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Independent Safeguarding Authority

James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultation his Department undertook on the level of fees to be charged for the vetting procedure undertaken by the Independent Safeguarding Authority. [310860]

Meg Hillier: Consultation took place on the scheme as a whole. There was no separate consultation on the fee, which is set to achieve cost recovery for the Vetting and Barring Scheme as a whole.

National Identity Register

Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what authorities may be provided with personal information held on the National Identity Register without the consent of the subject of that information. [318116]

Meg Hillier: The Identity Cards Act 2006, and secondary legislation made thereunder, set out who may be provided with information from an individual's entry on the register and under what circumstances. In particular, the Identity Cards Act 2006 (Provision of Information without Consent) Regulations 2009, and the Identity Cards Act 2006 (Information and Code of Practice on Penalties) Order 2009 prescribe Government Departments and public authorities respectively which may be provided with information without the consent of the individual.

Passports: Older People

Janet Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reasons entitlement to free passports for those over the age of 80 years was withdrawn; and if he will make a statement. [317172]

Meg Hillier: There has been no change to the eligibility for free passports. This is not an age related concession, but was introduced in recognition of those who could have made a substantial contribution to the national effort during the second world war. The free passport scheme is an extension of the initial scheme that offered free one-year passports to second world war military veterans attending 60th Anniversary Commemorative Events in 2004. It was decided to extend the scheme to full validity 10 year passports and to recognise those who may have made a contribution to the overall war effort, whether or not they had served in the armed forces. It therefore applies to those born on or before 2^{( )}September 1929 who would have been aged 16 or over at the end of the war.

Police: Football

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent policing football matches in (a) each police force area and (b) England and Wales in each year since 2003. [317570]

Alan Johnson: We do not have a national estimate for how much forces spend on policing annually. Forces are able to recharge a proportion of their costs and we estimate that the costs of policing charged to clubs annually is between £12-15 million.

Prosecutions

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people aged (a) under 10, (b) from 10 to 17, (c) from 18 to 20 and (d) 21 years and over were (i) arrested, (ii) charged and (iii) convicted for (A) violent and (B) non-violent offences in each year since 1998. [315080]

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Alan Johnson: The information requested on arrests covering the period from 1999-2000 (when the collection began) to 2007-08 (latest available) is provided in table A.

Data on arrests in 2008-09 are scheduled to be published in April 2010.

Information provided by the Ministry of Justice showing the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for violent and non-violent offences, broken down by age group, in England and Wales from 1998 to 2008 (latest available) can be viewed in table B.

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The court proceedings database held by the Ministry of Justice does not hold information on convictions for persons aged under 10 who are under the age of liability.

Data for 2009 are planned to be published in the autumn 2010.

Information on the offenders dealt with by the Criminal Justice System does not necessarily reflect wider trends for characteristics of perpetrators of crimes, where often an offender will not be apprehended.

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Table A: Number of persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by age group and type of offence( 1, 2) , 1999-2000 to 2007-08, England and Wales
Number of arrests( 3)
Year and notifiable offence group	Aged under 10	Aged 10-17	Aged 18-20	Aged 21and over	Age unknown	All ages
1999-2000
Violent offences	100	65,100	46,700	196,400	0	308,400
Other offences	1,000	253,300	175,700	539,400	0	969,600
Total	1,200	318,400	222,400	735,800	0	1,277,900
2000-01
Violent offences	100	68,000	46,100	199,300	1,800	314,800
Other offences	700	252,700	166,300	524,900	4,400	949,500
Total	800	320,600	212,400	724,100	6,300	1,264,200
2001-02
Violent offences	100	70,500	47,900	201,400	900	320,500
Other offences	400	243,800	160,300	544,200	2,500	951,400
Total	500	314,200	208,100	745,700	3,400	1,271,900
2002-03
Violent offences	100	70,600	50,800	226,600	900	348,700
Other offences	300	229,000	156,300	576,500	2,200	964,400
Total	500	299,500	207,000	803,200	2,900	1,313,100
2003-04
Violent offences	100	83,000	56,900	256,000	900	396,800
Other offences	500	230,300	145,200	555,600	1,900	933,800
Total	700	313,200	202,200	811,700	2,700	1,330,400
2004-05(4)
Violent offences	200	96,700	66,800	294,000	900	458,400
Other offences	500	236,100	137,000	519,500	1,900	894,900
Total	800	332,800	203,700	813,400	2,800	1,353,400
2005-06
Violent offences	200	108,500	74,500	331,800	800	515,800
Other offences	500	239,900	140,300	531,100	2,000	914,000
Total	800	348,500	214,700	863,100	2,700	1,429,800
2006-07
Violent offences	93	115,173	81,617	362,585	1,037	560,505
Other offences	353	238,197	144,293	536,643	2,165	921,651
Total	446	353,370	225,910	899,228	3,202	1,482,156
2007-08
Violent offences	41	102,802	77,864	363,629	1,685	546,021
Other offences	122	212,599	145,759	568,021	2,744	929,245
Total	163	315,401	223,623	931,650	4,429	1,475,266
(1) Violent offences includes the offence categories of: violence against the person; sexual offences; robbery offences. Other offences includes the offence categories of: burglary; theft and handling stolen goods; fraud and forgery; .criminal damage; drug offences; other offences. (2) Information on the offenders dealt with by the Criminal Justice System does not necessarily reflect wider trends for characteristics of perpetrators of crimes, where often an offender will not be apprehended. (3) Figures from 2003-04 to 2005-06 are rounded to the nearest 100 therefore figures for these years may not add up to the totals, subsequent years' figures are unrounded. Additionally, figures for violent and other offences for years previous to 2006-07 may not be accurate due to the summing of rounded figures. (4) Figures updated since publication of 2004-05 bulletin. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when these data are used.

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