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World Creative Business Forum
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he expects to launch the World Creative Business Forum prototype; and if he will make a statement. [239591]
Andy Burnham: The Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism and I held an inaugural meeting in Liverpool on 20 November with over 20 individuals who are "ambassadors" for the World Creative Business Conference (now called c&binet: creativity and business international network). We discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the creative industries and will, along with contributions from many other sources, inform the agenda of the first main c&binet event on 26-28 October 2009. The c&binet website, www.cabinetforum.org, was launched on 20 November.
Written Questions: Costs
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2008, Offi cial Report, columns 606-07W, on Department written questions, what estimate he made of the cost of answering the question fully. [239291]
Andy Burnham: A full response would require a manual search of 11,000 written parliamentary questions tabled during each parliamentary Session. For the current parliamentary Session, a minimum of 2,300 written answers would have to be manually checked.
Home Department
Advisory Panel on Country Information
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for the Advisory Panel on Country Information of the UK Border Agency and its predecessor was in each of the last three years. [238867]
Jacqui Smith: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Alcoholic Drinks: Crime
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost of alcohol-related crime in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency and (b) Hertfordshire since the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003. [239345]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Alcoholic Drinks: Young People
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when alcohol arrest referral pilots will be extended to under 18 year olds. [234291]
Jacqui Smith: A small number of alcohol arrest referral pilots for young people aged 10 to 17-years-old will commence operation early in the new year.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many retailers have been prosecuted for persistently selling alcohol to a person under 18 years in each of the last five years. [239621]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) yellow cards and (b) red cards have been issued to licensees under her Department's alert system referred to in the Youth Alcohol Action Plan. [239691]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Animal Experiments: Licensing
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for animal testing licences were (a) received and (b) approved by her Department in each of the last five years. [239361]
Meg Hillier: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Anti-Semitism
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much she has allocated to the Jewish community in England and Wales for self-protection measures in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09; what recent representations she has received on such assistance; what meetings since June (i) she, (ii) Ministers in her Department and (iii) officials have had with the Jewish community on such funding; and if she will make a statement. [165737]
Mr. Alan Campbell: I will write to the hon. Member.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Bexley
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many breaches of anti-social behaviour orders have resulted in a criminal conviction in the London borough of Bexley since the inception of the orders. [238134]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) became available from April 1999. The latest ASBO breach data is only available for the period 1 June 2000 to 31 December 2006 and are not collected below criminal justice system (CJS) area.
Information collected centrally on the number of ASBO breaches only counts those instances where the breach of ASBO was proven in court. Between 1 June 2000 and 31 December 2006, ASBOs were proven in court to have been breached on 2,077 occasions in the Greater London CJS area.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Kent
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders have been (a) issued and (b) breached in (i) Ashford constituency and (ii) Kent since 31 December 2005. [239277]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Antisocial Behaviour: West Midlands
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding her Department allocated to tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) Tamworth constituency, (b) Staffordshire and (c) the West Midlands in each year since the inception of such programmes. [237337]
Mr. Alan Campbell: As with all other Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs), Tamworth was allocated £25,000 a year from 2003-04 as a contribution towards funding an ASB Co-ordinator Post. In 2005-06, in England the antisocial co-ordinators grant was pooled within the safer and stronger communities fund. This pooled budget supports the delivery of outcomes and indicators relating to anti-social behaviour in local area agreements (LAAs).
Respect Programmes in Staffordshire and West Midlands also have an impact on anti-social behaviour. These programmes were designed to kick start a change in the way the area worked to tackle antisocial behaviour. Other Home Office led activities also act to tackle antisocial behaviour, for example the introduction of community support officers, but a monetary value cannot be assigned to that contribution.
Antisocial Behaviour: Young People
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many acceptable behaviour contracts have been issued to young people caught drinking and behaving anti-socially in public in each of the last five years. [239690]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asylum
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers were being required to report to a particular centre in December 2007. [179770]
Mr. Woolas: 10,462 asylum seekers are recorded as having been required to report in December 2007. This data is based on management information and is not a national statistic. It should be treated as provisional as it is subject to change.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 3 June 2008, Official Report, column 871W, on asylum, when she expects the asylum tipping point figures for 2007 to be available. [225575]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 9 October 2008]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many refused asylum seekers of each nationality her Department estimates are living in each local authority area in the UK. [229284]
Jacqui Smith: I will write to the hon. Member.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the additional cost to local authorities of decisions made under the Case Resolution Programme for asylum legacy cases which have resulted in the granting of leave to remain. [231582]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her estimate is of the number of failed asylum seekers from (a) central and southern Iraq and (b) Zimbabwe who remain in the UK; and what her estimate is of the numbers in each case who have returned voluntarily since the Government decision not to enforce the return of such people. [236795]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which countries her Department cannot return unsuccessful asylum seekers on humanitarian grounds; and how many unsuccessful asylum seekers from each such country were present in the United Kingdom at 1 November 2008. [239278]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Asylum: al-Qaeda
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) individuals and (b) asylum seekers known to be resident in the UK are on the UN list of those belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda. [237561]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
Asylum: Crimes Against Humanity
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers were refused asylum on grounds that they are suspected of (a) a crime against peace, (b) a war crime and (c) a crime against humanity under article 1F(a) of the UN Refugee Convention in each year since 2000. [224630]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers who were refused asylum under article 1F(a) of the UN Refugee Convention were granted (a) humanitarian protection, (b) discretionary leave, (c) exceptional leave to remain and (d) indefinite leave to remain in each year since 2000. [224631]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers who were refused asylum under article 1F(a) of the UN Refugee Convention were refused (a) humanitarian protection, (b) discretionary leave, (c) exceptional leave to remain and (d) indefinite leave to remain in each year since 2000. [224632]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to the hon. Member.
Asylum: Finance
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many unsuccessful asylum seekers were in receipt of section 4 support at 1 November 2008. [239279]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Asylum: Housing
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of providing (a) asylum support and (b) accommodation in asylum support in each year since 2000; how many units of accommodation were provided in each of those years; and what the cost of the National Asylum Support Service was in each year since its inception. [177471]
Mr. Woolas: The table to this reply shows the cost from 2000-01 to 2006-07 of: Home Office expenditure on asylum support made available via the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) or its equivalent, including the administrative costs of NASS or its equivalent; total asylum support costs; and the cost of accommodation for asylum seekers.
We are unable to provide information on the number of accommodation units provided because the data cannot be extracted without disproportionate cost.
| Home Office expenditure on asylum support for asylum seekers 2000-01—2006-07 | |||
| £million | |||
| Of which: | Of which: | ||
| Home Offic e expenditure on asylum support( 1) | Support costs( 2) | Accommodation costs( 3) | |
| (1) Represents Home Office expenditure on asylum support channelled through the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) or equivalent function. This includes actual support costs and related NASS, or equivalent, administration costs. (2) Support costs cover accommodation and subsistence costs of persons in receipt of support under section 95, section 98 and section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. It also includes funding of support for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from accommodation. (3) Excludes accommodation costs of unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Note: Years refer to financial years, April to March. | |||
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