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Home Department
Alcoholic Drinks: Crime
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when her Department plans to publish plans to tackle alcohol-related crime. [227845]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 17 October 2008]: The Government have published plans to tackle alcohol related crime. The most recent of these include the Youth alcohol action plan which was published in June 2008 and the written ministerial statement of 4 March 2008 in response to the review of the Licensing Act.
The written ministerial statement set out the Government's plan to amend legislation and to ensure that current powers to tackle alcohol-related crime and disorder are being fully utilised. The Youth Alcohol Action Plan announced the Government's intention to introduce a tiered approach to address public drinking by young people. This includes greater use of acceptable behaviour contracts and antisocial behaviour orders for those that repeatedly drink in public places, coupled with greater use of parenting contracts and orders to ensure that parents take responsibility for their child's actions.
In addition, the national alcohol strategy 'Safe.Sensible.Social' published in June 2007 set out the overarching plans to tackle alcohol related problems, one of those being alcohol related crime. Further details of the national alcohol strategy can be accessed at:
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been prosecuted for the offence of obtaining alcohol for a person who is drunk in each of the last three years. [228534]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 20 October 2008]: The number of people prosecuted for the offence of obtaining alcohol for someone who is drunk can be found in the following table. Data for 2007 will be available in November 2008.
| Number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts for obtaining alcohol for a person who is drunk, England and Wales, 2004 to 2006( 1, 2, 3) | |
| Number | |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) 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 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. (3) The statutes used in the above table are; Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 S.3 Sch. Para 7. Licensing Act 2003 S. 142 | |
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Greater London
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have been recorded in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) Greater London since their inception. [229440]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) became available from April 1999. The latest ASBO breach data are only available for the period 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006.
Information collected centrally on the number of ASBO breaches relates only to those ASBOs proven in court to have been breached and is not compiled below Criminal Justice System (CJS) area level.
For the period 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006, ASBOs were proven in court to have been breached on 2,077 occasions in the Greater London CJS area. It is possible for an ASBO to be breached more than once.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many breaches of antisocial behaviour orders have been recorded in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire since their inception. [231106]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) became available from April 1999. The latest ASBO breach data are only available for the period 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006.
Information collected centrally on the number of ASBO breaches relates only to those ASBOs proven in court to have been breached and is not compiled below Criminal Justice System (CJS) area level.
For the period 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006, ASBOs were proven in court to have been breached on 253 occasions in the Hertfordshire CJS area. It is possible for an ASBO to be breached more than once.
Asylum
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people from each country of origin used the 1951 Convention on Refugees exemption from prosecution defence when attempting to enter the UK using false documentation in each of the last five years. [229266]
Jacqui Smith: The UK Border Force maintains no such specific records of persons benefiting from a defence under article 31 of the 1951 Convention, relating to the status of refugees.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum cases were concluded in each year since 2003 because the claimant's country of origin had acceded to the EU, broken down by (a) country of origin and (b) year of original application. [229285]
Jacqui Smith: The Home Office does not collate figures on the number of asylum cases that have been concluded in each year since 2003 because the claimant's country of origin had acceded to the EU.
The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost by examining the case files of all applicants from the 12 countries that have acceded to the EU since 2003.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers her Department estimates used false documentation to travel to the UK in each of the last five years. [229286]
Jacqui Smith: The requested information is not collated and could be obtained only by examination of individual case records and therefore at disproportionate cost.
Asylum: Finance
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers received section (a) 4 and (b) 95 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in each year since the Act came into force. [229267]
Jacqui Smith: The information is as follows.
(a) Published information on the number of asylum seekers who were supported under section 4 is available from 2005 in the Asylum Statistics Annual Bulletin, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at
The following table shows the number of applicants, excluding dependants, recorded as being in receipt of Section 4 support as at the end of the period in each respective year.
(b) Published information on the number of asylum seekers who received section 95 support is available from 2000 in the Asylum Statistics Annual Bulletin, available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at
The following table shows the number of applicants, including dependants, recorded as being in receipt of section 95 support (dispersed accommodation and subsistence only) as at the end of the period in each respective year.
| Applicants, excluding dependants, in receipt of support under Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 at the end of the period( 1) | |
| As at end | Number of applicants on section four support |
| (1 )Figures rounded to the nearest 5. (2) This was the first snapshot produced on Section 4. | |
| Supported asylum seekers (including dependants) in receipt of Section 95 support at the end of the period( 1) | ||||||||
| December each year | ||||||||
| As at end: | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| (1 )Figures are rounded to the nearest 5. | ||||||||
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost of administering section (a) 4 and (b) 95 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 has been in each year since the Act came into force. [229268]
Jacqui Smith: The UK Border Agency provides a range of support for asylum seekers who are, or who may become, destitute. It is not possible to identify separately administrative costs relating to individual lines of support. Total Home Office expenditure on asylum seekers for the years 2000-01 to 2007-08 inclusive is shown as follows, as is the cost of direct support and also total administration costs:
| £ million | |||
| Of which: | |||
| Total Home Office expenditure on asylum support | Support costs | Administration costs | |
Crime: Young People
Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of victims of crime were aged between 14 and 19 years in (a) the London Borough of Newham, (b) the London Borough of Hackney, (c) the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and (d) London in the latest period for which figures are available. [228824]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information on the percentage of victims of crime aged between 14 and 19 years in (a) the London borough of Newham, (b) the London borough of Hackney, (c) the London borough of Tower Hamlets and (d) London is not available from the British Crime Survey (BCS) or police recorded crime data. However, following a recommendation of the independent Smith review of the Home Office crime statistics, the British Crime Survey is being extended to include those aged under 16 years from 2009. This will assist in providing a clearer understanding of youth victimisation. We know that young people are more likely to be victims of other young people, and we are committed to driving down levels of youth victimisation. Through the implementation of the Youth Crime Action Plan, we will introduce a new national objective to substantially reduce the number of young victims by 2020.
Lyn Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of crimes were committed by 14 to 19 years old in (a) the London Borough of Newham, (b) the London Borough of Hackney, (c) the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and (d) London in the latest period for which figures are available. [228825]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information on the number of crimes committed by 14 to 19-years-olds in (a) the London borough of Newham, (b) the London borough of Hackney, (c) the London borough of Tower Hamlets and (d) London in the latest period for which figures are available is not available from the British Crime Survey (BCS) or police recorded crime data.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of crimes in Hemel Hempstead were committed by 14 to 19-year-olds in the latest period for which figures are available. [229660]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information on the number of crimes committed by 14 to 19-year-olds in Hemel Hempstead in the latest period for which figures are available is not available from the British Crime Survey (BCS) or police recorded crime data.
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