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Rape
Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her most recent estimate is of the proportion of victims of rape who know their attacker. [206502]
Mr. Coaker: The Home Office Statistical Bulletin 03/08, published on 31 January 2008, which is available at
indicates that 88 per cent of the most recent serious sexual assaults committed against the victims who
responded to the British Crime Survey (BS) Interpersonal Violence Module were committed by someone known to the victim, either as a partner, friend, relative or acquainted in another way such as a colleague from school, work or university.
Security Guards: Licensing
Mr. Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what options she has considered to reduce the waiting time for a Security Industry Authority licence renewal; and what steps she has taken to protect those security industry employees whose jobs are jeopardised by the length of time taken for licence renewal. [205033]
Mr. Coaker: This is an operational matter for the Security Industry Authority (SIA). They are working to restore performance to acceptable levels as quickly as possible in order to reduce delays and the resulting impact on applicants. I have met with the SIA's chief executive, and receive regular reports from the SIA, in order to ensure that action is being taken to address performance issues.
Security Industry Authority
Mr. Denis Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how often she receives reports from the Security Industry Authority (SIA) in relation to its (a) activity and (b) performance; how many individuals and companies were licensed by the SIA for the immobilisation, restriction and removal of vehicles in (i) Wansbeck constituency, (ii) Northumberland and (iii) the UK in each year since 2003; how many complaints were received about such individuals and companies; and how many of these were upheld and resulted in licences being suspended or withdrawn. [Official Report, 12 June 2008, Vol. 477, c. 3MC.] [203638]
Mr. Coaker: In line with the arrangements that exist with all non-departmental public bodies, the Department receives regular updates on performance and activities. The SIA also keeps its stakeholders updated through, for example, its website.
The SIA issues licences to individual wheel clampers, and not to companies. SIA licence numbers are not recorded at constituency or county level. Since 2003, the SIA has issued the following numbers of vehicle immobilisation licences in each year:
| Number | |
The number of individuals who held valid vehicle immobilisation licences as at 19 May 2008 was 1,207.
Information about the number of complaints made about vehicle immobilisers is not available. In general, however, most complaints received by the SIA about vehicle immobilisation concern issues such as signage, fees and other areas which are outside the control of
the SIA. All other complaints need police substantiation and are dealt with confidentially by the SIA’s intelligence section.
To date a total of 10 vehicle immobilisation licences have been revoked. It is not possible to say how many of these were revoked as a direct consequence of complaints received from members of the public.
Security Industry Authority: Grayling Political Strategy
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments the Security Industry Authority made to Grayling Political Strategy in each of the last five years; on what dates; and for what purpose the payment was made in each case. [202267]
Mr. Coaker: I am informed by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) that they have made payments to three branches of the Grayling company as follows:
(a) to Grayling Public Affairs for general public affairs work;
(b) to Grayling Public Relations to promote the licensing of security guards in England and Wales; and,
(c) to Grayling Scotland to promote the licensing of security guards in Scotland.
The total amounts over the past five years are as follows:
| £ | |
Work Permits: Health Professions
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which 20 non-EU nationalities received the most work permits for (a) doctors and (b) nurses in 2007. [206258]
Mr. Byrne: The following table shows the 20 nationalities outside the EU, by volume, with the highest number of approved work permit applications from nurses and doctors in the period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007. Figures are rounded to nearest five.
The figures quoted are not provided under National Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
| Work permit applications approved between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2007 | |
| Applications | |
| Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest five. | |
Health
Arthritis
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many finished episodes of care there were for patients resident in Southend with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, broken down by (i) age group and (ii) sex in each year since 1997. [205056]
Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested. Information is available at primary care trust (PCT) level. The following table shows the information available for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 for Southend-on-Sea PCT. This identifies patients who resided within Southend-on-Sea and were in hospital with a primary and/or secondary diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. On 1 October 2006, Southend-on-Sea PCT merged with Castle Point and Rochford PCT to create South East Essex PCT. This is reflected in the data provided in the table for 2006-07.
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