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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken into (i) child victims of crime and (ii) child criminals in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken into (i) child victims of crime and (ii) child criminals in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
For purposes of this reply we have considered any Home Office research looking specifically or primarily at children (those aged under 18) as perpetrators or victims of crime, where the research was undertaken in 2005 or later. A number of Home Office research projects may include some information on young people as victims or offenders as part of a more general research study: these are not covered in this reply.(i) Child victims of crimeSince 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child victims:BMRB (British Market Research Bureau) were commissioned to extend the British Crime Survey (BCS) to include a representative sample of children aged 10 to 15 as part of the BCS 2010-11 fieldwork contract. The BCS was extended from January 2009 with the objective of providing estimates of victimisation among those aged 10 to 15 and better understanding children's experiences of victimisation and key crime related issues in England and Wales.The Home Office reported in 2009 on the key trends in monitoring Phase 1 of the Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) aimed at reducing the carrying of knives and serious stabbings among teenagers (13 to 19-year-olds) in 10 police force areas. The report is available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr18c.pdf"The Home Office commissioned a process evaluation in March 2009 to look at the implementation of the Child Sex Offender Review public disclosure. The final report was published in March 2010."http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr32c.pdf"(ii) Child criminalsSince 2005 the Home Office has commissioned or undertaken the following research in respect of child offenders:The Home Office was responsible for carrying out the Offending Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) since 2003. The survey has completed four annual sweeps (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006). The main aim of the survey is to gather information on young people's attitudes towards and experiences of offending in England and Wales (particularly those aged from 10 to 25). The OCJS also collects information about young people's victimisation experiences. Results from the 2005 and 2006 OCJS surveys are available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb1706.pdf"and"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0908.pdf"In November 2009 longitudinal analysis of those who took part in all four years of the OCJS was published and is available at:"http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/horr19c.pdf"The Home Office commissioned the Juvenile Cohort Study in 2007. It was designed to provide evidence about which interventions are associated with reductions in re-offending for young offenders with different characteristics. Since the machinery of government changes (May 2007), this work is now owned and being taken forward by the Ministry of Justice.The Home Office commissioned an evaluation of the Drug Intervention Programme pilots for children and young people. The report was published in 2007."http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0707.pdf"In 2009 the Home Office commissioned a process evaluation of the implementation of the Youth Crime Action Plan. This study is ongoing.
Subjects
Children; Crime; Young offenders
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1383-4W; 319777
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) murders and (b) sexual offences recorded in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales, in each year since 1998 remain unsolved.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) murders and (b) sexual offences recorded in (i) each police force area and (ii) England and Wales, in each year since 1998 remain unsolved.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
The available information is given in the form of tables showing undetected crime in each financial year from 1998-99 to 2008-09. Tables 1 and 2 show the numbers for undetected homicides; tables 3 and 4 those for undetected sexual offences. As offences detected in the current year may initially have been recorded in an earlier year it is not possible to determine the numbers of undetected crime in a particular year.It should be noted that non-sanction detections, which contribute to the overall detection rates, have fallen in recent years. This reflects a significant shift by many police forces away from recording detections where no further action is taken. This will have had an impact on the number of crimes which remain undetected.
| Table 1: Undetected homicides by police force area—1998/99 to 2001/02 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetected | ||||
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 2 | 2 | -3 | 6 |
| Bedfordshire | -1 | -2 | 3 | 0 |
| Cambridgeshire | -2 | 0 | -1 | 4 |
| Cheshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cleveland | 0 | 1 | -2 | 1 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 0 | 2 | 1 | -2 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Dorset | 2 | -3 | 0 | 5 |
| Durham | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Essex | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Gloucestershire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Greater Manchester | -8 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Hampshire | -1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Hertfordshire | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Humberside | 4 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Kent | -1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Lancashire | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 |
| Leicestershire | -2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Lincolnshire | 2 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
| London, City of | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 0 | -2 | 7 | 13 |
| Metropolitan Police | 20 | 45 | 19 | 55 |
| Norfolk | 2 | -2 | 2 | 3 |
| Northamptonshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Northumbria | -1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| North Wales | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Yorkshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottinghamshire | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| South Wales | 1 | 4 | 0 | -6 |
| South Yorkshire | 1 | 1 | -1 | 6 |
| Staffordshire | 4 | 2 | 3 | -3 |
| Suffolk | 0 | 1 | -3 | 0 |
| Surrey | 1 | 1 | 7 | -3 |
| Sussex | 4 | -1 | 5 | 5 |
| Thames Valley | 3 | 4 | 4 | -1 |
| Warwickshire | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 |
