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Police: Sick Leave
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (a) how many working days were lost to sickness, (b) what the average number of working days per staff member lost to sickness was and (c) what percentage of days lost to sickness were attributed to stress-related conditions for (i) police officers, (ii) other police staff and (iii) other departmental staff in each of the last five years. [195015]
Jacqui Smith: The available data relating to police sickness absence have been centrally collected from 2002-03 and is set out in Table A. The data are available on the Home Office website, located at:
The method of counting police officer sickness was changed in 2004-05. For and prior to 2003-04 it is counted on the basis of days lost per officer. From 2004-05 police sick absence data has been collected and published in hours per officer. The change was made to reflect the fact that the police officers and staff do not work a conventional day and are employed on differing shift patterns.
The Home Office does not hold data on the reasons for sick absence in the police service.
Information on sick absence for the Home Office and its agencies. Home Office staff data represents the number of working days lost to sickness, the number of days lost to sickness per member of staff and the percentage of sickness attributed to stress.
| Table A: Police service: Average number of hours lost per annum to sickness | ||
| Police officers | Police staff | |
| (1) Data is incomplete for those years. | ||
Prosecutions
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted as a result of National Crime Squad investigations in 2005-06. [195542]
Jacqui Smith: In 2005-06, 520 people were charged as a result of National Crime Squad operations and, during the same period, 404 people were convicted.
Rackspace
Mr. Hands:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total value was of each
contract awarded to Rackspace by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last nine years. [197514]
Mr. Byrne: From best available records the (a) Home Department and (b) its executive agencies have not awarded contracts to Rackspace.
Security: ICT
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the threat posed by storm worm trojans to IT infrastructure in the UK. [197074]
Jacqui Smith: No assessment has been made of this particular type of trojan. However, the Government works closely with law enforcement and the private sector to understand the threats to the UK from the internet.
Serious Organised Crime Agency
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2008, Official Report, column 357W, on the Serious Organised Crime Agency, for which offences the 15 individuals were convicted. [195713]
Jacqui Smith: Three of the 15 individuals were convicted in Russia of 10 counts of extortion each. The remaining 12 were convicted in UK courts of at least one of the following offences:
Conspiracy to defraud
Money laundering
Possession of false instruments with intent
Indecency with a child
Hacking
Blackmail
Making indecent images of a child
Possessing indecent images of a child
Possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply
Supply of class B drugs
Deception
Sexual Offences: Disclosure of Information
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how she plans to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot scheme on disclosure of child sex offenders’ convictions to certain members of the public. [196959]
Jacqui Smith: The details of the pilot scheme, including the method of evaluating the pilots’ effectiveness in term of child protection, are currently being developed. This—as well as all other aspects of the pilots—is overseen by Project Board, on which the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Children Schools and Families, ACPO, Barnardos, NCH and NSPCC are represented.
Stowaways
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was raised from fines of drivers of vehicles carrying stowaways in each year since the inception of such fines. [163092]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 12 November 2007]: The civil penalty regime was amended by the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act which came into effect on 8 December 2002. Flexible penalties were introduced enabling separately imposed penalties on companies and drivers as apposed to fixed penalties of £2000 per clandestine entrant.
The regime now ensures that if the owner or hirer of a vehicle is also the employer of the driver, they remain jointly and severally liable to the payment of the driver's penalty.
Since the inception of civil penalties within European Operations locally collated management information indicate the following amount of revenue raised from fines to drivers and hauliers.
These figures take into account the objection and appeals process by which penalties could be reduced or cancelled and include payment for penalties imposed in previous years. Information relating to the revenue raised from drivers' penalties alone is not available.
| Total penalties received (£) | |
Terrorism: Convictions
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there have been for terrorist offences in each year since 1997. [196823]
Jacqui Smith [Holding answer 26 March 2008]: The number of individuals convicted since 1997 under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts 1974 and 1976 is available on the Home Office website in “Statistics on the Operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Legislation, Great Britain”. This publication details detentions under this Act and outcomes including statistics on individuals found guilty. It is available quarterly through the ‘archive’ page back to 1979.
The Terrorism Act 2000 came into force on 19 February 2001. Statistics compiled from police records are available on the Home Office website from 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2007.
These detail arrests under this Act and under other legislation where the investigation is considered terrorist related and the outcomes to those arrests, including convictions.
For this period, there were 41 Terrorism Act convictions and 183 convictions under other legislation.
In addition to the above, statistics on the number of convictions in significant terrorist cases are collated for 2007 and 2008. In 2007, 37 individuals were convicted in 15 significant terrorist cases. 21 of those individuals pleaded guilty. So far in 2008, 21 people have been convicted in seven significant terrorist cases. Of these 21, 10 individuals pleaded guilty.
Figures are complied from police records and are subject to change as cases go through the system. The Home Office is currently working with the police to review how terrorism statistics are collated.
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