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Olympic Security Directorate: Manpower
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many full-time equivalent members of staff are employed in his Department's Olympic Security Directorate; and at what cost in 2009-10. [291155]
Mr. Woolas: [holding answer 14 September 2009]: There are currently 22 FTE staff in post in the Olympic and Paralympics Security Directorate. As Olympic security projects develop this will rise, on current projections, to 83.5 FTE. The forecast full year salary costs for Olympic Security and Paralympic Security Directorate are £3.6 million.
Opiates
Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the weight notified of (a) opiate raw materials, (b) opiate medicinal products, (c) oxycodone raw material and (d) codeine raw material was seized by UK drug enforcement authorities in each year between 1999 and 2009. [290064]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Available data on seizures of opiate raw materials, medicinal opium and oxycodone for 2006-07 and 2007-08 (latest available) are provided in the following table. Data on the separate preparation types seized are provided separately of amounts of weighed items, as it is not possible to accurately estimate the weights of drugs seized in the form of wraps or bags.
Information on seizures of raw codeine is not available.
Data on seizures for the drugs requested are presented as 'Other Class A' in publications. These seizures cannot be extracted from these classifications prior to 2006-07.
Data for 2008-09 are scheduled to be published in October 2009.
| Quantity( 1) of seizures made by the police for selected drugs, by drug preparation type and year, England and Wales 2006-07 and 2007-08 | ||
| Quantity of seizures | ||
| Drug Type | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| (1)Drugs can be seized in a variety of forms or preparation types. In this table, data on the separate preparation types seized are provided separately of amounts of weighed items, as it is not possible to accurately estimate the weights of drugs seized in the form of wraps or bags. | ||
Passports
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passport applications and renewals were processed at each Identity and Passport Service location in each of the last 12 months. [289524]
Mr. Woolas: The following table shows the number of renewal applications and the total of all applications processed by the IPS examination teams from each region from July 2008 to June 2009.
| Region | Renewals | Total | |
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