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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
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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 HMICs 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 Majestys 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.
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
|
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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
|
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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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