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Passports: Fingerprints
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when his Department plans to begin issuing passports containing fingerprint data; and how many such passports it expects to issue in each of the five years following their introduction. [310655]
Alan Johnson
[holding answer 14 January 2010]: The National Identity Service will provide the capability to enrol people on the National Identity Register and issue second generation passports and identity cards, capable of holding facial images and fingerprints. From 2012, once fingerprint biometric passports are introduced we intend that everyone should have the choice of having a fingerprint biometric passport, a fingerprint biometric
identity card, or both documents with their identity details and biometrics recorded on the National Identity Register.
The National Identity Service cost report shows the total volume of passports and identity cards predicted to be issued each year over the cost report period. As published in the October 2009 National Identity Service cost report, over the time period April 2012 to March 2017, we expect to have issued approximately 49 million products (48.7 is the total in the October cost report-p7).
Police: Birmingham
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers were assigned to duties in Birmingham in the last three years. [312778]
Mr. Hanson: The available data can be seen in the following table.
Police personnel statistics are not collected at the requested level. Data are collected at basic command unit level (which is equivalent to operational command units in west midlands). Data have been provided for the west midlands operational command units covering the Birmingham area (D1 to D2, E1 to E3 and F1 to F3).
This and other related data are published annually as a supplementary part of the annual Police Service Strength Home Office Statistical Bulletin. The latest bulletin can be found at:
and bulletins for this and previous years are deposited in the Library of the House.
| Police officer and police community support officer strength, basic command units covering the Birmingham area, as at 31 March( 1) | ||||||
| Number | ||||||
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | ||||
| West midlands | Officer | PCSO | Officer | PCSO | Officer | PCSO |
| (1) Police Personnel data are not collected at the requested level. Data are collected at basic command unit level (which is equivalent to operational command units in west midlands). Data have been provided for the west midlands operational command units covering the Birmingham area (D1 to D2, E1 to E3 and F1 to F3). (2) These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. | ||||||
Police: Manpower
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers have been employed in (i) South Tyneside, (ii) the North East and (iii) England and Wales in each year since 2008. [313488]
Mr. Hanson: The available data can be seen in the following table.
This and other related data are published annually as a supplementary part of the annual Police Service Strength Home Office Statistical Bulletin. The latest bulletin can be found at:
and bulletins for this and previous years are deposited in the Library of the House.
| Police officer and police community support officer strength, South Tyneside, north-east, England and Wales, as at 31 March( 1) | ||||
| 2008 | 2009 | |||
| Officer | PCSO | Officer | PCSO | |
| (1) These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. Figures include those officers on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. | ||||
Sex Establishments
Mr. Hunt:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the number of (a) lap dancing clubs and (b) sex
establishments in operation in each region in each year since 1997. [313022]
Mr. Alan Campbell [holding answer 25 January 2010]: This information is not collected centrally.
Stop and Search: Greater London
Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many stop and searches have been carried out by the Metropolitan police under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in each year since 2003-04; and how many such searches resulted in arrests for (a) possession of an offensive weapon or dangerous instrument and (b) other reasons. [313042]
Mr. Hanson: The available data are provided in the table.
| Table l: To show stop and searches made by Metropolitan police under section 60 of the Criminal justice and Public Order Act 1994 and resulting arrests | ||||
| Searches | Number of persons found to be carrying offensive weapons or dangerous instruments | Arrests for offensive weapons | Arrests for other reasons | |
Streatham
Keith Hill: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out, with statistical evidence relating as closely as possible to Streatham constituency, the effects on that constituency of changes to his Department's policies since 1997. [313394]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office has introduced a range of policies and initiatives since 1997. However, it is not always possible to quantify their effects particularly at constituency level. The available statistical information therefore relates to the London borough of Lambeth.
In terms of police recorded crime in Lambeth, between 2002-03 and 2008-09, total recorded crime fell by 35 per cent. More specifically:
Violence against the person: down 14 per cent.
Sexual offences: down 20 per cent.
Robbery: down 46 per cent.
Burglary: down 39 per cent.
Offences against vehicles: down 56 per cent.
Other theft offences: down 38 per cent.
Criminal damage: down 43 per cent.
Drug offences: up 33 per cent.
Data prior to 2002-03 are not directly comparable because of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. Additionally, no data at borough level are available prior to 1998-99. Lambeth Operational Command Unit had 1,010 police officers as at 30 September 2009. The number of police officers has increased by 174 since 2001. Comparisons with 1997 for Lambeth are not available. There were 170 police community support officers as at 30 September 2009 whilst there were none in existence in 1997.
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 saw positive effects with the statutory duty to create a crime and disorder reduction partnership (CDRP). The CDRP has brought new ways of working in a cross cutting way with the police, council and other key stakeholders and genuine partnership working to help tackle complex issues.
The CDRP paved the way for the Safer Neighbourhoods initiatives where there is now a dedicated police resource in each of the 21 wards in Lambeth which were not in place in 1997.
Lambeth's CDRP and wider partnership approach has been recognised as good practice and overall crime levels continue to reduce: there was a reduction in the seven consecutive years up to 2009.
Before 1997 there were no bespoke powers to tackle antisocial behaviour but there are now a range of powers to deal with this issue. These include antisocial behaviour orders and designated public places orders (DPPO) from the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001. Lambeth have adopted a borough-wide controlled drinking zone which is now in operation.
In 1997, there were 40 CCTV cameras in Lambeth and since then two main schemes have been developed increasing CCTV to 966 cameras. The Town Centre scheme has 133 cameras and 833 in housing estates and there are additionally Transport for London cameras.
Terrorism: Stop and Search
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted of an offence under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since 2001; and what the sentence was in each case. [313346]
Mr. Hanson: There is no chargeable offence under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. An authorisation under section 44 allows officers to stop and search vehicles and persons within vehicles (section 44(1)), and pedestrians (section 44(2)). The power conferred allows an officer to search for articles of a kind which could be used in connection with terrorism, whether or not there are grounds for suspecting the presence of such articles (sections 45(1) and (2)).
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