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Speed Limits: Cameras

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mobile camera speed checks were carried out in each police force area in each of the last five years. [166883]

Mr. Coaker: This information is not collected centrally.

Terrorism: Control Orders

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females issued with control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 were resident in Southend in each year since the Act came into force, broken down by age group. [167432]

Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given on 26 November 2007, Official Report, column 203W.

Theft: Bicycles

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the ratio between the (a) recorded and (b) actual levels of theft of bicycles. [166933]

Mr. McNulty: The British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely collects information on whether victims report crimes to the police and these are published annually by the Home Office in their statistics bulletin ‘Crime in England and Wales’. The most recent published figures show that 36 per cent. of BCS incidents of bicycle theft were reported to the police.

Video Games: Young People

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were recorded in respect of retailers selling video games or DVDs to underage customers in England and Wales in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area; how many (a) police cautions and (b) fines were issued; and what the average fine levied was. [166838]

Mr. Coaker: Information on the number of recorded offences of retailers selling video games or DVDs to underage customers is not collected centrally. This is a summary offence and is not included in the police recorded crime statistics.

Statistics on the number of police cautions issued, the number of fines imposed and the average fines have been provided by the Ministry of Justice and are given in the following table for 1997 to 2005. Data for 2006 are due for publication in late November.

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Offenders( 1) cautioned and fined for supplying video recording of classified work in breach of classification( 2)
	Number of police cautions issued	Number of fines imposed	Average fine amount (£)
1997	1	15	519
1998	—	18	440
1999	—	33	798
2000	—	16	1,028
2001	—	9	1,378
2002	—	12	1,079
2003	1	14	921
2004	—	6	775
2005	—	8	489
(1) These data are on a principal offence basis. (2) Video Recording Act 1984 S.11 as amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 19945.88(4). Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: RDS-NOMS, Ministry of Justice

Children, Schools and Families

Adult Education: Parents

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether he has commissioned research on the relationship between adult and community learning and the educational attainment of the children of those involved in such learning. [164460]

Mr. Lammy [holding answer 15 November 2007]: I have been asked to reply:

Within Adult Safeguarded Learning, the Family Learning programme involves parents in supporting their children’s learning and aims to develop the skills and knowledge of both the adult and the child. We are committed to widening family and inter-generational learning and to building links between adult learning and our agendas on parenting, children and extended schools. We have not commissioned research which looks specifically at the relationship between adult and community learning and child attainment but the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning (which the Department manages jointly with DCSF) has produced a number of reports on the relationship between parental learning in general and children’s education: “A model of the inter-generational transmission of educational success” by Leon Feinstein, Kathryn Duckworth and Ricardo Sabates (2004); “Does education have an impact on mothers’ educational attitudes and behaviours?” by Leon Feinstein and Ricardo Sabates (2006); and “Are there effects of mothers’ post-16 education on the next generation?” by Leon Feinstein and Kathryn Duckworth (2006). The Centre for the Economics of Education (also jointly managed by DIUS and DCSF) has also published research on family learning such as “Parent’s education and child’s education: a natural experiment” by Arnaud Chevalier (2004).

Children in Care

Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many babies aged under one year were taken into social care as a consequence of (a) interim full care orders and (b) police or emergency protection orders in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement; [164705]

(2) how many (a) babies, (b) children and (c) young people were taken into care in each region in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement; [164710]

(3) what estimate he has made of the average time taken to place children for adoption in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [164703]

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Kevin Brennan: The numbers of children looked after who were taken into care in England, aged under one year and who were subject to interim and full care orders or police or emergency protection orders, during the years ending 31 March 1997 to 2007, are shown in table 1.

Information on the number of children looked after who were taken into care, broken down by age, in each region since 1997 is not readily available. However, information on the number of children who started to be looked after by age on starting and by local authority, during the years ending 31 March 2003 to 2007, has been published and can be found respectively in tables C1 and LAC1 at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000741/index. shtml

A copy of table C1 (table 2) follows and an edited version of table LAC1 (table 3) showing regional figures only is also shown. A local authority level table, including regional breakdowns, on children who started to be looked after broken down by age on starting for 2007 will be published at the same web address on 29 November.

Information on the average time between a child entering care and the various stages of the adoption process has only been published since 2004 and is therefore not readily available prior to that. The following table 4 is derived from table E3 of the previously mentioned publication, and summarises the average time between entry into care and placement for adoption for years ending 31 March 2004 to 2007.

