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After school patrols
Family Intervention Programme (FIP)
Street based teams
Youth Offending Team in custody suite
Reparation in leisure time
Street based teams
Youth Offending Team in custody suite
Operation Stay Safe
After school patrols
Reparation in leisure time
Family Intervention Programme (FIP)
Think Family
Street based teams
Youth Offending Team in custody suite
Reparation in leisure time
Street based teams
After school patrols
Youth Offending Team in custody suite
Family Intervention Programme (FIP)
Reparation in leisure time
Street based teams
Family Intervention Programme (FIP)
Street based teams
Street based teams
After school patrols
Reparation in leisure time
Youth Offending Team in custody suite
Reparation in leisure time
Family Intervention Programme (FIP)
Departmental Data Protection
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times (a) her Department and (b) the Border and Immigration Agency lost or misplaced databases relating to (i) British citizens and (ii) foreign nationals in each of the last five years; what information, relating to how many people, was held on lost or misplaced databases; and if she will make a statement. [243124]
Mr. Woolas: Home Office records do not show any incidents of lost or misplaced databases containing data on British citizens or foreign nationals since 1997.
Departmental Energy
Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to reduce the amount of energy it wastes. [244612]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Office (including its Executive Agencies) is conscious of the need to minimise energy consumption. Our new facilities management contractors provide proactive energy management services including the collection of better quality and more timely data.
We have also begun working with the Carbon Trust on a Carbon Management project with a view to surveying our larger buildings across the estate and implementing further energy saving measures.
The Home Office has already taken some steps in many of its larger buildings to use energy more efficiently. For example we have shortened the operating hours of our cooling and heating plant, reduced the switch-on periods of the motion detector lighting and replaced inefficient lamps.
Departmental Marketing
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints about advertisements sponsored or funded by her Department were made to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in each year from 1997 to 2008; and how many of these were upheld by the ASA in each year. [246641]
Mr. Woolas: Complaints made about Home Office adverts are made directly to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)—not the Home Office. The Home Office is only informed of a complaint if the ASA decide to investigate. We are therefore unable to provide figures for the numbers of complaints.
During the period 1 January 1997 to 21 December 2008 no complaints were upheld by the ASA about a Home Office advertisement.
Departmental Public Consultation
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on which occasions her Department has convened a citizens' jury or randomly drawn panel of people to aid the Department's policy making since 2000; whether the participants were paid in each case; and if she will make a statement. [243039]
Mr. Woolas: Since 2000 the Home Office has convened citizens' juries to inform two policy areas, both within the financial year 2007-08. One was a public consultation on crime, the other a series of public debates held across the country for UKBA. In each case participants were paid to attend.
The Department recognises the important contribution that the public can make in developing policy and carries out a wide range of activities in addition to citizens' juries which allow Ministers and officials to listen to and understand the views of the public and stakeholders in developing policy.
With regards to use of panels specifically: we are unable to separate out and identify the different research projects where panels may have been used for recruitment purposes.
Deportation: Sudan
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the Statement by Lord West of Spithead on 9 July 2008, Official Report, House of Lords, column 750, whether Mr. Abdulmajid Hassan Ismail has been deported to Sudan; and if she will make a statement. [244410]
Mr. Woolas: Any request for information regarding individual cases is treated as being confidential by the UK Border Agency and is not normally disclosed to third parties. This is, of course, unless they are authorised representatives of the applicant. This is not a question of secrecy for its own sake, but simply a matter of protecting the privacy of the individual.
Deportation: Zimbabwe
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Zimbabwe nationals are detained in detention centres awaiting deportation back to Zimbabwe; how many of these people have been convicted of a crime in the UK; and how many of those have completed their sentences. [246244]
Jacqui Smith: The UK Border Agency detains only those Zimbabwean nationals who have committed crimes within the United Kingdom and are subject to deportation action and have been assessed as unsuitable for release due to being either a threat to the public and/or are likely to abscond. There are currently around 35 Zimbabwean criminals who have been detained beyond their sentence.
All foreign criminals detained pending deportation action have their detention regularly reviewed and have the opportunity to apply for release on bail to the independent Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
Detention Centres: Per Capita Costs
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average daily cost of detaining an illegal immigrant in a detention centre was in the most recent period for which figures are available. [246235]
Jacqui Smith: The average daily cost of detaining a person within the immigration removal centre estate is £130.
