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Terrorism: Afghanistan

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of known terrorist plots in the United Kingdom have a connection with Afghanistan; and what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the matter. [287425]

Mr. Hanson [holding answer 16 July 2009]: It is the long held policy of successive Governments not to comment on ongoing investigations. As a member of Ministerial Committee on National Security, International Relations and Development (NSID), the Home Secretary regularly discusses the Government's policies on Afghanistan and Pakistan with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of known terrorist plots in the United Kingdom have a connection with Helmand province. [287426]

Mr. Hanson [holding answer 16 July 2009]: It is the long held policy of successive Governments not to comment on ongoing investigations.

Travel: Personal Records

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2009, Official Report, column 1092W, on travel: personal records, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure the collection of advance passenger data on domestic air and sea journeys will focus only on crossings between Great Britain and Northern Ireland; [282395]

(2) when he plans to decide on whether to carry out a formal consultation on his Department's proposals to collect advance passenger data in respect of domestic air and sea journeys; and if he will make a statement. [282680]

Mr. Hanson: The Government are currently considering whether to hold a public consultation. Should we decide to proceed after the consultation a statutory instrument necessary to implement the power under section 14 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 would specify that the data collection would apply only to routes between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

UK Border Agency: Correspondence

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead dated 5 January 2009 on asylum seekers from Zimbabwe. [275375]

Mr. Woolas: The chief executive of the UK Border Agency wrote to the hon. Member on 20 July.

Vetting: Standards

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of criminal record certificates provided by the Criminal Records Bureau in each of the last three years were enhanced criminal records certificates. [288857]

Mr. Hanson: The number of enhanced disclosures issued by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) in each of the last three years is shown in the following table:

Financial year	Number of enhanced disclosures issued
2006/07	2,948,734
2007/08	3,028,659
2008/09	3,457,410

Approximately nine out of every 10 disclosure applications received by the CRB are for enhanced disclosures.

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time taken by the Criminal Records Bureau to process a request for (a) a criminal record certificate and (b) an enhanced criminal record certificate was in the latest period for which figures are available. [288858]

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Mr. Hanson: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer of 29 June 2009, Official Report, columns 79-80W.

Visas: Finance

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department was of issuing (a) short- and (b) long-term visitor visas in each country in each year since 2000. [285764]

Alan Johnson: The cost to my Department of issuing individual types of visa in each country is not available. To obtain the requested information would be at disproportionate cost.

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Parliament agrees the fee for visit visas, most recently in the Immigration and Nationality (Cost Recovery Fees) Regulations 2009.

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what revenue has been collected from (a) short- and (b) long-term visitor visa applicants from each country in each year since 2000. [285765]

Alan Johnson: The following table shows revenue collected from (a) short and (b) long-term visitor visa applications, from each country in each year since 2004. Reliable data are not available before 2004.

