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Asylum: Housing

Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accommodation centres have been set up under section 16 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. [143605]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 18 June 2007]: Section 16 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 provided for the establishment of accommodation centres. None have been established and we have no plans do so.

Bicycles: Theft

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how bicycle thefts were reported in each police authority in each of the last five years. [145443]

Mr. McNulty: The available data relate to offences of theft of a pedal cycle recorded by the police and are given in the following table:


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Offences of theft of a pedal cycle recorded by the police
Number
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Avon and Somerset

3,555

3,090

3,043

3,713

4,131

Bedfordshire

870

719

898

881

1,073

British Transport Police(1)

2,737

2,947

3,384

4,121

Cambridgeshire

4,171

3,975

4,374

4,528

4,442

Cheshire

1,666

1,551

1,746

1,565

1,731

Cleveland

1,460

1,028

1,116

1,237

1,255

Cumbria

691

606

802

850

866

Derbyshire

1,505

1,301

1,358

1,131

1,156

Devon and Cornwall

1,563

1,443

1,712

1,825

1,792

Dorset

1,522

1,624

1,843

1,602

1,555

Durham

867

726

827

815

802

Dyfed-Powys

268

230

330

388

308

Essex

2,299

2,100

2,462

2,775

2,875

Gloucestershire

1,691

1,588

1,653

1,322

1,577

Greater Manchester

5,007

4,598

4,220

4,198

4,731

Gwent

557

632

624

570

600

Hampshire

4,455

4,253

4,545

4,869

5,843

Hertfordshire

1,339

1,397

1,484

1,656

1,767

Humberside

4,330

3,736

3,777

3,195

3,281

Kent

1,821

1,609

1,829

2,020

1,884

Lancashire

2,702

2,505

2,525

2,594

2,694

Leicestershire

2,132

1,754

1,869

1,879

1,893

Lincolnshire

1,750

1,810

1,623

1,766

1,743

London, City of

334

427

355

319

336

Merseyside

1,678

1,445

1,569

1,673

1,726

Metropolitan Police

14,340

15,812

19,261

19,317

21,238

Norfolk

1,926

1,888

2,108

1,972

2,019

Northamptonshire

1,146

1,053

1,157

1,318

1,152

Northumbria

2,468

2,387

2,644

2,405

2,362

North Wales

896

850

783

773

618

North Yorkshire

2,442

2,331

2,563

1,989

2,049

Nottinghamshire

3,555

2,608

2,744

2,599

2,876

South Wales

1,951

1,717

1,822

1,978

1,762

South Yorkshire

1,891

1,787

1,346

1,421

1,725

Staffordshire

1,667

1,235

1,285

1,232

1,270

Suffolk

1,728

1,439

1,457

1,653

1,828

Surrey

1,301

1,085

1,297

1,331

1,463

Sussex

2,959

2,329

2,683

2,811

3,165

Thames Valley

5,346

5,264

5,547

5,879

5,994

Warwickshire

1,060

1,001

1,076

878

1,005

West Mercia

1,903

1,484

1,559

1,596

1,592

West Midlands

4,004

3,301

3,229

2,908

3,132

West Yorkshire

2,673

2,250

2,374

2,175

2,521

Wiltshire

1,224

1,050

1,001

1,074

1,253

England and Wales

102,713

97,755

105,467

106,064

113,206

(1) British Transport Police data have been included in the England and Wales totals from 2002-03.

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