Entry Clearances
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visas issued by posts in (a) India, (b) Pakistan, (c) Bangladesh, (d) South Africa, (e) Australia and (f) the US have been revoked in each of the last five years. [243118]
Mr. Woolas:
The information could be provided only by checking individual applications which would be at
disproportionate cost. The figures available for posts in India and Bangladesh, however, are given in the following table:
| India | Bangladesh | |
| (1) Figures for Mumbai only. Note: These figures are unpublished and should be treated as provisional. | ||
Entry Clearances: Internet
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she has taken to facilitate visa applications online. [242887]
Mr. Woolas: An online application facility, known as Visa4UK, is provided by the UK Border Agency for visa applicants in 149 countries.
Genetics: Databases
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people aged under 16 years have a profile on the National DNA Database; and of these how many have a conviction recorded on the police national computer; [241665]
(2) how many people aged under 10 years have a profile on the National DNA Database; and of these how many have a conviction recorded on the police national computer. [241666]
Jacqui Smith: At 30 September 2008, there were 136,709 subject profiles on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) from persons currently aged under 16 submitted by police forces in England and Wales. The estimated number of individuals represented on the NDNAD is lower than the number of subject profiles as some profiles are replicates. The subject profile replication rate is currently calculated as 13.3 per cent. The estimated number of individuals aged under 16 is 118,527.
The NDNAD does not hold information on criminal histories such as subsequent charges, cautions or convictions; this information is held on the police national computer (PNC). Information on the number of young persons aged under 16 who have a profile on the NDNAD and who have a conviction is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, some information is available on the number of persons aged under 18 on the NDNAD who have a conviction. This was obtained from the NDNAD and the PNC on 9-10 April 2008. The NDNAD data indicate that, on 10 April 2008, there were 349,934 subject sample profiles relating to persons aged 10 to 17 on it. Taking the replication rate into account, it is estimated that the 349,934 profiles are equivalent to 303,393 persons aged 10 to 17. Data obtained from the PNC on 9-10 April indicate that, of those estimated 303,393 persons, 264,297 (87.1 per cent.) had a conviction, caution, reprimand or had received a final warning and 39,095 (12.8 per cent.)
had not been convicted, cautioned, received a final warning/reprimand and had no charge pending against them.
At 30 September 2008, there were 70 subject profiles on the NDNAD from children currently aged under 10 submitted by police forces in England and Wales. The profile replication rate is not likely to apply to children aged under 10 as, in England and Wales, they are below the age of criminal responsibility and they cannot be arrested, prosecuted or convicted. Samples may only be taken from them with the consent of a parent or guardian.
On 16 December 2008 I announced that the Government would take immediate steps to remove the DNA profiles of children aged under 10 from the NDNAD.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 27 October 2008, Official Report, columns 676-7W, on genetics: databases, if she will break down the information given by police force area. [243418]
Jacqui Smith: Numbers of profiles added to the National DNA Database (NDNAD) where the person concerned was under 18 (regardless of their current age), are shown in table 1. Numbers of profiles added to the NDNAD where the person concerned is currently under 18 are shown in table 2. Numbers of profiles added to the NDNAD where the person concerned was under 18 at the time the profile was loaded but is now over 18 are shown in table 3.
The figures provide a snapshot of the numbers added to the NDNAD by police forces in England and Wales as at 26 November 2008. In each table the numbers are broken down by gender and the police force which added the profile.
‘Unassigned’ means that the police representative did not complete the section of the form referring to the person’s gender.
The number of profiles on the NDNAD is not the same as the number of individuals as a profile may be a replicate, that is, a profile may have been loaded on more than one occasion. This can occur if a person gives a different name, or different version of their name on separate arrests, or if a profile is upgraded. The current replication rate for the whole NDNAD is 13.3 per cent.
The replication rate for profiles added by particular police forces may vary from this. Therefore a figure is given in each table for the estimated number of individuals on the NDNAD added by English and Welsh forces, but figures are not given for the estimated number of individuals added by each police force.
| Table 1 | ||
| Force | Gender | Total subject profile count |
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