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Departmental Temporary Employment
Geraldine Smith:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the average number of agency workers employed in her Department in the latest period for which figures are available. [194726]
Mr. Byrne:
The actual numbers of agency staff on 31 December 2007 were:
| | Total FTE staf f | Agency staff |
|
HO headquarters
|
3,622
|
368
|
|
Border and Immigration Agency (BIA)
|
19,554
|
779
|
|
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
|
458
|
0
|
|
Identity and Passport Service (IPS)
|
3,513
|
222
|
|
Total
|
27,147
|
1,369
|
Departmental Working Hours
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hours (a) in total and (b) on average per employee were worked by civil servants in her Department in the last year for which records are available. [195813]
Mr. Byrne:
This information is not held centrally.
Detention Centres: Complaints
Ms Abbott:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means her Department monitors trends in allegations of assault by its staff and its contractors, with particular reference to immigration removal centre and immigration escort staff; and if she will make a statement. [195040]
Mr. Byrne:
Allegations of assault are recorded and monitored by the Border and Immigration Agency’s
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Detention Services. All such allegations are investigated by an independent, trained investigator from the Agency’s Professional Standards Unit and are additionally referred to the police for their own investigation.
Ms Abbott:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what penalties have been imposed on her Department’s contractors in relation to upheld complaints regarding assaults on detainees by their staff in immigration removal centres and in transit in the last four years; and if she will make a statement. [195041]
Mr. Byrne:
In the last four years, there have been two instances of performance measures being imposed against contractors in relation to complaints of assaults on detainees by staff in immigration removal centres or in transit being upheld. Financial penalties are considered to be commercial in confidence and it is not BIA policy to release this information.
Ms Abbott:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints of alleged assault of immigrants by her Department's staff or its contractors’ staff have been reported by (a) the alleged victims, (b) their befrienders, (c) witnesses, (d) solicitors, (e) independent monitoring boards and (f) immigration removal centres over the last four years; and if she will make a statement. [195180]
Mr. Byrne:
This information is not available in the categories requested.
Driving Offences
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many motoring offences were dealt with by police in each police force area in each year since 1997. [195601]
Mr. Coaker:
Available information on the number of motoring offences dealt with by official police action in England and Wales from 1997 to 2005 (latest available) is given in the following table.
2006 data will be available later this year.
| Motoring offences( 1) dealt with, by police force area, England and Wales, 1997 to 2005 |
| Number of offences |
| Police force area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
167,200
|
185,600
|
192,000
|
166,700
|
147,100
|
170,500
|
229,700
|
219,500
|
183,900
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
79,400
|
76,100
|
47,400
|
56,400
|
54,900
|
75,900
|
103,500
|
90,500
|
90,600
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
78,300
|
69,800
|
69,300
|
61,800
|
58,000
|
66,500
|
72,700
|
53,900
|
75,000
|
|
Cheshire
|
80,000
|
90,600
|
81,100
|
74,300
|
72,400
|
70,400
|
87,100
|
109,500
|
82,800
|
|
Cleveland
|
80,400
|
92,200
|
81,100
|
85,300
|
76,800
|
84,100
|
74,600
|
65,200
|
59,300
|
|
Cumbria
|
58,200
|
57,400
|
44,600
|
34,000
|
32,500
|
30,400
|
52,300
|
59,000
|
53,700
|
|
Derbyshire
|
97,700
|
107,100
|
105,800
|
98,200
|
96,600
|
139,900
|
154,300
|
108,500
|
80,800
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
198,900
|
192,200
|
185,500
|
187,700
|
166,100
|
182,000
|
234,700
|
231,700
|
172,800
|
|
Dorset
|
93,300
|
84,800
|
88,400
|
97,400
|
87,200
