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Departmental Aviation

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent by her Department on international flights in each year since 1997. [174360]

Mr. Byrne: Since 1999 the Government have published a list of all overseas travel by Cabinet Ministers costing over £500. Information for the last financial year was published on 25 July 2007. Details for the current financial year will be published as soon as possible after the end of the financial year. From next year, the list will include details of overseas visits undertaken by all Ministers. All ministerial travel is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code.

Information in respect of flights taken by officials could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Publicity

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent by her Department on advertising in the last 12 months. [167955]

Mr. Byrne: The information requested is shown in the following table.

In the financial year 2006-07, the Home Office has spent a total of £14,182,537 on advertising, which was allocated to the following areas of public concern:

£

Crime Reduction

Acquisitive Crime (Robbery, Burglary and Car Theft)

3,295,134

Domestic Violence

806,200

Rape - Consent awareness

287,664

Alcohol Fixed Penalty Notices

233,832

National Knife Amnesty

138,622

Stop and Search awareness

135,264

Child protection on the Internet

47,092

Alcohol Harm Reduction

2,052,614

Single Non Emergency Number

1,002,780

Drugs

Frank

3,510,850

Police Recruitment

Police Community Support Officers 2006-07

1,829,370

Passports (IPS)

IPS Communications

22,680

Immigration (BIA)

Immigration 2006-07

795,450

Classified

Recruitment

24,984

Total

14,182,537


The costs provided relate to net media, excluding fees and production, on press, TV, cinema, out of home and radio advertising.


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Driving Under Influence: Alcoholic Drinks

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government has taken to enforce legislation against under-age drinking. [177318]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 21 January 2008]: Between 2004-06 successive Alcohol Misuse Enforcement Campaigns (AMECs) were focused on tackling crime and disorder in the night-time economy and included within them element of underage sales test-purchase activity.

From 2006 two Tackling Underage Sales of Alcohol Campaigns (TUSAC) have been conducted with specific focus on test-purchase activity with an additional focus on supporting existing and new powers available through the Licensing Act 2003:

A pilot Confiscation of Alcohol Campaign (October to July 2007) was undertaken to utilise police powers to seize alcohol from children in public places and to disperse persons aged 16 or more causing alcohol related crime and disorder.

EC Immigration

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on UK participation in the development of EU rapid border intervention teams. [178213]

Mr. Byrne: The UK fully supports the EU Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) initiative; but is excluded from the Frontex Regulation and thus the RABITs Regulation. However, as signalled by the Council Declaration accompanying adoption of the RABITs Regulation in June 2007, we are exploring ways in which the UK can support RABITs operations abroad on an observer/adviser basis, in a similar way to our support for Frontex joint operations. The UK can participate in Frontex operations, if we wish to, with the agreement of the Frontex Management Board on a case-by-case basis.

Extradition

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were sought for extradition (a) from and (b) to the UK in each year since 1997. [172947]

Meg Hillier: Since 1997, there have been 1,232 extradition requests made to England and Wales. These have resulted in 517 people being extradited back to the requesting state.

In the same time, the prosecuting authorities in England and Wales have made 589 extradition requests to extradition partners, with 378 people being extradited back. The following table gives a year-on-year breakdown.


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It should be emphasised that these figures do not include statistics for the European Arrest Warrant, which the UK has been operating with our European Union partners since 1 January 2004. I refer to the answer given to this House on 29 November 2007, which gave the statistics for the EAW.

Total of extradition requests made to and by England and Wales, 1997 to 2007
Received Extradited Made Returned

1997

107

43

44

28

1998

108

45

64

38

1999

103

37

56

35

2000

113

47

70

31

2001

161

55

82

52

2002

179

53

70

36

2003

148

56

82

64

2004

142

50

35

49

2005

54

62

29

17

2006

65

40

31

14

2007

52

29

26

14

Total

1,232

517

589

378


Foreigners: Visits

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what she expects the cost will be to administer the proposed cash bond for families to pay when receiving a visitor from outside the EU; [176829]

(2) when she expects the proposed cash bond scheme for non-EU visitors to Britain to come into force; [176830]

(3) what she expects the change in the number of visitors from non-EU countries will be after the implementation of the proposed cash bond scheme. [176831]

Mr. Byrne: The visitor consultation, published on 18 December 2007, provides an opportunity for ideas, comments and discussion on a number of options to ensure that our system for visitors is fit for the 21(st) century. The consultation period concludes on 10 March 2008.

We shall consider all responses before announcing what changes, if any, we intend to make to the Immigration Rules relating to visitors.

Human Trafficking

Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money has been confiscated from criminals convicted of trafficking people in the UK in each of the last three years. [177917]

Mr. Coaker [holding answer 14 January 2008]: The total value of confiscation orders and cash forfeiture orders made in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland over the last three years against criminals involved in people trafficking is set out in the table.


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Value (£)

2004-05

392,942

2005-06

924,576

2006-07

2,438,243


Illegal Immigrants

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were found trying to enter the United Kingdom with stolen or forged passports in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by nationality. [163139]

Mr. Byrne: The total number of detections of travel document abuse (passports and identity cards) at United Kingdom arrivals controls (which includes our juxtaposed controls in France and Belgium) in 2006 was 4,152. Of these 3,944 were stolen and/or forged travel documents.

Complete figures are set out in the following tables and are broken down by nationality.

Doc Type Total

Nigerian Ppt

402

Lithuanian Ppt

247

British Ppt

244

French Ppt

193

Portuguese ID

137

Polish Ppt

126

Italian ID

126

French ID

111

Portuguese Ppt

104

Italian Ppt

100

South African Ppt

99

Greek Ppt

95

Dutch ID

83

Ghanaian Ppt

80

Latvian Ppt

73

Czech Ppt

72

Dutch Ppt

68

Hungarian Ppt

63

German ID

60

Spanish Ppt

58

Danish Ppt

56

Belgian Ppt

51

Polish ID

50

British Travel Doc.

47

Indian Ppt

44

Slovak Ppt

44

Other documents

1,111

Grand total

3,944


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