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| Removals and voluntary departures( 1,2,3) for nationals of the Occupied Palestinian Territories by country of destination, 2004 to 2008 | ||||||
| Number of departures( 4) | ||||||
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008( 5) | 2004-08( 5) | |
| (1) Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 (- = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the totals shown because of independent rounding. (2) Includes enforced removals, persons departing voluntarily after notifying the UK Border Agency of their intention to leave prior to their departure, persons leaving under Assisted Voluntary Return Programmes run by the International Organisation for Migration and since January 2005 persons who it has been established left the UK without informing the immigration authorities. (3) Figures include dependants. (4) Removals and voluntary departures recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken. (5) Provisional figures. Figures will under record due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken. (6) Destination as recorded on source database. | ||||||
Entry Clearances
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department holds on the reasons given by overseas embassies in the UK for refusing to provide passports to their nationals who are legitimately in the UK; and if he will make a statement. [305193]
Meg Hillier: The Home Office holds no information on the reasons given by overseas embassies in the UK for refusing to provide passports to their nationals who are legitimately in the UK. The decision of whether or not to issue an identity document is a matter for the sovereign government in question.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office are responsible for certain administrative aspects of our relationship with foreign missions in the UK.
Extradition
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) sent (i) from the UK to another EU member state and (ii) to the UK from another EU member state under the European arrest warrant, (b) extradited to the US under the UK/US extradition treaty and (c) extradited to the UK under the UK/US extradition treaty; and if he will make a statement. [304114]
Meg Hillier: (a) (i) The Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service are the designated authorities for the receipt and transmission of European arrest warrants (EAWs) in the UK. The number of EAW surrenders from the UK (excluding Scotland) to other EU member states from 1 January 2004-31 December 2008 is as follows:
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(ii) The number of surrenders to the UK from other member states under the EAW procedure between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 is as follows:
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(b) In the same period, 68 people have been extradited to the US from the UK (excluding Scotland); and 34 people have been extradited in the other direction. The new UK-US extradition treaty came into force on 26 April 2007. The figures given in this reply cover extraditions made under the new and old bilateral arrangements.
Government Communications
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his Department's Research, Information and Communications Unit is affiliated to the Government Communication Network. [305153]
Mr. Hanson: The Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) is not affiliated to the Government Communication Network (GCN), but a number of staff working within RICU have been recruited through and are members of the GCN.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to reply to the letter of 5 October 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs. Bashir Begum. [303413]
Alan Johnson: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 2 December 2009.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to reply to the letter of 29 September 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Kashif Masood. [303414]
Alan Johnson: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 30 November 2009.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to reply to the letter of 5 October 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton on Mrs Bashir Begum. [305116]
Alan Johnson: I wrote to my right hon. Friend on 2 December 2009.
Passports: Fees and Charges
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 12 November 2009, Official Report, column 957W, on passports, what fee will be charged for an application for a fingerprint biometric passport; and whether holders of existing passports will be required to obtain a fingerprint biometric passport. [303840]
Alan Johnson: The level of fees that will apply in the future when fingerprint biometric passports are introduced has not been set and will depend on the future fee strategy for passports and identity cards. However, the current standard fee for an adult passport is £77.50 and £30.00 for an identity card. Once fingerprint biometric passports are introduced, anyone applying for a passport, whether as a first time applicant or as an existing passport holder, would have the choice of being issued with a fingerprint biometric passport or a fingerprint biometric identity card or both documents.
Police: Hunting
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the amount of police time spent on the policing of hunting and related activities in each year since 2000. [301639]
Mr. Hanson: The deployment of resources to investigate alleged offences committed under the Hunting Act 2004 is a matter for individual chief officers.
Police: Public Appointments
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Chief Executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency was appointed; by whom he was appointed; whether he is eligible to receive a bonus; and if he will make a statement. [304012]
Mr. Hanson: Chief Constable Peter Neyroud was appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Designate of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) by the Minister of State for Policing in January 2006. He was appointed CEO upon the creation of the NPIA on 1 April 2007 by the Minister of State for Policing in consultation with the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of Police Authorities, as required by the Police and Justice Act 2006.
The CEO is eligible to receive a performance-related bonus at the discretion of the NPIA board. The board recommended that the CEO be awarded a bonus for the year 2008-09, but this was declined by the CEO.
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