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Asylum: Zimbabwe
Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for asylum were received from nationals of Zimbabwe in each year since 1997; how many of these applications were (a) approved and (b) refused and resulted in deportations; and if he will make a statement. [142786]
Mr. Byrne: Information on how many Zimbabwean asylum applications received in each year since 1997 that have been subsequently approved, rejected or deported is not available.
Information on asylum applications, initial decisions, appeals and removals for nationals of Zimbabwe are published quarterly and annually. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
Bichard Inquiry
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the 2004 Bichard inquiry. [143724]
Mr. McNulty: The Bichard inquiry (2004) was an independent public inquiry chaired by Sir Michael Bichard. Sir Michael stated the cost of his inquiry to be of the order of £2 million.
Budd Inquiry
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the 2004 Budd inquiry. [143725]
Mr. Byrne: A total figure for the cost of the 2004 Budd inquiry was not recorded.
The Home Office provided Sir Alan Budd with secretarial support, an official at higher executive officer level and any material that he requested.
Sir Alan was not remunerated for his investigation but the Home Office did reimburse him for expenses related to the conduct of it.
The final report was printed and published by the Stationery Office under the authority of the House of Commons. The Home Office paid for the printing of the report and copies.
Burglary
Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many domestic burglaries there were in (a) Bridgend constituency, (b) the South Wales Police Authority area, (c) Wales and (d) England in each of the last 10 years. [144295]
Mr. McNulty: The available information is given in the following tables. Statistics for Bridgend relate to the Bridgend Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area.
| Table 1: Offences of domestic burglary recorded by the police, 1996 and 1997 | ||||
| Number of offences | ||||
| Bridgend | South Wales | Wales | England | |
| n/a = Not available | ||||
| Table 2: Offences of domestic burglary recorded by the police, 1998-99 to 2001-02 | ||||
| Number of offences | ||||
| Bridgend | South Wales | Wales | England | |
| n/a = Not available (1) Using the expanded coverage and revised counting rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998. Figures after that date are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | ||||
| Table 3: Offences of domestic burglary recorded by the police, 2002-03 to 2005-06 | ||||
| Number of offences | ||||
| Bridgend | South Wales | Wales | England | |
| (1) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced nationally in April 2002. Figures after that date are therefore not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | ||||
Burglary: Convictions
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many burglaries were committed in each year since 1997; and in how many of these cases a conviction was secured. [144135]
Mr. McNulty: The statistics are not available in the form requested. Recorded burglary statistics relate to offences and convictions data relate to offenders. In addition, recorded crime data are published on a financial year basis and conviction data are published on a calendar year basis. For these reasons, the two data sources are therefore not directly comparable.
Figures for burglary offences recorded by the police are published in Table 2.04 of “Crime in England and Wales 2005/06” and can be accessed at:
Data on the number of defendants found guilty of burglary, for the years 1997 to 2005 in England and Wales, have been provided by the Ministry of Justice and are given in the following table. Information for 2006 will be available in the autumn.
| Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for burglary, England and Wales, 1997 to 2005( 1, 2, 3) | |
| Number | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) 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 the police forces and courts. 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. (3) Staffordshire police force were only able to supply a sample of data for magistrates’ courts proceedings covering one full week in each quarter for 2000. Estimates based on this sample are included in the figures, as they are considered sufficiently robust at this high level of analysis. Source: RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Ministry of Justice. | |
Closed Circuit Television
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department plans to publish its report on future CCTV strategy. [143190]
John Reid: The National CCTV Strategy is currently planned for publication during the summer of 2007.
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the reasons are for the delay in publishing the report on the future CCTV strategy. [143191]
John Reid: The publication of the CCTV strategy has been delayed because of the need for further consultation with key stakeholders; in particular to allow them to comment on the draft report and for those comments to be properly considered.
Community Support Officers: Greater London
Lynne Featherstone:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how (1) many police
community support officers are assigned to each ward in each London borough; [143019]
(2) how many police community support officers have been assigned to each London borough without safer neighbourhood teams; [143022]
(3) how many police community support officers have been (a) requested by and (b) assigned to each London borough. [143036]
Mr. McNulty: Data on police strength are not available at the ward level. The available data for police community support officer (PCSO) strength for each London borough are by basic command unit (BCU) of the Metropolitan Police Service (MRS). These data are given in the table. The boundaries of London boroughs are coterminous with those of the BCUs within the MPS.
Every BCU in the MPS has safer neighbourhood teams (SNTs). There are 630 SNTs in the MPS covering all 624 wards across the MPS. Every team has at least one sergeant, two constables and three PCSOs.
The number of PCSOs requested by each London borough is not collected centrally within police personnel statistics. The number of PCSOs assigned to each London borough is available in the form previously described, and is given in the following table.
| Police community support officer strength for Metropolitan Police Service by basic command unit, as at 31 January 2007( 1) | |
| Basic command unit | PCSO strength |
| (1) Table has been provided by the Metropolitan Police Service and the Home Office Police Productivity Unit. | |
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