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Janet Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to deport Mr. Azal Mohammed Ibrahim, an Iraqi Kurd convicted of causing the death of a child by careless driving. [125472]
Mr. Byrne: I am not able to comment publicly on individual cases within the House.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people living in the United Kingdom were not UK citizens in each of the last five years. [124069]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 28 February 2007]: The requested information is not available.
However, the labour force survey has been used to estimate take-up rates of British citizenship and these entail some estimates of the number of non-British citizens in the UK; these are published in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin Persons Granted British Citizenship United Kingdom, 2005, which may be obtained from the Library of the House and from the Home Office website at:
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people were convicted of (a) domestic burglary and (b) drug offences in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the north-east and (iv) England and Wales in each year since 1997; [126303]
(2) how many people were convicted of serious violent crime offences in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England and Wales in each year since 1997; [126310]
(3) how many people were convicted of violent crime offences in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the north-east and (d) England and Wales in each year since 1997. [126315]
Mr. Coaker:
Data from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform
for the number of people convicted at all courts of burglary, drug, and violent crime offences in South Tyneside, the north-east and England and Wales, 2001 to 2005 can be found in the table.
From the court proceedings database it is not possible to identify those offenders in the Jarrow constituency, as the data are not collected at this level of detail.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many independent bodies existed to hear appeals on decisions made by his Department and its executive agencies in (a) 1997-98, (b) 2001-02 and (c) 2005-06; and how many there have been in 2006-07 to date. [121666]
Mr. Byrne: The following independent bodies existed to hear appeals on decisions made by the Home Office or its executive agencies:
(i) immigration adjudicators under the Immigration Appeals Act 1969
(ii) the Immigration Appeals Tribunal under the Immigration Appeals Act 1969
(iii) the Policy and Advisory Board for Forensic Pathology in relation to disciplinary proceedings against forensic pathologists on the Home Office register
(iv) persons appointed to hear representations against proposed decisions in relation to licences under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
(i)-(iv) the four bodies mentioned above
(v) the Special Immigration Appeals Commission under the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997
(vi) Asylum Support Adjudicators under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
(vii) the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission under the Terrorism Act 2000
(viii) the Pathogens Access Appeal Commission, set up under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001
(i) the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004
(ii) the Appeals Panel of the Home Office Forensic Pathology Council
(iii)-(vii) the five bodies mentioned at (iv) to (viii) above
(d) in 2006-07, the seven bodies mentioned under (c) above.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of staff awarded special bonus scheme bonuses since 2003-04 worked on (a) foreign prisoner release, (b) prison building, (c) updating data from foreign police records, (d) identity card assessments, (e) the sex offenders' register and (f) police force mergers. [121397]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of time was between (a) tribunal rejection of applications to remain by asylum seekers and (b) rejection of human rights appeals and deportation or departure. [118291]
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.
Clare Short: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when George Barango, Ref: B401610, a constituent of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, will receive a notice of decision on his application made on 8 October 1999. [124764]
Mr. Byrne: The Immigration and Nationality Directorate wrote to my hon. Friend on 6 March 2007 with the information requested.
Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the procedure is for reporting cases of suspected fraudulent sales on the internet; how many investigations have taken place into allegations of such fraud; how many prosecutions in which all proceedings are complete have taken place; and what the outcome was of such prosecutions. [128733]
Mr. Coaker: The National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) and Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) govern the recording of crime in England and Wales. These are publicly available documents and can be found at:
The police deal with reports of incidents in accordance with the General Principles of NCRS which state:
All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties and whether crime related or not, will result in the registration of an incident report by police.
Following the initial registration, an incident will be recorded as a crime (Notifiable offence) if, on the balance of probability:
(a) the circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law (the police will determine this, based on their knowledge of the law and counting rules), and (b) there is no credible evidence to the contrary.
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