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| Table 2: The number of persons issued with a penalty notice for disorder for the offence Sale of alcohol to person under 18 in England and Wales for the year 2006( 1,2,3,4) | |
| Sale of alcohol to person under 18 | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Data include the following offence descriptions and corresponding statute: Sale of alcohol anywhere to a person under 18. s.146(1) of the Licensing Act 2003. (3) New legislative reference with effect from 24 November 2005 on implementation of Licensing Act 2003. (4) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is Important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts, other agencies, and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: Court proceedings data held by RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Ministry of Justice | |
Animal Experiments
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many animal experiments carried out between 2002 and 2004 had death as an end point, broken down by categories of usage defined in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. [201170]
Meg Hillier:
The Home Office does not authorise death as an experimental end point. Where death as a result of the authorised treatment or procedure can be expected, we strive to set earlier end points so that
animals are killed before they reach a point at which death would occur. We do not, therefore, collect or hold the information requested.
Extradition: USA
Mr. Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been extradited from the UK to the US to face charges connected to terrorism in the last three years. [200653]
Meg Hillier: Since 1 January 2005, one person has been extradited from the UK to the US on terrorism-related charges.
Genetics: Databases
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many residents of East Yorkshire and Humberside had samples of DNA recorded on the national DNA database as a result of being sampled by Humberside Police at the latest date for which figures are available. [198855]
Meg Hillier [holding answer 22 April 2008]: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) on 25 March 2008, Official Report, column 71W, in which the figures for Yorkshire and Humberside were provided.
Identity and Passport Service: Glasgow
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information was considered in advance of the decision to downgrade the Glasgow office of the Passport Agency. [199977]
Meg Hillier: The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) modelled in detail the numbers and types of staff likely to be needed to undertake the back office operations from now until post 2017. This showed that, despite increasing volume from ID card demand, there will be a reduction in traditional examining and related production and customer support posts in IPS, due to the process efficiencies to be delivered from increasing automation and processing by the new Application and Examination system. These changes put pressure on IPS to adopt a more efficient operating model and to adjust its staff structure in some offices. Glasgow emerged for this proposal for the reasons that it has a relatively small production capacity; it currently has lower output per full-time equivalent compared to the larger offices; it already has an established capability for carrying out post issue counter fraud activity and there are opportunities for redeployment. The service to the public will remain the same.
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the decision to downgrade the Glasgow office of the Passport Agency was taken. [199978]
Meg Hillier:
The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) Board met on 31 March 2008 to consider the proposal to remove back office operations from Glasgow office. IPS is now in a 90 days consultation period with the trade union side which must be completed before IPS
can make a final decision on how to proceed. That consultation period started on 8 April 2008.
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Identity and Passport Service instructed Post Office Ltd to redirect mail for the Glasgow office of the Passport Agency to centres in Peterborough and Durham. [199979]
Meg Hillier: The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has not instructed Post Office Ltd to redirect mail for the Glasgow Passport Agency to IPS offices in Peterborough and Durham. Postal application processing continues at the Glasgow office.
Identity and Passport Service: Translation Services
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the Identity and Passport Service spent on translation services for those applying for a passport in (a) 2006 and (b) 2007. [191192]
Meg Hillier: In the 2006 calendar year IPS spent £3,000 on translation services. In the 2007 calendar year IPS spent £117,000 on translation services. Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000.
Identity Cards
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how a single audit trail will be created from the identity card transactions linked to the biometric, biographic and administrative databases which will make up the National Identity Register. [202451]
Meg Hillier [holding answer 29 April 2008]: An audit record will be kept of occasions when an individual's record is checked or amended. The biometric, biographic and administrative components of the national identity register will each have their own audit record so information from these individual audit records will only be brought together to support the security of the register, in the interests of national security or the prevention and detection of serious crime, or to respond to an individual's request for data subject access.
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fingerprints from a person's hand are planned to be recorded and stored on identity cards. [210838]
Meg Hillier: The information, including the number of biometric fingerprints to be recorded and stored in the chip on the identity card for British citizens, will be prescribed in secondary legislation to be approved by Parliament under section 6 of the Identity Cards Act 2006. However, our intention is that during the enrolment process we will record 10 fingerprint images which will be stored on the national identity register with two of the holder's fingerprints stored on the chip on the identity card. This is also the procedure planned for the identity card to be issued to foreign nationals.
