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Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will reduce the length of time for which the police retain DNA samples of people who have not been convicted of any offence. [251187]
Mr. Coaker: We are considering what steps are required to implement the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of S and Marper following the Court’s judgment on 4 December 2008. As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary indicated on 16 December 2008 in her speech to the Intellect Trade Association, the detailed proposals for change will be subject to public consultation in a Forensics White Paper to be published later this year.
Graffiti
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make it her policy that incidents of graffiti be recorded separately from other criminal damage. [251227]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Recorded crimes (notifiable offences) such as criminal damage are broken down at a main offence group level based on legal definitions. Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s independent Review of Policing published on 8 February 2008 focused on the need to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy including the amount of information collected by officers for crime recording purposes. The extra breakdowns requested would place an additional burden on the police and there are no plans to ask forces to do this at this time.
Human Trafficking
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals resident in Peterborough constituency have been (a) arrested, (b) charged with and (c) found guilty of offences related to (i) trafficking persons to the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation and (ii) running a brothel since May 2005; and if she will make a statement. [250834]
Mr. Alan Campbell [ holding answer 27 January 2009]: The Home Office holds figures on crime by force area only and not by residence of offenders.
Records from the UK Human Trafficking Centre show that since May 2005 there have been nine arrests for human trafficking in Cambridgeshire with one conviction for trafficking. Of the remaining eight cases four were not progressed and four convicted of other offences.
Statistics from the Crown Prosecution Service indicate that there have been a total of 48 people charged under sections 33 and 34 (a) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 since May 2005 in Cambridgeshire whose cases reached first hearing at a magistrates court. CPS does not have data held centrally on the number of convictions.
Identity Cards: Foreigners
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans she has to use the receipts from foreign nationals from charges in respect of (a) identity cards and (b) registering biometric information to meet the cost to the public purse of the identity card scheme; and what estimate she has made of the amount of such receipts from foreign nationals in each of the next 10 years. [243298]
Jacqui Smith: The operational cost of the Identity Cards for Foreign Nationals scheme, including capturing and registering biometric information, will be fully recovered through the application fees.
We review and set fees annually. We do not currently have estimates of fee income for each of the next 10 years as fees have not yet been set for future years. We will continue to set fees in a way which ensures those who benefit from the system make an appropriate contribution towards the end to end costs of the immigration system.
Identity Cards: Internet
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of visits to the mylifemyid website had originated from Government internet addresses between the establishment of the site and the end of 2008. [251644]
Meg Hillier: It is not possible to provide the information requested as the web analytics package that is used for mylifemyid (Google Analytics) does not provide the IP addresses of people visiting the website.
Illegal Immigrants
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) educational facilities and (b) health care facilities have been (i) raided on suspicion of and (ii) fined for providing a service to an illegal immigrant by the UK Border Agency and its predecessors since 2004; and what the (A) offence and (B) amount of the fine was in each case. [246236]
Jacqui Smith: The UK Border Agency does not specifically conduct operational enforcement visits to educational or health care facilities that might be providing a service to an illegal immigrant nor has a fine been issued in such circumstances.
The UK Border Agency does conduct compliance visits to educational providers to ensure that they are a bona fide establishment and will act on any intelligence
it receives that immigration offenders might be present at certain premises or that a business is employing illegal workers.
If an employer is found to be employing an illegal migrant worker, then they may be subject to a civil penalty of up to £10,000 for each illegal worker or, in more serious cases, criminal prosecution. If convicted on indictment, the employer may face an unlimited fine and, in some cases, imprisonment for up to two years.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many suspected illegal immigrants were discovered as lorry stowaways at motorway service areas, broken down by location, in each month since January 2005. [246243]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested about how many illegal immigrants have registered at reception centres in (a) Liverpool and (b) Croydon following detection as lorry stowaways is not available from existing records.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have registered at reception centres in (a) Liverpool and (b) Croydon following detection as lorry stowaways in each month since January 2005. [246271]
Jacqui Smith: The UK Border Agency's National Operations Database (NOD) records the number of individuals arrested and referred to the Agency by the police broken down by office and not where the individual was discovered. The number of lorry stowaways arrested and referred to the UK Border Agency by the police since August 2005 to November 2008 broken down by office is as follows at Annex A.
This information has only been recorded since August 2005.
The figures provided do not constitute part of National Statistics as it is based on management information. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols and should be treated as provisional.
| Annex A: Lorry stowaways arrested by the police and referred to the UK Border Agency: 2005-06 | |||||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | ||||||||
| Local enforcement office | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Ma r | Total |
| Note: These figures do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be treated as provisional. Source: Specific National Operations Database (NOD) Operational Activity Report (OAR) | |||||||||
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