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Children in Care: Missing Persons
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children have gone missing from local authority care in Southampton and the surrounding area in the last 12 months. [255850]
Beverley Hughes: I have been asked to reply.
Information on the number of looked-after-children that have gone missing from Southampton local authority in the year ending 31 March 2008 can be found in table LAB5, taken from the Statistical First Release (SFR 23/2008) entitled ‘Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2008’. This table shows the number of looked-after-children who went missing from local authority care during the years ending 31 March 2006 to 2008.
and table LAB5 can be found within the Excel link labelled third set of additional tables.
Community Relations: Finance
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, column 1277W, on community relations: finance, to whom the £480,000 fee was paid for the copyright of the Kids Taskforce DVD, Watch Over Me. [257176]
Mr. Coaker: £480,000 was given to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to pay for the copyright of the Kids Taskforce Watch Over Me DVDs for three years supplemented by 60 training days for teachers and partners. ACPO, DCSF and the Home Office are working with the Kids Taskforce on the national roll out of the DVD.
Counterfeit Manufacturing
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to reduce levels of (a) extortion and (b) trade in counterfeit goods in England; and if she will make a statement. [255329]
Mr. Alan Campbell: An effective operational response from the law enforcement authorities is the principal means of reducing levels of extortion attempts. Recorded crime figures for blackmail—under which extortion offences are recorded—in 2007-08 were 1,197, their lowest recorded level for six years.
The national strategy for tackling intellectual property theft is being led by the Intellectual Property Office for which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills is responsible.
Credit Cards: Fraud
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether credit card fraud reported to banks is included in the (a) British Crime Survey and (b) reported crime figures. [252118]
Jacqui Smith: The annual Home Office statistical bulletin, Crime in England and Wales, reports on the scale of credit card fraud from a variety of sources including questions in the British Crime Survey, categories of police recorded crime offences and counts from APACS, the UK Payments Association.
Crime
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes have been recorded in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in each year since 1997. [254606]
Jacqui Smith: Statistics are not collected specifically on a parliamentary constituency basis. Statistics for total recorded crime at local authority level are available only from 2000-01 onwards and are given in the tables placed in the House Library.
Crime Prevention
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much each Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership cost to run in each of the last five years. [254479]
Jacqui Smith: The cost to run each Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership varies around the country according to local arrangements. The normal practice is for partners—most usually the local police and local authority but also other local agencies—to contribute staff time and other resources. This is not measured centrally.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library a copy of the ‘How secure is your home?’; online score card. [255619]
Mr. Alan Campbell: A copy of the ‘How secure is your home?’ online score card has been placed in the Library.
Crime Prevention: Offensive Weapons
Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to support local anti-knife crime campaigns. [255390]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 9 February 2009]: The Home Office appointed an agency in October 2008 to support local organisations in the delivery of anti-knife crime campaigns. As part of this work, we have developed a website:
which acts as a hub of information and advice for running such campaigns as well as a platform to share good practice from around the country. We have also developed two toolkits, one for local stakeholders who want to run their own campaigns to tackle knife crime and a campaigning toolkit for young people themselves, to help them spread the message to their peers.
Crime: Statistics
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which criminal offences are included in the official crime figures but excluded from the British Crime Survey. [254500]
Jacqui Smith: The official crime figures are compiled from both police recorded crime and the British Crime Survey (BCS). The two are a complementary series and together these provide a more comprehensive picture of crime than could be obtained from either series alone.
Prior to January 2009 the BCS was restricted to adults living in the general household population in England and Wales. Since then the survey has been extended to children 10 years and over.
The BCS does not include offences committed against children under 10 years or those where the victim is not in the resident household population, such as private and public sector organisations, tourists, residents of institutions and the homeless. The survey also excludes drug offences and homicide because it is based on interviews with individual victims.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes she plans to make to the national crime recording standard. [255046]
Jacqui Smith: There are no current plans to change the national crime recording standard.
Crime: Young People
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of reported crime was committed by people under the age of 16 years in the last year for which figures are available. [254815]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally. While the Home Office collects statistics on the number of offences recorded by the police, no information is collected on the age of the alleged offenders.