National Identity Register
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the biometric fingerprints to be stored on the National Identity Register will be rolled or plain impressions; and how many fingerprints will be stored on the register. [209347]
Meg Hillier: The precise manner of enrolment of fingerprint biometrics has yet to be finalised for identity cards to be issued to British citizens under the Identity Cards Act 2006. However, it is intended that 10 plain fingerprints will be recorded and stored on the national identity register. This will be compatible with fingerprint biometrics recorded for identity cards to be issued to foreign nationals under the UK Borders Act 2007.
Organised Crime: Crime Prevention
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of funding from the Tackling Gangs Action Programme has been allocated to Greater London. [213814]
Mr. Coaker: The Tackling Gangs Action Programme committed £1.5 million of funds to build on enforcement, community reassurance, risk management and Third Sector delivery in neighbourhoods within Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Manchester where guns and gangs have caused serious harm. Over £573,000 of this funding was allocated for work in parts of London. A further £1 million is being allocated to the four areas for enforcement, intelligence, safeguarding, prevention, and community reassurance work.
Passports
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 March 2008, Official Report, column 410W, on passports, what the reason is for the difference in current average processing time for straightforward, properly completed passport applications between each of the regional offices excluding London. [197457]
Meg Hillier [holding answer 31 March 2008]: The amount of postal work received in each office in 2006 varied according to the local catchment area, transfers of work between offices to match short-term capacity to demand, and the office's capacity to deal with the applications received. The policy is to ensure that all straightforward, properly completed applications are processed within 10 days. In 2006, the average time within which applications were processed ranged from 3.4 to 5.3 working days.
Research Development and Statistics Directorate: Publications
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of reports produced by her Department's Research, Development and Statistics Directorate have been published in the last 10 years; and what the titles of the unpublished reports are. [200356]
Meg Hillier: Most Home Office research reports are published except when the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser decides not to publish in a Home Office series on the grounds of inadequate scientific quality following independent and external peer review or the results are badly out of date or on public interest grounds.
Since 1998 a total of 993 research and statistics outputs have been completed and published. Details of these publications are available on the Research, Development and Statistics website at
We have not identified any publishable research reports produced in the period 1997-2001 that have not been published, but completing a full search of available records cannot be undertaken without incurring disproportionate cost.
For the period 2001-08 the following 22 completed research reports were produced but have not been published. This excludes projects where no report of publishable standard was produced. During the period 2001-08, 800 research outputs were published, hence the percentage not published in this period is just over 2 per cent.
Reports where a decision was made for the research to have limited distribution on the grounds of security, or practical operational considerations
Merseyside Middle Market Drugs Unit Evaluation and Middle Market Drug Evaluation—Wales (Operation Tarian)
An Examination of Referrals to Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels in 2002-03
Dealing with Mentally Disordered Offenders in the National Probation Service
Enforcement of warrants
ECP placement providers
Information held on forensic databases
Research into police complaints
Exploring the geodemographic and distant relationships between stranger rapists and their offences
Predicting the accuracy of stranger rape victims' statements
Homicide enquiries that begin as missing persons enquiries
Research into gay victim homicides
The Sentencer Information Service (SIS)
Research that was not published
Neighbourhood wardens: an evaluation of selected schemes
Approved premises: referrals, admissions and outcomes
Implementing Diversionary Restorative Justice: Lessons learnt
Process study of offender management in the North West region
Organised crime: revenues, economic and social costs, and criminal assets available for seizure
Completed r esearch where release has not been confirmed at this time
UK annex to "Conditions of entry and residence of third country highly skilled workers in the EU": a European Migration Network (EMN) study(1)
UK annex to "Return": an EMN study(1)
Anti-social and other problem behaviours among young children: patterns and associated child characteristics
Characteristics associated with resilience in children at high risk of involvement in antisocial behaviour
Anti-social and other problem behaviours among young children: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Childhood.
(1 )Approval to publish has been given for these reports.
Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2008, Official Report, column 1203W, on Afghanistan: peacekeeping operations, what the cost was of providing care and support to troops injured during service in (a) Afghanistan and (b) Iraq in 2007-08. [214219]
Derek Twigg: The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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