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Departmental Video Conferencing
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will set a target to increase the use of video-conferencing by her Department to reduce the need to travel to meetings. [195869]
Mr. Byrne: There are no plans to introduce such a target, however it is now standard practice to put in at least one set of video conferencing (VC) equipment in Home Office properties.
Detention Centres: Drugs
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prescriptions were dispensed to persons held in (a) immigration detention centres and (b) immigration removal centres for (i) subutex, (ii) methadone and (iii) other opiate replacements in each of the last five years. [197936]
Mr. Byrne: The UK Border Agency does not hold central records that contain this information and it would incur disproportionate costs to research the data requested.
Detention Centres: HIV Infection
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prescriptions for anti-retroviral drugs were dispensed to persons detained in (a) immigration detention centres and (b) immigration removal centres in each of the last five years. [197939]
Mr. Byrne: The UK Border Agency does not hold central records that contain this information and it would incur disproportionate costs to research the data requested.
Detention Centres: MRSA
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of (a) MRSA and (b) clostridium difficile were recorded in each (i) immigration detention centre and (ii) immigration removal centre in each of the last five years. [197925]
Mr. Byrne: The UK Border Agency does not hold central records that contain this information and it would incur disproportionate costs to research the data requested.
Drugs: Children
David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children were (a) arrested, (b) prosecuted and (c) imprisoned for drugs offences in each of the last five years. [198627]
Jacqui Smith: Available information is collected, and has been provided, by the Ministry of Justice.
The arrests data collection holds data on persons arrested only for recorded crime (notifiable offences), by age group, gender, ethnicity and main offence group. Table 1 shows the number of persons aged between 10 and 17 (inclusive) arrested for notifiable drug offences in England and Wales each year between 2001-02 and 2005-06. Data for 2006-07 are not yet available.
Data for the number of defendants aged 10 to 17 proceeded against and given a custodial sentence for drug offences in England and Wales from 2002 to 2006 are given in table 2.
The figures given in the table on prosecutions relate to persons for whom the principal offence for which they were dealt with was a drug offence. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
| Number of defendants aged between 10 and 17 (inclusive) proceeded against at magistrates courts and given a custodial sentence for drug offences( 1) , England and Wales, 2002 to 2006( 2, 3) | ||
| Proceeded against | Immediate custody | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (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 inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) Data for 2007 are not yet available. Source: RDS-OCJR, Ministry of Justice. | ||
Entry Clearances: Thailand
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for visitor visas were made by Thai nationals in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available; and what percentage were successful (a) on first application and (b) on appeal. [198600]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 3 April 2008]: The number of applications for visit visas made by Thai nationals (at any of our overseas posts) in each of the months during the period February 2007 to February 2008 is shown in table A as follows:
| Table A | ||||||
| 2007 | Applications | Issued | Refused | Withdrawn | Lapsed | Issue rate (percentage) |
Appeals data are only available by post, not by nationality. Data are therefore not available to show how many of those refused in the above table were later successful on appeal. The figures below in Table B
relate to appeals received at our Embassy in Bangkok (and will therefore include appeals made by other nationalities). The number of appeals resolved each month during the same period, and the percentage of these that were successful, is shown.
| Table B | ||||
| 2007 | Allowed | Dismissed | Allowed rate (percentage) | Dismissal rate (percentage) |
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