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Alcoholic Drinks: Crime
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many shopkeepers were prosecuted in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Leeds North West for selling alcohol to underage drinkers in the latest period for which figures are available. [294291]
Mr. Alan Campbell: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 3 February 2009, Official Report, column 1024W. The table is broken down into male, female and other defendants, but we are not able to differentiate between shopkeepers and any other defendants. Figures are broken down into police force area and are not available by constituency. The data for 2008 will be available at the end of January 2010.
Anti-Semitism
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what estimate he has made of the number of anti-Semitic attacks during Jewish high holy days in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009; and if he will make a statement; [R] [293290]
(2) what steps the Government is taking to protect the Jewish community from anti-Semitic attacks; and if he will make a statement. [R] [293291]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The Government abhor all forms of hate crime. It is not possible to make estimates of the number of anti-Semitic attacks during Jewish high holy days. However, the Association of Chief Police Officers National Community Tension Team (NCTT) collects intelligence data on hate crime which informs police deployment decisions and acts as an indicator of community tension. As such, NCTT data can inform responses to fluctuations in anti-Semitic attacks connected to particular events on an operational basis for the police.
The Home Office has identified £5 million from the 2009-10 budget of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) to reduce the vulnerability of crowded places to terrorist attack. This funding will be allocated to priorities identified by local partnerships and risk assessments carried out by Counter Terrorism Security Advisers (CTSAs). The funding will be directed at local authorities to improve the protection of crowded places locations and third sector organisations, such as the Community Security Trust, should work with local authorities to explore how they may make use of this funding.
The All-Party Inquiry into Anti-Semitism: Government Response One year on Progress Report published in May 2008 set out our current programme of work to combat anti-Semitism. A command paper will be published by May 2010 setting out further progress. We have also recently published a Cross-Government Hate Crime Action Plan to tackle all forms of hate crime, including anti-Semitism.
Antisocial Behaviour Orders
Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many antisocial behaviour orders were issued to people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 years in (i) England and (ii) North East Cambridgeshire in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [290669]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 9 September 2009]: 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 available information is shown in the following tables. The first table shows the number of orders issued to young people (defined as being aged 10 to 17 at the date of appearance in court) and the second the number of orders issued to adults (defined as being aged 18 or over at the date of appearance in court).
| Table 1: Number of antisocial behaviour orders issued to persons aged 10 to 17( 1) at the Cambridgeshire criminal justice system (CJS) area and at all courts in England as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, January 2003( 2) to December 2007 | ||
| CJS area | ||
| Cambridgeshire | England | |
| (1) Previously issued data have been revised. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | ||
| Table 2: Number of antisocial behaviour orders issued to persons aged 18+( 1) at the Cambridgeshire criminal justice system (CJS) area and at all courts in England as reported to the Home Office by the Court Service, January 2003( 2) to December 2007 | ||
| Cambridgeshire | England | |
| (1) Previously issued data have been revised. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. Source: OCJR Court Proceedings Database | ||
Antisocial Behaviour: Crime Prevention
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what recent estimate he has made of the number of mosquito ultrasonic devices in use in (a) London and (b) England; [293535]
(2) if he will review the use of mosquito ultrasonic deterrent devices by (a) police forces and (b) others. [293536]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Information on the use of mosquito dispersal devices is not collected centrally by the Home Office.
We encourage local agencies to consider the full range of innovations, schemes and practices intended to reduce crime, the fear of crime and antisocial behaviour. It is for local agencies like the police and local authorities to decide on the most appropriate interventions to
tackle antisocial behaviour based on their knowledge of what works best locally. The Home Office does not promote or recommend any particular commercial product or venture above this.
The use of any device like "mosquito" which claims to disperse groups of young people should be treated with caution and if used should form part of an overall strategy to tackle drivers of that antisocial behaviour and to encourage more constructive behaviour.
We have no plans to review the use of mosquito ultrasonic deterrent devices.
Asylum
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases have been (a) dealt with and (b) concluded under the legacy casework programme. [293168]
Mr. Woolas: The total conclusions now stand at over 197,500 cases concluded to end of May 2009 and Lin Homer, chief executive of the UK Border Agency, will update the Home Affairs Select Committee on performance to date this month.
Closed Circuit Television
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made on implementation of the National CCTV Strategy; and if he will make a statement. [294212]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Progress continues to be made on implementing the National CCTV Strategy led by the National CCTV Strategy Programme Board. The Programme Board has been reviewing the recommendations made in the strategy and, as indicated in my answer to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) on 11 May 2009, Official Report, columns 521-22W, some of the recommendations are either no longer appropriate or need reviewing. We will announce the outcome of that review in due course.
Crime: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of crime were recorded in Enfield North constituency in each year since 1997. [294194]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Statistics for the Enfield North constituency are not collected centrally.
The available information relates to offences recorded by the police in the Enfield local authority area and is given in the following table. Data for total crime at local authority level are only available from 2000-01.
| Table 1: Offences recorded by the police in Enfield-2000-01 and 2001-02( 1) | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. | |
| Table 2: Offences recorded by the police in Enfield-2002-03 to 2008-09( 1) | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | |
Crime: Leeds
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of crime were recorded in Leeds North West constituency in each year since 1997. [294294]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Statistics for the Leeds North West constituency are not collected centrally.
The available information relates to offences recorded by the police in the Leeds local authority area and is given in the following tables. Data for total crime for Leeds are only available centrally from 2001-02.
| Table 1: Offences recorded by the police in Leeds , 2001-02( 1) | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. | |
| Table 2: Offences recorded by the police in Leeds , 2002-03 to 2008-09( 1) | |
| Number of offences | |
| (1) The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. | |
Departmental Advertising
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on which initiatives of his Department and its agencies expenditure on advertising has been incurred in each of the last five years; how much was spent on each such initiative; and which such initiatives were offered for tender through the Central Office of Information. [292528]
Mr. Woolas: The following table outlines Home Office and its agencies spend on advertising in each of the last five years, broken down by campaign area. All were carried out via the Central Office of Information.
Recruitment advertising is not done centrally but carried out across the Department and hence spend could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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