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Offenders: Deportation
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners were deported or removed from the UK in each year from 2002 to 2006; and how many have been deported or removed in 2007. [161816]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners are subject to deportation notices. [161817]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners are subject to deportation notices. [161823]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. and learned Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners were deported or removed in each year from 2002 to 2006; and how many have been deported or removed in 2007. [161824]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. and learned Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Offensive Weapons: Coventry
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government has taken to reduce levels of knife crime in Coventry since 1997. [161270]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 29 October 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Passports: Airports
Mr. Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures are being introduced to cope with the situation of people arriving at airports in the UK without the passports with which they checked in at their departure airport. [161235]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Passports: Biometrics
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Prime Minister’s statement of 25 July 2007, Official Report, columns 841-45, on national security, whether EU citizens will be regarded as foreign nationals for this purpose; whether a biometric passport is a satisfactory form of biometric ID for this purpose; and whether it will be an offence for a relevant person not to carry or be able to produce biometric ID. [153959]
Mr. Byrne: Further to the Prime Minister’s security statement of 25 July 2007, Official Report, columns 841-45, I can advise that UKvisas, the joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office directorate with responsibility for issuing visas to non-EEA nationals, are on track to roll-out the requirement that, by the end of March 2008, all visa nationals and all non-EEA nationals seeking to stay in the United Kingdom for more than six months, are required to provide their biometric data as part of the visa application process.
The Prime Minister’s statement also related to our plans in the UK Borders Bill to require non-EEA nationals subject to immigration control and already in the UK to apply for a ‘Biometric Immigration Document’. This will be achieved incrementally with the process starting before the end of 2008. It will not be compulsory for a person to carry a ‘Biometric Immigration Document’ at all times following Government amendments to the UK Borders Bill.
Passports: Forgery
Mr. Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what stage the Document Scanning Equipment with Forgery Detection Capability Tender for (a) Heathrow, (b) other airports and (c) Eurotunnel has reached. [161236]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Police
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effect of increasing population on the delivery of policing services in (a) Government designated growth areas and (b) Northamptonshire. [160606]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Armed Forces
Mr. Touhig: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what schemes are in place to encourage forces personnel to join the police service. [161110]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my right hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Derbyshire
Mr. Skinner: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers in Derbyshire (a) retired and (b) took ill-health retirement in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [161055]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Doctors
Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was to each police authority in England and Wales of employing healthcare professionals at custody suites in each of the last five years. [161855]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Finance
Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what data her Department uses to assess the numbers of economic migrants in police authority areas in England and Wales. [161856]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what adjustments are made to the police formula grant for police authorities in (a) England and (b) Wales to take account of the numbers of economic migrants in a particular police authority area. [161857]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information her Department uses to estimate the numbers of tourists visiting police authority areas in England and Wales. [161858]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what adjustments are made to the police formula grant in England and Wales to take account of the numbers of tourists visiting a particular police authority area. [161859]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total Government spending on policing per hundred thousand head of population is in each police authority area in 2007-08. [161865]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Manpower
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the likely effect of budgetary plans on future police officer numbers, broken down by Government region; and if she will make a statement. [161547]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Police: Witnesses
Mr. Touhig: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officer days have been lost by each police force in England and Wales as a result of officers appearing as witnesses in court. [161115]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my right hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Prisoners: Compensation
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total sums were paid to foreign prisoners in compensation for unlawful detention in custody beyond the end of their sentences in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [161620]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. and learned Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Prisoners: Deportation
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make it her policy to seek the deportation of foreign prisoners from the date of their conviction; and if she will make a statement. [161531]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 29 October 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2007, Official Report, column 1248W, to the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green), on offenders: deportation, what steps she has taken to ascertain the nationality, residential status and right to remain in the United Kingdom of the 879 prisoners held in England and Wales whose nationality is classified as unknown. [161615]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. and learned Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what safeguards are in place to ensure that deported convicted foreign nationals cannot return to the United Kingdom at a later date. [161617]
Mr. Byrne: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Prostitution
Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men were (a) arrested and (b) prosecuted for paying for sex in each of the last five years. [161301]
Mr. Coaker: It has not proved possible to respond to my right hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Sexual Offences: Vetting
Mr. Hood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the criteria are for the inclusion on the sex offenders list in England and Wales. [161852]
Mr. Coaker: It has not prove possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Smuggling: Firearms
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has received reports of illegal guns arriving in mainland Great Britain through the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement. [161669]
Mr. Coaker: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
Stop and Search
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the power to authorise stop and search for offensive weapons within a specified area for the period of 24 hours under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was used by a senior police officer in each year since the Act came into force. [161135]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 29 October 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) training and (b) written guidance is provided to police officers for the use of stop and search powers under (i) section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and (ii) section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. [161136]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 29 October 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many stop and searches were carried out by police under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since the Act’s introduction; and how many and what percentage of those searches resulted in arrest. [161137]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 29 October 2007]: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Terrorism: Arrests
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been detained without charge on suspicion of terrorist offences for 28 days; and how many of these were (a) charged and (b) released without charge. [161571]
Jacqui Smith: It has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any suspects detained without charge on suspicion of terrorist offences for 28 days and then released without charge have been subsequently re-arrested and charged with a terrorist offence. [161595]
Jacqui Smith: It has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Love: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many activists of organisations proscribed under terrorism legislation have been (a) arrested, (b) charged and (c) convicted for offences under that legislation in each year since its introduction; and if she will make a statement. [161879]
Mr. McNulty: It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.
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