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Immigrants: Detainees
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children under the age of (a) 10 and (b) five years old were being held in immigration removal centres on the latest date for which figures are available. [319775]
Alan Johnson: As at 31 December 2009, no children, defined as persons aged 17 or below, were detained in the UK solely under Immigration Act powers. This excludes children detained in Prison Service establishments' mother and baby units.
Immobilisation of Vehicles
Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from Birmingham City Council on the proposals in the Crime and Security Bill relating to vehicle immobilisation businesses; and if he will make a statement. [319519]
Mr. Alan Campbell:
Birmingham city council's Public Protection Committee wrote to the Home Secretary on 11 February 2010 about the proposals in the Crime and Security Bill relating to vehicle immobilisation businesses.
The council also previously wrote to Home Office Ministers on three occasions since 20 December 2007 about the regulation of vehicle immobilisation business, including a response to our public consultation published in April 2009 on how best to regulate vehicle immobilisation (VI) businesses operating on private land.
Our proposals for the regulation of vehicle immobilisation business as set out in the Crime and Security Bill will make it mandatory for all wheel clamping businesses working on private land, as well as their employees, to be licensed by the SIA under the terms of a code of practice. The conditions of the code will include a cap on fines, time limits on towing cars unreasonably quickly after being clamped and clear instructions for putting up signs warning drivers that clamping takes place. In addition, the proposals include the setting up of an independent appeals process to enable motorists to appeal where they consider that the terms of the code have been breached.
The conditions of the code will have statutory force, and will be set out in regulations before the code is published. Failure to comply with the code, or operating without a business licence, will be a criminal offence and could result in prosecution.
We believe our proposals under the Bill will address the issues raised by Birmingham city council in their correspondence.
Members: Correspondence
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to reply to the letter of 14 January 2010 from the hon. Member for Walsall North to the UK Border Agency regarding a resident in his constituency, reference T1146229. [320347]
Mr. Woolas: The Regional Director of the UK Border Agency wrote to my hon. Friend on 3 February 2010.
Personation: Essex
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how may offences involving the fraudulent use of personal information have been reported to (a) Essex and (b) Southend police in each year since 1997; and how many such reports led to a (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction. [320655]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not available centrally. Offences involving the fraudulent use of personal information would be recorded under the Home Office offence classification of 'Fraud by false representation'. However, it is not possible to separately identify those offences involving the fraudulent use of personal information from other fraud offences recorded under that classification. As a result, it is not possible to state how many offences led to prosecution and conviction.
Police: Complaints
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many complaints against the police were received in each year since 1997; [319524]
(2) what the 10 most common causes of complaint made against the police were in each year since 1997; and how many such complaints were made in each such year. [319779]
Alan Johnson: The Home Office collated and published annual statistical information for Police Complaints and Discipline for England and Wales, until 31 March 2004.
The totals of complaints about the police received for England and Wales in each year since 1997 are:
| Complaints | |
The Home Office Statistical bulletins give numbers for substantiated complaints by reason. The 10 most common causes for such complaints, and their number in each year from 1997, are contained in the following table.
Since it came into existence on 1 April 2004, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has been responsible for the collection and analysis of police complaints statistical information.
| Substantiated complaints by reason for complaint, England and Wales | |||||||||||||||
| Number of complaints | |||||||||||||||
| Reason for complaint | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | ||||||||
Police: Firearms
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police-owned firearms and (b) confiscated firearms were lost or stolen from police forces in England and Wales in 2009. [320233]
Mr. Hanson: The information requested is not collected or held centrally by the Home Office.
Police: Manpower
Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average length of service was for police officers serving in England and Wales between 1999 and 2009. [320232]
Mr. Hanson: The information requested cannot be calculated from the centrally collected data within the police personnel statistics series. Length of service data are only collected in a number of fixed time bands.
Police: Vehicles
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many accidents involving police vehicles there have been in (a) Essex and (b) Southend in each year since 1997. [320652]
Mr. Hanson: The available data are provided in the tables.
Figures from 2002-03 onwards for Essex Police Force have been provided based on data held centrally in the Home Office.
Figures for Essex county and Southend and Thurrock unitary authority for 1997 to 2008 have also been provided by the Department for Transport. These numbers do not include all police vehicles involved in accidents-only those that were involved in an accident where an individual was injured, and where the police vehicle can be matched against the DVLA records.
As these figures are based on different definitions, they are not comparable.
| Road traffic collisions on public roads involving police vehicles, Essex, 2002-03 to 2008-09 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. All data are unvalidated, subject to change and provided on a provisional basis only 2. Data are not available centrally for Southend. 3. Data are not available centrally prior to 2002-03. | |
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