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Driving Offences: Mobile Phones
Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many drivers were given endorsements for driving while using a hand-held mobile phone for each month since the offence came into force. [156528]
Maria Eagle: New penalties for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving and for failing to have proper control of a vehicle came into effect on 27 February 2007.
2007 data will not be available until 2009.
Driving Offences: Speed Limits
Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many drivers were given endorsements for speeding offences in the last five years for which data are available. [156529]
Maria Eagle: Available information taken from the fixed penalty notices collection and the Court Proceedings Database held by my Department, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available), is provided in the following tables.
2005 data will be available later this year.
| Table A: Fixed penalty notices issued( 1) , for speeding offences( 2) , 2000 to 2004: England and Wales | |
| Thousand | |
| Fixed penalty notices issued | |
| (1) Endorsements on driving licences given out by the police (fixed penalty notices). (2) Including speeding offences detected by camera. | |
| Table B: Total endorsements( 1) without disqualifications, on findings of guilt, imposed at all courts for speeding offences( 2) , 2000 to 2004: England and Wales | ||
| Number of offences (T housand) | ||
| Total findings of guilt | Endorsements without disqualification | |
| (1) Excludes penalty points given under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (totting up system). (2) Including speeding offences detected by camera. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. 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 police forces and the 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. | ||
Driving: Licences
Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many drivers have lost their licences through disqualification under the penalty points system in the last five years for which data are available. [156530]
Maria Eagle: Available information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by my Department, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available), is provided in the following table.
2005 data will be available later this year.
| Persons disqualified( 1) at all courts under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (penalty points system), England and Wales, 2000-04 | |
| Number of persons | |
| (1) Disqualifications under section 35 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences, may be less than complete. Work is under way to ensure that the magistrates courts case management system being implemented by the Ministry of Justice reports all motoring offences to the Office for Criminal Justice Reform. This will enable more complete figures to be disseminated. 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 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. | |
Fixed Penalties: Cycling
Ben Chapman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many fixed penalty orders were given nationwide to cyclists found cycling (a) on the
pavement, (b) in the dark without lights and (c) through red traffic lights in (i) 2006, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2004. [156462]
Maria Eagle: Information on the number of fixed penalty notices issued to cyclists found cycling (a) on the pavement, (b) in the dark without lights and (c) through red traffic lights is not held by my Department.
Immigration: Judges
Mr. Malins: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many part-time fee-paid immigration judges were appointed in each of the last two years; and how many days in total were sat by those persons in that time. [157056]
Bridget Prentice: In each calendar year since 2005, the number of fee-paid immigration judges appointed by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) and the total number of sitting days for those judges are in the following table.
| New fee paid judges appointed | Sittings | |
Members: Correspondence
Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the Minister for Borders and Immigration will reply to the letter of 31 July from the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham. [157083]
Mr. Hanson: The hon. Member’s letter was transferred to my Department on 17 August, as I have ministerial responsibility for prisons. I wrote to the hon. Member on 10 October. I apologise for the delay.
Prison Accommodation: Cardiff
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much has been spent housing prisoners in facilities in Cardiff court buildings (a) in total and (b) in each month in 2007; and if he will make a statement. [156286]
Mr. Hanson: We have paid our contractors a total of £26,324.32 (excluding VAT) this year in respect of cells at Cardiff Crown court.
Costs for June and July were £22,814.41 and £3,509.91 respectively.
Prison Service: Strikes
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether additional payments were made to prison staff who worked through the strike by prison officers in August 2007; and if he will make a statement. [156759]
Mr. Hanson:
Additional payments were made to some prison staff who worked through the Prison Officers Association strike on 29 August 2007. These payments were made in line with the Prison Service
performance recognition scheme which allows managers to award a special bonus payment as an exceptional measure to give prompt and tangible recognition to staff who have given an outstanding performance.
Vehicle Number Plates
Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions for the use of cloned or false number plates there were in each of the last three years. [156321]
Maria Eagle: Information collected centrally on the Court Proceedings Database held by my Department does not separately identify offences involving the use or supply of fraudulent vehicle registration marks.
Leader of the House
Departments: Railways
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Leader of the House how much was spent by her office on first class train tickets in the last 12 months. [153019]
Helen Goodman: The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons spent £242.20 on first class train travel in the last 12 months.
Departments: ICT
Jenny Willott: To ask the Leader of the House what the cost was of buying new (a) laptops, (b) mobile telephones and (c) personal digital assistant devices for new departmental Ministers in her office following each Cabinet reshuffle since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [156741]
Helen Goodman: Following a Machinery of Government change, information prior to 2006-07 is available only at disproportionate cost.
Departments: Press
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Leader of the House how much was spent by her office on newspapers and magazines in the last 12 months. [153020]
Helen Goodman: Following a Machinery of Government change, detailed information on expenditure incurred in the 2006-07 financial year is available only at disproportionate cost.
Departments: Serials
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Leader of the House to which periodicals her office subscribes. [153021]
Helen Goodman: The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons subscribes to The New Statesman, The Spectator, Tribune, The Economist and Prospect.
Departments: Taxis
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Leader of the House how much was spent by her office on taxis in the last 12 months. [153016]
Helen Goodman: Following a Machinery of Government change, detailed information on expenditure incurred in the 2006-07 financial year is available only at disproportionate cost.
Departments: Training
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Leader of the House how much was spent by her office on (a) staff training and (b) communication training in the last 12 months. [153023]
Helen Goodman: The office of the Leader of the House of Commons spent £9,000 on training in the last 12 months. It is not possible to disaggregate this by subject.
Home Affairs Committee
Mr. Burns: To ask the Leader of the House pursuant to the statement of 25 July 2007, Official Report, columns 920-1, on the work of the Home Affairs Committee, (1) what work programme was undertaken by the Home Affairs Committee during the summer recess; [157057]
(2) how much was paid to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee for the undertaking of that role between 26( )July and 8 October. [157058]
Helen Goodman: The work programme for Select Committees of the House is a matter for the individual Committees. Information on the activities of each Committee is available from the Select Committee calendar and current inquiries list (available on the Parliament website) on individual Committee websites. For additional information the hon. Member should write to the Chairman of the Committee concerned.
The Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee was paid £2,749.68 (gross) during the period 26 July to 8 October.
Prime Minister
Departments: Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Spring: To ask the Prime Minister whether Gila Sacks holds a position remunerated from the public purse; and if he will make a statement. [152724]
Edward Miliband: I have been asked to reply.
I refer the hon. Member to my answer given to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) today.
UK Youth Parliament
Mr. Drew: To ask the Prime Minister what recent discussions he has had with the UK Youth Parliament on its future programme. [151787]
Helen Goodman: I have been asked to reply.
On 3 July 2007, the Prime Minister proposed inviting the UK Youth Parliament to meet in the Commons. As the Prime Minister said in his statement, this is principally a matter for the Speaker and my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House has been liaising with the Speaker on how best to take this forward.
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