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Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children from each country of origin aged (a) 17, (b) 12 to 16, (c) five to 11 and (d) under five years old have been refused asylum in each year since 1997. [302885]

Alan Johnson: Information on asylum refusals by age group and country of origin is not collated.

Information on asylum is published annually and quarterly. Annual statistics for 2008 and the latest statistics for Q3 2009 are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children from each country of origin aged (a) 17, (b) 12 to 16, (c) five to 11 and (d) under five years old have claimed asylum in each year since 1997. [302886]

Alan Johnson: Information on asylum applications from principal applicants (since 2001) and dependants (since 2002) is only available by the published age categories at time of application and nationality. Information prior to these dates is not available.

The figures are available from the annual Statistical Bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom prior to 2008 and the supplementary tables of the Control of Immigration Bulletin 2008 for the year of 2008. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html

Crimes of Violence

Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of grievous and actual bodily harm were recorded by police in (a) England and (b) North East Cambridgeshire in each of the last 10 years. [303643]

Mr. Hanson: The Home Office does not hold data for the constituency area North East Cambridgeshire, as this does not correspond with a Crime and Disorder

Reduction Partnership or Cambridgeshire Police Basic Command Unit.

Data for grievous bodily harm (GBH) and actual bodily harm (ABH) offences for England for 1999-2000 to 2008-09 are given in Table A.

There was a major change in police recorded crime recording in 2002 that means that figures from 2002-03 are not comparable with figures prior to this year.

The introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in 2002 brought in a more victim-focused reporting system, where victim accounts had to be accepted unless there was credible evidence to the contrary. In its first year, this is estimated to have artificially increased recording of violence against the person by 23 per cent. (it is also thought to have increased figures in the following year as the standard bedded in but precise estimates of this effect are not available).

From 1 April 2008 there were also changes in offence classification, introducing the new category of GBH without intent, and a clarification in the counting rules for GBH with intent which meant that in some forces there was a significant shift in recording away from ABH to GBH with intent. This means figures for 2008-09 are not comparable with those for earlier years.

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Table A: Recorded crime for grievous bodily harm (GBH) and actual bodily harm (ABH) offences in England, 1999-2000 to 2008-09
	Offence		1999-20000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
GBH	5	More serious wounding or other act endangering life	13,835	14,452	15,202	16.113	17,746	17,801	17,045	15,667	13,596	-
	5A	Inflicting grevious bodily hard (GBH) with intent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21,253
	8F	Inflicting grevious bodily harm (GBH) without intent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16,170
	8H	Racially or religiously aggravated inflicting grevious bodily harm without intent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	376
ABH	8A	Less serious wounding	189,441	185,312	198,418	320,157	401,917	458,372	486,052	454,638	406,251	-
	8D	Racially or religiously aggravated less serious wounding	2,618	3,112	3,369	4,197	4,685	5,134	5,799	5,405	4,614	-
	8G	Actually bodily harm and other injury	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	351,550
	8J	Racially or religiously aggravated actual bodily harm and other injury	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3,759
Total GBH and ABH			205,894	202,876	216,989	340,467	424,348	481,307	508,896	475,710	424,461	393,108
Notes: 1. There was a major change in police recorded crime recording in 2002 that means that figures from 2002-03 are not comparable with figures prior to this year. The introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in 2002 brought In a more victim-focused reporting system, where victim accounts had to be accepted unless there was credible evidence to the contrary. 2. Offence classifications 5A, 5B and 5C were introduced from 1 April 2008 and replace classification 5. Classification 5A was influenced by a clarification in recording rules that had the effect of significantly increasing levels of recording in some forces. Figures for 2008-09 for classification 5A should be viewed as provisional as a current inspection by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary may give rise to further revisions from forces. Classification 5A also includes some other offences of endangering life as well as GBH with intent, though GBH with intent is the major part of this category. 3. Offence classifications 8F, 8G, 8H, 8J and 8K were introduced from 1 April 2008 and had previously been recorded as part of classifications 8A or 8D.

Departmental Legislation

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criminal offences have been (a) abolished and (b) created by primary legislation sponsored by his Department since 1 May 2008. [303253]

Alan Johnson: The following new offences have been created since 1 May 2008:

Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

Failure to comply with a prohibition etc. in a violent offender order (section 113(1))

Failure to comply with the notification requirements of a violent offender order (section 113(2))

Notifying false information in purported compliance with a violent offender order (section 113(3))

Remaining on or entering premises in contravention of a closure notice (section 118 and Schedule 20)

Obstructing a person enforcing a closure notice or closure order etc. (section 11D(2))

Policing And Crime Act 2009

Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc. (section 14)

Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc. (section 15)

Amendment to offence of loitering etc. for purposes of prostitution (section 16)

Soliciting a person for purpose of obtaining sexual services (section 19)

Soliciting a person for purpose of obtaining sexual services (section 20)

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Remaining on or entering premises in contravention of a closure notice (section 21 and Schedule 2)

Remaining on or entering premises in contravention of a closure order (section 21 and Schedule 2)

Obstructing a person enforcing a closure notice or closure order etc. (section 21 and Schedule 2)

Person under 18: persistently possessing alcohol in a public place (section 30)

Prohibition on importation of offensive weapons (section 102)

Borders, Citizenship And Immigration Act 2009

Disclosure of personal customs information to certain persons (section 18(1))

Disclosure of personal customs revenue information (section 18 (1))

Disclosure of material information without appropriate consent (section 18(1))

Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

Offence of obstruction (section 2)

Offences relating to notification (section 54)

Offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc. (section 76)

Offences relating to breaches of a foreign travel restriction order (paragraph 15 of Schedule 5)

Offences relating to HMT's provisions on terrorist financing and money laundering (paragraph 30 and 31 of Schedule 7)

The following offences have been abolished since 1 May 2008:

Policing And Crime Act 2009

Kerb-crawling (section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 1985)

Persistent soliciting (section 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 1985)

Deportation

Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been deported from the UK in the last five years. [300920]

Mr. Woolas: The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of persons who were removed or departed voluntarily from the UK on a quarterly and annual basis, which are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office's Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html

Statistics on removals and voluntary departures, by type, in the last 10 years are provided in table 3.1 of the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2008 bulletin at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1409.pdf

Statistics for the first two quarters of 2009 are provided in table 7a/b/c of the Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical summary, April to June 2009 at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/immiq209.pdf

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Figures for the third quarter of 2009 will be published on 26 November 2009.

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