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Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of withdrawing the UK's reservation to the UN convention on the rights of the child. [141141]
Mr. Byrne: We have reviewed the need to retain this Reservation a number of times. Our own legal advice is that effective immigration control would be compromised were we to withdraw this Reservation.
Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the review of his Department's systems in relation to the recording of crimes committed abroad will be completed. [141135]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Secretary has asked Sir Ian Magee to undertake a review of the ways in which information about criminality is recorded, used and shared for public protection purposes.
It will be a two stage process and the overall duration will be determined once the first stage has been completed. That first stage will be brisk and will focus on scoping the problems, assessing what deficiencies there are and where they lie. The second stage will constitute the substance of the work and will concentrate on conclusions and recommendations for improving the relevant systems.
The review will take account of the report of the inquiry into the handling of overseas convictions. Whatever the review recommends, we will only be able to reduce risks rather than remove them altogether.
Dr. Cable:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the original predicted cost was for the (a) CJS Exchange, (b) EDRM, (c) Adelphi , (d) immigration and nationality directorate's points based system, (e) Mycroft, (f) NSPIS Case and Custody, (g) IMPACT Nominal Index, (h) Cross Regional Information Sharing Project (CRISP), (i) WITR, (j) WISP, (k) Warnings Index Portfolio, (l)
Identity Management, (m) ePassports, (n) Biometric residence permits, (o) IBIP, (p) e-Borders procurement, (q) CIDTR, (r) identity cards, (s) CID and (t) NOMIS IT projects. [108115]
Mr. Byrne: The Information requested is set out in the following table.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Departments policy is on the announcing of statements to the media; and if he will make a statement. [140189]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 4 June 2007]: Statements to the media are made in line with the Ministerial Code and Cabinet Office propriety guidance provided by the Government Communications Network (GCN). I have arranged for a copy of the recently revised guidance to be placed within the House Library.
This guidance can also be accessed online via the following weblink:
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on (a) advertising, (b) refreshments and (c) stationery by his Department in each year since 2005. [137023]
John Reid: The Departments expenditure on advertising, refreshments and stationery in each of the last two years was:
£ million | ||
2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
The numbers for advertising include expenditure on publicity and the numbers for refreshments are a combination of refreshments and working lunches. To show advertising and refreshments separately could be done only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the merits of deploying human radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchipping; what meetings he has held on such microchipping; what representations he has received from civil liberties groups on RFID microchipping; and if he will make a statement. [141784]
Mr. Sutcliffe: I have been asked to reply.
We have looked into the merits of deploying this technology in the past but we have not seen any evidence that it would work successfully.
On that basis there have been no representations received by stakeholders from civil liberties groups as there is currently no intention of using this technology.
Instead, a pilot for the use of satellite tracking technology to monitor the compliance of offenders who are subject to exclusion conditions, and to monitor offenders' whereabouts as a condition of a licence on release from prison, took place from September 2004 until June 2006. The pilots are currently the subject of a comprehensive review and an independent evaluation, the results of which are due out later this year.
Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many individuals in each police force area (a) were convicted and (b) received upon conviction a minimum five-year sentence for possessing an illegal firearm in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement; [121512]
(2) how many individuals in each constituency (a) were convicted and (b) received upon conviction a minimum five-year sentence for possessing an illegal firearm in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [121514]
Mr. Coaker: The minimum five year sentence applies only to persons aged 18 or over and came into force for offences committed from 22 January 2004. The information requested, relating to England and Wales for the years 2004 and 2005, is shown in the following table. Information for 2006 will be available in the autumn.
Court proceedings data cannot easily be related to constituency areas as they are collected by police force area and local justice area.
Persons aged 18 and over sentenced and those sentenced to mandatory 5 year term (or over) for possession of firearms, by police force area, England and Wales | ||||
2004 | 2005 | |||
Police force area | Total persons sentenced | 5 year + custodial term | Total persons sentenced | 5 year + custodial term |
(1) Metropolitan and City of London police forces Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: RDS-NOMS, Home Office |
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