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Cannabis
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to curtail the supply of cannabis seeds available to buy via the internet. [200034]
Mr. Coaker: Cannabis seeds are not illegal under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, although the unauthorised cultivation of cannabis seeds and any subsequent supply and possession of cannabis is unlawful. As I stated in the House on 3 April 2008, the availability of cannabis seeds on the internet is a concern. This matter is kept under regular review, as is any issue associated with the unlawful production of illegal drugs.
Cannabis: Cafes
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library a copy of her letter of March 27 2008 to the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham on the cannabis cafe in Lancing. [198928]
Mr. Coaker: I have arranged for a copy to be placed in the House Library today.
Community Support Officers: Powers
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers have been delegated to police community support officers in each police force area. [198612]
Mr. McNulty: The list of powers designated to police community support officers in each force area during 2006-07 is available at:
http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/community-policing/PCSOs_Audit_Table _May_2007_1.pdf
Similar information for 2007-08 is currently being compiled. This will be published on the Home Office, Police Community Support Officers webpage in May 2008.
Crime: Cambridgeshire
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 13 March 2008, Official Report, column 607W, on crime: Cambridgeshire, how many (a) police officers and (b) police officers per 1,000 of the population there were in each of the areas listed in each year since 1997; and what percentage of time was spent by police officers on (i) frontline policing and (ii) patrolling in each of the areas in each of those years. [196646]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is as follows:
(a) The available data are given in Table 1.
(b) The available data are given in Table 2.
(i) The information requested has only been collected since 2003-04, and the available data are given in Table 3.
(ii) The information requested for the time spent by each force on patrol is not available as these data are collected by forces for internal management purposes only.
| Table 1: Police Officer Strength( 1) (FTE)( 2) by Police Force 1997 to 2007, as at 31 March each year | |||||||||||
| Police Force | 1997( 3) | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003( 3) | 2004( 3) | 2005( 3) | 2006( 3) | 20 07( 3) |
| (1) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (2) Full-time equivalent excludes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave (3) Comparable strength (excludes those on career breaks, or maternity/paternity leave). The Police Numbers Task Force (2001) recommended that a clear presentation was made of the numbers of staff employed by police forces including those seconded into the force and those on any type of long or short term absence. These new calculations were first used in 2003, and are not comparable with data prior to March 2003. The data from 2003 onwards used here are termed comparable because they have been calculated on the old basis to allow comparison. | |||||||||||
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