|
71,600
|
112,300
|
116,000
|
125,700
|
|
Durham
|
43,700
|
50,500
|
54,200
|
58,400
|
58,000
|
52,800
|
42,200
|
36,400
|
31,200
|
|
Essex
|
193,800
|
157,600
|
191,200
|
219,200
|
268,000
|
299,800
|
138,400
|
150,500
|
173,300
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
73,800
|
79,600
|
72,100
|
72,700
|
70,800
|
65,500
|
64,800
|
57,500
|
54,100
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
449,200
|
426,000
|
373,800
|
366,400
|
338,000
|
308,000
|
316,000
|
309,800
|
298,500
|
|
Hampshire
|
205,800
|
207,300
|
202,800
|
150,100
|
159,200
|
145,800
|
150,200
|
150,000
|
143,200
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
115,600
|
94,900
|
113,500
|
102,500
|
102,200
|
93,100
|
88,600
|
125,900
|
112,900
|
|
Humberside
|
75,700
|
78,100
|
78,600
|
89,400
|
80,300
|
73,900
|
91,600
|
122,400
|
119,500
|
|
Kent
|
149,200
|
140,700
|
113,200
|
80,600
|
80,300
|
97,400
|
126,300
|
147,600
|
128,200
|
|
Lancashire
|
227,700
|
223,300
|
211,300
|
195,000
|
173,200
|
294,200
|
324,600
|
170,100
|
151,500
|
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|
Leicestershire
|
125,000
|
132,400
|
132,800
|
115,300
|
116,700
|
131,200
|
157,200
|
112,200
|
49,600
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
78,700
|
85,500
|
79,500
|
85,400
|
87,700
|
82,500
|
95,600
|
105,200
|
98,400
|
|
London, City of
|
34,300
|
34,400
|
30,600
|
29,200
|
24,600
|
28,500
|
29,200
|
33,100
|
33,000
|
|
Merseyside
|
196,600
|
197,700
|
179,000
|
127,400
|
108,800
|
98,700
|
98,200
|
99,300
|
111,700
|
|
Metropolitan Police
|
583,800
|
549,300
|
476,600
|
503,600
|
436,100
|
428,500
|
574,300
|
574,800
|
437,400
|
|
Norfolk
|
75,700
|
67,500
|
69,200
|
57,900
|
61,800
|
61,300
|
75,500
|
65,300
|
61,700
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
65,400
|
69,100
|
63,300
|
118,500
|
106,500
|
78,400
|
87,000
|
92,900
|
85,700
|
|
Northumbria
|
202,900
|
202,200
|
214,400
|
203,500
|
227,900
|
214,800
|
216,800
|
244,300
|
176,200
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
70,100
|
65,700
|
61,000
|
50,200
|
48,600
|
39,700
|
37,800
|
43,200
|
38,300
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
106,900
|
106,200
|
90,100
|
101,400
|
90,600
|
89,200
|
108,500
|
110,600
|
103,700
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
144,000
|
137,000
|
124,700
|
120,100
|
130,200
|
115,200
|
148,000
|
134,600
|
147,000
|
|
Staffordshire
|
140,300
|
124,100
|
105,500
|
88,900
|
64,600
|
75,600
|
99,600
|
105,300
|
112,200
|
|
Suffolk
|
61,300
|
69,400
|
76,400
|
66,400
|
65,700
|
66,900
|
79,600
|
109,100
|
94,800
|
|
Surrey
|
62,200
|
65,000
|
63,800
|
66,800
|
68,200
|
61,000
|
53,000
|
44,300
|
59,800
|
|
Sussex
|
220,800
|
206,500
|
177,900
|
196,900
|
138,100
|
112,000
|
146,900
|
118,800
|
142,600
|
|
Thames Valley
|
210,400
|
225,900
|
196,800
|
205,600
|
269,200
|
231,300
|
233,700
|
217,900
|
213,600
|
|
Warwickshire
|
61,800
|
63,800
|
62,400
|
52,400
|
55,400
|
75,600
|
103,100
|
91,300
|
84,400
|
|
West Mercia
|
104,300
|
107,600
|
105,400
|
99,900
|
101,000
|
97,400
|
141,200
|
114,400
|
120,400
|
|
West Midlands
|
376,700
|
364,500
|
300,800
|
256,300
|
228,100
|
257,500
|
304,900
|
320,600
|
273,100
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
250,800
|
249,600
|
237,200
|
227,600
|
204,100
|
205,000
|
266,900
|
316,400
|
269,100
|
|
Wiltshire
|
66,200
|
76,700
|
70,200
|
72,300
|
67,100
|
80,100
|
92,800
|
97,000
|
101,500
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
56,800
|
59,000
|
61,800
|
60,000
|
53,300
|
64,100
|
50,500
|
39,200
|
43,000
|
|
Gwent
|
67,600
|
67,800
|
58,900
|
71,900
|
63,200
|
51,500
|
53,600
|
49,900
|
44,800
|
|
North Wales
|
68,200
|
63,100
|
62,500
|
68,300
|
65,400
|
95,000
|
168,300
|
111,100
|
126,100
|
|
South Wales
|
237,400
|
250,400
|
228,400
|
251,300
|
254,900
|
251,300
|
256,500
|
240,600
|
224,400
|
|
England and Wales
|
6,136,100
|
6,054,200
|
5,635,100
|
5,493,200
|
5,259,400
|
5,414,100
|
6,142,600
|
5,915,400
|
5,389,500
|
(1) Includes written warnings, VDRS notices, fixed penalty notices, court proceedings.
Notes:
1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences may be less than complete.
2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
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