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| Table 2: End-of-year appraisal bonus 2007-08 | |
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Departmental Procurement
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, column 259W, on departmental procurement, what payments the Identity and Passport Service made to Swingletree Stables in 2007-08; and for what purpose in each case. [241875]
Jacqui Smith: Two payments, totalling £300 were made to the Swingletree Stables in the 2007-08 financial year, as part of IPS's Adult Lifelong Learning (ALL) scheme.
This employee development scheme has been set up to encourage staff personal development. It provides limited financial assistance to employees to undertake a course/activity in their own time that results in improved skills/knowledge.
Deportation
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 November, Official Report, columns 318-9W, on deportation, 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 whom it has been established have left the United Kingdom without informing the immigration authorities. [243430]
Mr. Woolas:
The following table shows the number of persons removed, departed voluntarily or left under assisted returns from the United Kingdom in 2007. Information on the number of enforced removals from the UK and persons departing voluntarily after enforcement
action had been initiated against them are not separately identifiable. This combined category is available broken down to show the number of persons whom it has been established have left the United Kingdom without informing the Immigration Authorities. The figures are rounded to the nearest five and data for 2007 are provisional.
Published statistics on immigration and asylum are placed in the Library of the House and are available from the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people eligible to remain in the UK under the DP5/96 concession have been deported since 2001. [244584]
Jacqui Smith: Information on the number of people deported under the DP5/96 concession is not available and could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
Deportation: Children
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many children were awaiting deportation from the UK on 1 December 2008; [243767]
(2) how many children were awaiting deportation to (a) Zimbabwe, (b) Democratic Republic of Congo, (c) Sudan, (d) Georgia and (e) Somalia on 1 December 2008. [243768]
Mr. Woolas
[holding answer 15 December 2008]: The UK Border Agency seeks to deport all foreign nationals who are convicted of committing serious crimes in the United Kingdom. It only deports children who are part of family groups, or, where the child is unaccompanied, where there are adequate and safe reception arrangements
in place. In order to obtain the exact information requested it would be necessary to conduct checks of individual case files; this would incur a disproportionate cost.
The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of asylum seekers who were removed, departed voluntarily or left under assisted returns from the UK by country of nationality, age and sex on an annual basis.
The latest published annual information for 2007 can be found in the House Library.
Deportation: Offenders
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 721W, on deportation: offenders, if she will list the grounds for deportation relating to national security other than suspected involvement in terrorism. [243909]
Jacqui Smith: Any foreign national who represents a threat to the national security of the United Kingdom will be considered for deportation action.
Involvement in terrorism would be one ground for regarding an individual as a threat to our national security. Other possible grounds include involvement in espionage, sabotage, or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, or seeking to overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 721W, on deportation: offenders, where the 19 individuals whose deportation has been discontinued are residing. [243910]
Jacqui Smith: I am unable to answer this question as some of the individuals are subject to court orders preventing any personal information regarding their cases being placed in the public domain. Additionally it would not be prudent to place such personal information onto official public records.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 721W, on deportation: offenders, when the six individuals deported after they were certified under Part 4 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 were deported. [243911]
Jacqui Smith: The six individuals referred to in the question who were previously certified under part 4 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 were deported between June 2006 and July 2007. They were all deported using deportation with assurances powers.
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 721W, on deportation: offenders, where the nine individuals certified under Part 4 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 who have not been deported are residing. [243912]
Jacqui Smith: I am unable to fully answer this question as some of the individuals are subject to court orders preventing any personal information regarding their cases being placed in the public domain. Additionally, it would not be prudent to place such personal information onto official public records, however I can confirm that one of these individuals has been extradited to France.
Detention Centres: Suicide
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers have committed suicide while being held in an immigration centre in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) centre, (b) age and (c) sex. [243154]
Jacqui Smith: There have been seven self-inflicted deaths in immigration removal centres during this period detailed as follows. All were failed asylum seekers or other immigration offenders awaiting removal.
One in Haslar, aged 42. Two in Harmondsworth, ages were 31 and 26. One in Dungavel, aged 23. One in Colnbrook, aged 24. One in Campsfield, aged 18. One in Yarl’s Wood, aged 35. All the individuals were male.
Domestic Violence
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reports of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person contrary to section 5 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 were made to the police in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07 and (c) 2007-08. [243601]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The available information relates to recorded offences of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person. There were five offences recorded in 2005-06, three recorded in 2006-07 and four recorded in 2007-08.
Drugs: Crime
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to introduce a penalty notice for disorder as a sanction for the possession of (a) any other Class B drugs besides cannabis and (c) any Class C drugs. [241602]
Jacqui Smith: No. The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Amendment) Order 2009 seeks to extend the Penalty Notice for Disorder Scheme to the possession of cannabis only. There are no plans to extend the scheme to other Class B drugs or any Class C drugs.
Entry Clearances: Moldova
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will establish a visa regime applicable to categories of persons wishing to visit the UK from Moldova at the same time as the analogous EU arrangements are put in place. [243703]
Mr. Woolas
[holding answer 16 December 2008]: The UK has a visa regime in place for visitors from Moldova. The EU-Moldova visa facilitation agreement entered into force on 1 January 2008. It was concluded under an element of the Schengen acquis in which the UK does
not participate. The agreements do, however, contain provisions recommending that the UK concludes bilateral visa-facilitation agreements. Although the UK is under no formal obligation, we intend to do so however, formal negotiations have yet to commence with Moldova.
Genetics: Databases
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crime scene and (b) police officer DNA profiles have been removed from the national DNA database in each month of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [240864]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of crime scene DNA profiles removed from the National DNA Database (NDNAD) for police forces in England and Wales in each month of the last five years is given in Table 1.
The DNA profiles of police officers and staff taken for contamination elimination purposes are not held on the NDNAD, but on the Police Elimination Database (PED), which is entirely separate from the NDNAD. The number of police officer and staff DNA profiles that have been removed from the PED in each month of the last five years is given in Table 2.
| Table 1: Number of crime scene profiles removed from the NDNAD for forces in England and Wales | ||||||
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