Repatriation
Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to which countries the Government does not forcibly repatriate individuals as a result of failed immigration or asylum applications. [51666]
Damian Green: All returns are considered on an individual basis, and we would not seek to remove someone who needs international protection. There is no country to which as a matter of policy we would not seek to enforce the return of those who do not need such protection.
Repatriation: Zimbabwe
Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been forcibly repatriated to Zimbabwe as a result of unsuccessful immigration applications since the relaxation of removal rules in respect of Zimbabwe. [51664]
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Damian Green: On 14 October 2010 I announced that the UK Border Agency would be resuming enforced returns of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe after the Immigration and Asylum Chamber (IAC) had issued its judgment in the case of EM and others. This judgement was promulgated on 11 March 2011.
As of 6 April 2011 there have been no enforced removals to Zimbabwe since the judgment was promulgated.
Gordon Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were voluntarily repatriated to Zimbabwe as a result of unsuccessful immigration applications in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010. [51665]
Damian Green: There were 320 people that voluntarily returned to Zimbabwe in 2008, 316 people in 2009 and 370 people in 2010.
These figures are provisional, based on management information, not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics and may be subject to change.
Sexual Offences: Advisory Services
Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications her Department has received for funding for independent sexual violence advisers since her appointment; how many groups made applications; and from which regions these applications came. [51292]
Lynne Featherstone: In the funding round 2011-12 to 2014-15, the Home Office received 146 applications for independent sexual violence adviser (ISVA) funding from 144 organisations. These applications came from all regions in England and from Wales. Grants were awarded to support 87 posts across all of the English regions and Wales. This represents a commitment of £1.72 million per annum over the spending review period.
Sexual Offences: Victim Support Schemes
Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding her Department has allocated to funding each sexual assault referral centre in 2011-12; from which of her Department's budgets each such centre will be funded; and what the location is of each such centre. [51281]
Lynne Featherstone: The Secretary of State for the Home Department has committed to providing £1.72 million of funding per annum from the Department's crime prevention budget over the next four years to part-fund Independent Sexual Violence Adviser (ISVA) posts. This includes 29 ISVAs working in Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs).
The following table provides details of the locations of the SARCs awarded Home Office ISVA funding in the period 2011-12 to 2014-15.
| Police force area | SARC name | ISVA posts funded in 2011-12 to 2014-15 |
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Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health on (a) funding provided by primary care trusts (PCTs) for sexual assault referral centres (SARCs) and (b) future plans for funding SARCs following the abolition of PCTs. [51285]
Lynne Featherstone: I have regular discussions with ministerial colleagues from across Government on a wide range of issues relating to tackling violence against women and girls including services for victims of rape and sexual violence. Discussions are ongoing with the Department of Health on future local sexual assault referral centre (SARC) funding following the abolition of primary care trusts. From 2011 to 2015 the Home Office is part-funding 87 independent sexual violence adviser posts, of which 29 will be based in SARCs.
UK Border Agency: Complaints
Mrs Main: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints the UK Border Agency has received from residents of St Albans constituency in each of the last six months. [52124]
Damian Green: The total number of complaints received by the UK Border Agency and recorded on the Complaints Management System from residents of St Albans postcode area in the last six months is seven. A breakdown by month is listed as follows:
Two received in March 2011
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One received in February 2011
One received in January 2011
Two received in December 2010
One received in October 2010
UK Border Agency: Pay
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff of the UK Border Agency received a salary of over £100,000 in the latest period for which figures are available. [51833]
Damian Green: The UK Border Agency is committed to being transparent and has published detail of the salaries of senior staff on the sites listed as follows. The data now in the public domain represent what we can provide while honouring the duty that we have to our staff under the Data Protection Act.
Please note that two of the 16 listed there, Lin Homer and Dee Bourke, have both left this organisation; new organisation charts and information on senior staff salaries will be published shortly.
The information is available from the following link;
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/our-organisation/our-structure/structure-salary/
The report headed “UK Border Agency: structure and salary reports” at the base of the page then select “Senior staff salaries—UK Border Agency” and that will provide the list of senior staff salaries.
Violence
Mr Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded instances of (a) rape and (b) domestic violence there were in (i) England and Wales and (ii) each police force area in each year since 1997; and what the clear-up rate for each was in each such year. [52383]
Lynne Featherstone: These data are shown in the following tables.
