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Ministerial Corrections

Friday 13 June 2008

Home Department

Asylum

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the reply of 16 January 2008, Official Report, column 1297W, on asylum, which countries are included in the category Europe other in the breakdown by nationality of the grant of indefinite leave to remain under the 2003 family ILR exercise; and if she will break down by nationality the number in the (a) Europe other and (b) EU accession states categories. [181904]

[Official Report, 6 February 2008, Vol. 471, c. 1208-09W.]

Letter from Liam Byrne:

An error has been identified in the table of the written answer given to the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) on 6 February 2008. The table should have read as follows:

Grants of ILR issued under the family ILR exercise as at 7 December 2007(1,)(2,)(3,)(4,) excluding dependants, for specified nationalities
Country of nationality Total

EU Accession States

Czech Republic

255

Cyprus

35

Estonia

90

Hungary

*

Latvia

115

Lithuania

380

Poland

580

Slovakia

80

Slovenia

*

Total EU Accession States

1,545

Europe Other

Bulgaria

65

Croatia

360

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

2,460

Ireland

*

Bosnia and Herzegovina

35

Republic of Montenegro

15

Northern part of Cyprus

155

Total Europe Other

3,090

(1) Provisional figures rounded to the nearest 5 (* = 1 or 2 ).
(2) Main asylum applicants.
(3) This information is based on internal management information.
(4) Nationality recorded as at 7 December 2007 is not necessarily the applicant’s nationality at the time of grant of ILR.

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) asylum claimants and (b) dependants of asylum claimants were granted leave to remain in the October 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise; which 40 nationalities received the most grants of indefinite leave to remain; and when the final grants were made to conclude the exercise. [177410]


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[Official Report, 11 March 2008, Vol. 473, c. 336-37W.]

Letter from Liam Byrne:

An error has been identified in the table of the written answer given to the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) on 11 March 2008. The table should have read as follows:

Grants of ILR issued under the Family ILR exercise as at 7 December 2007( 1,2,3) , excluding dependants
Country of nationality Total

Serbia and Montenegro

3,960

Sri Lanka

1,965

Turkey

1,775

Pakistan

1,245

Nigeria

1,175

Dem. Rep. Congo

955

Colombia

720

Afghanistan

710

Kenya

700

Ecuador

685

Ghana

620

Somalia

600

Poland

580

China

570

Iran

470

Sierra Leone

415

India

395

Lithuania

380

Uganda

375

Croatia

360

Angola

345

Albania

345

Iraq

295

Algeria

270

Czech Republic

255

Ukraine

250

Bangladesh

235

Rwanda

230

Ivory Coast

220

Tanzania

210

Romania

190

Congo

170

Eritrea

165

Burundi

160

Russia

155

Zimbabwe

155

Palestinian Authority

155

Northern part of Cyprus

155

Jamaica

140

Cameroon

135

Other nationalities

1,975

Grand total

24,875

(1) Figures are rounded to the nearest five, and may not sum to the total shown due to rounding.
(2) Main asylum applicants.
(3) This information is based on internal management information and therefore provisional.

Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were recorded under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 in each year since 2002, broken down by offence; and what percentage of these offences (a) resulted in court proceedings against suspected perpetrators, (b) led to a conviction and (c) resulted in a sanction detection. [196023]


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[Official Report, 21 April 2008, Vol. 474, c. 1494-98W.]

Letter from Vernon Coaker:

An error has been identified in the first table that appeared in the written answer given to the hon. Member
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for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Ruffley) on 21 April 2008. The correct table should have been:

Table 1: Offences recorded under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and detected by means of a sanction detection( 1)
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Offence Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections Number of offences Number of sanction detections

12

Abandoning a child under the age of two years

59

21

49

21

49

19

49

33

23

15

15

Concealing an infant death close to birth

7

2

6

3

6

1

8

6

4

4

(1) Other offences under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 are not separately identifiable within the police recorded crime statistics.

International Development

Burma (UK Aid)

The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Douglas Alexander): The agent the SCF used to clear their goods is a Government business consortium under the name of the National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee (Ngapudaw-Haing Gyi) which includes a company called Shwe Thanlwin Limited. This company and its chairman, U Kyaw Win, are listed in the Annex to the EU common position as “persons who benefit from government economic policies” and are subject to sanctions.

[Official Report, 11 June 2008, Vol. 477, c. 18WS.]

Letter from Douglas Alexander:

An error has been identified in my written statement of 11 June 2008 titled “Burma Cyclone Nargis - UK Relief Items”. The second sentence of paragraph three of the statement should have been:

“The chairman of this company, Kyaw Win is listed in Annex II to the EU Common Position in the category of “Persons who benefit from government economic policies' and is subject to sanctions. The company with which he is associated, Shwe ThanlwinTrading Co, is named under ‘identifying information’ in Annex II to the EU Common Position.”


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