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Passports
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports have been issued in each of the last two years. [305295]
Meg Hillier: The following table shows how many passports were issued in each of the last two financial years.
| Financial year | Passports issued |
Repatriation
Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been paid under the Facilitated Returns Scheme in each year since its inception. [303326]
Mr. Woolas: The chief executive of the UK Border Agency will provide this information to the Home Affairs Committee when she writes in January 2010 as the information is not yet available.
Serious Organised Crime Agency: Manpower
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many officers from regional crime squads have been transferred to the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in each of the last three years; [306392]
(2) how many officers of the Serious Organised Crime Agency were attached to regional crime squads on 1 December 2009. [306393]
Mr. Alan Campbell: Regional Crime Squads ceased to exist in 1998, when the Police Act 1997 amalgamated them to form the National Crime Squad. As a result of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the National Crime Squad (NCS) and its service authority ceased to exist. 1,875 NCS staff (including 1,070 former police officers) transferred into the Serious Organised Crime Agency on 1 April 2006.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many warranted officers of the Serious Organised Crime Agency were based (a) in the UK and (b) overseas on 1 December 2009. [306626]
Mr. Alan Campbell:
Officers in the Serious Organised Crime Agency are not designated as warranted. They are designated as having the powers of a police officer, an immigration officer or the customs powers of revenue
and customs. As of 1 December 2009, 1,570 SOCA officers were designated with these powers; 88 of these officers are based overseas.
Sexual Offences
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the effect on victims of a serious sexual offence of the decision not to introduce national indicator 26, specialist support to victims of a serious sexual offence. [301708]
Mr. Alan Campbell: National Indicator (NI) 26 was deferred in 2009-10 to allow time for more development work on the indicator's definition and measurement processes.
During this deferred period, NI26 is being piloted in the three areas in the South West that had included NI 26 in their LAA (Bristol, Cornwall and Plymouth). A fourth area, Thurrock in Essex, had adopted this indicator as a local target and is also included in the pilot scheme.
The significance of including this indicator in the National Indicator Set (NIS) was to highlight the issue of sexual violence, and the need to provide support services, as an important local issue. We are continuing to work towards achieving this through our commitment in the recently published Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy to develop a comprehensive National Indicator relevant to all VAWG and to mainstream VAWG into other relevant national indicators where possible, while working to encourage more Local Strategic Partnerships to prioritise the issue.
Shoplifting
Mr. Moss: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were reported to police on suspicion of shoplifting offences in (a) each division in Cambridgeshire and (b) England in each of the last 10 years. [306353]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The available data relate to shoplifting offences recorded by the police in England and in each Basic Command Unit (BCU) in Cambridgeshire.
Shoplifting data at BCU level are only available from 2000-01.
| Table 1: Offences of shoplifting recorded by the police-1999-2000 to 2001-02 | ||||
| Cambridgeshire Basic Command Unit | ||||
| England | Central | Northern | Southern | |
UK Border Agency
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department from which 50 parliamentary constituencies, listed from highest to lowest, the UK Border Agency received the highest number of enquiries regarding (a) legacy migration cases, (b) non-legacy migration cases and (c) out-of-country visa applications in each of the last four years. [300997]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested is not available in the format required and could be obtained only by the detailed examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.
Damian Green: 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 2008-09. [301242]
Mr. Woolas: The information requested is as follows:
(a) The resource and capital budgets for IT for UK Border Agency for the FY 2008-09 was £260 million including projects and programmes.
(b) The resource and capital outturn for IT for UK Border Agency for the FY 2008-09 was £227 million including projects and programmes.
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much the UK Border Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on information technology in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. [303823]
Mr. Woolas: I am unable to provide the figures for the calendar years 2008 and 2009 as the accounts operate on a fiscal financial year basis.
Victim Support Schemes: Sexual Offences
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the outcomes of the pilot of national indicator 26, Specialist support to victims of a serious sexual offence. [301804]
Mr. Alan Campbell: A pilot of National Indicator 26 commenced in April 2009. Once we have made an assessment of the outcomes of the pilot, during 2010-11, this information will inform the refresh of the National Indicator Set for the next local area agreement period.
West Yorkshire Police
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were employed in (a) armed response units and (b) specialist firearms officers teams in West Yorkshire regional police forces in each year since 1997. [306928]
Mr. Hanson: The information is as follows.
(a) While both data on the number of officers whose primary function is listed as "response" and the number authorised to use firearms is collected centrally, data on armed response units specifically are not collected centrally.
(b) The number of officers whose primary function is listed as "firearms-tactical" is restricted from the public domain following consultation with Association of Chief Police Officers. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2005, information can be withheld where disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the prevention or detection of crime.
Work Permits
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work visas have been issued to recipients with each level of qualification in each of the last five years. [305247]
Mr. Woolas: The information is not centrally recorded and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Energy and Climate Change
Carbon Emissions
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of (a) UK and (b) global carbon dioxide emissions were attributable to (i) aircraft, (ii) ships and (iii) cars in the latest period for which figures are available. [306921]
Joan Ruddock: Estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2007 were published on 3 February 2009.
The proportion of UK carbon dioxide emissions arising from (i) domestic aviation, (ii) shipping and (iii) cars in each of the last 10 years, are shown in the following table. These percentages are calculated on an 'End User' basis.
| Contribution of specified transport categories towards total emissions of carbon dioxide, 1998-2007, by end-user | ||||||||||
| Percentage | ||||||||||
| Gas/Sector | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
Estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions arising from (i) domestic aviation, and (ii) shipping for the year 2005. No global CO2 data are available for cars.
| Contribution of global carbon dioxide emissions for specified transport categories, 2005, by source | |
| Percentage | |
| Gas/Sector | 2005 |
| (1 )No data available. | |
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