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Offensive Weapons: Kent
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged 16 years and under were arrested for carrying knives in (a) Ashford, (b) Kent and (c) England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available. [283003]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.
The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery. From these centrally reported data it is not possible to separate arrests for knife offences from the main offence groups.
The stop and search collections held by the Home Office cover searches and resultant arrests under various legislation, including those for offensive weapons. These data cannot separately identify searches and resultant arrests for the possession of knives.
South Yorkshire Police Service
Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the rate of (a) absence and (b) absence resulting from ill health was in South Yorkshire Police Service employees in 2008-09; what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of such absences; and if he will make a statement. [281724]
Mr. Hanson: Figures on long-term absence for the financial year 2008-09 can be supplied after the headline figures are published on 23 July.
Figures on sickness absence for the financial year 2008-09 will be available on the Home Office website at:
after publication of the Analysis of Policing and Community Safety (APACS) data in the autumn.
Information on costs is not available.
Travel Restrictions
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2009, Official Report, column 321W, on travel restrictions, what definition of unacceptable behaviour his Department uses as a criteria for exclusion from the UK. [281928]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 25 June 2009]: The then Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke), announced to Parliament on 20 July 2005 that he would broaden his existing powers to exclude or deport those who present an indirect threat to national security, public order or the rule of law in the UK or to the UK's good relations with a third country. Consultation on implementing this decision was also announced. Following the consultation the criteria for unacceptable behaviour was published in a Press Release on 24 August 2005 entitled "Tackling Terrorism-Behaviours Unacceptable in the UK".
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2009, Official Report, column 321W, on travel restrictions, how many people there are on the list of foreign nationals excluded from the UK on unacceptable behaviour grounds. [281929]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 25 June 2009]: The list published by the Home Secretary on 5 May 2009 includes 22 people who were excluded from the UK on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour between October 2008 and March 2009. Since August 2005, when the policy was announced, 105 individuals have been excluded from the UK on grounds of unacceptable behaviour.
UK Border Agency: Correspondence
Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the UK Border Agency plans to respond to the letters from the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham of 25 March and 19 May 2009 sent on behalf of his constituent, Mr Ali Mohamad. [282782]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency wrote to the hon. Member on 25 June 2009.
UK Border Agency: Manpower
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many employees of the UK Border Agency hold dual citizenship. [282993]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency does not centrally record the nationality of employees upon appointment.
All candidates are subject to the same pre-appointment checks regardless of nationality. Our pre-appointment checks ensure that we only select those that pass eligibility in accordance with the Cabinet Office nationality requirements:
Warrants
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrest warrants were outstanding in respect of (a) unpaid fines, (b) breaches of community orders and (c) revocation of parole licences in each probation area in England and Wales on the latest date for which figures are available. [276317]
Maria Eagle: I have been asked to reply.
The Ministry of Justice does not hold information centrally on the number of arrest warrants outstanding with regard to category (a) in your question. In relation to category (b), I can provide the data in the first table which are the outstanding warrants for breaches of community orders, by area, as at 31 March 2009. These data come from an internal management system that was developed and introduced in October 2005. The data have yet to be fully quality assured and are based on the information currently available.
In relation to category (c), the number of offenders who have been recalled up to and including 30 June 2008 but not returned to custody by 26 June 2009 is outlined in the second table. These data have been compiled by reconciling data from the Police National Computer (PNC), Prison Service Inmate Information System (IIS) and the Public Protection Unit Database (PPUD). The reconciled data has been circulated to all police forces and probation areas to cross check against local records. In addition to the audited data we can also say that as at 26 June 2009, of those offenders recalled between 1 July 2008 and 31 March 2009, 342 offenders had not yet been returned to custody. These figures are provisional, un-audited and have not been approved by Local Criminal Justice Boards.
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