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| (B) ‘Other’ criminal damage | |
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates court | |
| (C) Dog Fouling | |
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates court | |
| (D) Littering | |
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates court | |
| (E) Parking Offences | |
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates court | |
Data are collected by DEFRA on the number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued by local authorities, and how many had subsequently been taken to prosecution due to non-payment. Police Community Support Officers can issue FPNs if they have the relevant approval; such FPNs are issued on behalf of the local authority and are included in the aggregated figure provided by each local authority to DEFRA each year. FPNs cannot be issued for fly tipping offences.
The numbers of FPNs issued for each offence each year are included in the following tables.
| (B) Graffiti | ||
| Reporting year (April to March) | Number of Fixed Penalty Notices issued | Number of cases taken to court following non-payment |
As the power to issue FPNs for graffiti offences was introduced in 2003, statistics do not exist prior to this date.
| (C) Dog Fouling | ||
| Reporting year (April to March) | Number of Fixed Penalty Notices issued | Number of cases taken to court following non-payment |
| (D) Litter | ||
| Reporting Year | Number of Fixed Penalty Notices i ssued | Number of c ases t aken to c ourt f ollowing n on- p ayment |
The parking offences for which a FPN can be issued are nuisance parking and abandoned vehicles, as defined in the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. The first year of available data is for the period April 2006 to March 2007.
| Reporting year April 2006 to March 2007 | Number of Fixed Penalty Notices issued | Number of cases taken to court following non-payment |
The police can issue penalty notices for disorder (PNDs) which can include offences such as littering. The littering offence was added to the PND scheme in 2004 when it was rolled out nationally.
Data on the number of PNDs issued for littering broken down by police force area are published as a part of the publication ‘Penalty Notices for Disorder’ for 2004 data and as a part of ‘Criminal Statistics, England and Wales 2006’ (for 2005 and 2006 data). These are available on the Ministry of Justice website.
Asylum
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will give a breakdown by (a) sex and (b) age group of asylum applicants granted leave to remain in the UK via (i) asylum status, (ii) exceptional leave to remain, discretionary leave to remain or humanitarian protection, (iii) the 1998 backlog exercise and (iv) the 2000 family ILR exercise in each year since 1997. [177337]
Mr. Byrne: Information on initial decisions by sex for years 2001 to 2006 are available from the annual Statistical Bulletins Asylum Statistics United Kingdom.
Information on initial decisions by age of applicants for years 1997 to 2000 are available from the annual Statistical Bulletins Asylum Statistics United Kingdom, information for 2001 to 2006 will be placed in the House Libraries. Categories and the presentation of data changed in 2001 and this is reflected in the tables provided.
Information on the 1998 backlog exercise and the 2000 family ILR exercise is not available broken down by age and sex and could be obtained by examination of individual case records only at disproportionate cost.
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of the people whose asylum cases (a) were considered under the Legacy Casework Programme were unsuccessful have been removed and (b) are awaiting removal; and if she will make a statement. [179102]
Mr. Byrne: In her update to the Home Affairs Select Committee of 17 December 2007, Lin Homer (the chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency) stated that 52,000 cases have been concluded by the Case Resolution Directorate, of which about 16,000 have led to removals. We do not hold information on how many cases have been considered and are awaiting removal.
Lin Homer gave an undertaking to update the Home Affairs Select Committee every six months.
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seeker legacy cases have been recognised in (a) Newcastle and (b) the North East; and how many such cases have been determined. [178191]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 15 January 2008]: The information requested cannot be provided except by examining individual case records at disproportionate cost.
Asylum: Applications
Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidelines are issued to case decision-makers in the Borders and Immigration Agency on the economic and social consequences for applicants for indefinite leave to remain of the time taken to make decisions on individual applications. [177616]
Mr. Byrne: There is no specific guidance issued to caseworkers on the economic and social consequences of time taken to process a decision on Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) applications.
The Border and Immigration Agency have time based targets for dealing with such applications, the majority of which are met. Targets that are 70 per cent. of all decisions on in time applications requesting indefinite leave to remain are made within 20 days of receipt and that 90 per cent. are decided within 70 days.
Asylum: Dublin II Agreement
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers her Department has requested the return of under the Dublin II Agreement in each year since it came into force. [180255]
Mr. Byrne: Approximately 7,920 requests have been made by the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Dublin II regulation since its introduction on 1 September 2003. Statistics on the number of requests between September and December 2003 is unavailable. The yearly breakdown is as follows:
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