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Service delivery complaints (relating to level of service)
	Number
1 April 2000 to 31 March 2001	2,747
1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002	3,943
1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003	3,402
1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004	11,788
1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005	13,008
1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006	13,618
1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007	12,594
1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008	13,585

Case Resolution Directorate: Expenditure

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has spent to date on the Case Resolution Directorate, broken down by (a) wages and salaries, (b) IT costs, (c) administration costs, (d) legal fees, (e) consultant fees and (f) other costs; and if she will make a statement. [200112]

Mr. Byrne: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 22 April 2008, Official Report, column 1456W. There are no "other costs" to those listed.

Community Policing

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent steps the Government has taken to improve links between the police and community. [199835]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 21 April 2008]: On 31 March 2008 the Government announced that their commitment that there would be a Neighbourhood Policing Team in every area by 2008 has been met. For the first time ever, every household across England and Wales has access to a visible and dedicated police team to help solve local problems. Announced on the same day, the ‘Name in Every Neighbourhood’ campaign aims to raise awareness and understanding of neighbourhood policing among the public and ensure they know how to find the contact details of their local team and know how to engage with them.

Neighbourhood policing teams focus on engaging with their local community and provide high visibility, reassurance policing in order to deal with the issues that matter most to the local community. Partnership working is a key element of neighbourhood policing and locally identified issues will be addressed by neighbourhood policing teams in partnership with other community safety partners.

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The Government have committed to making consistent, monthly, local information on crime available throughout the country. This will include data on crime and community safety issues, such as information about what local agencies are doing to tackle their community safety priorities.

The Home Office is working with ACPO, APA and other stakeholders to identify how best this can be achieved.

Community Policing: Publicity

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on (a) newspaper advertising and (b) other forms of advertising for the launch of the Neighbourhood Policing programme. [200385]

Mr. Byrne: The Home Office spent £440,000 on newspaper advertising and £450,000 on radio advertising.

Community Support Officers: Greater London

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of (a) police community support officers and (b) police officers are in each ethnic category in each London borough. [195604]

Mr. McNulty: The ethnicity of police service personnel is not collected at the borough level, and is only available at the force level.

The available data are given in the following tables.

Proportion of police officers( 1) in London by ethnicity as at 31 March 2007
Percentage
	Metropolitan police	City of London police
White	91.9	94.9
Mixed	1.4	1.4
Black or Black British	2.4	1.5
Asian or Asian British	2.8	2.1
Other ethnic group	1.3	0.1
Not stated	0.2	0.0
(1) Figures based on full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items.

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Proportion of police community support officers( 1) in London by ethnicity as at 31 March 2007
Percentage
	Metropolitan police	City of London police
White	67.4	83.3
Mixed	3.8	8.3
Black or Black British	11.3	2.8
Asian or Asian British	12.1	5.6
Other ethnic group	4.1	0.0
Not stated	1.3	0.0
(1) Figures based on full-time equivalent figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items.

Crime Prevention: Internet

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on the website www.crimereduction.gov.uk in each month since its inception; what the budget for the website is for 2008-09; how many staff are employed to maintain the website; and how many unique visitors there were to the website in each month since its inception. [200382]

Mr. Byrne: It is not possible to extract the costs of this website from the others we manage.

Crime: Statistics

Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2008, Official Report, column 1251W, on crime: statistics, whether a perceived lack of response on previous occasions has been adduced as a reason for not reporting crime. [200474]

Mr. Coaker: The British crime survey (BCS) does collect information on reasons why victims had not reported crimes to the police. However, the BCS does not collect information specifically on whether crimes had not been reported to the police due to lack of response on previous occasions. These cases would be included in the broader category of people who had not reported crimes to the police due to previous bad experience with the police or the courts/dislike or fear of the police.

Information on reasons given for not reporting crimes to the police based on the latest figures (2006-07 BCS) is included in the following table, which is published in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 11/07 Crime in England and Wales 2006/07, table 2.11 at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1107.pd

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Table 1: Reasons for not reporting crime to the police, 2006-07
Percentage
	Vandalism	Burglary	Thefts from vehicles and attempts( 1)	Other household theft	Other personal theft	BCS violence( 2)	Comparable subset( 3)	All BCS
Trivial/no loss/police would not/could not do anything(4)	83	70	84	81	66	46	71	72
Private/dealt with ourselves	10	17	10	13	13	34	17	16
Inconvenient to report	5	6	7	5	6	4	6	6
Reported to other authorities	2	2	1	2	14	8	4	5
Common occurrence	3	2	2	1	3	4	3	3
Fear of reprisal	3	4	0	2	1	7	3	3
Dislike or fear of the police/previous bad experience with the police or courts	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2
Other(5)	3	9	5	3	9	10	6	6
Unweighted base	2,805	362	1,323	1,414	604	933	6,234	8,252
(1) Thefts of vehicles not shown as very few incidents were not reported. (2) Comparable BCS violence includes wounding, robbery, assault with minor injury and assault with no injury. (3) The comparable crime subset includes vandalism, burglary, vehicle theft, bicycle theft, wounding, assault with and without minor injury and robbery. (4) Too trivial/no loss/would not have been interested/police could not do anything/attempt at offence was unsuccessful are merged due to the similarity in their definition, for example: a respondent who thinks the incident was too trivial may code the incident as ‘too trivial, no loss’ or ‘the police would not be interested’ as these two codes may be understood as meaning the same. (5) This category includes: something that happens as part of job; partly my/friend’s/relative’s fault; offender not responsible for actions; thought someone else had reported incident/similar incidents; tried to report but was not able to contact the police/police not interested; other. Source: 2006-07 BCS. More than one reason could be given.

Crimes of Violence

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence against the person were recorded in (a) Eddisbury, (b) Crewe and Nantwich, (c) City of Chester, (d) Wallasey and (e) Weaver Vale constituencies in each of the last three years. [202325]

Mr. Arbuthnot: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes involving violence against a person were recorded in (a) North East Hampshire, (b) East Hampshire, (c) Winchester and (d) Romsey constituencies in each of the last five years. [202377]

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes involving violence against a person were recorded in Wealden constituency in each of the last five years. [202176]

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence against the person were recorded in Worcester constituency in each of the last five years. [201293]

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence against the person were recorded in Mid Worcestershire constituency in each of the last five years. [201292]

Mr. Coaker: Statistics are not collected specifically on a constituency basis. The Home Office does publish statistics at crime and disorder reduction partnership (CDRP) area level. The number of offences of violence against the person for each of the last five years by CDRP is available on the Home Office website at:

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