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Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, columns 317-18W, on Department written questions, at what locations the information referred to is held. [239328]
Mr. Coaker: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Deportation
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were removed from the UK under the automatic deportation provisions of the UK Borders Act 2007 between 1 August and 31 October 2008. [236472]
Mr. Woolas: The chief executive of the UK Border Agency has regularly updated the Home Affairs Committee with the most robust and accurate information on the deportation of foreign criminals. She will continue to update the committee with this, including information relating to the automatic deportation of foreign criminals as it becomes available.
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which countries (a) failed asylum seekers and (b) other people subject to removal directions have been returned via chartered flights in the last six months; and how many such (i) flights and (ii) returnees to each country there have been. [237098]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, columns 318-19W, on deportation: standards, how her Department establishes that a person has left the UK without informing the immigration authorities; and how many people so recorded have subsequently been found to have been in the United Kingdom illegally in each of the last five years. [239296]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 November 2008, Official Report, columns 318-19W, on deportation: standards, how many of the 63,365 removals from the United Kingdom in 2007 were cases of (a) enforced removals, (b) persons refused entry at port and subsequently removed (including cases dealt with at juxtaposed controls), (c) persons departing voluntarily after enforcement action had been initiated against them, (d) persons leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and (e) persons who it has been established have left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. [239298]
Mr. Woolas: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Deportation: Aviation
Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how much her Department and its agencies have spent on air travel for the purpose of deporting persons from the UK in each year since 1997; [233348]
(2) how many flights her Department and its agencies booked in the last 12 months for the purposes of deporting persons from the UK; and how many of these bookings were not taken up following the cancellation of removal directions. [233349]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested to answer these questions could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
Deportation: Offenders
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Newark of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 795W, on deportation, how many UK resident foreign nationals have been deported from the UK since 24 August 2005 on grounds of unacceptable behaviour. [235858]
Mr. Woolas: Since 24 August 2005 one foreign national has been deported from the UK on grounds of unacceptable behaviour. Over the same period 79 foreign nationals have been excluded from the UK on grounds of unacceptable behaviour. These figures do not include foreign national prisoners removed from the UK.
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether information held by (a) her Department and (b) the UK Border Agency on who is due to be removed from the UK on chartered flights is provided to the Courts Service. [238225]
Mr. Woolas: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Detection Rates: North East
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent steps her Department has taken to improve crime detection rates in (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) the North East. [236248]
Mr. Coaker: I will write to my hon. Friend.
Detention Centres
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the budget for the office of the Monitor of Accommodation Centres of the UK Border Agency and its predecessors was in each of the last three years. [239017]
Jacqui Smith: The Accommodation Centres project was cancelled in June 2005. The monitor was not appointed and no budget was therefore allocated.
Domestic Violence: Immigrants
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what discussions she has had on potential revisions to the no recourse to public funds rule for migrant women subjected to domestic violence; [226625]
(2) what estimate she has made of the number of migrant women subject to the no recourse to public funds rule who would become eligible for retrospective support if their application for independent leave to remain were successful; [226626]
(3) what estimate she has made of the number of migrant women who are victims of domestic violence and who have no recourse to public funds; [226627]
(4) what estimate she has made of the cost of providing support for migrant women who have no recourse to public funds while their application for indefinite leave to remain is considered; [226628]
(5) when she plans to launch a consultation on migrant women who are victims of domestic violence and have no recourse to public funds. [226629]
Mr. Alan Campbell: [ h olding answer 13 October 2008]: I will write to the hon. Member.
Dorneywood
James Duddridge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer to the right the hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) of 19 June 2008, Official Report, column 1187W, on Dorneywood: official hospitality, what use her Department has made of Dorneywood for official engagements in the last 12 months. [222045]
Mr. Woolas: I refer the hon. Member to the reply from the Cabinet Office of 20 October 2008, Official Report , column 90W.
Driving Under Influence
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drink driving offences were recorded in each police force area in (a) England and (b) Wales in each year since 1997; and how many successful prosecutions for these offences there were in each year. [166882]
Mr. Alan Campbell: I will write to the hon. Member.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of (a) drug and (b) drink driving were recorded in (i) Ashford constituency and (ii) Kent in each year since 1997. [239276]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Gentleman in the time available before Prorogation.
Drug Interventions Programme
Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department allocated to each drug action team in England in 2007-08; and how much has been allocated for 2008-09. [239493]
Dawn Primarolo: I have been asked to reply.
The Department of Health and the Home Office have provided specific resources for drug treatment since 2001 in the form of the pooled drug treatment budget (PTB), with £398 million of funding provided in 2007-08 and 2008-09. In May 2007, the Ministry of Justice assumed responsibility for the element which had been the Home Office contribution. Mainstream resources are used by local partnerships in addition to the PTB to fund drug treatment services.
The following table shows the PTB allocations by local drug partnership areas for 2007-08 and 2008-09.
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