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Police: Parental Leave

Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers took (a) maternity leave, (b) paternity leave and (c) a career break in each year since 1997. [133272]

Mr. McNulty: The available data is in the table; they are from the 2002-03 financial year onwards and relate to long-term absences as at the end of each financial year.

Police officers (FTE)( 1) on long-term absence as at 31 March 2003 to 31 March 2006( 2)
As at 31 March each year	Maternity leave	Paternity leave	Career break
2003(3)	291	7	626
2004	642	27	750
2005(4)	617	41	867
2006	713	31	1,124
(1) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding these figures may not match published totals. (2 )Data are available from 2002-03 onwards. (3 )Data are not available for Dyfed-Powys, Nottinghamshire, Sussex and West Midlands. (4 )Data are not available for North Wales.

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Police: Telephone Services

Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police authorities did not meet the target time for handling calls from the public under the National Call Handling Standards for (a) urgent and (b) non-urgent calls in the most recent year for which figures are available. [121205]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 12 February 2007]: The target times for answering emergency and non-emergency calls under the National Call Handling Standards is not yet collated nationally, as NCHS has not been fully implemented in all forces.

The HMIC Baseline Assessment in 2006 examined implementation of NCHS and its relationship with the Quality of Service Agreement under 1C Customer Service and Accessibility. The HMIC’s 2007-08 assessment regime will also address this area of work.

Prisoners Release: Acquittals

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what financial and other assistance is available to those who are released from prison having been on remand and are found to be innocent. [133870]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Remand prisoners are eligible for all induction and resettlement programmes within the prisons and are able to access practical support to effectively help them re-integrate back into the community.

Currently there is no financial scheme that covers such prisoners. However, remand prisoners are entitled to travel warrants and in some cases to housing benefit and council tax benefit and mortgage interest for a limited time.

Prisoners: Compensation

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many claims for compensation were made by prisoners at each of Her Majesty’s Prisons and Young Offender Institutions in each year between 1997 and 2007; on what basis each claim was made; how many of these claims were settled out of court; how many were otherwise successful; what the total sum was of compensation paid; and what action was taken by the prison authorities in each case to prevent similar claims in the future. [134450]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Prisoners: Foreigners

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign prisoners there were in prisons in England and Wales on 31 March, broken down by country of origin. [132929]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Information as at the end of February 2007 on the numbers of prisoners by recorded nationality in all prison establishments in England and Wales is given in the following table. This is the latest date for which the information is currently available.

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These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

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Prison population in prison establishments in England and Wales showing all nationalities, February 2007
	Number
Total Prison population	79,581
Unrecorded	879
Total other	less than 50
Aruba	less than 50
United Arab Emirates	less than 50
Afghanistan	96
Anguilla	less than 50
Albania	135
Armenia	less than 50
Netherlands Antilles	less than 50
Angola	90
Argentina	less than 50
Austria	less than 50
Australia	less than 50
Azerbaijan	less than 50
Bosnia-Herzegovina	less than 50
Barbados	less than 50
Bangladesh	171
Belgium	less than 50
Bulgaria	less than 50
Bahrain	less than 50
Burundi	less than 50
Dahomey (Benin)	less than 50
Bermuda	less than 50
Bolivia	less than 50
Brazil	83
Bahamas	less than 50
Burma	less than 50
Botswana	less than 50
Belize	less than 50
Canada	less than 50
Croatia	less than 50
Ivory Coast	less than 50
Central African Republic	less than 50
Congo	112
Switzerland	less than 50
Chile	less than 50
Cameroon, United Republic	less than 50
China	279
Columbia	119
Costa Rica	less than 50
Czech Republic	less than 50
Cuba	less than 50
Cape Verde	less than 50
Cyprus	57
Germany	143
Denmark	less than 50
Dominica	less than 50
Dominican Republic	less than 50
Algeria	198
Estonia	less than 50
Ecuador	less than 50
Egypt	less than 50
Spain	74
Ethiopia	53
French Guyana	less than 50
Finland	less than 50
Fiji	less than 50
France	162
French Southern Territories	less than 50
Grenada	less than 50
Georgia	less than 50
Ghana	211
Gibraltar	less than 50
Gambia	less than 50
Guinea	less than 50
Equatorial Guinea	less than 50
Greece	less than 50
Guatemala	less than 50
Guinea/Bissau	less than 50
Guyana	less than 50
Hong Kong	less than 50
Honduras	less than 50
Haiti	less than 50
Hungary	less than 50
Iran	205
Indonesia	less than 50
Israel	less than 50
India	306
Iraq	288
Irish Republic	666
Italy	113
Jamaica	1,490
Jordan	less than 50
Kazakhstan	less than 50
Kenya	60
Kiribati	less than 50
Kyrgystan	less than 50
Korea Republic of (Sth)	less than 50
Kuwait	less than 50
Lebanon	less than 50
St. Lucia	less than 50
Sri Lanka	167
Lithuania	188
Liberia	less than 50
Latvia	less than 50
Libya	less than 50
Morocco	less than 50
Moldova	less than 50
Macedonia	less than 50
Serbia and Montenegro	92
Mali	less than 50
Mongolia	less than 50
Mauritania	less than 50
Montserrat	less than 50
Malta	less than 50
Mauritius	less than 50
Malawi	less than 50
Mexico	less than 50
Malaysia	less than 50
Mozambique	less than 50
Namibia	less than 50
Niger	less than 50
Nigeria	1,070
Netherlands	147
Norway	less than 50
New Zealand	less than 50
Oman	less than 50
Panama	less than 50
Peru	less than 50
Papua New Guinea	less than 50
Philippines	less than 50
Pakistan	444
Poland	290
Portugal	193
Paraguay	less than 50
Qatar	less than 50
Romania	144
Rwanda	less than 50
Saudi Arabia	less than 50
Seychelles	less than 50
Sudan	less than 50
Sweden	less than 50
Slovakia	less than 50
Singapore	less than 50
St. Christopher and Nevis	less than 50
Sierre Leone	82
Senegal	less than 50
Somalia	348
Slovenia	less than 50
Surinam	less than 50
Russia	116
El Salvador	less than 50
St Kitts and Nevis	less than 50
Syrian Arab Republic	less than 50
Swaziland	less than 50
Chad	less than 50
Togo	less than 50
Thailand	less than 50
Tunisia	less than 50
East Timor (Portuguese)	less than 50
Turkey	228
Trinidad and Tobago	97
Tanzania	less than 50
Uganda	86
United Kingdom	67,459
United States of America	99
Uzbekistan	less than 50
St. Vincent ad The Grenadines	less than 50
Venezuela	less than 50
Vietnam	381
Western Sahara	less than 50
Yemen, Republic of	less than 50
South Africa	201
Zambia	less than 50
Congo, Democratic Republic	less than 50
Zimbabwe	189
Note: For reasons of confidentiality and data integrity numbers under 50 are not shown.

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