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Personation
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what role the Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee has undertaken in relation to the Confidential Access website; and if he will make a statement; [140918]
(2) what recent discussions he has had on the Confidential Access website; [140919]
(3) what categories of information his Department holds on the Confidential Access website. [141617]
Joan Ryan [holding answers 7 and 11 June 2007]: I will write to the hon. Member on these issues.
Police: Career Structure
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were promoted to the rank of chief inspector in each of the last three years; and what proportion were (a) members of an ethnic minority, broken down by ethnic minority, and (b) female. [141352]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 12 June 2007]: The available data are given in the following table.
Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) full-time police officers and (b) police community support officers in each police authority are suspended on full pay as a result of (i) criminal allegations and (ii) other allegations made against them; and if he will make a statement. [141306]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 12 June 2007]: This is a matter for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) who have oversight of the police complaints system.
Police: Finance
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average police precept on Band D council tax bills was in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) England and Wales in (i) 1997-98 and (ii) 2007-08. [142381]
Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to her question on 28 March 2007, Official Report, column 1639W.
Police: Road Traffic
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for roads policing in each police force was in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of the force's total budget each figure represents. [142960]
Mr. Coaker: This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Religiously Aggravated Offences
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported incidents of religion-based hate crimes there have been against victims who were (a) Muslim, (b) Jewish and (c) Christian in the last 12 months. [142824]
Mr. Coaker:
The information requested is not collected centrally in the recorded crime statistics. The crime statistics have data for racially or religiously
aggravated offences as defined by statute but details of the victims of religious-based hate crimes are not available.
Road Traffic Act 1988
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the operation of section 41D of the Road Traffic Act 1988; what representations he has received since this section came into force; and if he will make a statement. [142815]
Mr. Coaker: Section 41D of the Road Traffic Act 1988 was inserted by the Road Safety Act 2006 and came into effect in February 2007. I have received no specific representations on this provision.
Section 41D provides for the punishment of offences relating to construction and use requirements in respect of having proper control of a vehicle and a full view of the road ahead or to use of a hand-held mobile phone or similar device while driving. Breach of any construction and use requirement was already an offence. This section makes specific provision for breach of these particular requirements by introducing a heavier penalty of obligatory endorsement, with disqualification at the court’s discretion if the matter goes to court, or a fixed penalty of £60.
Enforcement of the provision is an operational matter for individual chief officers of police. The likelihood of detection has been increased by the increasing numbers of police, including the deployment on roads of teams involved in the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition equipment (ANPR). They can stop vehicles to deal with offences as the result of direct observation as well as an ANPR hit. The dangers of mobile phone use and the penalties associated with the offence are the subject of a publicity campaign by the Department for Transport.
Sexual Offences
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many sexual offences were committed in each police authority area in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [142151]
Mr. Coaker: The available data relate to sexual offences recorded by the police and are given in the tables.
| Table 1: Sexual offences recorded by the police—1997 | |
| Police force area | 1997 |
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