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Visit visa income estimates FY 2004 -98
£
	FY 2004		FY 2005		FY 2006		FY 2007		FY 2008
Country	LTV	STV	LTV	STV	LTV	STV	LTV	STV	LTV	STV
Albania	11,000	294,200	29,600	488,100	42,200	450,300	75,600	398,000	103,400	394,000
Algeria	150,800	192,200	148,700	286,400	147,700	340,900	256,100	610,200	218,300	539,300
Angola	22,600	94,600	31,700	131,300	29,900	147,800	64,500	217,500	38,000	173,600
Argentina	2,700	3,400	3,500	5,400	3,200	9,200	3,600	8,800	0	0
Armenia	8,500	31,200	9,100	51,400	10,500	63,000	23,200	87,500	26,000	104,600
Australia	5,200	74,000	11,400	115,400	9,200	120,900	18,600	156,900	35,200	173,600
Austria	39,400	61,700	46,600	82,900	27,000	89,000	37,900	92,000	0	100
Azerbaijan	39,400	108,700	64,100	161,900	94,600	165,100	192,600	235,600	216,100	244,900
Bahrain	165,300	210,100	256,000	279,700	321,300	289,700	491,900	425,700	804,200	393,000
Bangladesh	202,500	701,400	348,000	955,600	367,400	1,147,600	533,100	1,422,900	599,300	1,108,800
Barbados	7,600	19,700	12,500	23,000	23,500	28,000	33,500	38,100	14,300	8,000
Belarus	25,300	258,700	30,900	374,700	35,900	426,300	69,300	516,900	98,100	555,100
Belgium	52,000	140,200	89,900	213,200	86,600	233,200	199,300	248,600	0	0
Bolivia	300	3,100	300	3,100	300	5,500	400	6,000	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	17,800	90,000	26,100	135,900	31,000	124,200	59,300	170,000	58,600	199,300
Botswana	6,300	35,400	9,600	46,800	8,300	46,700	10,700	57,500	0	600
Brazil	4,800	23,200	8,100	31,600	7,200	39,700	9,200	39,100	17,000	36,900
Brunei	3,200	16,300	5,700	46,000	7,500	35,300	11,700	16,200	9,000	19,400
Bulgaria	211,900	439,700	300,100	784,800	149,900	664,700	7,500	21,900	2,800	9,000
Burma	2,400	37,300	5,800	54,500	8,100	61,900	12,400	86,100	18,400	81,000
Cameroon	20,800	123,900	27,500	151,700	23,500	142,700	54,000	186,700	18,200	77,100
Canada	114,200	320,400	165,200	424,900	190,800	380,900	190,100	509,900	231,800	478,200
Chile	1,700	25,300	2,300	17,000	3,900	13,800	7,500	7,400	8,400	4,500
China	156,500	3,981,100	322,500	5,353,100	470,800	6,206,900	879,900	8,712,800	1,187,400	7,096,500
Colombia	49,700	370,500	59,200	549,900	70,300	584,900	182,000	708,300	270,000	683,300
Congo (Dem. Rep.)	17,100	120,000	25,200	167,900	33,000	138,400	90,700	156,600	0	0
Croatia	75,200	453,200	93,900	558,200	1,900	20,400	4,800	35,600	3,000	20,300
Cuba	3,400	109,300	2,900	138,300	2,900	109,600	5,700	100,900	9,000	88,800
Cyprus	17,500	137,300	30,900	208,100	30,500	318,300	56,100	283,300	52,100	243,300
Czech Republic	10,400	48,200	9,900	57,200	14,800	143,100	42,100	134,700	1,500	3,000
Denmark	19,400	92,300	19,600	127,400	26,900	136,700	36,900	165,100	47,200	186,600
Dominican Republic	6,100	38,600	3,900	70,600	5,700	59,300	17,000	84,800	0	0
Ecuador	9,600	70,400	12,700	96,000	13,400	117,400	34,300	125,300	58,000	75,600
Egypt	185,800	716,800	347,700	888,200	429,300	952,600	948,400	1,238,100	1,536,200	1,573,500
Eritrea	1,200	20,200	1,200	20,500	700	5,400	400	1,400	200	900
Estonia	800	18,300	1,600	32,700	2,100	43,800	2,500	50,600	0	0
Ethiopia	45,900	123,100	53,700	135,800	33,600	133,800	54,200	171,200	50,700	171,600
Fiji	4,100	34,200	4,500	35,800	2,700	34,300	4,400	67,300	6,700	52,500
Finland	3,000	29,100	3,100	46,300	7,400	56,200	17,200	69,300	11,000	58,400
France	308,600	779,800	391,900	1,002,800	478,000	1,050,800	537,700	1,070,200	700,300	1,386,600
Gambia, The	61,700	175,900	96,300	226,900	75,900	209,300	117,700	256,400	125,500	253,000
Georgia	23,300	86,000	31,600	142,500	47,800	159,600	100,500	205,400	158,400	212,200
