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Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were (a) prosecuted and (b) cautioned for selling alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years in each police force area in (i) 2007-08 and (ii) 2008-09. [290692]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 9 September 2009]: I refer the hon. Member to Table 2 in the answer I gave on 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1024W. Data for 2008 will be available in autumn 2009.
Animal Experiments
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visits to animal testing facilities have been undertaken by staff in his Department in each of the last three years. [290351]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of visits made by Home Office staff to establishments designated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in each of the last three years was as follows:
| Visits | |
All but four of these visits were undertaken by members of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate.
Animal Experiments: Scotland
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of procedures regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 carried out in Scotland in 2008 were conducted without anaesthesia. [291589]
Mr. Alan Campbell: There were a total of 555,567 regulated procedures started under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Scotland in 2008 of which 376,937 (68 per cent.) used no form of anaesthesia.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the project licences granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in force in Scotland at the end of 2008 were in the (a) mild, (b) moderate, (c) substantial and (d) unclassified severity banding. [291590]
Mr. Alan Campbell: During 2008, in Scotland, 39 per cent. of the project licences granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were in the mild severity banding, 57 per cent. in moderate, one per cent. in substantial and three per cent. were unclassified.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) mice, (b) rats, (c) guinea pigs, (d) hamsters, (e) rabbits, (f) horses and other equids, (g) sheep, (h) pigs, (i) birds, (j) amphibians, (k) reptiles, (l) fish, (m) cats, (n) dogs, (o) New World primates and (p) Old World primates were used in procedures conducted in Scotland and regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in 2008. [291591]
Mr. Alan Campbell: During 2008, in Scotland, there were 290,081 mice, 49,009 rats, 2,428 guinea pigs, 688 hamsters, 2,571 rabbits, nine horses and other equids, 4,802 sheep, 883 pigs, 6,193 birds, 383 amphibians, 184,335 fish, eight cats, 994 dogs, 30 new world primates and 899 old world primates used in regulated procedures started under the 1986 Act. No reptiles were used.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individual animals were used in procedures regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Scotland in 2008. [291592]
Mr. Alan Campbell: During 2008, in Scotland, there were 544,949 animals used in regulated procedures started under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were conducted in Scotland in 2008 involved (a) cats, (b) dogs, (c) rabbits, (d) horses and other equids, (e) New World primates and (f) Old World primates which (i) were genetically modified and (ii) had a harmful genetic defect. [291820]
Mr. Alan Campbell: In 2008 there were no such procedures in Scotland nor in Great Britain as a whole (Table 3, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2008, available from the Library of the House and from the Department's website at:
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which were conducted in Scotland in 2008 were carried out for (a) fundamental and applied studies other than toxicology and (b) toxicity tests or other safety and efficacy evaluation. [291821]
Mr. Alan Campbell: During 2008, in Scotland, the number of regulated procedures started for non-toxicological purposes under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 was 500,133 (90 per cent.), and the number started for toxicological purposes was 55,434 (10 per cent.).
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which were conducted in Scotland in 2008 were performed in (a) public health laboratories, (b) universities and medical schools, (c) national health service hospitals, (d) Government Departments, (e) other public bodies, (f) non-profit making organisations and (g) commercial organisations. [291822]
Mr. Alan Campbell: During 2008, in Scotland the total number of procedures started under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 was 555,567. Of these, 417,734 or 75 per cent. were carried out at Universities or Medical Schools, 26,823 or 5 per cent at Government Departments, 52,100 or 9 per cent. at other public bodies, and 58.910 or 11 per cent. at commercial organisations. None were started at public health laboratories, NHS hospitals or non-profit making organisations.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were carried out in Scotland in 2008. [291824]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of regulated procedures started under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Scotland in 2008 was 555,567.
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) genetically modified animals and (b) animals with a harmful genetic defect were used in regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which were conducted in Scotland in 2008. [291825]
Mr. Alan Campbell: A total of 544,949 animals were used in regulated procedures started under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Scotland in 2008, of which 177,221 were genetically modified and 15,238 were animals with a harmful genetic defect.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-social behaviour orders in each category are in force in relation to residents in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Dacorum and (c) Hertfordshire. [289430]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The latest available published data on the number of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) issued covers the period 1 April 1999 to 31 December 2007 and are not available below Criminal Justice System (CJS) area level.
The number of ASBOs issued at all courts in the Hertfordshire Criminal Justice System area on application and the number issued following conviction is 58 and 156 respectively, a total of 214.