Crimes of Violence
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many violent crimes were recorded by the British Crime Survey in each of the last 10 years where the offender was (a) under school age, (b) of school age, (c) between 16 and 24, (d) between 25 and 40 and (e) over 40 years old, broken down by offences committed (i) in the home, (ii) at work, (iii) in the street, (iv) in a public house or club, (v) on public transport and (vi) at another location. [255110]
Mr. Alan Campbell:
Analyses of the circumstances of violent crime as described by victims interviewed by the British Crime Survey (BCS) are published annually by the Home Office. The most recent analysis for the
2006-07 BCS was published as part of Supplementary Volume 3 to Crime in England and Wales 2006-07, a copy of which can be found in the House of Commons Library.
Tables from 1996 onwards are also available on-line as follows:
1996 to 2002-03: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/violent_crime_0203.xls
These include separate breakdowns of the age of offenders and the location of incidents. However, providing estimates for the combined breakdowns requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many violent crimes were recorded in each of the last 10 years where the victim was (a) under school age, (b) of school age, (c) between 16 and 24, (d) between 25 and 40 and (e) over 40 years old. [255111]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The requested information is not collected centrally. Police recorded crime statistics deal with aggregated data and do not give details of the victim unless defined by statute, e.g. rape of a female child under 16.
A list of all the offence classifications within the police recorded crime series are available in Table 2.04 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin “Crime in England and Wales 2007/08”, a copy of which is placed in the House of Commons Library.
Crimes of Violence: Football
Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 has been applied to remove football supporters from (a) Premier League, (b) Championship, (c) League One, (d) League Two and (e) Football Conference football grounds since the Act came into force. [254800]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Home Office does not collate statistics on the service of notices on football supporters under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many orders under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 have been served on football supporters; on how many such people those orders have been served; and if she will make a statement. [254974]
Mr. Alan Campbell
[holding answer 9 February 2009]: Home Office does not collate statistics on the service of notices to football supporters under section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. Discussions are underway with the Association of Chief Police Officers,
the UK Football Policing Unit and local police forces about the appropriate use of section 27 notices in policing football.
Criminal Records: Teachers
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many criminal record checks were carried out in relation to supply teachers in the last 12 months; what the annual cost of carrying out those checks was; and if she will make a statement. [256734]
Meg Hillier: From 1 January to 31 December 2008, the latest year for which data are available, the number of disclosure applications processed by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) for individuals who have stated on their application forms the position they have applied for is a supply teacher is 44,083. The overall cost of these disclosures, assuming they were at the enhanced level, is £1,585,302 and this cost is recovered by fees.
Departmental Buildings
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies. [256039]
Mr. Woolas: Copies of the Display Energy Certificates and Advisory Reports that have been obtained for Home Office buildings will be placed in the Library.
Departmental Data Protection
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of the IT systems in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are fully accredited to the Government's security standards. [245388]
Mr. Woolas: All business systems have been assessed for accreditation or are currently undergoing this process.
The Home Office's priority is to conform to the new standards as laid out in the data handling report by the Cabinet Secretary published on 25 June 2008. The new standards build on recognised good practice and international standards for information security and are tailored to the particular circumstances of UK central government.
Departmental Foreign Workers
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) EU foreign nationals and (b) non-EU foreign nationals are employed by her Department. [256207]
Mr. Woolas: Information on the number of EU foreign nationals employed within the Home Office is not recorded centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. There are currently no non-EU foreign nationals employed within Home Office HQ.
The Criminal Records Bureau does not currently employ any EU or non-EU foreign nationals.
Departmental Offices
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on works and refurbishment to offices allocated to Ministers in her Department's buildings in the last 12 months. [252366]
Mr. Woolas: Nothing has been spent other than on routine minor maintenance.
Departmental Public Expenditure
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the written ministerial statement of 25 November 2008, Official Report, column 67WS, on the departmental expenditure limit 2008-09, what the reasons were for the reprofiling of £48 million expenditure for the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism programme from 2008-09 to 2009-10. [250388]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 22 January 2009]: The reprofiling of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism £48 million from 2008-09 ensures that the funds available matches its spending forecast for 2009-10.
Departmental Research
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures there are for independent peer review of research undertaken by her Department before its publication. [255321]
Jacqui Smith: All social research that is published by the Home Office is subject to an independent peer review process. Once the research is complete, our usual practice is to send the research report to be peer reviewed by two external experts. We choose peer reviewers for their knowledge of the subject and their expertise in the methodology used for the research. In a small number of cases, the Department instead gives permission for the research to be published by external contractors who completed the work. These cases are externally peer reviewed wherever possible.
Copies of our peer review proformas are available on the Home Office website at:
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