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Emergency Calls: Hoaxes and False Alarms

Mr. Crausby: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hoax 999 calls to the police there were in each of the last three years in (a) Bolton, (b) the North West and (c) England and Wales. [223672]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 15 September 2008]: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Entry Clearances: Foreign Workers

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many businesses had applied for licences to sponsor foreign migrants by (a) 31 July 2008 and (b) 31 August 2008. [223329]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 10 September 2008]: The number of businesses which have applied for licences to sponsor foreign migrants by (a) 31 July 2008 is 469 and (b) 1 August 2008 is 799.

The figures quoted are not provided under national statistics and have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.

Entry Clearances: Iraq

Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage refusal rate was for UK visas applied for by Iraqi citizens (a) at the British Embassy in Jordan and (b) overall in the latest period for which figures are available. [223493]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 15 September 2008]: The refusal rate for visa applications submitted by Iraqi nationals in the FY—financial year—2007-08 at the British embassy in Amman and globally was 51 per cent. and 43 per cent. respectively.

Please note that these figures have not been previously published and should therefore be treated as provisional.

Genetics: Databases

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) under 15, (ii) 15 to 24, (iii) 25 to 34,
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(iv) 35 to 44, (v) 45 to 54, (iv) 55 to 64 and (viii) over 65 years in each ethnic appearance category were registered on the national DNA database in each of the last five years. [200244]

Meg Hillier: Data on the number of males whose profiles have been added to the National DNA Database (NDNAD) by English and Welsh police forces, as at 16 July 2008, broken down by sex and the age groups requested, is shown in table 1. Equivalent data for females is given in table 2. Age is defined as the person’s age at the time DNA was taken from them, not their current age. This data could only be further broken down to show which profiles were added in each of the last five years at disproportionate cost.

The number of profiles is not the same as the number of individuals. This is because a number of subject profiles on the NDNAD are replicates, that is, a profile for a person has been loaded to the NDNAD on more than one occasion. This may arise for a number of reasons, such as a person giving a different name on different occasions they are arrested, or because of upgrading of profiles. It is estimated that 13.3 per cent. of the subject profiles held on the entire NDNAD are replicates.

Ethnic appearance is based on the judgment of the police officer taking the sample as to which of six broad ethnic appearance categories the person is considered to belong to. ‘Unknown’ means that no ethnic appearance information was recorded by the officer taking the sample.

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Table 1: Male
Ethnic appearance	Age range	Number of subject profiles	Number of individuals using 13.3 per cent. estimated replication rate
Unknown	Under 15	11,340	9,832
	15 to 24	71,251	61,775
	25 to 34	50,416	43,711
	35 to 44	36,863	31,960
	45 to 54	21,654	18,774
	55 to 64	10,347	8,971
	65 and over	4,186	3,629
	Unknown age on load	810	702
Total unknown	—	206,867	179,354
Black	Under 15	20,531	17,800
	15 to 24	116,685	101,166
	25 to 34	79,665	69,070
	35 to 44	56,347	48,853
	45 to 54	16,045	13,911
	55 to 64	3,631	3,148
	65 and over	1,681	1,457
	Unknown age on load	6,451	5,593
Total black	—	301,036	260,998
Middle Eastern	Under 15	804	697
	15 to 24	12,278	10,645
	25 to 34	12,003	10,407
	35 to 44	5,069	4,395
	45 to 54	1,829	1,586
	55 to 64	434	376
	65 and over	102	88
	Unknown age on load	288	250
Total Middle Eastern	—	32,807	28,444
Asian	Under 15	10,905	9,455
	15 to 24	99,171	85,981
	25 to 34	66,185	57,382
	35 to 44	31,105	26,968
.	45 to 54	14,508	12,578
	55 to 64	4,000	3,468
	65 and over	1,408	1,221
	Unknown age on load	2,166	1,878
Total Asian	—	229,448	198,931
White South European	Under 15	3,751	3,252
	15 to 24	27,937	24,221
	25 to 34	24,250	21,025
	35 to 44	12,462	10,805
	45 to 54	3,972	3,444
	55 to 64	998	865
	65 and over	246	213
	Unknown age on load	1,091	946
Total white South European	—	74,707	64,771
Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	Under 15	533	462
	15 to 24	7,641	6,625
	25 to 34	7,078	6,137
	35 to 44	4,381	3,798
	45 to 54	1,741	1,509
	55 to 64	393	341
	65 and over	100	87
	Unknown age on load	113	98
Total Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	—	21,980	19,057
White North European	Under 15	227,880	197,572
	15 to 24	1,195,063	1,036,120
	25 to 34	664,089	575,765
	35 to 44	479,342	415,590
.	45 to 54	234,760	203,537
	55 to 64	100,249	86,916
	65 and over	32,960	28,576
	Unknown age on load	53,243	46,162
Total white North European	—	2,987,586	2,590,237
Total male	—	3,854,431	3,341,792

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