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Closed Circuit Television
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 June 2007, Official Report, column 1950W, on closed circuit television (CCTV), what the reasons are for the further delay in publishing the report on the future CCTV strategy; and when it will be published. [166901]
Jacqui Smith: The National CCTV Strategy was published on 19 October 2007 and is available for download from:
Community Policing: Greater London
Mr. Boris Johnson:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police constables and (b) sergeants have been dedicated to
neighbourhood policing work in (i) London and (ii) each London borough in each year since 2001. [166923]
Mr. McNulty: The Home Office’s collection of police personnel data by function does not separately identify those dedicated to neighbourhood policing work.
Community Support Officers: Greater London
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there were in London on 1 October (a) 2004, (b) 2005, (c) 2006 and (d) 2007. [169247]
Mr. McNulty: Police service strength is collected by financial year, with provisional data given midway through the year (30 September) and finalised data given as at the last day of the year (31 March).
Data for 31 March are given in the table.
| Police community support officer strength( 1) in London( 2) as at 31 March 2004 to 2007 | |
| As at 31 March: | London PCSOs |
| (1) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between the totals and the sums of constituent items. (2) Metropolitan and City of London forces. | |
Convictions: Human Trafficking
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals have been convicted for trafficking people into the UK in each of the last five years. [166984]
Jacqui Smith: The Sexual Offences Act 2003 came into force in 2004. Since then convictions are as follows:
| Number | |
There have been no convictions to date for trafficking for exploitation under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004.
Crime
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers per notifiable offence in England there were in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [167099]
Mr. McNulty: The data requested are given in the following table.
| Police officers (FTE)( 1 ) per 100 notifiable offences( 2) in England , 1997 to 2006-07 | |
| Police officers per 100 notifiable offences | |
| (1) Police officer strength figures are based on full-time equivalent figures, excluding those officers on career breaks and maternity/paternity leave. (2) The data for 2002-03 onwards take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are therefore not directly comparable with those for earlier years, similarly, data from 1998-99 onwards incorporate changes in police recording practices following revisions to Home Office rules on counting and classification of crime in April 1998; they are also not directly comparable with previous years. | |
Departmental Foreign Workers
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non EU foreign nationals are employed by her Department. [168106]
Mr. Byrne: Information on the number of EU foreign nationals employed within Home Office headquarters is not recorded centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. There are currently no non-EU foreign nationals employed within Home Office HQ.
The Identity and Passport Service currently employs 13 EU foreign nationals and 10 non-EU foreign nationals; all 10 are Commonwealth citizens.
The Criminal Records Bureau does not currently employ any EU or non-EU foreign nationals.
The Border and immigration Agency does not record centrally the nationality of employees upon appointment and information could be provided only at a disproportionate cost. All candidates for posts within Home Office HQ and its agencies are subject to the same pre-appointment checks regardless of nationality. Our pre-appointment checks ensure that we only select those that pass eligibility in accordance with the Cabinet Office nationality requirements:
The need for an individual to undergo national security vetting, and the level of vetting that is appropriate, will depend on the particular post they are going to fill. Where necessary, this will include a check of time spent overseas.
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisors
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the office costs for her Department’s special advisers for 2007-08 are expected
to be, including costs of support staff; and how many full-time equivalent civil servants work in support of such special advisers. [164936]
Mr. Byrne: Three civil servants provide support directly to the special advisers in the Home Secretary’s office. They provide administrative support of a non-political nature in accordance with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Information on the cost of such staff can not be provided as the numbers involved will be so few that to reveal the cost could identify an individual’s salary,
which is confidential between the individual and the employer. Office costs will be accounted for in the 2007-08 departmental annual reports and accounts.
Detection Rates
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the crime detection rate was in (a) each police force area and (b) England and Wales in each year since 1997. [167097]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is given in the following table.
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