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Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of DNA profiles added to the DNA database in each year since it became operational are from samples taken at crime scenes; and if she will make a statement. [188155]
Meg Hillier: The following table gives the numbers of crime scene profiles added to the National DNA Database (NDNAD) in each year of its operation, and what percentage these were of the total profiles added that year.
| Crime scene profiles loaded | Percentage of total profiles loaded (crime scene profiles and subject sample profiles) | |
| Notes: 1. The subject sample profile data used in the final column are for all United Kingdom police forces (i.e. subject sample profiles taken by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey etc.) 2. The data on crime scene sample profiles are for all United Kingdom police forces, but do not include all Scottish crime scene sample profiles. Crime scene sample profiles taken by Scottish police forces are loaded to the Scottish DNA Database in the first instance. Only those crime scene profiles for which no match is found on the Scottish DNA Database are added to the NDNAD. | ||
Identity and Passport Service: Fishburn Hedges
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments the Identity and Passport Service made to Fishburn Hedges in each of the last five years; on what dates; and for what purpose in each case. [202253]
Meg Hillier: The Identity and Passport Service has not made any payments to Fishburn Hedges during any of the last five years.
Identity Cards: Foreigners
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate she has made of the cost of introducing identity cards for foreign nationals in the UK. [203941]
Mr. Byrne: The latest estimate for the cost of introducing identity cards for foreign nationals is planned to be published on 6 May 2008 in the document ‘Identity Cards Act 2006—Section 37 Report to Parliament about the Likely Costs of the ID Cards Scheme’. The document will be available to Members in the parliamentary Libraries.
This report is published every six months and contains the most recent estimate for the costs of introducing identity cards for foreign nationals.
Immigration: Detention Centres
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are taken in relation to illegal immigrants detained in police or immigration custody in circumstances where there is a lack of capacity within the immigration detention estate. [202609]
Mr. Byrne: Detainees can be held in police cells or Short Term Holding Facilities for a maximum of five nights, or seven nights if removal directions are in place. Within this period they are expected to be removed from the United Kingdom, transferred into suitable long term accommodation, or released.
Alternatives to detention are considered for those who are released from detention such as reporting conditions which restricts an individual’s place of residence, employment or occupation, physically reporting to a police or an immigration reporting centre and electronic monitoring.
Internet: Security
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions her Department has had with the European Commission on cyber-security; and what contribution the UK is making to Commissioner Reding's proposed cyber-defence plan. [201674]
Mr. Coaker: My Department, as well as officials from several other Departments, have regular discussions with Commission officials on aspects of cyber-security. This year officials have taken part in workshops on the electronic aspects of the programme for European Critical Infrastructure protection. Officials have also worked with Commission officials on the ongoing work of the European Network and Information Security Agency and attended workshops to discuss ideas for the proposed Communication on Critical Information Infrastructure Protections that will be issued by Mrs Reding’s Directorate of the Commission.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Michael Spicer:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Minister of State will
reply to the letter, dated 25 March 2008, about visas for Chernobyl children. [203391]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 6 May 2008]: The International Group of the UK Border Agency wrote to the hon. Member on 29 April 2008.
Offenders: Deportation
Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals are being held in prisons in Wales beyond the end of their sentence awaiting deportation, broken down by (a) prison and (b) country of origin. [203589]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested can be provided through the examination of individual case files only at disproportionate cost. The chief executive of the UK Border Agency advised in her letters of 20 November and 17 December 2007 to the Home Affairs Committee that there were 1,500 foreign national prisoners detained upon completion of their sentence. She also advised during her appearance before the Committee on 15 January this year that a significant number of foreign national prisoners come from Jamaica, Nigeria, China and Vietnam.
Peterborough Prison: Foreigners
Mr. Stewart Jackson:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign nationals
held at HMP Peterborough were deported on completion of their sentence in each month since March 2005; and if she will make a statement. [203682]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested can be obtained only through the detailed examination of individual casefiles at disproportionate cost in order to ascertain the number of individuals that had been detained at HMP Peterborough.
Police: Road Traffic Control
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average (a) number of police officers and (b) proportion of each police force employed in speed enforcement on roads was in each of the last five years. [198453]
Mr. McNulty: While information is collected on the number of police officers primarily employed in the function ‘traffic’, it is not possible to show the number or proportion of police officers specifically employed in speed enforcement as this is only part of their duties.
The available data are for the number of full-time equivalent police officers primarily employed in the function ‘traffic’, and are given in the following table.
The deployment of police officers to speed enforcement activity is an operational matter for individual chief officers and police authorities.
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