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Treason felony;
Violent disorder.
Data relating to these individual offence codes are published in the annual bulletins on crime.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which offences fall within the recorded crime category of less serious wounding. [257047]
Jacqui Smith: The classification "less serious wounding" ceased to exist on 1 April 2008. All offences that were previously listed under this classification have since moved to other classifications.
For example, offences of “inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent” (new code 8F, covered by section 20 of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act) are now a contributory part of a new most serious violence against the person category.
The offences that were included in Home Office classification 8A "less serious wounding", before abolition on 1 April 2008, are as following:
Wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm, with or without weapon.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 20.
Administering poison with intent to injure or annoy.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 24.
Drivers injuring persons by furious driving.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 35.
Assault on person preserving wreck.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 37.
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 47.
Assault with intent to resist apprehension.
Offences against the Person Act 1861 Sec 38.
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in a public place injuring any person.
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(1).
Owner or person in charge allowing dog to enter a non-public place and injure any person.
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Sec 3(3).
Excise, infibulate, aid, abet, counsel.
Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 Sec 1(1), 2, 3 & 5.
It is not possible to separately identify the number of offences recorded under each piece of legislation.
Drugs: Crime
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of possession of (a) cannabis, (b) cocaine, (c) heroin, (d) ecstasy, (e) ketamine and (f) LSD have been recorded by police in each of the last 10 years. [257046]
Jacqui Smith: Recorded offences of possession of cannabis have been collected separately since 2004-05 and the figures are given in the following table. Possession of other drug types are included in the Home Office classification ‘Possession of controlled drugs (excluding cannabis)’ but the drug type cannot be separately identified.
Recent rises in recorded possession of cannabis offences are largely associated with the increased police use of powers to issue warnings for cannabis possession, these powers first becoming nationally available from 1 April 2004.
| Possession of cannabis offences recorded by the police in England and Wales | |
| Number of offences | |
Entry Clearances: Pakistan
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visa applicants from Pakistan have had their applications refused in each of the last three years; how many have appealed against the refusal; how many such appeals have succeeded; how many decisions have been withdrawn prior to determination of the appeal; and if she will make a statement. [254147]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Pakistan | |||
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Note: These data are unpublished and should be treated as provisional. Source: Central Reference System. | |||
We are unable to readily separate applications where a decision has been revoked following receipt of an appeal from those where a decision has been revoked following an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal determination. This information could be provided only by checking individual applications and therefore at disproportionate cost.
Human Trafficking: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training police officers in Essex have received on human trafficking; and if she will make a statement. [254783]
Mr. Alan Campbell: All police forces in England and Wales have sent officers to the training courses devised and delivered by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) and this work has been reinforced by the distribution of awareness-raising material sent electronically to all police officers. The UKHTC in conjunction with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) are also in the process of rolling out training modules on human trafficking to be included in mainstream police courses. All of this work involves an element of training specifically on the convention.
The knowledge of police officers on human trafficking has been further reinforced as part of the successful nationwide Operations Pentameter 1 and 2, the latter of
which additionally involved a trial of the national referral mechanism, a central component of the convention and which will be introduced from 1 April 2009.
Identity Cards
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which groups of people she plans to allow to use a third party address on a national identity card. [251681]
Meg Hillier: The cardholder’s address will not be shown on the face of an identity card and so anyone who wishes to assert their identity will be able to show their identity card without needing at the same time to reveal their address.
Under the Provisions of the Identity Cards Act, individuals applying for an identity card will need to provide the address of their place of residence. Further definition under secondary legislation will provide that people who have no fixed abode, such as homeless people, may agree a suitable place of abode to be recorded as their place of residence. Each case will depend on the individual circumstances.
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how long she expects the evaluation of the identity card pilot scheme to take. [258104]
Meg Hillier: It is intended to phase in identity cards at Manchester and London City airports to employees requiring airside access from autumn 2009. The first 18 months from the start of the scheme will be treated as an evaluation period for the airside workers scheme.
Immigration: Peterborough
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals who were last recorded as resident in Peterborough constituency and whose application for indefinite leave to remain had not been allowed have been removed from the UK in each quarter since 1 January 2007; and if she will make a statement. [249282]
Mr. Woolas: The requested information is not stored in the format requested and could be obtained only by examination of individual case records and therefore at disproportionate cost.
National Identity Register
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 23 February 2009, Official Report, column 158W, on the National Identity Register: data protection, what information beyond confirming the validity of data may be provided for the purpose of prevention and detection of crime; and what additional information may be made available for that purpose. [260338]
Meg Hillier:
The identity information held on the National Identity Register, as listed in section 3 and schedule 1 of the Identity Cards Act 2006, may be provided to the security and intelligence services, police and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and Government Departments where specified in secondary legislation
for the purposes, including the prevention and detection of crime, prescribed in section 17 of the Identity Cards Act 2006.
Offensive Weapons: Crime Prevention
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hospitals with accident and emergency departments in the 10 police force areas that make up the Tackling Knives Action Programme are sharing information with the police under the programme; and what information is being shared by them. [253978]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 4 February 2009]: As at 30 January, police forces report that 37 hospitals in the 10 Tackling Knives Action programme areas (Metropolitan, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Merseyside, Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Essex, and Thames Valley) are routinely sharing anonymised information relating to victims presenting at accident and emergency departments with injuries caused by violence. One additional hospital in a second tier TKAP area (South Yorkshire, Bedfordshire and Northumbria) is also sharing information. A total of 38 hospitals.
Police: Inspections
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which organisations have a power of inspection in respect of police forces. [254848]
Jacqui Smith: The main organisations which exercise powers of inspection in police forces are:
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary;
Audit Commission (including District Audit);
Independent Police Complaints Commission;
Independent Custody Visitors.
Work Permits: Africa
Hilary Armstrong: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permits were issued for (a) doctors and (b) nurses from each country in Africa in each of the last 15 years. [259662]
Mr. Woolas: The following tables show the number of work permit applications approved for doctors and nurses from each country in Africa in the last nine years. Data are not available before 1 January 2000.
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