Table 1: Children aged under one year who were taken into care on an interim or full care order and under a police or emergency protection order in the years ending 31 March 1997 to 2007( 1,2,3,4) , England
Number
	Children who were taken into care aged under one
Year ending 31 March	All children who were taken into care aged under one( 5)	Under an interim or full care order	Under a police or emergency protection order
1997	1,300	740	600
1998	1,400	830	610
1999	1,600	930	690
2000	1,900	1,100	770
2001	1,800	1,200	610
2002	1,900	1,200	730
2003	2,000	1,300	660
2004	2,000	1,300	710
2005	2,000	1,300	730
2006	2,100	1,400	720
2007	2,100	1,500	580
(1) Source DfES, SSDA903 return which between in 1997 and since 2004 covered all children looked after by local authorities. SSDA903 covered only a one-third sample of children looked after by local authorities between 1998 and 2003. (2) Figures for children looked after in this table exclude agreed series of short-term placements. (3) To maintain the confidentiality of each individual child, data at national level are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 to the nearest 10 otherwise. (4) Historical data may differ from older publications. This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities after the publication date of previous materials. (5) Only the first occasion on which a child started to be looked after in the year has been counted.

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Table 2: Table C1: Children who started to be looked after during the years ending 31 March 2003 to 2007 by gender, age on starting, category of need and ethnic origin( 1,2,3,4) , England
Number and percentage
	Number					Percentage
	2003( 5)	2004( 6)	2005( 6)	2006( 6)	2007( 6)	2003( 5)	2004( 6)	2005( 6)	2006( 6)	2007( 6)
All children who started to be looked after(1,2,3)	24,900	25,000	24,900	24,600	23,700	100	100	100	100	100
Gender	24,900	25,000	24,900	24,600	23,700	100	100	100	100	100
Male	13,500	13,400	13,300	13,300	13,100	54	53	53	54	55
Female	11,500	11.600	11,600	11,300	10,700	46	47	47	46	45
Age on starting (years)	24,900	25,000	24,900	24,600	23,700	100	100	100	100	100
Under 1	3,900	4,100	4,300	4,300	4,400	16	16	17	18	19
1 to 4	4,700	4,600	4,500	4,300	4,300	19	18	18	17	18
5 to 9	4,800	4,400	4,300	4,100	3,900	19	18	17	17	16
10 to 15	10,500	10.500	10,100	9,800	9.200	42	42	40	40	39
16 and over	1,000	1,400	1,700	2,100	1,900	4	6	7	9	8
Category of need(7)	24,900	25,000	24,900	24,600	23,700	100	100	100	100	100
Abuse or neglect	12,200	12,000	12,100	11,500	11,300	49	48	48	47	48
Child's disability	800	730	780	820	710	3	3	3	3	3
Parent’s illness or disability	1,900	1,900	1,600	1,500	1,300	8	7	7	6	5
Family in acute stress	2,700	2,700	2,900	2,800	2,800	11	11	12	11	12
Family dysfunction	3,200	3.400	3,100	3.200	3,300	13	13	13	13	14
Socially unacceptable behaviour	1,700	1,600	1,400	1.300	1,200	7	6	5	5	5
Low income	80	70	80	70	80	0	0	0	0	0
Absent parenting	2,400	2,700	2.900	3.400	3.100	10	11	12	14	13
Ethnic origin	24,900	25,000	24,900	24,600	23,700	100	100	100	100	100
White
White British	18,300	17,700	17.400	16,600	16.000	73	71	70	67	67
White Irish	240	140	160	150	130	1	1	1	1	1
Any other White background	880	870	850	820	860	4	3	3	3	4
Mixed
White and Black Caribbean	670	710	680	650	580	3	3	3	3	2
White and Black African	190	210	200	190	180	1	1	1	1	1
White and Asian	320	290	260	280	290	1	1	1	1	1
Any other mixed background	680	760	760	760	700	3	3	3	3	3
Asian or Asian British
Indian	160	160	130	160	130	1	1	1	1	1
Pakistani	270	280	350	290	340	1	1	1	1	1
Bangladeshi	140	150	170	160	170	1	1	1	1	1
Any other Asian background	170	320	540	800	790	1	1	2	3	3
Black or Black British
Caribbean	760	780	690	710	610	3	3	3	3	3
African	1,100	1,500	1,600	1.600	1,400	5	6	6	7	6
Any other Black background	390	420	450	460	450	2	2	2	2	2
Other ethnic groups
Chinese	60	90	80	120	170	0	0	0	0	1
Any other ethnic group	580	620	690	800	920	2	2	3	3	4
(1) Source SSDA903 return on children looked after. (2) Only the first occasion on which a child started to be looked after in the year has been counted. (3) Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements. (4) Historical data may differ from older publications This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities after the publication date of previous materials. (5) Figures are derived from the SSDA903 one third sample survey. (6) Figures are taken from the SSDA903 return which, since 2003-04 has covered all children looked after. (7) The most applicable category of the eight “Need Codes” (i.e. the reason why the child is receiving social services) at the time the child was taken into care rather than necessarily the reason they are looked after.

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