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Crimes of Violence: Females
Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure a sustainable funding strategy for the specialist violence against women voluntary sector. [282793]
Mr. Woolas: In general, funding decisions for local services are determined by local commissioners based on local areas identifying needs. These are then included in their priorities for improvement with outcomes specifying how the issues will be addressed and how they contribute to wider national aims. Addressing domestic and sexual violence will be a key priority in helping local partnerships to deliver fully on the public service agreement requirements.
The consultation ‘Together We Can End Violence Against Women and Girls’ closed on 29 May, 2009. A key theme for consultation was the promotion of better consistency and quality of provision of services for victims of violence against women and girls. This work will be taken forward during development of a cross-Government strategy.
Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps (a) the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, (b) the Department for Children, Schools and Families, (c) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (d) HM Treasury will take to contribute to his Department's cross-government strategy to end violence against women and girls following the end of the consultation on the strategy. [283601]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 2 July 2009]: The Home Secretary has had regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues about Government action on violence against women and girls and has written to the Ministerial Committee on Domestic Affairs twice regarding the cross-Government consultation on ending violence against women and girls.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has established an advisory group which has a specific focus on the role of schools in preventing violence against women and girls.
A cross-Government strategy to address violence against women and girls will be launched by the end of 2009.
Crimes of Violence: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of violent crime in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire was perpetrated against (i) young people, (ii) families and (iii) pensioners in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. [284446]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The requested information is not collected centrally.
Recorded crime data provided to the Home Office from each police force area cannot separately identify the individual circumstances of victims.
| Selected offences recorded by the police in the Dacorum Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area and the Hertfordshire police force area | |||
| Number of offences | |||
| Area and year | Burglary( 1) | Violence against the person | Vehicle crime( 2) |
| (1) Includes burglary in a dwelling and other burglary. (2 )Includes theft of or from a vehicle and interfering with a motor vehicle. | |||
Departmental Manpower
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff were working in his Department's European Casework department on 1 June (a) 2007, (b) 2008 and (c) 2009. [282989]
Mr. Woolas: The following table provides the number of staff and their full-time equivalent (FTE) working on European casework for the dates requested.
| Number of staff and their full-time equivalent (FTE) working on European casework as at 31 May( 1) | ||
| Headcount | FTE | |
| (1) The figures are captured on the last working day of the month. These figures have been taken from 31 May for each year and therefore may not capture anyone who started work or changed their hours on or after 1 June. Note: The data are not provided under National Statistics protocols. They have been derived from local management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. | ||
Departmental Public Expenditure
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in his Department’s Annual Report 2008, under what budget headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget in the category police (including grants) has been incurred in 2008-09. [269244]
Alan Johnson: The category police (including grants) has incurred expenditure under the following budget headings:
Wages and salaries
Purchases and sales of goods and services
Grants to local authorities
Regulatory fees (income)
Grants to the private sector
Depreciation, cost of capital and provisions
Capital additions, net of sales
Capital grants to private sector
Capital grants to local authorities
Budgetary headings are assumed to be the Programme Objects, Sub-Programmes and Account Descriptions as defined by HM Treasury, which inform HM Treasury financial management and reporting processes.
Departmental Training
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training courses have been attended by special advisers in his Department in the last 12 months; and at what cost. [279397]
Mr. Woolas: Special advisers in the Home Department attended no training courses in the last 12 months. They did not need to.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of his Department's overseas staff have been on training courses in each overseas country in each of the last five years. [282947]
Mr. Woolas: Data are not collected centrally on the number of Home Office staff who have attended training courses abroad in the last five years, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Designated Public Places Orders
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many designated public place orders are in force in each local authority in England and Wales. [284179]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office has been informed of 712 designated public place orders (DPPOs) in England and Wales. A list of DPPOs broken down by local authority area is available at the following link:
Detention Centres
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many new immigration detention places were created in each year since 1997; and what the cost of running the immigration detention estate was in each of those years. [282992]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested is as follows:
(i) The following table shows the amount of new detention bed places created in each year between 1997 to 2009.
| New bed spaces created | |
These figures are based on management information, and are therefore liable to change.
(ii) The cost of operating the UK Border Agency detention estate is complex on account of the way that contracts are formed, the payment mechanisms to contractors and ancillary costs, including the Detention Services HQ function.
The following table, however, sets out the total cost of contracts and the Agency's contribution to the operation of the three centres managed by the Ministry of Justice on our behalf. It does not, however, include things like escorting services, UK Border Agency and Ministry of Justice staffing, all of which directly contribute to the running of the estate.
The table also does not include data prior to 2004. It would be at disproportionate cost to provide this information.
| Spend (£ million) | |
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