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Lord Varley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: I have today placed in the Library a note of the recommendations from the report, together with the commissioner's responses and the police authority responses, which take into account the advice my right honourable friend the Home Secretary and my honourable friend the Minister of State (Mr. Michael) have received from the Metropolitan Police Committee.
Lord Varley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: I have today placed in the Library a note of the recommendations from the report, together with the commissioner's responses and the police authority responses, which take into account the advice my right honourable friend the Home Secretary and my honourable friend the Minister of State (Mr. Michael) have received from the Metropolitan Police Committee.
Lord Varley asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: I am pleased to announce that a copy of the Asylum Directorate's Instructions (ADIs) is being placed in the Library. The material is subject to periodic review and revision. We shall arrange to provide the Library with any necessary amendments or new instructions as they become available.
The ADIs contain internal guidance to staff on the handling of asylum and related casework. They are being made available in accordance with the principles of openness in the White Paper on Freedom of Information and in the existing Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. A small amount of material cannot be disclosed, either on grounds of
national security or because disclosure would prejudice the effective operation of immigration controls.As with the Immigration Directorate's Instructions (IDIs), this information will be made available on the Internet as soon as possible. Consideration is also being given to other suitable ways of making this information available and members of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's After Entry User Panel will be consulted about this.
Lord Dholakia asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: The Crime and Disorder Bill [HL] places a duty on local authorities with social services and education responsibilities to establish a youth offending team or teams for their area. Local authorities will be required to do this in partnership with the police, probation service and health authorities, which will be under a reciprocal duty to co-operate. Each youth offending team must include at least one of each of the following: a police officer, a local authority social worker, a probation officer, a nominee of the chief education officer and a health authority nominee.
It will be a matter for each agency to determine, after local consultation, the basis on which its staff are seconded to a youth offending team. It will be possible for staff to serve on a part-time basis within a youth offending team where this is considered appropriate in local circumstances. It may, for example, enable an individual to combine service within the youth offending team with related work within his or her own agency, or extend the number of staff members, and thereby the range of skills and expertise, available to the team. Whatever approach is adopted, the overall commitment of staff and other resources which each agency makes to the work of youth offending teams and the delivery of youth justice services will, in all cases, need to be such as properly to discharge the duties placed on it under the Bill.
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: The work to establish the central database is being taken forward by a working group which has been set up under the auspices of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Administration of Firearms and Explosives Licensing Sub-Committee. The Working Group is in the process of finalising the detailed user requirement for the database. Once finalised the user requirement, which will allow better identification of the likely costs, will be submitted to the ACPO Police National Computer Steering Committee and the Police Information Technology Organisation to assess the operational priority of the database. This is expected to take place before the end of the year.
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Williams of Mostyn: Records are kept of the number of firearm and shotgun certificates on issue. Other than in Northern Ireland, where there is no distinction between a firearm certificate and a shotgun certificate, individuals may hold both firearm and shotgun certificates. The statistics for 1997 for England and Wales are not yet available, so the figures given relate to the position as at 30 December 1996. Within these constraints, the figures requested are given in the tables.
Firearm/shotgun certificates on issue by the Royal Ulster Constabulary as at 31 December 1997: 83,753
Police force | Firearm | Shotgun |
Central Scotland | 1,087 | 2,984 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 2,227 | 4,985 |
Fife | 1,456 | 3,945 |
Grampian | 5,856 | 11,553 |
Lothian and Borders | 3,976 | 9,183 |
Northern | 8,060 | 10,489 |
Strathclyde | 4,748 | 12,639 |
Tayside | 3,684 | 7,437 |
Totals | 31,094 | 63,215 |
Police Force | Firearms | Shotguns |
Avon and Somerset | 5,293 | 22,354 |
Bedfordshire | 1,441 | 6,992 |
Cambridgeshire | 2,774 | 15,133 |
Cheshire | 2,745 | 13,384 |
Cleveland | 879 | 2,685 |
Cumbria | 3,325 | 10,999 |
Derbyshire | 2,543 | 12,723 |
Devon and Cornwall | 8,529 | 37,240 |
Dorset | 2,866 | 12,551 |
Durham | 2,243 | 6,873 |
Essex | 4,241 | 20,935 |
Gloucestershire | 2,498 | 12,064 |
Greater Manchester | 2,675 | 9,518 |
Hampshire | 5,344 | 22,148 |
Hertfordshire | 1,939 | 10,025 |
Humberside | 2,886 | 10,288 |
Kent | 4,387 | 22,503 |
Lancashire | 2,977 | 12,918 |
Leicestershire | 1,905 | 11,521 |
Lincolnshire | 3,586 | 16,315 |
London, City of | 40 | 33 |
Merseyside | 1,683 | 4,688 |
Metropolitan Police | 9,123 | 33,867 |
Norfolk | 3,709 | 21,967 |
Northamptonshire | 2,337 | 9,725 |
Northumbria | 3,679 | 9,661 |
North Yorkshire | 5,679 | 19,213 |
Nottinghamshire | 1,987 | 12,946 |
South Yorkshire | 1,777 | 8,419 |
Staffordshire | 2,671 | 15,161 |
Suffolk | 3,744 | 18,487 |
Surrey | 2,594 | 11,600 |
Sussex | 5,828 | 22,900 |
Thames Valley | 6,854 | 30,975 |
Warwickshire | 1,844 | 10,161 |
West Mercia | 5,514 | 30,706 |
West Midlands | 5,514 | 11,033 |
West Yorkshire | 3,209 | 11,855 |
Wiltshire | 2,800 | 12,189 |
Dyfed-Powys | 3,756 | 20,756 |
Gwent | 1,052 | 7,575 |
North Wales | 2,421 | 14,088 |
South Wales | 2,259 | 10,866 |
Totals | 141,859 | 637,950 |
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