Middle East other	330	250	80
Middle East total	2,680	2,470	210
Afghanistan	970	965	5
Bangladesh	250	240	10
China	270	270	5
India	550	510	40
Pakistan	1,190	870	320
Sri Lanka	695	655	40
Vietnam	140	130	10
Asia other	475	410	65
Asia total	4,540	4,045	495
Nationality not known/other	90	80	10
Grand total	18,235	16,250	1,985
(1 )Includes persons departing ‘voluntarily’ after enforcement action had been initiated against them, persons leaving under the Assisted Voluntary Return Programme run by the International Organisation for Migration, and those who it is established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. (2 )Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5 with * = 1 or 2. Data may not sum due to rounding. (3. )Provisional figures (4 )Destination data as recorded on source database.

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