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Departments: Vetting

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what checks are made of the membership of, and affiliation to, extremist groups of those employed by his Department. [124524]

Mr. Byrne: All staff joining the Home Office require security clearance, and the level at which this is carried out is dependent on particular roles and responsibilities.

Staff are security cleared to Enhanced Baseline Standard level and some are additionally cleared at a higher level—Counter Terrorist Checks, Security Check or Developed Vetting. Where a higher level check is carried out an individual is asked to complete a questionnaire which asks about involvement in terrorism, sabotage or actions intended to overthrow or undermine Parliament by political, industrial or violent means. Where Developed Vetting is carried out—the highest level check—there is a mandatory face-to-face interview where these questions are put to individuals again and may be explored.

If at any stage of the vetting process, or subsequently, information comes to light that a person has any affiliations which give cause for concern, full inquiries are made and appropriate steps taken. These could include refusal or withdrawal of clearance or even dismissal. Against the background of these checks, it would be redundant to ask Home Office staff to declare membership of extremist organisations.

Domestic Violence: Edmonton

Mr. Love: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded instances of (a) domestic violence towards women and (b) trafficked women there were in Edmonton constituency in 2006. [140755]

Mr. Coaker: From the information collected centrally on recorded crime, it is not possible to identify recorded cases of domestic violence. Such offences are not specifically defined by law and details of the individual circumstances of offences are not collected.

The offence of trafficking for sexual exploitation was introduced by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and was implemented in May 2004. Edmonton comes within the Enfield basic command unit and there were two offences of trafficking for sexual exploitation recorded by the police in Enfield in 2005-06.

Driving Under Influence: Breathalysers

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drink driving tests have been carried out by each police force in each of the last 10 years. [140771]

Mr. Coaker: The information requested can be found in the following table.


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Screening breath tests by police force area, 1995 to 2004
Total tests
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Avon and Somerset

6,700

15,100

16,000

19,700

19,200

15,800

15,400

15,100

24,500

27,300

Bedfordshire

6,100

6,400

6,000

5,300

2,900

3,300

4,200

6,200

6,600

7,800

Cambridgeshire

16,300

16,200

19,100

17,800

13,600

12,800

12,700

13,000

12,300

12,300

Cheshire

15,300

21,300

25,500

23,300

20,500

15,800

13,600

12,200

11,900

20,200

Cleveland

28,200

26,100

31,600

34,200

28,600

18,800

14,100

11,000

8,700

8,100

Cumbria

7,800

9,800

11,200

9,400

7,100

6,100

5,100

4,700

5,500

8,400

Derbyshire

20,500

28,600

34,500

35,700

49,200

52,000

42,100

37,900

32,600

31,000

Devon and Cornwall

6,800

9,100

15,200

15,700

14,700

13,000

13,500

12,600

10,900

10,700

Dorset

5,800

7,400

9,100

10,100

9,200

12,300

10,400

10,400

8,500

7,000

Durham

4,500

4,100

4,300

7,400

12,700

15,300

16,300

9,500

7,600

6,100

Essex

27,700

32,400

28,700

28,400

24,100

27,200

18,900

16,100

15,500

25,300

Gloucestershire

5,200

7,000

9,400

9,300

8,300

8,200

9,600

9,300

8,600

7,100

Greater Manchester(1)

102,400

100,400

35,500

31,200

21,500

27,300

23,900

23,200

20,900

19,900

Hampshire

17,000

18,200

25,000

27,300

31,600

35,200

35,200

35,200

37,500

38,400

Hertfordshire

6,400

5,900

7,400

8,100

7,000

6,000

5,500

4,300

4,000

7,300

Humberside

8,900

7,500

6,500

8,300

8,100

9,400

7,500

8,700

6,500

5,600

Kent

9,200

8,100

9,100

27,500

32,700

32,200

32,200

34,200

24,600

32,000

Lancashire

15,900

26,100

21,300

20,300

19,100

15,500

10,000

10,600

8,000

10,200

Leicestershire

11,700

10,300

10,200

20,200

21,100

18,600

14,900

14,500

12,000

15,400

Lincolnshire

15,600

15,800

20,200

25,900

21,000

12,100

13,600

9,000

12,100

11,300

London, City of

3,300

4,500

3,600

3,300

1,700

1,100

1,100

1,400

1,200

700

Merseyside

15,300

15,900

14,800

18,700

18,600

12,800

7,200

7,000

7,700

5,000

Metropolitan Police

123,300

123,000

137,900

111,400

99,800

93,800

65,100

57,200

56,000

61,500

Norfolk

4,200

5,500

9,200

12,400

11,600

9,100

9,100

5,300

4,000

4,800

Northamptonshire

5,100

7,400

7,100

4,700

5,300

5,800

4,500

3,300

3,100

3,200

Northumbria

5,800

8,400

11,900

12,200

12,500

12,700

12,400

11,800

11,100

9,800

North Yorkshire

4,800

7,800

10,500

9,900

8,100

6,700

7,400

7,300

8,300

8,600

Nottinghamshire

5,700

9,300

11,500

8,900

8,400

8,400

7,700

5,800

7,100

8,200

South Yorkshire

11,000

13,300

14,200

12,600

16,100

19,200

18,000

14,400

12,100

6,500

Staffordshire

6,300

9,700

13,800

15,400

10,100

7,700

4,700

5,300

5,100

13,700

Suffolk

7,500

8,200

12,300

15,600

15,100

9,200

8,600

8,900

11,600

10,600

Surrey

9,300

11,200

11,200

11,400

11,700

12,400

13,300

7,500

8,900

9,500

Sussex

15,900

24,300

26,100

17,400

17,900

20,800

21,800

17,300

17,200

15,200

Thames Valley

47,200

39,700

33,100

34,200

30,300

30,800

26,200

25,300

16,000

15,400

Warwickshire

8,200

9,200

8,700

8,700

8,600

7,100

5,800

5,100

5,800

5,500

West Mercia

19,900

18,100

18,300

19,100

12,300

8,900

9,100

8,200

6,300

8,000

West Midlands

9,100

19,500

22,600

24,100

21,300

16,200

12,200

10,500

11,000

6,600

West Yorkshire

15,800

19,500

23,300

22,900

18,800

18,300

17,200

16,700

14,200

16,900

Wiltshire

10,000

6,300

7,400

7,100

6,800

6,500

5,900

5,900

5,900

7,400

Dyfed-Powys

5,000

5,900

8,500

9,200

9,900

7,400

7,000

7,300

6,000

6,700

Gwent

4,900

9,300

12,200

11,200

10,600

10,100

6,400

3,800

2,800

1,600

North Wales

14,900

14,900

13,300

15,200

15,900

15,000

15,100

19,600

17,300

24,200

South Wales

12,200

14,900

23,100

24,900

20,700

17,800

19,300

17,500

16,900

16,700

Total

702,700

781,100

800,300

815,500

764,500

714,800

623,900

570,200

534,300

577,600

(1) Following the introduction of new breath testing equipment in Greater Manchester in 1998, it became apparent that the total number of tests had been over-estimated in 1997 and adjustments were made. No adjustments for years prior to 1997 were recorded.
Note:
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 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.
Source:
Breath Tests Statistical Collection, held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

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