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Departmental Impact Assessments

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many regulatory impact assessments her Department has conducted in the last 12 months. [191271]

Mr. Byrne: Information on the final Regulatory Impact Assessments published between 1 January and 30 June 2007 can be found in Command Paper 7297, available at:

For The Home Office, five Regulatory Impact Assessments have been listed. Departments are in the process of identifying the final Regulatory Impact Assessments published between 1 July and 31 December 2007. From April 2008, all final Impact Assessments will be published on a central website.


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Departmental Internet

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Wikipedia entries have been (a) created and (b) amended (i) by (A) special advisers, (B) Ministers and (C) communications officials and (ii) from IP addresses of (1) special advisers, (2) Ministers and (3) communications officials in (x) her Department and (y) its agencies since August 2005. [185527]

Mr. Byrne: Information on Wikipedia entries created by Home Office special advisers, Ministers and communication officials could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Labour Turnover

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage turnover of staff was in (a) her Department and (b) her Department’s agencies in (i) the last 12-month period and (ii) the last 24-month period for which figures are available. [169037]

Mr. Byrne: The Home Office had the following staff turnover over the last 12 and 24-month periods.

Percentage
12 months November 2006 to October 2007 24 months November 2005 to October 2007

Home Office Headquarters

1.90

4.60

Border and Immigration Agency

3.07

6.58

Identity and Passport Agency

7.80

7.10

Criminal Records Bureau

6.80

16.70

HMPS (moved to MOJ on 9 May 2007)

8.40

16.80


Departmental Legislation

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what legislation sponsored by her Department since 1997 has yet to be brought into force, broken down by Act. [193855]

Mr. McNulty: The following table lists provisions of Acts for which the Home Office has policy responsibility which received Royal Assent since 1 May 1997, but which (as at 13 March 2008) are not yet in force.


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Act Sections not in force

Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003

85(5), Sch 2(2)

Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

78

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004

16

Crime (International Co-Operation) Act 2003

10-12, 20-25, 54-75, Sch 3, Sch 4

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

78(7), 80(4), Sch 7 part 6 (in part)

Domestic Violence, Crime and 'Victims Act 2004

9, 12 and Schedules 10, 11 and 12 (in part)

Drugs Act 2005

2

Identity Cards Act 2006

l(l)-(4), l(5)-(8), 2-24, 27-29, 30, 31-34, 35, 39, 41, 42,43, Sch 1

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

16 and 17, 117(5)

Immigration Asylum and Nationality Act 2006

4, 33, 44, 47, 50(3) and (6)

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002

10(5)(a), 17 and 18 (for certain purposes), 19-34, 35(1)(a)-(g)(i) and (2) and (3), 36, 37, 39, 40(2) and (3), 44-47, 51 to 53, 124

Police and Justice Act 2006

14, 17, 19(l)-(9) and (11), 20, 21, 34-38, 39(l)-(3), (5)-(7), 40(l)-(3), (5)-(7), 43(1), 46 (part) and Schedules 8, 11 and 12, and Schedules 1, 2, 5, 13, 14, and 15 (all in part)

Police Reform Act 2002

45

Private Security Industry Act 2001

17 (part)

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Sch 11 para 17 (2) and Sch 12 (part)

UK Borders Act 2007

9, 10-11 (part), 12,13 (part) 17,19 and 21, 24-25, 32-39

Serious Crime Act 2007

The Act, except the following provisions which have been brought into force in part or for some purposes: sections 24(9) and (10), 37, 40(1), (2) and (4), 68(8), 71(1), (2), (4) and (5), 73, 74(1)(2) and (3), 85, 88 and 92 and Schedule 7, paragraphs 1, 2, 4 and 6, Schedule 8 paragraphs 115 and 169 and Schedule 14.

