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Driving Under Influence
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) between 17 to 25, (b) between 25 to 40 and (c) 40 and over were (i) stopped on suspicion of, (ii) arrested for and (iii) charged with drink-driving in (A) Ribble Valley, (B) Lancashire and (C) England and Wales in each of the last five years. [253225]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 2 February 2009]: Data are not collected centrally on the number of people stopped on suspicion of an offence or those charged with an offence.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office is based on aggregate data and covers persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, by age group, gender, ethnicity, police force area and main offence group, for example, violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary and drugs offences.
Offences of driving while unfit through drink are summary offences and do not feature in the arrests statistics collected by the Home Office.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) between 17 and 25, (b) between 25 and 40 and (c) over 40 years old were (i) stopped on suspicion of, (ii) arrested for and (iii) charged with drink-driving in (A) Southend, (B) Essex and (C) England and Wales in each of the last five years. [254995]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Data are not collected centrally on the number of people stopped on suspicion of an offence or those charged with an offence.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office is based on aggregate data and covers persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, by age group, gender, ethnicity, police force area and main offence group, for example, violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary and drugs offences.
Offences of driving while unfit through drink are summary offences and do not feature in the arrests statistics collected by the Home Office.
Driving Under Influence: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) between 17 and 24, (b) between 25 and 40 and (c) over 40 years old were (i) stopped on suspicion of, (ii) arrested for and (iii) charged with drink-driving offences in (A) Hemel Hempstead and (B) Hertfordshire in each of the last five years. [255585]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Data are not collected centrally on the number of people stopped on suspicion of an offence or those charged with an offence.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office is based on aggregate data and covers persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, by age group, gender, ethnicity, police force area and main offence group, for example violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary and drugs offences.
Offences of driving while unfit through drink are summary offences and do not feature in the arrests statistics collected by the Home Office.
Drugs: Crime
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the Answer of 1 September 2008, Official Report, columns 1538-9W, on crime: statistics, how many incidents were recorded by each police force where drugs represented a characteristic or motivating factor in each of the last five years. [254524]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested has been provided by the National Policing Improvement Agency. The data are only available for 2007-08 and are given in the table. Please note that not all forces were in a position to supply these data for 2007-08.
It should be noted that these figures relate to the number of (non-notifiable crime) incidents where drugs represented a characteristic or motivating factor i.e. these figures should exclude all incidents which resulted in crimes being notified to the Home Office as part of the recorded crime statistics.
| Number of (non-notifiable crime) incidents where drugs represent a characteristic or motivating factor—2007-08 | |
| Police force area | Number |
| n/a = Not available. | |
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of (a) drug dealing, (b) drug possession and (c) unlawful production of drugs were recorded by police forces in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the classification of the drug involved. [254542]
Jacqui Smith: The Home Office recorded crime statistics currently collect data on four specific drug offences. These are trafficking in controlled drugs, possession of controlled drugs (cannabis), possession of controlled drugs (other) and other drug offences.
Possession of cannabis offences have been recorded separately since 2004-05 and are published in Table 2.04 of ‘Crime in England and Wales 2007/08’, a copy of which can be accessed at:
With the exception of cannabis possession, the type of drug or drug classification is not collected in the recorded crime statistics.
Drugs: Misuse
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of those brought into a police station tested positive for Class A drugs in 2007-08; and what the level of voluntary treatment take-up was. [256692]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Drug testing of offenders for specified Class A drugs (heroin and cocaine/crack) in police custody takes place in 107 BCUs. Offenders arrested or charged with a “trigger offence”—largely acquisitive crime related offences—are required to provide a sample to be tested.
The average rate of positive tests for specified Class A drugs for offenders arrested or charged with a trigger offence in 2007-08 was 38.7 per cent.
The figure for number of offenders entering treatment through DIP includes individuals from both DIP intensive areas (i.e. the 107 BCUs operating drug testing and related interventions) and the non-intensive areas of the programme. Offenders from the DIP non-intensive BCUs are not drug tested.
The data on the proportion of those who test positive and voluntarily agree to treatment are not available in the format requested. The Drug Interventions Programme does not routinely hold data on those entering treatment only as a result of a positive drug test.
In 2007-08 the number of offenders entering treatment voluntarily through the Drug Interventions Programme was 43,903.
Entry Clearances
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of time taken by the UK visa clearance authorities in (a) India, (b) Pakistan, (c) Sri Lanka and (d) Zimbabwe to process each stage of visa applications was in the last 12 months. [254111]
Mr. Woolas: Public service agreement (PSA) target times for processing visa applications during FY 2004-05 to FY 2007-08 were as follows:
PSA 1—90 per cent. of straightforward non-settlement applications processed in 24 hours
PSA 2—90 per cent. of non-settlement applications requiring further inquires to be processed within 15 working days
PSA 3—90 per cent. of applicants for settlement visas to be assessed or interviewed within in 50 working days.
Our performance against these targets in the countries specified in FY 2007-08 was as follows:
| Percentage | |||
| FY 2007-08 | PSA1 | PSA 2 | PSA3 |
| Note: The data are unpublished and should be treated as provisional. Source: Central Reference System, 11 February 2009 | |||
New Customer Service Standards for visa processing times were introduced in January 2009 and are published on the Border Agency’s Visa Services website, together with actual monthly processing times for each visa-issuing post.
These are end-to-end processing times which include processing at Visa Application Centres (run by our commercial partners) as well as processing at Visa Sections.
Extradition: USA
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been extradited from the United States to the United Kingdom since 2003. [250081]
Meg Hillier: 29 persons have been extradited from the United States to the United Kingdom since 2003. This figure does not include persons surrendered to Scotland and Northern Ireland pursuant to extradition requests made by those jurisdictions.
Fines
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what administrative financial penalties may be levied by her Department and its agencies. [253603]
Mr. Woolas: The Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 has provided a series of new sanctions for employers who employ illegal migrant workers. This includes a system of civil penalties, under which an employer can be fined up to £10,000 per person he/she is found to be employing illegally.
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