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In addition, a number of contracts have been let in the last 12 months in respect of changes made to the FCO Proviso system as part of the roll out of the Integrity solution. These are as follows:

Item	Monetary value of contract excluding VAT (£)
Initial Scoping and Design Work for Early ICW Projects	27,130.01
Early ICW Projects August 2008 to January 2009	165,000.00
First year product support services for ICW Early Deliverables-provided by Software AG	87,879.58
ICW Early Deliverables-FCO Services resources required for the next stage of the project	213,315.00
ICW ED Software AG EICW	237,664.92
EICW related Professional Services (refusal/non-refusal notices	49,094
Total	780,083.51

Courts: ICT

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made with the national deployment of IT-enabled procedures by HM Courts Service to transfer court results automatically to the Police National Computer. [287916]

Bridget Prentice: I have been asked to reply.

Deployment of the Bichard 7 solution automating results to the police national computer (PNC) is underway. As at 12 October 83 per cent. of criminal justice areas are automating their magistrates court results to the PNC.

The Crown Court solution automating results to PNC is scheduled to commence deployment in November 2009.

Bichard 7 is scheduled to complete deployment by March 2010.

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Crime: Mobile Phones

Mark Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department has made an assessment of the effects on levels of criminal activity on the availability of unregistered pay-as-you-go mobile telephones. [290454]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office has not made an assessment of the effects on levels of criminal activity on the availability of unregistered pay-as-you-go mobile telephones.

The National Mobile Phone Crime Unit, which the Home Office part sponsors, recently did a survey of handsets stolen in the Metropolitan police area and discovered that around 35 per cent. were pre-pay.

Crimes of Violence: Driving Offences

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate has been made of the percentage of violent crime that involved the use of cars by uninsured drivers and drivers who had previous driving convictions and bans in the latest period for which figures are available. [289962]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate has been made of the number of cases of violent crime which involved uninsured drivers in the latest period for which figures are available. [289964]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Data are available for 2008-09 for offences of 'Causing death by driving: Unlicensed, Disqualified or Uninsured drivers' and there were six offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. However, it is not possible to separately identify which deaths, if any, were caused by uninsured drivers.

Crimes of Violence: Females

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of offenders identified by the British Crime survey as perpetrators of (a) stranger violence, (b) acquaintance violence and (c) mugging were female in each year for which figures are available. [291775]

Alan Johnson: The following tables show the percentage of offenders identified by victims of violent incidents as female, male or both (in the case of more than one offender) from the British crime survey between 1995 and 2008-09.

Trends in offender characteristics in violent incidents, BCS typology

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Table 1: Sex of offenders in incide nts of mugging, 1996 to 2008-09, BCS
Percentage
	Mugging
Sex of offenders	1995	1997	1999	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Male	96	94	92	86	85	89	86	89	82	86	87
Female	2	2	6	7	6	6	7	5	5	9	6
People of both sexes	3	4	2	7	9	5	7	6	13	6	7
Unweighted base	755	147	127	218	243	223	254	267	267	236	259

Table 2 : Sex of offenders in incidents of stranger violence, 1996 to 2008-09, BCS
Percentage
	Stranger
Sex of offenders	1995	1997	1999	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Male	84	90	87	85	88	84	81	89	83	79	85
Female	6	6	7	8	5	6	6	5	7	11	9
People of both sexes	10	4	6	7	7	10	13	6	10	10	6
Unweighted base	288	250	308	450	456	516	534	267	595	515	551

Table 3: Sex of offenders in incidents of acquaintance violence , 1996 to 2008-09, BCS
Percentage
	Acquaintance
Sex of offenders	1995	1997	1999	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Male	81	72	73	73	75	75	67	72	72	68	76
Female	12	18	20	14	17	11	21	18	13	13	20
People of both sexes	7	9	7	13	8	14	13	10	15	18	4
Unweighted base	421	348	390	426	492	463	482	505	577	508	488
Notes: 1. Detailed questions about offender(s) are only asked of victims who experienced three or less offences in the last year to minimise respondent burden. Figures here are based on incidents in which the victim could say something about the offender(s). 2. Totals do not always sum to 100 as more than one offender could be involved. 3. Unweighted base is the number of victims who were able to say something about offender.

Crimes of Violence: West Midlands

Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crimes of violence against the person and (b) crimes were recorded in Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in the last three years for which figures are available. [291444]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Crime figures are not collected by constituency. The available police recorded crime statistics for the Birmingham crime and disorder reduction partnership are given in the following table.

Offences recorded in the Birmingham crime and disorder reduction partnership, 2006-07 to 2008-09
Offence	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Violence against the person	26,280	23,666	21,767
Overall crime(1)	119,361	103,527	95,889
(1) Includes violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary, offences against vehicles, other theft offences, fraud and forgery, criminal damage, drug offences and other offences.

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