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Crime: Internet
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate she has made of the number of victims of on-line crime in the last 12 months. [263194]
Mr. Alan Campbell: These data are not kept centrally. Crimes are prosecuted on the basis of the offence committed and not the medium used.
Departmental Postal Services
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of letters sent by her Department were given to (a) the Royal Mail and (b) another postal services provider for delivery in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement. [259972]
Mr. Woolas: This information is not held centrally for the whole Department. However an estimated 275,000 letters were sent by Royal Mail from the Department’s HQ at 2 Marsham street in the last 12 months. Apart from couriers and the Government’s internal dispatch service no other postal provider has been used. 2 Marsham street also houses Ministry of Justice staff whose letters are included in this estimate.
Domestic Violence
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded cases of domestic violence there were in each police force area in which (a) no action was taken, (b) a warning was issued, (c) a possible offender was arrested and (d) a possible offender was charged in each of the last five years. [260926]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not available centrally.
Firearms
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal hand guns are estimated to be in circulation in the UK. [255379]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 9 February 2009]: We do not hold this information centrally.
Firearms: Chelmsford
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individuals were found to be carrying illegal (a) weapons and (b) drugs during stop and search procedures by the police in West Chelmsford constituency in each of the last 10 years. [261768]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Information on stops and searches under PACE and the number of resultant arrests for weapons and drugs reported to the Home Office are broken down by police force area only, and cannot separately identify searches in individual constituency areas.
Forensic Science: Females
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many female forensic nurses have been trained in each of the last five years. [260930]
Jacqui Smith: The data requested are given in the table.
| Number of female forensic nurses trained | |
| (1 )None to date. | |
Genetics: Databases
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times information has been accessed from the Police National Computer as evidence of bad character under section 101 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. [260070]
Mr. Coaker: This information is not held centrally.
Illegal Immigrants
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been detected stowing away in lorries at each of her Department's check-points within the UK in each month since January 2005. [250585]
Jacqui Smith: In 2008 alone, over 28,000 attempts to cross the channel and enter the UK illegally were prevented at the juxtaposed ports of Calais, Coquelles and Dunkirk.
The following tables represent the number of clandestines detected in lorries at the juxtaposed locations in northern France from 2005 to 2008 as well as ports within the UK.
| Location—juxtaposed controls | ||||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |||||
| U/E | FP | U/E | FP | U/E | FP | U/E | FP | |
| Key: U/E = Represents figures for UKBA detections at juxtaposed ports including contracted partners. FP = Represents figures for detections at juxtaposed ports by the French port authorities. | ||||||||
| Location—Dover, Ramsgate and Dartford Europort | ||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
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