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Police: Complaints
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints were made against the police in (a) England, (b) Essex and (c) Southend between 1997 and March 2004. [274016]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is contained in the following table.
Figures held by the Home Office for complaints made against the police since 1997 to 2004 are for England and Wales.
Figures below force level are not available centrally.
| Area | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| (1) Not held | |||||||
Police: Firearms
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training police officers must undertake before being authorised to carry a gun. [273468]
Mr. Coaker: The training of authorised firearms officers is an operational matter for individual chief officers. There is a very detailed National Police Firearms Training Curriculum that all officers must undertake. Chief officers of police must decide how many trained firearms officers are needed within their force.
Police: G20
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers from forces in England and Wales other than the Metropolitan Police Service took part in policing the G20 summit. [270283]
Jacqui Smith: I refer the hon. Gentleman to my answer of 21 April 2009, Official Report, column 594W.
Police: Injuries
Mr. David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces in England and Wales (a) have and (b) have not adopted the procedure on reviews of injury awards set out in Annex C to Home Office Circular 46/2004. [273140]
Mr. Coaker: The information is not held centrally. It is for individual police authorities to decide whether to adopt Home Office guidance in relation to carrying out their statutory duties under the Police Injury Benefit Regulations.
Police: Manpower
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the timetables for the (a) development and (b) implementation of the revised Graduate Fast Track and High Potential Development Schemes for the police service are. [272927]
Jacqui Smith: The High Potential Development Scheme was revised and relaunched in 2008, with the first cohort selected by August 2008 and inducted in October 2008. A selection process for the 2009 cohort is currently under way.
The proposed Graduate Fast Track scheme is to be launched in 2010. Options for the delivery of the scheme are currently being explored by the National Policing Improvement Agency.
Police: Powers
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what timetable she envisages for proposed legislative changes to give officers the power to (a) seize high value goods on arrest and (b) prevent criminals being able to dissipate them before trial. [273028]
Jacqui Smith: These provisions are contained in the Policing and Crime Bill which is currently before Parliament.
Police: Standards
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the new performance and development review process for police leaders will be (a) finalised and (b) implemented. [272926]
Jacqui Smith: The new Performance and Development Review (PDR) process for chief officers will be finalised by December this year, following discussions with stakeholders including the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of Police Authorities. It will be in place for the reporting year 2010-11.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the March 2009 target date set for the establishment of efficiency targets for police forces has been met by all police authorities. [273019]
Jacqui Smith: Police authorities are expected to set ambitious local targets for efficiency and productivity gains in the course of preparing their policing plans. Plans for the three years from April 2009 must be published by 30 June 2009.
A new programme of police authority inspections starting later this year will assess how well authorities are delivering their principal duties, including ensuring value for money and productivity. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Audit Commission set out their proposals for joint inspection of police authorities in a consultation document published on 29 April (Police Authority Inspection, available at:
Police: Stun Guns
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions Taser stun guns have been (a) drawn, (b) arced as a demonstration warning, (c) applied in a drive stun and (d) fired by officers in each police force since 2003. [273533]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Figures on the use of Taser are published on a regular basis and can be found on the Home Office Scientific Development Branch website at
Roadside Drug Testing
Mr. Goodwill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of roadside drug testing kits as an alternative to current testing methods. [273810]
Mr. Alan Campbell: We are satisfied on the basis of independent advice that existing drug screening devices are not suitable to assist in the enforcement of drug driving offences.
Trade Unions
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which trade unions are recognised in her Department. [262088]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Office recognises the trade unions FDA, Prospect, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and the Immigration Service Union (ISU).
UK Border Agency: Correspondence
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects the Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall, North of 17 March 2009 regarding a constituent, reference M6652/9. [270952]
Mr. Woolas: A reply was sent by the UK Border Agency on 30 April 2009.
United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how her Department (a) monitors and (b) evaluates the work and performance of the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC); when the UKHTC plans to publish its first annual report; and if she will place a copy of that report in the Library on publication. [272048]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Oversight of all work on human trafficking is carried out by the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group of which I am Chair.
Monitoring and evaluation of the UK Human Trafficking Centre’s work is carried out by the Oversight and Advisory Board, chaired by CC Graeme Maxwell, the ACPO lead on Organised Immigration Crime, and on which the Home Office is represented.
The UKHTC plans to publish its annual report in the near future, a copy of which will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Duchy of Lancaster
Foreign Workers: Pakistan
Mr. Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people who were born in Pakistan were in employment in the UK in each year since 1997. [274430]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated May 2009 :
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people who were born in Pakistan were in employment in the UK in each year since 1997. (274430)
The requested information is shown in the attached table.
The estimates are derived from estimates from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This is assessed in a footnote to the table.
The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently the 2007 and 2008 estimates are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, or the non-UK born employment figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
| People aged 16 and over born in Pakistan in employment, three- month periods endin g December, 1997 to 2008, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | |
| Number | |
| (1)( )Coefficients of Variation have been calculated as an indication of the quality of the estimates, as described below: Guide to Quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV—for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220 Key Coefficient of Variation (CV) (%) Statistical Robustness * 0 [le] CV<5 Estimates are considered precise ** 5 [le] CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise *** 10 [le] CV <20 Estimates are considered acceptable **** CV ≥ 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes It should be noted that the above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc). Source: Labour Force Survey | |
Immigration: Commonwealth
Mr. Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what his most recent estimate is of the number of adult Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK. [274431]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated May 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to respond to your question concerning the most recent estimate of the number of adult Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK. (274431)
The Office for National Statistics collects data on the Annual Population Survey (APS) which covers residents of the UK. The latest estimates available are for the 12 month period of July 2007 to June 2008. These show that the estimated number of adults resident in the UK who have Commonwealth nationality was 1.15 million. The margin of error around this estimate is +/- 44,000.
Voluntary Organisations
Keith Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what his most recent estimate is of the number of third sector organisations; and how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to such organisations in each of the last five years. [271482]
Kevin Brennan: There is no single source for the number of third sector organisations; however latest figures from the NCVO’s UK Civil Society Almanac 2009 report that in 2006-07 there were 170,900 general charities and an estimated 600,000 informal community organisations in the UK. Based on figures from the 2005-06 Annual Survey of Small Businesses by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform we estimate there to be at least 55,000 social enterprises in England.
The amount of public funding received by general charities (from both central and local government sources) is estimated in the NCVO’s UK Civil Society Almanac 2009 as follows:
| £ billion | |
| (1) Data not available as yet. | |
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