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Azal Mohammed Ibrahim

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.

British Nationality

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:

Burglary: Drugs

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
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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.


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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.

Number of persons convicted in the North East region for certain offence types, 1997 to 2005( 1, 2)
North East
Offence type 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Violent crime(3)

2,929

3,145

3,104

2,885

2,993

3,109

2,968

2,908

3,107

Serious violent crime(4)

830

817

734

562

500

557

534

491

472

Burglary in a dwelling and aggravated burglary in a dwelling(5)

1,474

1,423

1,307

1,004

1,091

1,206

1,007

790

776

Drug offences

1,526

2,194

2,528

2,773

3,340

3,624

3,816

2,687

2,759

Total

6,759

7,579

7,673

7,224

7,924

8,496

8,325

6,876

7,114

(1) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
(3) Violent crime includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery.
(4) Serious violent crime includes: murder, attempted murder, threat or conspiracy to murder, manslaughter, infanticide, causing death by dangerous driving, manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, causing death by dangerous driving when under the influence of drink or drugs, causing death by aggravated vehicle taking, wounding or other act endangering life, and endangering railway passengers.
(5) Domestic burglary: burglary in a dwelling and aggravated burglary in a dwelling (including attempts).
Source:
RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Number of persons convicted in England and Wales for certain offence types, 1997 to 2005( 1, 2, 3)
England and Wales
Offence type 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Violent crime(4)

44,674

47,159

45,630

45,104

46,163

49,803

49,694

51,415

52,820

Serious violent crime(5)

8771

8271

7729

7138

7178

7566

7013

6911

6510

Burglary in a dwelling and aggravated burglary in a dwelling(6)

17,870

17,306

16,387

14,471

13,684

14,622

14,540

13,503

12,820

Drug offences

40,666

48,821

48,711

44,621

45,621

49,036

51,162

39,197

39,090

Total

111,981

121,557

118/157

111,334

112,646

121,027

122,409

111,026

111,240

(1) These data are on the principal offence basis.
(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
(3) Staffordshire police force were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter for 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this high level of analysis.
(4) Violent crime includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery.
(5) Serious violent crime includes: murder, attempted murder, threat or conspiracy to murder, manslaughter, infanticide, causing death by dangerous driving, manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, causing death by dangerous driving when under the influence of drink or drugs, causing death by aggravated vehicle taking, wounding or other act endangering life, and endangering railway passengers.
(6) Domestic burglary: burglary in a dwelling and aggravated burglary in a dwelling (including attempts).
Source:
RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Departments: Appeals

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:

(a) in 1997-98, four:

(b) in 2001-02, eight:

(c) in 2005-06, seven:


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(d) in 2006-07, the seven bodies mentioned under (c) above.

Departments: Pay

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.

Deportation

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.

Entry Clearances

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.

Fraud: Internet

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:


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The police deal with reports of incidents in accordance with the General Principles of NCRS which state:


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