Due to changes in recording practice, data on police recorded offences are not comparable across the period
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requested. The counting rules for recorded crime were revised in April 1998 and the coverage was expanded. Trends were also affected by the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002, which required the police to record a crime unless there was “no credible evidence to the contrary”. The Sexual Offences Act 2003 in May 2004 also altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences, including rape.
Data on police recorded offences of rape for each year since 1997 by police force area are provided in Table A. Data on domestic violence incidents reported to the police have been collected by the Home Office since 2003-04 and the available data are provided in Table B. Some data have been estimated due to lack of provision of data from police forces. All estimated figures are indicated in the table. Data for earlier years are not available centrally.
Detection rates are a ratio of crimes detected in a period to crimes recorded in a period. They are not based on tracking whether individual crimes recorded in a period have eventually been detected.
In addition to the recorded crime revisions mentioned above, detection data trends have also been affected by additional changes. Revised guidance on detections was issued in April 1999 which formalised detection procedures, placing a greater emphasis on the evidential basis on which detections can be claimed.
From 1 April 2007 the rules governing recording of non-sanction detections were revised to reduce the scope within which they can be claimed to a very small limited set of circumstances. This has significantly reduced the number of non-sanction detections which has been reflected in the overall detection rates.
The Home Office carried out research published in July 2007 which found that the reduction in detection rates was likely to be largely due to changes in recording practices resulting from the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard, counting rules and detections guidance (Feist et al, 2007).
Detection rates for rape offences are provided in Table C. Detection rates for domestic violence offences are not held centrally.
| Table A: Recorded rape offences (1, 2) by police force area, 1997 to 2009-10 | |||||||
| Area | 1997 (3) | 1998-99 (4) | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 (5, 6) | 2003-04 |
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| Area | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
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| n/a = Data not available. (1) The Sexual Offences Act 2003, introduced in May 2004, altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences. (2) Prior to 2009-10, a small number of offences continued to be recorded relating to offences repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. While these may have been legitimately recorded for offences committed prior to May 2004 it is also possible that some may have been recorded in these old categories in error, so any changes based on small numbers should be interpreted with caution. (3) The number of crimes recorded in that calendar year using the coverage and rules in use until 31 March 1998. (4) The number of crimes recorded in that financial year using the expanded offence coverage and revised Counting Rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998. (5) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002, although some forces adopted NCRS practices before the standard was formally introduced. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. The introduction of NCRS led to a rise in recording in 2002/03 and, particularly for violent crime, in the following years as forces continued to improve compliance with the new standard. (6) Includes the British Transport Police from 2002-03 onwards. | ||||||
| Table B: Reported domestic violence offences by police force area, 2003-04 to 2009-10 (1) | |||||||
| Area | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
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| (1) All data are provisional and unverified with forces. (2) Data are estimated for non-response, based on ratios in other forces (e.g. domestic violence incidents; total violence against the person offences). | |||||||
| Table C: Detection rates (1) of rape offences (2) (, ) (3) by police force area, 1997 to 2009-10 | |||||||
| Area | 1997 (4) | 1998-99 (5) | 1999- 20 00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 (6, 7) | 2003-04 |
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| Area | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| n/a = Data not available. (1) Offences detected in the current year may have been initially recorded in an earlier year and for this reason some percentages may exceed 100. (2) The Sexual Offences Act 2003, introduced in May 2004, altered the definition and coverage of sexual offences. (3) Prior to 2009-10, a small number of offences continued to be recorded relating to offences repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. While these may have been legitimately recorded for offences committed prior to May 2004 it is also possible that some may have been recorded in these old categories in error, so any changes based on small numbers should be interpreted with caution. (4) The number of crimes recorded in that calendar year using the coverage and rules in use until 31 March 1998. (5) The number of crimes recorded in that financial year using the expanded offence coverage and revised Counting Rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998. (6) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002, although some forces adopted NCRS practices before the standard was formally introduced. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. The introduction of NCRS led to a rise in recording in 2002-03 and, particularly for violent crime, in the following years as forces continued to improve compliance with the new standard. (7) Includes the British Transport Police from 2002-03 onwards. (8) Data are not reported because the base number of offences is less than 50. | ||||||