Germany	288,600	821,800	348,800	1,030,500	363,200	915,600	427,600	901,800	617,900	1,171,500
Ghana	558,900	1,643,100	664,400	1,395,700	621,300	1,154,200	1,121,100	1,357,500	1,080,900	1,293,100
Greece	8,000	36,700	12,200	85,700	15,200	59,900	28,900	92,800	31,300	66,200
Guyana	14,000	76,800	22,100	127,200	21,700	129,600	38,900	124,300	0	0
Hungary	11,000	56,200	12,000	83,200	11,000	72,600	24,300	62,300	7,100	15,800
Iceland	1,900	6,400	3,000	9,800	2,000	11,000	3,400	10,900	2,200	9,200
India	2,653,100	7,797,200	4,386,200	11,996,700	4,721,300	13,901,100	5,042,400	17,971,300	7,418,400	16,731,700
Indonesia	33,100	460,900	46,500	601,300	69,000	653,300	111,600	933,300	158,200	864,000
Iran	235,500	996,000	337,900	1,451,100	476,700	1,598,500	884,100	1,894,200	930,700	1,902,400
Iraq	600	29,600	700	42,000	3,600	44,100	3,400	39,500	1,000	12,200
Irish Republic	321,500	232,400	487,700	366,300	484,600	418,700	569,800	572,500	631,400	598,700
Israel	14,200	75,600	17,300	100,000	16,600	87,400	32,200	105,200	0	300
Italy	131,600	472,600	170,500	636,500	143,100	573,000	187,200	493,300	236,700	560,200
Ivory Coast	20,300	98,400	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jamaica	199,600	526,400	2,800	581,100	228,700	529,700	281,000	622,800	369,600	509,400
Japan	9,400	90,000	100	125,200	11,600	119,600	26,600	142,300	31,100	105,500
Jordan	232,700	392,900	3,300	552,300	272,100	525,300	349,500	634,200	628,200	858,900
Kazakhstan	52,500	201,700	1,200	351,700	155,200	535,600	78,300	370,500	0	0
Kenya	245,500	448,300	3,100	471,700	298,000	435,200	457,700	658,600	652,300	935,200
Korea	2,600	14,700	100	17,800	8,100	23,900	19,300	28,400	13,900	19,800
Kuwait	705,200	1,072,400	10,000	1,931,000	718,300	1,940,300	1,360,300	2,249,400	2,907,400	2,238,000
Latvia	5,200	52,500	100	58,300	8,000	76,500	13,000	102,600	1,900	10,300
Lebanon	180,800	210,600	2,100	330,100	166,700	274,400	343,000	456,200	404,100	383,600
Libya	39,200	332,800	700	452,400	74,700	414,400	139,900	514,800	247,300	619,700
Lithuania	1,000	6,500	0	7,900	2,100	11,200	2,300	15,900	0	0
Luxembourg	6,100	6,500	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonia	14,600	195,000	300	4,800	52,600	259,400	77,300	346,500	86,100	347,000
Madagascar	2,000	8,400	0	200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malawi	2,500	23,600	100	600	16,600	114,500	22,800	115,400	800	4,500
Malaysia	9,800	34,400	200	1,100	18,100	53,200	22,000	73,100	195,600	315,300
Malta	6,200	15,300	100	300	4,500	18,400	8,000	16,400	0	0
Mauritius	4,700	46,700	100	1,300	6,800	76,700	15,100	79,800	16,800	70,300
Mexico	5,000	29,100	100	1,000	5,000	49,000	7,300	49,900	4,100	23,200
Moldova	6,800	41,600	100	1,300	8,100	65,500	19,100	73,900	29,000	71,100
Mongolia	4,100	29,000	0	700	5,700	51,300	4,200	67,800	0	0
Morocco	130,800	331,100	2,100	10,900	159,900	507,900	175,100	451,000	223,600	394,500
Mozambique	6,100	24,900	100	600	0	0	0	0	0	0
Namibia	1,800	7,000	0	200	1,200	3,800	0	0	0	0
Nepal	13,000	115,300	200	4,400	27,300	356,400	32,900	299,900	0	0
Netherlands	68,800	300,200	1,000	5,700	81,800	274,800	153,700	349,200	138,400	239,000
New Zealand	800	20,300	0	700	1,400	24,100	2,900	28,000	7,300	27,700
Nigeria	5,910,500	4,511,600	78,200	106,000	5,514,500	6,461,500	8,454,500	6,406,300	9,688,000	6,528,600
Norway	8,300	108,700	100	2,800	15,500	137,400	24,900	151,400	43,800	180,400
Oman	109,800	213,100	2,000	5,700	167,500	282,800	245,200	437,900	353,900	547,000
Pakistan	1,856,900	3,847,900	32,400	95,900	3,345,400	6,225,800	4,732,900	6,474,200	3,711,900	4,041,900