ASBOs can be of a fixed duration (for a minimum of two years) or made until further order. It is therefore not possible to determine from centrally collected data how many ASBOs are in force at a particular point in time.
Anti-Terrorism Control Orders
Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will undertake an evaluation of the effectiveness of the use of control orders in the UK. [291710]
Mr. Hanson: The effectiveness of all current control orders is regularly kept under review to ensure that they, and the obligations they impose, remain necessary and proportionate, and that the control order regime more generally is as effective as possible. I would refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement in relation to control orders published on 16 September 2009 which provides an update on the review of the control order regime in the light of the recent House of Lords' judgment in AF and others.
Assaults on Police: Police Community Support Officers
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many assaults on police community support officers while on duty were recorded in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [289158]
Mr. Hanson: Data for the numbers of assaults on police officers and operational police staff for 2003-04 and 2004-05 can be found in the HMIC Annual Report 2004-05, available in the Library of the House.
These data are not available by individual rank and therefore appear in the report as a combined figure for officers, PCSOs and other operational support staff.
Data for the numbers of assaults on police community support officers for 2005-06 to 2007-08 are also available in the House Library.
Assaults data are collected on behalf on Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary who use the data for inspection purposes and have agreed to the release of these figures.
Asylum
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been refused asylum or leave to remain in the UK but cannot be removed because (a) they are from a country to which removals are not being enforced and (b) his Department has not been able to obtain travel documents to enable their return since the Case Resolution Directorate was set up; and how many of those people are residing in the UK without a right to work or recourse to public funds. [288711]
Mr. Woolas: It is not possible to compile data on the number of people who fall into the requested categories after the refusal of their case. While the UK Border Agency produces regular statistics on the number of cases concluded over a specified period of time (the chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Lin Homer, updates the Home Affairs Select Committee twice a year on work to clear the historic backlog of unresolved asylum cases by summer 2011; a copy of Ms Homer's letter of 7 July 2009 is in the Library of the House), a case is only regarded as 'concluded' at the
point where the individual/s has/have either been granted some form of leave or been removed from the UK. To extract data on the number of applications (including both asylum and non-asylum case types) which have been refused but not yet concluded would require the detailed examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Davidson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers in receipt of housing and financial support have waited more than one year for an initial interview; and if he will make a statement. [289989]
Mr. Woolas: The UK Border Agency does not collate data on the length of time that asylum seekers have to wait for their asylum interview to take place. This information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost by undertaking a search of case records relating to all applications by supported asylum seekers which remain outstanding at the present time.
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what percentage of Christian asylum seekers have been granted asylum in each of the last five years; [291502]
(2) what percentage of Muslim asylum seekers have been granted asylum in each of the last five years. [291503]
Mr. Woolas: The available management information on the percentage of initial decisions which were grants of asylum on applications for asylum made by people recorded as being Christian or Muslim is given in the following table:
| Asylum grants as percentage of initial decisions, 2007-09( 1) | |||
| Percentage | |||
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009( 1) | |
| (1 )January to date. Note: Figures relate to initial decisions in these years based on first time main asylum applicants only. Religion is based on information ascertained from the applicant. Christian and Muslim figures are based on all practices within each faith. The percentage figures represent asylum (Refugee Leave) grants only and exclude Humanitarian Protection and Discretionary Leave. Asylum grants could have been made on any of the criteria in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention-i.e. not restricted to religious persecution. | |||
These figures are compiled from internal management information and do not constitute part of National Statistics as they are based on internal management information. The information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols, should be treated as provisional and is subject to change.
Asylum: Afghanistan
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Afghan nationals are seeking asylum. [291828]
Mr. Woolas: In last full year for which the statistics are available (2008), 3,505 principal applicants from Afghanistan applied for asylum. 2008 figures are provisional.
Information on asylum applications is published annually and quarterly in the Control of Immigration statistical bulletins. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Afghan nationals have been given permission to remain in the UK in each of the last five years. [291829]
Mr. Woolas: The following tables show the number of Afghan nationals given permission to stay in each of the last five years (2004 to 2008), according to their immigration status (i.e. asylum-related grants, grants of an extension of leave to remain and grants of settlement).
Further statistics on immigration control are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
| Table 1: Asylum grants( 1, 2) on initial decision( 3) for nationals of Afghanistan | ||||
| Grants of asylum | Grants of humanitarian protection | Grants of discretionary leave | Total | |
| (1) Figures rounded to the nearest 5 (- = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (2 )Excludes dependants. (3 )Information is of initial decisions, excluding the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions. (4 )Provisional. | ||||
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