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Deportation: Peterborough
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on deportation: Peterborough, for what reasons information on the number of residents in Peterborough constituency is not available. [253803]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 4 February 2009]: Information on the number of appeals lodged is published quarterly and annually. However, this information does not show who is currently appealing, only the total number of appeals lodged in the particular period. The figures are also not broken down by geographical region. Copies of Asylum Statistics Publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics website at:
The Case Information Database records both appeals and applicant address details. However, it is completely reliant on the quality and timeliness of the information received and input onto the database. Since we cannot ensure that this information meets the rigorous standards applied to published statistics, it is for internal use only by UK Border Agency. Ensuring the information is of sufficient quality to be issued publicly would entail a manual cross checking of a number of individual case files against these figures, which could only be completed at disproportionate cost.
Detention Centres: Death
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people died while being held in an immigration removal centre in each of the last five years, broken down by cause of death. [256438]
Mr. Woolas: In the last five years there have been a total of seven deaths of detainees held in the UK Border Agency removal centres; there have been no deaths in 2009 to date.
| Number of deaths | |
| Note: Six deaths were as a result of suicide and one, in 2004, from natural causes. | |
Detention Centres: Detainees
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) men, (b) women and (c) children are held in each immigration removal centre. [256440]
Mr. Woolas: As at 12 February 2009, there were 1,984 men, 295 women and 36 children detained in the UK Border Agency removal centres. The following table provides a breakdown of these figures by centre.
The figures given are based on management information, this information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
| Removal centre | Males | Females | Children |
Detention Centres: Families
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many families have members currently held in different immigration removal centres. [256436]
Mr. Woolas: We do not hold the data requested centrally and it could be provided only by checking and cross-referencing each case file individually, which would be at disproportionate cost.
However, it is the UK Border Agency's policy to keep family members together wherever possible.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many families have one or more of their members currently held in an immigration removal centre. [256437]
Mr. Woolas: As at 10 February 2008 there were 44 families detained in the UK Border Agency detention estate.
Detention Centres: Visits
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visitors each immigration removal centre has received in each of the previous 12 months. [256439]
Mr. Woolas: All those detained in a UK Border Agency Immigration Removal Centres may receive visits as they wish from family, friends and other associates. They may also receive visits from legal advisers and representatives, from ministers of religion, and from members of the Independent Monitoring Board (1MB) appointed to each centre. Records of the numbers of visitors to each removal centre are not held, either locally at the individual centres or centrally. Home Office policy is not to hold databases that are unnecessary.
Domestic Violence
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded instances of (a) rape and (b) domestic violence there were in each police force area in 2007-08; and what the clean-up rate for each crime was in each force in that year. [256681]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information on the number of recorded offences of rape and the clear-up rate for these crimes in 2007-08 is given in the following table.
From the information collected centrally on recorded crime, it is not possible to identify recorded cases of domestic violence. Such offences are not specifically defined by law and details of the individual circumstances of offences are not collected.
| Rape offences recorded by the police and detection rates by police force area—2007-08 | ||
| Police force area | Number of rape offences | Detection rate (Percentage) |
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