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Water Charges: East of England
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average percentage change in domestic water bills has been in each local authority area in the East of England since May 1997. [295949]
Huw Irranca-Davies: The following table sets out the average water bill and the percentage change for each year since 1 April 1997 for all the water companies that provide a service in the East of England. Ofwat does not hold information of the average water bill broken down by local authority area.
Home Department
62 South Eaton Place
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for how many months' empty property council tax has been paid on 62 South Eaton Place; and how much has been paid in total since the property became vacant. [293207]
Mr. Woolas: A total of £2,263 empty property tax has been paid for 62 South Eaton Place since April 2007. The total council tax paid is £3,534 since the property became vacant in March 2006.
Asylum
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the average time taken to process an application for asylum. [295465]
Mr. Woolas [holding answer 26 October 2009]: In December we met our targets to conclude 60 per cent. of new asylum cases within six months. That means not only that decisions were taken early but that in a significant proportion of refusals, removal from the UK was affected within six months of application.
In 1997 it took on average 22 months merely to reach an initial decision. We can only speculate on how much longer than that it was taking to remove those who were refused at that time.
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of applications for refugee status made over (a) 10 and (b) five years ago are still waiting to be resolved by the UK Border Agency. [296408]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested is not reported on by the case resolution directorate and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost through the examination of individual case files. However, the UK Border Agency has made good progress in concluding the estimated 400,000 to 450,000 electronic and paper records in the asylum backlog. The total conclusions now stand at over 220,000 cases concluded to end of September 2009 as reported by Lin Homer to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 19 October 2009.
Closed Circuit Television
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 October 2009, Official Report, column 1531W and the answer to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) of 11 May 2009, Official Report, columns 521-2W, on closed circuit television, which of the recommendations contained in the strategy are (a) proposed to be implemented and (b) subject to further review. [296660]
Mr. Alan Campbell: As indicated in my earlier reply to the hon. Member for Hornchurch (James Brokenshire) on 20 October 2009, Official Report, column 1351W, progress continues to be made on implementing the National CCTV Strategy and the outcome of the review of the recommendations will be announced in due course.
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