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National Public Order Intelligence Unit
David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department has allocated to the National Public Order Intelligence Unit in each year since its establishment; and how many staff the unit employed in each such year. [284134]
Mr. Hanson: The Home Office does not provide funding directly to the National Public Order Intelligence Unit. Funding is provided by top-slice of the police grant and a contribution from the Metropolitan Police Service.
We do not disclose details of grants provided to individual units on security grounds. Nor do we disclose details of the numbers of staff employed by individual units.
Offences Against Children
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police cautions were given for the (a) possession of and (b) creation of pornographic images of children in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [282745]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 29 June 2009]: Information provided by the Ministry of Justice showing the number of offenders cautioned for the possession, taking, distributing or publishing of indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children in England and Wales, from 1998 to 2007 can be viewed in the following table.
Offenders: Foreigners
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign national prisoners were on bail on 28 February 2009. [263214]
Mr. Woolas: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the letter of 7 July 2009 from the Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency to the Home Affairs Select Committee which is available in the House Library.
Office of Cyber Security: Cyber Security Operations Centre
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) budget and (b) number of staff of the (i) Office of Cyber Security and (ii) Cyber Security Operations Centre in Cheltenham is in 2009-10; and if he will make a statement. [286486]
Mr. Hanson: The Office of Cyber Security (OCS) will be established in September 2009 to provide strategic leadership for and coherence across Government, and to establish a cross-Government programme to address priority areas in pursuit of the UK's strategic cyber security objectives. The exact staffing and budgetary arrangements are currently being determined.
The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) will be established at the same time to bring together existing multi-agency efforts to provide situational awareness, analysis and incident response co-ordination in the cyber security field, making sure that new and existing resources are used to best effect in the areas where they are needed the most. The exact staffing and budgetary arrangements are currently being determined.
The additional resources for the Government's overall cyber security programme will be reported to the House in the autumn.
Official Residences
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been paid to Westminster City Council in council tax on the empty property of 62 South Eaton Place in each month since the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside vacated the Ministerial residence there. [273466]
Mr. Woolas: The following annual council tax payments have been made:
| £ | |
Discount for empty property was claimed for 2007-08 and 2008-09.
Passports: Fraud
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many biometric passports issued to applicants had subsequently been withdrawn on the basis of (a) fraud and (b) ineligibility of the applicant on the latest date for which figures are available. [276828]
Alan Johnson: In terms of fraud recording, the Identity and Passport Service does not yet differentiate between biometric and non-biometric passports.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fraudulent passport applications were detected in each year since 1997; and how many instances of passport fraud his Department estimates were undetected in each such year. [285925]
Alan Johnson: The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) figures for passport frauds detected in each year since 1997 are shown in table 1:
| Table 1 | |
| Number | |
| (1) Calendar years were used until April 2000 | |
The estimated number of fraudulent passport applications which go undetected, for years in which figures are available, is set out in table 2
| Table 2 | ||
| Estimated proportion of fraudulent applications (percentage)( 1) | Estimated number of undetected frauds( 1) | |
| (1) Figures do not include cases in which a false declaration has been made by a passport applicant but identity and eligibility for a passport are not in doubt. | ||
The process IPS uses to estimate the number of fraudulent applications it receives is based on sampling and statistical extrapolation.
The estimate of the number of fraudulent applications which evade IPS controls is derived from a simple arithmetical calculation in which the number of frauds identified and prevented is deducted from the estimated number of fraudulent applications received.
IPS first conducted an exercise to establish an estimate of the number of fraudulent applications in 2002 and details of its findings were made available to Parliament in response to questions.
In 2006 IPS introduced a more refined and robust sampling process drawing on the experience of 2002 and its increased understanding of the nature and pattern of fraud. This increased understanding of the nature and pattern of fraud has also enabled IPS to refine the way it records fraud and to identify fraudulent applications which had been stopped by routine controls but which had not been previously recorded as fraud.
Passports: Interviews
Chris Huhne:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of
first-time passport applicants have been interviewed in each month since the interview system was established. [285794]
Alan Johnson: The proportion of first time adult passport applicants who have received passports and who had been interviewed in each month since the interview system was established in 2007 is approximately 90 per cent.
| Total first time adult interviews conducted | Total first time adult passports issued | Percentage of first time adults being interviewed | |
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