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Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 16 May 2008, Official Report, columns 1827-8W, on immigration: housing, what estimate she has made of the number of existing properties in asylum support housing transferred to the private rented sector. [207149]
Mr. Byrne: As a result of the recent exercise to determine the older family supported asylum applications we estimate that 635 properties are currently subject to agreements between local authorities and private accommodation providers.
Asylum: Sudan
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 25 February 2008, Official Report, column 1247W, on asylum: Sudan, what progress has been made in her Department's inquiry into the alleged illegal interview of Darfuris with an active asylum case by a Sudanese embassy official in Home Office facilities in March and April 2007. [207142]
Mr. Byrne: All investigations have now been completed. A response to the report by the organisation Waging Peace, is currently being prepared and will be sent to them shortly.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Dover
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many vehicles were stopped at the Port of Dover as a result of the use of automatic number plate recognition in the last 12 months. [209765]
Mr. Coaker: A total of 2,665 vehicles were stopped at the port of Dover as a result of the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) in 2007, the most recent timeframe for which figures are available. This also includes other agency use of ANPR.
Campusalam
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has allocated to (a) the Campusalam website and (b) the Lokahi Foundation in each year for which figures are available. [206864]
Mr. Byrne [holding answer 20 May 2008]: The Department's payments to the Lokahi Foundation are set out in the following table.
There are no records on the Department's accounting system of any payments to the Campusalam website.
| Payments to the Lokahi Foundation (£) | |
Crime: Taxis
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) violent attacks, (b) sexual attacks, (c) thefts and (d) other crimes were reported against (i) licensed and (ii) unlicensed taxi drivers in each London borough in each of the last five years. [209368]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not collected centrally. While the Home Office collects statistics on offences recorded by the police, no information is collected regarding personal characteristics of either the victim or the alleged offender.
Crimes of Violence: Peterborough
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence were recorded in the Peterborough Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area in each year since 2001; and if she will make a statement. [210531]
Mr. Coaker: Statistics on the number of offences of violence against the person recorded by the police in Peterborough are given in the following table. Violence against the person has fallen by 11 per cent. since 2002-03. There was fall of 3 per cent. between 2005-06 and 2006-07.
Because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002, figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.
| Offences of violence against the person recorded by police in the Peterborough Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. | |
Customs Officers: Stansted Airport
Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff are employed in immigration control at Stansted airport; and how many are on duty at any one time, broken down by shift. [208660]
Mr. Byrne: A total of 191 staff are employed by the UK Border Agency in immigration control at Stansted airport.
The UK Border Agency does not disclose how many staff are on duty at any one time broken down by shift, as this could provide information of value to those seeking to circumvent immigration controls, thereby prejudicing the prevention and detection of immigration offences.
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to each police force of kennelling dogs has been since the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 came into force. [210181]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Departmental Manpower
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of her Department's employees are (a) male, (b) female, (c) from an ethnic minority, (d) disabled and (e) not heterosexual; and if she will make a statement. [208394]
Mr. Byrne: Data showing volumes of staff declaring their gender, ethnicity, disability and sexuality (and their proportions of total staff) are in table 1. These data are valid as at the end of April 2008, and have been collected from Home Office Headquarters, UK Border Agency, Identity and Passport Service, and the Criminal Records Bureau.
| Table 1: Proportion and numbers of staff declared by gender, BME identity, disability and sexuality. | ||||||||||
| Proportion of staff (Percentage) | Proportion of staff (Declared) (Percentage) | Number of s taff | Number of s taff (Declared) | |||||||
| Area | (a) Male | (b) Female | (c) BME | (d) Disabled | (e) Not h eterosexual | (a) Male | (b) Female | (c) BME | (d) Disabled | (e) Not h eterosexual |
| (1) Unavailable. | ||||||||||
Departmental Pay
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was paid in end-of-year performance bonuses to (a) all staff and (b) staff at senior civil service level in (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies in the 2007-08 financial year; and how many payments were made. [207472]
Mr. Byrne: End of year performance bonus payments for staff in the Home Office headquarters, UK Border Agency, and for senior civil servants (SCS) across the Home Office are linked to performance appraisals. Table 1 provides the amount and number of payments made for 2006-07 end of year performance bonuses but paid in the financial year 2007-08.
Staff in the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) receive end of year corporate bonuses, and change agent bonuses. Table 2 shows performance bonus details for IPS
Staff in the Criminal Records Bureau do not receive end of year performance bonuses.
Table 3 provides the amount and number of payments made for end of year bonuses for senior civil servants in the Home Office HQ, UK border Agency, Identity and Passport Service and Criminal Records Bureau in the financial year 2007-08.
To provide a breakdown into Home Office HQ and its agencies would incur disproportionate cost.
| Table 1: Amount and number of payments made for 2006-07 | ||
| Financial year | Amount paid (£) | Number of payments made |
| Table 2: Performance bonus details for Identity and Passport Service (IPS) | ||
| Financial year | Amount paid (£) | Number of payments made |
| Table 3: End of year bonuses for senior civil servants in the Home Office HQ, UKBA, IPS and CRB | ||
| Financial year | Amount paid (£) | Number of payments made |
| Footnotes and health warnings 1. This includes data for both senior civil servants and all other staff at working in Home Office Headquarters and UK Border Agency. 2. Although the performance bonus payment is made in financial year 2007-08 the period of performance assessment is 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007. 3. Non-SCS staff payments are made with the annual pay settlement or later in the year if appraisals are not completed and returned on time. 4. SCS bonus payments were made in November 2007. | ||
Departmental Sick Leave
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many days sick leave were taken on average by staff in her Department in each of the last five years. [198960]
Mr. Byrne: The information is already in the public domain, as answered to the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) on 20 June 2007, Official Report, column 1954W. The answer was as in table 1.
| Table 1: PQ 198960: Working days lost to sickness per FTE staff per year | |||||
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