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Firearms: Convictions
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people have been convicted of firearms offences in each year since 1997. [247709]
Maria Eagle: Information on the number of persons found guilty at all courts for firearm offences in England and Wales 1997 to 2007 can be viewed in the table.
These data are on the principal offence basis. The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offence for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences, the offence selected is the one for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
Court proceedings data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.
| N umber of persons found guilty at all courts for firearm offences in England and Wales, 1997 to 2007( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3) | |
| Found guilty | |
| (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) Staffordshire police force were only able to submit sample data for persons proceeded against and convicted in the magistrates courts for the year 2000. Although sufficient to estimate higher orders of data, these data are not robust enough at a detailed level and have been excluded from the table. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform, Evidence and Analysis, Ministry of Justice | |
Fraud: Prosecutions
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prosecutions for fraud were brought in each of the last five years, broken down by investigating agency; and how many such prosecutions brought by each investigating agency resulted in a conviction in each year. [249926]
Maria Eagle: Data from the Ministry of Justice Courts Proceedings Database showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of offences relating to fraud, in England and Wales from 2003 to 2007 (latest available) are given in the following table. Details relating to the investigating agency are not held centrally.
The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
| Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to Fraud( 1) England and Wales, 2003-07( 2,3) | ||
| Proceeded against | Found guilty | |
| (1) Includes offences under the following Acts; Theft Act 1968, Companies Act 1985, Common Law and Criminal Justice Act 1987, Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, Stamp Duties Management Act 1891, Public Stores Act 1875, Agricultural Credits Act 1928, Gaming Act 1845, Law of Property Act 1925, Land Registration Act 1925, Criminal Justice Act 1993, Social Security Administration Act 1992, Computer Misuse Act 1990, Enterprise Act 2002, Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, Fraud Act 2006, Land Registration Act 2002, Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914, Insolvency Act 1986, Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986. (2) The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (3) 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. Source: Evidence and Analysis Unit - Office for Criminal Justice Reform | ||
Freedom of Information
Robert Key:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 511W, on freedom of information, for
what reasons the time taken by Freedom of Information Operation Team 5 to allocate to a complaints officer following receipt between April and September 2008 was 130 days compared to 64 for all Information Commissioner's Office cases. [249511]
Mr. Wills: 64 days is the average time taken for the allocation of any case received by the ICO to a complaints officer, and includes the cases handled by an initial case reception team. Less straightforward cases are passed on to more specialist operational teams.
Once the specialist teams receive a case, the team leader conducts an initial appraisal before it is placed in a queue to be handled by the next available caseworker. The 130 days referred to above is the average time taken between receipt in FOI Operational Team 5 to allocation to a complaints officer in that team.
This information has been provided by the ICO.
I will write to the hon. Member to arrange for more detail to be provided on the ICO's case allocation process.
House of Commons: Right of Search
Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what meetings he has attended with Mr. Speaker on the arrest of my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) and the search of his office; what was discussed; if he will place in the Library a copy of records held by his Department of such meetings; and whether he has received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 from the hon. Member for North Essex for this information. [250887]
Mr. Straw: I have not attended any meetings with Mr Speaker on the arrest of the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green). On 16 January 2009 my Department received a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 from the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) for this information which will be dealt with in the statutory deadline of 20 working days.
Human Trafficking
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what public services are available to people deemed to have been trafficked. [247523]
Maria Eagle: The Government fund the Poppy project to provide specialist support to adult victims of human trafficking. Victims are provided with unconditional intensive support for an initial four-week period, with longer-term term services provided in return for co-operation with a criminal investigation. Victims are offered support with resettlement and have access to compensation through the courts and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. It is also open to victims to apply for protection through existing humanitarian and immigration routes. Eligibility for non-third sector public services is in line with existing immigration policy.
The Government have ratified the Council of Europe Convention Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. This will enhance our existing measures by extending the reflection-period to a minimum of 45 days and introducing new renewable one-year residence permits for those co-operating with the authorities. The temporary residence permits will allow recourse to public funds. It
will also remain open to victims to apply to stay using the existing human rights and immigration protection routes.
National Offender Management Service: Manpower
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many (a) former Probation Service and (b) former Prison Service staff by grade are working in the (i) Reducing Re-offending Operational Policy and Third Sector Partnership Group and (ii) Stakeholder Relations Group under the auspices of the Director of Commissioning and Operational Policy at the National Offender Management Service; [248619]
(2) how many (a) former Probation Service and (b) former Prison Service staff by grade are working in the (i) Mental Health Unit and (ii) Public Health Group under the auspices of the Director of Offender Health at the National Offender Management Service; [248620]
(3) how many (a) former Probation Service and (b) former Prison Service staff by grade are working in the (i) Offender Assessment and Management Group, (ii) Interventions and Substance Misuse Group, (iii) Commissioning Women's and Young People's Group, (iv) Offender Employment, Skills and Services Group and (v) Operational Policy Unit under the auspices of the Director of Commissioning and Operational Policy at the National Offender Management Service; [248772]
(4) how many (a) former Probation Service staff and (b) former Prison Service staff by grade are working in the (i) Public Protection Unit, (ii) Race Equality Advice and Action Group, (iii) Briefing and Casework Unit, (iv) NOMS Management Board, (v) Parliamentary and Correspondents Briefing Unit and (vi) Internal Communications Unit at the National Offender Management Service; [248773]
(5) how many (a) former Probation Service staff and (b) former Prison Service staff by grade are working in the (i) Children and Young Persons Group, (ii) Women's Health Programme Unit, (iii) Social Care Unit and (iv) Parliamentary Business and Communication Group at the National Offender Management Service; [248775]
(6) how many former (a) Probation Service staff and (b) Prison Service staff of each grade are working in the Budget Support Unit at the National Offender Management Service. [248776]
Mr. Malik: Information on the number of former probation and prison staff that are now employed by each directorate, headquarters group and the National Offender Management Service headquarters broken down by grade, is contained in the following tables.
The information includes a number of staff (792) who are employed in the units specified who were neither former Prison Service or Probation Service staff. These staff were previously employed in the former NOMS HQ.
The new NOMS HQ was formed from all staff from the National Probation Directorate and Prison Service headquarters, as well as staff from the former NOMS HQ. Inevitably the majority were former Prison Service staff. This is because the Probation Service headquarters was significantly smaller as many staff are employed in probation boards and trusts. What matters is that all
employees in NOMS HQ recognise that they are now working for a new agency and whatever their past employment history they are focused on public protection and reducing re-offending through integrated offender management.
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