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Sexual Abuse: Northern Ireland

Questions

Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: It would be inappropriate for me to comment on any application for a European arrest warrant as this is an ongoing police investigation.

Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon This is an ongoing police investigation and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further.



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Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: The Government have no plans to ask the Northern Ireland Policing Board to conduct such an inquiry.

Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: These are operational matters for the Chief Constable. I have asked him to reply directly to the noble Lord, and a copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.

Asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: This is an ongoing police investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further.

UK Border Agency: Staff

Question

Asked by Baroness Hamwee



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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): The central stakeholder team currently comprises nine full-time and one part-time staff. These staff:

work with stakeholders to promote compliance with immigration and customs requirements and to facilitate legitimate travel and trade;develop ongoing relationships and consult stakeholders in order to inform policy development, services, decision making and planning;facilitate visits to agency facilities and services by parliamentarians, diplomatic visitors and other stakeholders; anddevelop the capacity of staff across the agency to work effectively with our stakeholders.

UK: EU Resident Citizens

Question

Asked by Lord Wallace of Saltaire

Baroness Crawley: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director-General for Office for National Statistics, to Lord Wallace of Saltaire, dated January 2010.

As Director-General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to respond to your Question asking how many citizens of each other EU states are resident in the United Kingdom. (HL 1090)

The Office for National Statistics collects data on nationality on the Annual Population Survey (APS) which covers residents of the UK. The latest estimates available are for the 12 month period of April 2008 to March 2009. The estimates of the number of UK residents for each other EU member state are given in Table 1 attached.



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Estimated population resident in the United Kingdom, by EU27 nationality3,4,5
April 2008 to March 2009United Kingdom
thousands
NationalityEstimateCl +/-

Poland

499

a

30

Republic of Ireland

342

a

24

France

121

b

15

Germany

104

b

13

Italy

96

b

13

Portugal

89

b

12

Lithuania

68

b

11

Spain

68

b

11

Slovakia

48

b

9

Netherlands

47

b

9

Romania

46

b

9

Bulgaria

30

c

7

Greece

27

C

7

Latvia

27

c

7

Sweden

24

c

6

Czech Republic

23

c

6

Hungary

19

c

6

Denmark

19

c

6

Austria

16

c

5

Belgium

14

c

5

Cyprus (EU)

12

c

5

Finland

10

d

4

Malta

6

d

3

Estonia

5

d

3

Slovenia

1

d

1

Luxembourg

:

d

:

Former Czechoslovakia

2

d

2

":" = negligible or rounded to zero

Statistical Robustness1

a

05= CV <5

Estimates are considered precise

b

5= CV <10

Estimates are reasonably precise

c

10= CV <20

Estimates are considered acceptable

d

CV =20

Estimates are not considered reliable for practical purposes

Source: Annual Population Survey (APS)/Labour Force Survey (LFS), ONS

Notes:

1. Standard error is an estimate of the margin of error associated with a sample survey. The coefficient of variation (CV) indicates the robustness of each estimate. It is defined as:

2. Cl+/- is the upper (+) and lower (-) 95% confidence limits. It is defined as: 1.96 x standard error

3. Estimates are based on the Annual Population Survey (APS) which is the Labour Force Survey (LFS) plus various sample boosts.

4. It should be noted that the LFS:

excludes students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent

excludes people inmost other types of communal establishments (for example, hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc)

is grossed to population estimates of those living in private households that only include migrants staying for 12 months or more.

5. The LFS weighting does not adjust for non-response bias by the nationality variable.

Young Offenders Institutions: Social Workers


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