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Charities
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what grants his Department made to charitable organisations in each of the last five years. [292656]
Mr. Woolas: The Department's funding of charities can not be provided, without incurring disproportionate cost.
Christmas
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have spent on Christmas (i) cards, (ii) parties and (iii) decorations in the last 12 months. [299267]
Mr. Woolas: It has not been possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Closed Circuit Television
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the number of closed circuit television cameras monitoring public space in the UK. [298434]
Mr. Alan Campbell: There are no recent estimates of the number of CCTV cameras in the UK.
Crime Prevention
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps his Department has taken to seek to achieve reductions in levels of (a) burglary, (b) vehicle crime and (c) violent crime since 2004. [296251]
Mr. Hanson: I will write to the hon. Member.
Crime: Business
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to collect data on the annual cost of crime to small businesses; and if he will make a statement. [300060]
Mr. Alan Campbell: It has not been possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Crimes of Violence
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the recorded violent crime rate per 1,000 of the population was in each police force area in each year since 1998-99. [298068]
Alan Johnson: Crime rates per 1,000 population for violence against the person offences are shown in Tables A and B. Figures for 1998-99 to 2001-02 are presented separately from figures for 2002-03 to 2008-09 as it is not valid to compare across these time periods due to major changes in the Home Office Counting Rules for recorded crime.
In April 2002, the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) brought in a more victim-focused reporting system, where victim accounts had to be accepted unless there was credible evidence to the contrary. This was proposed by the Association of Chief Police Officers as a response to a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary report called 'On the Record' to ensure better consistency in recording throughout England and Wales. This is estimated to have had the effect of increasing recording of violence against the person by 23 per cent. in 2002-03 (it is also thought to have increased figures in the following year as forces continued to adjust to the new recording practice but precise estimates of this effect are not available).
Police recorded violence against the person offences contain the full spectrum of assaults from pushing and shoving, with no physical harm, through to murder and around half of violent crime results in no injury. Less than 3 per cent. of violence against the person offences are the more serious offences of homicide, attempted murder and grevious bodily harm with intent.
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