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Serco

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the service standard performance of SERCO operations within his Department's Case Resolution Directorate was in each of the last three months. [320079]

Mr. Woolas: The chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Lin Homer will provide the Home Affairs Select Committee, in the next update, further information on the performance of Serco within the Case Resolution Directorate.

Sexual Offences

Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received recent reports on incidents of (a) sexual violence against female gang members by male members of the same gang and (b) sexual violence by male gang members against sisters and girlfriends of male members of rival gangs. [319781]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The Home Office does not collect individual crime reports. However, the Home Office is committed to increasing the reporting and conviction rates for rape and sexual violence, and works closely with the police and other stakeholders to ensure that
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women who have been victims of sexual violence come forward and, when they do, these crimes are investigated fully. As part of our drive to tackle sexual violence and ensure that victims are well supported we have been increasing the number of Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) and continuing to support Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) to aid police investigations and to provide good quality support to victims. In 2010-11 the Home Office will be spending approximately £2 million to supplement local funding for SARCs and ISVAs, bringing the total investment over the past six years to £14 million.

The Home Office also recently funded the launch of the Female Voice in Violence report by Race on the Agenda (ROTA), which examined the involvement of girls and young women in gangs. While the vast majority of victims and perpetrators of gang violence are men, there is a distinct and serious issue of young women's involvement with gangs as the ROTA report highlights. In recognition of the importance of this issue, the
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Home Office has already provided funding for a number of intelligence gathering and good practice events and are now looking at how the experience, knowledge and resources highlighted can be shared and developed.

Terrorism Act 2000: Stop and Search

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were stopped and searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. [312842]

Mr. Hanson: The information requested covering 2007-08 and 2008-09 is provided in the following tables.

The data provided covering 2008-09 should be considered as provisional, fully verified data for 2008-09 will be published by the Home Office in the annual statistical report 'Police Powers and Procedures', which is scheduled to be published in April 2010.

Table 3c: Searches of pedestrians, vehicles and occupants under sections 44( 1) and 44( 2) of the Terrorism Act 2000
	2007-08
	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Essex	66	238	773	631	1.708
Greater Manchester	0	172	9	0	181
Hampshire	470	1,182	475	435	2,562
Lancashire	0	510	0	0	510
London, City of	679	1,065	516	413	2,673
Merseyside	0	652	5	1	658
Metropolitan Police	7,508	28,865	28,943	36,435	101,751
South Wales	1,119	596	856	525	3,096
Surrey	645	585	654	675	2,559
Sussex(2)	238	487	310	310	1,345
Thames Valley	55	115	25	47	242
West Midlands	0	332	0	0	332
Other Forces(3)	132	488	193	193	1,006
England and Wales	10,912	35,287	32,759	39,665	118,623
BTP(4)	8,902	26,789	17,759	16,185	69,635
Scotland(5)	-	32	0	7	39
Great Britain	19,814	62,108	50,518	55,857	188,297

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	2008-09 (provisional data)
	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Essex	776	260	602	748	2,386
Greater Manchester	0	823	249	92	1,164
Hampshire	633	416	441	95	1,585
Lancashire	0	0	0	0	0
London City of	468	607	834	676	2,585
Merseyside	6	42	6	21	75
Metropolitan Police	39,049	43,736	54,631	47,670	185,086
South Wales	662	539	222	271	1,694
Surrey	613	287	53	49	1,002
Sussex(2)	184	320	429	274	1,207
Thames Valley	25	13	4	22	64
West Midlands	0	0	0	0	0
Other Forces(3)	155	106	126	109	496
England and Wales	42,571	47,150	57,596	50,027	197,344
BTP(4)	15,256	15,983	15,378	11,905	58,522
Scotland(5)	30	56	52	22	160
Great Britain	57,857	63,189	73,026	61,954	256,026
(1) Does not include 'Vehicle Only' stops. (2) Sussex police currently are unable to separate vehicle searches from passenger searches; as a consequence data here refers only to searches of pedestrians. (3) Where initial individual annual force totals were below 100 for 2007-08 they have been grouped into 'Other Forces'. (4) British Transport Police figures include both England and Wales, and Scotland. (5) Scottish s44 authorisation commenced July 2007 following the Glasgow airport attack. Figures provided refer only to searches and detail a limited number of actual uses. Further data are available for the small numbers of individuals stopped.

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