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Convention on the Rights of the Child

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.

Criminal Records

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.

Departmental Expenditure

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)
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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]


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Mr. Byrne: The Information requested is set out in the following table.


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Policy/Programme Project Name/ID Project Description, Scope and the Key Elements/Sublevels Original Planned Cost (£ million) Current estimated cost (£ million)( 1)

NOMS

NOMIS

National Offender Management Information System for the Prison service

200.00

200.00

IND 5 year Strategy

CID

Support and maintenance of existing casework system, and adaptation to developing business requirements

70.00

66.00

IND 5 year Strategy

CID TR

Redesign of existing casework system to facilitate support and maintenance, and adaptation to developing business requirements

36.00

Project now subsumed into other CID project

IND 5year Strategy

Biometric Residence Permits

Introduction of new format EU residence permits. Part of CID Project.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

e-Borders

e-Borders procurement

Involves the procurement and implementation of solution to capture and analyse passenger information in advance of arrival into/departure from the UK and alert the appropriate Border Control Agencies of high risk passengers. Also replaces the current WI system used to support clearance into the UK & watchlisting of visa applications.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

IND 5 year Strategy

IBIP

Key enabler for introduction of biometric-based identification "documents"

64.00

64.00

IND 5 year Strategy

ePassports (readers)

Provision of readers for new format passports. Sub-project within IBIP

9.00

1.40

IND 5 year Strategy

Identity Management (Fingerprint Recognition)

Major expansion of capacity of existing fingerprint recognition system. Sub-project within IBIP.

11.00

Project now subsumed into another multi-agency project

IND 5 year Strategy

Warnings Index Portfolio

Warnings Index Tech Refresh, Warnings Index Support Procurement

32.00

28.50

IND 5 year Strategy

WITR

Warnings Index Tech Refresh. Sub-project of Warnings Index Portfolio

21.00

14.50

IND 5 year Strategy

WISP

Warnings Index Support Procurement. Sub-project of Warnings Index Portfolio

11.00

14.00

Bichard Implementation

Home Office IMPACT Programme

Improves ability of police service to manage and share operational information to prevent and detect crime. Constituent projects: INI (IMPACT Nominal Index), IMPACTCRISP (IMPACT Cross Regional Information Sharing Project) and PND (Police National Database). Costs are From 2005-6 to 2015-16 including post-implementation costs

367.00

357.00

IND

Mycroft

Provides a secure networked intelligence system that delivers timely and legally compliant intelligence through the use of IT

65.00

42.00

IND

Points-Based system

Provides an automated points based system for assessing and deciding certain applications for leave to enter/remain in the UK

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

Corporate Services

Adelphi

Finance, HR and procurement system for core HO

68.00

59.00

Corporate Services

EDRM

Records management

55.00

45.00

OCJR

CJS Exchange

Tri-laterally funded under OCJR. Exchange hub for data sharing across the CJS

240.00 over 10 years

260.00 over 10 years

| Police ICT

NSPIS Case and Custody

Electronic custody suite and case files

249.00 to April 2008. Note that this figure covers the cost of delivering the programme only. It does not include maintenance costs until April 2013. The figure of £364 million provided in response to PQ 86109 in July 2006 included all of these maintenance costs.

259

(1)This table provides the most up to date and reliable figures programmes/projects requested available for the

Departments: Ministerial Statements

Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department’s 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:

Departments: Public Expenditure

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 Department’s expenditure on advertising, refreshments and stationery in each of the last two years was:

£ million
2005-06 2006-07

Advertising

15.83

10.64

Refreshments

1.13

1.25

Stationery

6.58

7.02


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.

Electronic Tagging

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.

Firearms: Crime

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.


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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

Avon and Somerset

12

1

10

3

Bedfordshire

4

1

1

1

Cambridgeshire

5

Cheshire

12

4

2

Cleveland

8

3

Cumbria

4

1

Derbyshire

7

6

4

Devon and Cornwall

11

2

1

Dorset

5

1

2

Durham

6

6

1

Essex

22

6

Gloucestershire

3

2

Greater Manchester

62

3

30

15

Hampshire

11

1

6

1

Hertfordshire

6

1

5

1

Humberside

11

5

1

Kent

15

2

5

Lancashire

7

8

1

Leicestershire

12

2

6

2

Lincolnshire

5

3

London(1)

162

36

116

61

Merseyside

41

9

22

10

Norfolk

10

4

3

Northamptonshire

5

1

7

3

Northumbria

28

3

5

1

North Yorkshire

4

Nottinghamshire

17

2

10

4

South Yorkshire

14

3

10

7

Staffordshire

8

3

Suffolk

5

1

5

Surrey

6

2

1

Sussex

11

7

1

Thames Valley

16

4

2

Warwickshire

7

1

West Mercia

9

3

1

West Midlands

46

5

22

9

West Yorkshire

39

3

9

4

Wiltshire

3

2

1

Dyfed-Powys

4

1

Gwent

3

1

North Wales

7

3

South Wales

13

6

1

Total

686

76

353

142

(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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