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Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to reply to the letter of 15 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. T. Khan. [297632]
Alan Johnson: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 3 November 2009.
Passports: Gibraltar
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether there is an annual limit on the number of UK passports which can be issued by Gibraltar's Government; [296945]
(2) how many UK passports have been issued by the Gibraltar Government in each of the last three years. [296946]
Chris Bryant: I have been asked to reply.
The issuing of passports is a matter for the Government of Gibraltar and so we recommend my hon. Friend contacts them directly.
Passports: Northern Ireland
Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for (a) new passports and (b) renewal of passports were submitted to the passport office in Belfast in each year since 2005. [297647]
Meg Hillier: The following figures are passport application intake for Belfast in each calendar year from 2005 to 2008 for the Identity and Passport Service.
| New | Renewal | |
Police: Libya
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers from each force provided training in Libya in each of the last five years; and what training roles such officers undertook. [297391]
Mr. Hanson: Assistance was provided in the period between 1 November 2004 and 31 October 2009, as outlined:
2004: three police officers and one member of police staff from West Yorkshire police delivered a three-week programme on drugs investigation. This was part of a project coordinated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
2008: one police officer from South Wales police delivered a two-week Major Incident Command Programme organised by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA);
2008: two police staff members of the NPIA delivered a two-week forensic awareness training programme;
2009: two police officers (one seconded to the NPIA) from the Police Service of Northern Ireland delivered a three-week Silver Command and Control Programme.
Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent from the Preventing Violent Extremism Community Leadership Fund in each category of expenditure in each year since its inception. [295760]
Mr. Malik: I have been asked to reply.
The Community Leadership Fund was launched in 2007 and the following table shows how much has been spent in each category since then:
| Community Leadership Fund | |||
| £ | |||
| Strand | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10( 1) |
| (1)Allocations for 2009-10, of which the following funding has been released so far: Capacity building-£438,835.00 Supporting young people-£151,000.00 Supporting women-£174,427.00 Local forums-£18,925.00 Supporting faith leaders-£96,050.00 Total-£879,237.00 | |||
Prostitution: Olympic Games 2012
John Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the effect on demand for the sex industry in London arising from the number of tourists expected to attend the London 2012 Olympics. [293862]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 19 October 2009]: No such estimate has been made at this time. However, we remain vigilant and have measures in place to deal with any potential increase in the demand for prostitution as a result of the Olympics. We are assessing intelligence on a quarterly basis through the Olympics Organised Crime Threat Assessment, which includes prostitution.
Radicalism: Internet
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) identified and (b) prosecuted for spreading extremism on the web in the last 12 months. [292786]
Mr. Alan Campbell: We do not hold statistics in relation to the spread of violent extremism on the internet-data collected on terrorism prosecutions do not differentiate between online and off-line actions and we are unable accurately to separate all web based terrorism prosecutions from other terrorism prosecutions, in which the internet may have played a part.
UK Border Agency: Contracts
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) UK Border Agency IT systems and (b) services outsourced by the UK Border Agency are (i) provided and (ii) supported by companies employing fewer than five people. [294412]
Alan Johnson: The UK Border Agency currently does not directly contract with any companies employing fewer than five people for outsourced services or IT systems.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what mechanisms are used by the UK Border Agency to review for benchmarking purposes the costs of (a) IT (i) systems and (ii) services, (b) finance and payroll services and (c) building management services; and if he will place in the Library copies of the reports of such reviews. [294413]
Alan Johnson: The UK Border Agency, with the rest of the Home Office, is currently participating in a Government wide exercise to benchmark corporate services under the Operational Efficiency Programme. The Government will publish this information in due course.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what shared services arrangements the UK Border Agency has; and if he will make a statement. [294415]
Alan Johnson: The UK Border Agency participates in Home Office shared services for IT, estates, payroll, and for transactional finance, procurement and HR activities.
In addition, the UK Border Agency also receives services, including IT and estates, from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Agency staff located overseas. Following the transfer of HMRC staff to the Border Agency, shared services for IT, estates, payroll and HR transactional activities continue to be provided to those staff on a transitional basis.
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which items the UK Border Agency has acquired from a purchasing catalogue for procurement in (a) 2008 and (b) 2009. [294420]
Alan Johnson: The information requested could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost. As such this information has not been provided.
High level categories for items purchased via catalogue are:
Office Supplies
Professional and Administrative Services
Personal Protective Items/Equipment
Professional Services (Building)
UK Border Agency: Information and Communications Technology
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) budget and (b) outturn of the UK Border Agency was in respect of IT in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. [294416]
Alan Johnson: I am unable to provide the figures for the calendar years 2008 and 2009 as the accounts operate on a fiscal financial year basis.
Vetting
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of (a) standard checks and (b) enhanced checks undertaken by the Criminal Records Bureau were the subject of a dispute by (i) the applicant and (ii) an employer in each year since 1997. [290332]
Alan Johnson [holding answer 12 October 2009]: The table details the number checks undertaken by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) which were the subject of a dispute since the launch of the disclosure service in 2002.
Information is not held to enable a breakdown of the number or percentage of disputes that relate to either the applicant or the employer.
| Disclosure type | |||
| Total number of disputes | Total number of disclosures issued | Percentage of disputes | |
The contents of a disclosure can be disputed for a number of reasons, such as:
The record relates to someone with the same details as the applicant and based on the information available the CRB was unable to dissociate the applicant from the record.
Where locally held information is released the applicant feels it is either inaccurate, misleading or is otherwise inaccurate in the opinion of the applicant and as a result the police agree to amend the information.
Where someone has had their identity stolen or cloned.
CRB quality assurance procedures are targeted at eliminating errors. In 2008-09, the accuracy rate for CRB Disclosures was 99.96 per cent.
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for a (a) standard and (b) enhanced check have been made to the Criminal Records Bureau by people on List 99 in each year since 1997. [290362]
Alan Johnson [holding answer 12 October 2009]: The following table illustrates the number of applications made for standard and enhanced checks to the Criminal Records Bureau by people on List 99 since the bureau's inception in 2002.
| Financial year disclosure issued( 1) | Standard disclosure | Enhanced disclosure | Total List 99 matches |
| (1) April to March. | |||
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