Panama	700	6,700	0	100	0	11,000	0	12,700	0	7,700
Papua New Guinea	600	2,900	0	100	400	2,800	1,500	3,500	1,500	3,500
Peru	15,800	115,700	300	3,100	19,800	188,600	61,400	193,900	0	100
Philippines	100,800	568,200	1,300	17,900	156,500	882,100	239,800	1,064,900	284,600	1,042,000
Poland	2,900	61,700	100	800	5,800	46,800	23,900	63,200	189,900	341,200
Portugal	7,200	38,200	100	1,100	13,500	84,500	11,700	70,300	0	0
Qatar	197,600	273,500	4,300	7,800	492,800	504,700	622,300	862,100	1,239,800	864,800
Romania	190,200	787,000	4,100	24,500	185,900	1,151,300	22,200	53,800	26,000	62,600
Russian Federation	483,300	3,650,800	9,200	108,200	785,500	6,051,800	1,846,100	7,439,000	2,707,900	7,906,200
Saudi Arabia	612,900	1,046,400	12,300	28,000	1,400,400	1,572,200	2,561,200	2,365,600	4,500,400	2,689,300
Senegal	9,300	61,800	200	1,900	24,300	140,500	49,200	162,000	51,100	176,400
Sierra Leone	69,800	154,900	1,100	4,400	98,700	249,800	148,900	274,300	192,300	189,500
Singapore	29,900	108,600	800	2,900	75,300	161,900	160,600	234,800	1,300	1,900
Slovakia	300	5,300	0	200	900	9,500	0	11,500	0	100
South Africa	17,200	117,200	500	3,600	52,600	201,200	90,900	550,000	459,700	1,444,500
Spain	73,900	219,800	1,600	6,300	122,600	302,800	154,100	408,100	193,800	461,900
Sri Lanka	119,400	682,200	2,200	17,900	231,300	999,900	291,300	1,164,400	101,800	296,600
Sudan	60,000	149,400	900	4,300	95,600	300,800	204,000	346,300	1,900	17,800
Swaziland	300	3,800	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	10,900	137,400	200	3,800	28,700	170,100	37,500	181,300	44,200	209,600
Switzerland	86,200	299,200	1,500	8,100	138,400	400,300	215,900	474,200	254,700	501,000
Syria	45,100	164,500	900	5,000	68,600	331,300	66,200	79,800	45,800	41,700
Taiwan (China)	71,600	984,400	900	26,500	59,200	1,488,600	167,100	1,569,700	188,900	1,289,700
Tajikistan	52,500	201,700	1,200	7,100	155,200	537,100	262,000	744,600	414,300	694,000
Tanzania	54,300	215,100	900	4,800	92,900	243,600	124,800	321,400	142,100	251,500
Thailand	116,900	1,280,200	2,100	30,700	188,100	1,518,000	353,500	2,235,100	519,000	2,309,700
Trinidad and Tobago	4,300	18,000	100	600	6,600	29,400	21,600	43,000	10,800	6,000
Tunisia	33,700	258,700	800	6,300	69,400	285,900	92,100	313,600	78,100	173,400
Turkey	994,000	1,035,400	19,400	33,900	1,741,800	2,082,600	2,680,300	3,375,100	3,904,300	3,516,700
Turkmenistan	8,500	35,300	100	1,100	8,600	41,300	21,100	50,000	24,900	52,000
Uganda	78,000	413,100	1,100	8,300	123,900	303,900	156,800	439,200	158,800	444,000
Ukraine	147,600	631,700	2,500	19,000	214,900	1,154,900	565,400	1,600,500	633,200	1,750,900
United Arab Emirates	986,100	1,406,500	16,600	35,700	2,073,900	2,046,400	3,090,300	2,773,700	5,581,600	3,534,800
United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	134,500	286,000
United States	924,300	1,762,400	14,900	44,300	1,277,100	2,211,600	1,262,300	2,787,500	1,621,600	2,847,500
Uruguay	0	300	0	0	300	700	800	200	0	0
Uzbekistan	12,800	60,800	100	1,000	4,800	47,800	11,700	97,400	22,700	158,400
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela	900	4,900	0	100	800	11,600	4,600	12,100	3,900	7,100
Vietnam	7,500	121,900	100	3,300	15,700	206,000	45,000	322,400	42,900	305,400
Yemen	50,700	70,300	400	1,600	51,300	93,400	69,900	144,700	100,900	90,600
Yugoslavia	133,800	370,600	1,900	10,800	170,000	582,400	209,400	758,800	283,100	909,900
Zambia	18,800	125,200	300	3,600	24,800	203,600	53,200	258,800	85,400	224,700
Zimbabwe	138,300	600,300	1,900	13,100	129,500	503,300	138,000	316,000	76,000	104,700

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