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

120, 114(9), 117(part), 162(3), Sch 4 (part), Sch 9 (part), Sch 10 (part), Sch 14 (part)

Vehicle (Crime) Act 2001

8, 34, 35, 36, Sch paras 1 and 2

Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006

1-14, 15-20, 43 (part), 59, 61, Sch 2 (part), Sch 5 (part)


Departmental Plants

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on pot plants in each of the last five years. [192049]


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Mr. Byrne: A limited number of pot plants are provided through the PFI contract in some of the shared areas of 2 Marsham street, the costs of which are not charged separately. Elsewhere on the Department's estate figures on pot plant costs are not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost

Departmental Property

Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many residential properties her Department owns; how many of these are vacant; and how many of these have been vacant for longer than (a) three, (b) six and (c) 12 months. [192998]

Mr. Byrne: The Department owns one residential property (held on long lease) which has been vacant for just over 12 months. Agents have been appointed to dispose of it.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will break down her Department's outturn by subhead in (a) near cash and (b) non-cash terms for the financial years 2001-02 to 2006-07. [190758]

Mr. Byrne: Near cash/non-cash splits relate to Departmental Expenditure Limit resource budget controls and are not compatible with Supply Estimates which relate to voted resource expenditure.

The following table assigns the near and non-cash elements of the 2002-07 resource DEL outturns to the related sections used in the Spring Supplementary Estimate 2007-08. The outturns shown take account of all later Machinery of Government and classification changes and are on a basis comparable to that used in the Spring Supplementary Estimate 2007-08. Outturn for 2001-02 has not been included as comparative historical data are only readily available for five past years.


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2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Resource DEL Near cash Non- cash Near cash Non- cash Near cash Non- cash Near cash Non- cash Near cash Non- cash

A

Police

146,881

1,371

109,705

1,636

94,028

926

116,789

1,870

84,211

(5,599)

B

Crime reduction

2,458

0

262

0

40,712

7

38,232

0

36,555

1,272

C

Criminal Records Bureau

31,768

0

6,261

1,098

(2,347)

1,348

(18,837)

635

(25,393)

(1)

C

Counter terrorism and Intelligence

79,829

7,320

119,521

11,639

128,036

12,724

154,189

16,265

112,301

0

E

Drugs

29,354

0

15,272

0

14,554

21

(8,204)

0

23,204

0

K

Border and Immigration Agency

1,515,113

82,825

1,434,049

52,420

1,343,048

17,701

1,280,276

34,798

1,246,394

76,242

L

Identity and Passport Service

(11,350)

0

(26,639)

4,402

(11,332)

2,660

(30,868)

12,000

8,159

22,237

M

Central services

211,147

17,043

198,689

5,516

228,103

13,568

214,619

1,048

222,375

6,075

N

European refugee fund

0

0

(16)

0

2,516

0

0

0

(1,015)

0

O

Police grants

4,396,974

0

4,891,237

0

4,892,366

0

5,274,990

0

5,257,093

0

P

Crime reduction grants

112,416

0

99,002

0

169,487

0

122,923

0

155,232

0

Q

Counter terrorism and intelligence grants

51,265

0

82,414

0

215,522

0

288,982

0

264,408

0

R

Border and Immigration Agency grants

255,684

0

403,157

0

255,168

0

215,255

0

146,880

0

W

Independent Police Complaints Commission

0

0

10,390

0

21,294

2,792

24,059

2,315

28,230

3,042

X

SOCA

7,886

0

7,380

0

7,261

0

6,538

0

364,310

22,743

Y

Security Industry Authority

0

0

6,836

533

9,071

3,042

1,076

3,389

(1,000)

3,047

AE

Office of the Immigration Service Commissioner

3,419

191

3,092

183

3,654

182

(1,547)

1,696

4,260

120

AH

National Policing Improvement Agency

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Central Police Training and Development Agency(1)

73,416

16,888

93,246

0

73,934

9,349

91,582

11,217

51,130

19,429

Firearms compensation(3)

63

0

0

0

6

0

0

0

0

0

Kosovan evacuees special grant(3)

20

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

National Crime Squad(2)

134,246

6,118

155,741

6,800

155,567

6,200

132,569

19,501

0

0

National Criminal Intelligence Service(2)

58,728

13,861

70,160

12,272

74,706

9,129

69,926

7,980

0

0

Police Complaints Authority(1)

5,234

2,681

5,395

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Police information technology organisation(1)

58,544

1,936

119,845

1,450

166,934

880

193,533

2,580

193,318

10,251

Grand total

7,163,095

150,234

7,804,999

97,949

7,882,288

80,529

8,166,082

115,294

8,170,652

158,858

(1 )NDPB's superseded by the National Policing Improvement Agency (section AH).
(2 )NDPB's superseded by SOCA (section X).
(3 )Estimate sections that are no longer used.

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