| West Mercia | -2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| West Midlands | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| West Yorkshire | -1 | 0 | -1 | 8 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 |
| England and Wales | 39 | 73 | 84 | 123 |
| Note: | ||||
| Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown. |
| Table 2: Undetected homicides by police force area—2002-03 to 2008-09 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetected | |||||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Bedfordshire | -1 | 0 | -1 | 3 | -4 | -2 | 1 |
| British Transport Police | -1 | 43 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire | -2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Cheshire | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | -2 | -2 | 2 |
| Cleveland | 2 | -1 | 1 | -3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cumbria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Derbyshire | 2 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -1 |
| Dorset | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| Durham | -2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Essex | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -3 | 2 | -1 |
| Gloucestershire | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Greater Manchester | 7 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| Gwent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Hertfordshire | 1 | 4 | -1 | 4 | -2 | 1 | -1 |
| Humberside | 1 | 5 | -32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kent | -1 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 4 | 19 | -20 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Leicestershire | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 1 |
| Lincolnshire | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| London, City of | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Merseyside | 11 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Metropolitan Police | 37 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 27 | 18 | 14 |
| Norfolk | 2 | 0 | -1 | 4 | -2 | 1 | 2 |
| Northamptonshire | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Northumbria | -1 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -2 |
| North Wales | 7 | -5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 |
| North Yorkshire | -2 | 2 | -3 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Nottinghamshire | 4 | -1 | 1 | -3 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| South Wales | -4 | 3 | -2 | 5 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| South Yorkshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Staffordshire | 5 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Suffolk | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Surrey | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
| Sussex | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1 |
| Thames Valley | 7 | 5 | -3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | -4 |
| Warwickshire | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 0 | -1 | -1 |
| West Mercia | 0 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| West Midlands | 15 | 0 | -4 | 8 | -3 | 6 | 5 |
| West Yorkshire | -3 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Wiltshire | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 |
| England and Wales | 130 | 137 | 6 | 71 | 69 | 69 | 44 |
| Note: | |||||||
| Offences detected in any given year may have been previously recorded in an earlier year. When offences detected in the year exceed the number recorded a negative value is shown. |
| Table 3: Undetected sexual offences by police force area—1998-99 to 2001-02 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetected | ||||
| 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 394 | 441 | 673 | 915 |
| Bedfordshire | 260 | 279 | 250 | 269 |
| Cambridgeshire | 241 | 232 | 278 | 378 |
| Cheshire | 106 | 76 | 90 | 113 |
| Cleveland | 104 | 93 | 95 | 87 |
| Cumbria | 35 | 37 | 30 | 49 |
| Derbyshire | 299 | 405 | 482 | 430 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 236 | 162 | 229 | 484 |
| Dorset | 213 | 225 | 253 | 316 |
| Durham | 82 | 49 | 58 | 181 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 28 | 23 | 21 | 28 |
| Essex | 695 | 620 | 711 | 721 |
| Gloucestershire | 172 | 176 | 189 | 165 |
| Greater Manchester | 1,242 | 1,354 | 1,340 | 1,599 |
| Gwent | 132 | 97 | 55 | 56 |
| Hampshire | 189 | 663 | 794 | 822 |
| Hertfordshire | 170 | 181 | 289 | 207 |
| Humberside | 501 | 569 | 516 | 651 |
| Kent | 499 | 486 | 674 | 702 |
| Lancashire | 455 | 385 | 531 | 691 |
| Leicestershire | 414 | 471 | 437 | 526 |
| Lincolnshire | 129 | 116 | 123 | 225 |
| London, City of | 20 | 16 | 9 | 16 |
| Merseyside | 335 | 423 | 467 | 657 |
| Metropolitan Police | 6,447 | 7,911 | 7,566 | 8,057 |
| Norfolk | 168 | 196 | 216 | 281 |
| Northamptonshire | 153 | 97 | 81 | 165 |
| Northumbria | 531 | 607 | 553 | 649 |
| North Wales | 75 | 72 | 169 | 262 |
| North Yorkshire | 65 | 118 | 125 | 145 |
| Nottinghamshire | 603 | 675 | 740 | 875 |
| South Wales | 143 | 142 | 145 | 154 |
| South Yorkshire | 223 | 214 | 229 | 253 |
| Staffordshire | 372 | 735 | 803 | 815 |
| Suffolk | 166 | 216 | 251 | 319 |
| Surrey | 80 | 376 | 511 | 446 |
| Sussex | 564 | 697 | 818 | 783 |
| Thames Valley | 680 | 824 | 862 | 857 |
| Warwickshire | 76 | 108 | 118 | 115 |
| West Mercia | 206 | 256 | 248 | 469 |
| West Midlands | 915 | 1099 | 1331 | 1518 |
| West Yorkshire | 690 | 596 | 606 | 751 |
| Wiltshire | 114 | 165 | 256 | 220 |
| England and Wales | 19,222 | 22,683 | 24,186 | 27,422 |
| Note: | ||||
| The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. |
| Table 4: Undetected sexual offences by police force area—2002/03 to 2008/09 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetected | |||||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| Avon and Somerset | 1,306 | 1,386 | 1,531 | 1,113 | 1,292 | 1,115 | 1,095 |
| Bedfordshire | 362 | 437 | 392 | 493 | 350 | 280 | 348 |
| British Transport Police | 656 | 795 | 876 | 671 | 700 | 534 | 547 |
| Cambridgeshire | 540 | 624 | 560 | 572 | 544 | 561 | 523 |
| Cheshire | 386 | 533 | 585 | 649 | 589 | 484 | 433 |
| Cleveland | 221 | 409 | 444 | 434 | 397 | 330 | 315 |
| Cumbria | 89 | 163 | 200 | 179 | 169 | 211 | 192 |
| Derbyshire | 716 | 700 | 758 | 754 | 752 | 745 | 702 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 813 | 1,047 | 1,095 | 1,085 | 1,040 | 1,033 | 992 |
| Dorset | 448 | 542 | 500 | 560 | 472 | 579 | 543 |
| Durham | 237 | 129 | 170 | 453 | 265 | 285 | 260 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 31 | 261 | 289 | 256 | 250 | 208 | 184 |
| Essex | 1,023 | 1,136 | 884 | 973 | 777 | 815 | 846 |
| Gloucestershire | 338 | 322 | 364 | 465 | 470 | 426 | 377 |
| Greater Manchester | 1,844 | 2,330 | 2,430 | 2,184 | 2,052 | 2,048 | 1,963 |
| Gwent | 153 | 130 | 248 | 294 | 335 | 430 | 375 |
| Hampshire | 1,078 | 1,606 | 1,846 | 1,951 | 1,975 | 1,699 | 1,634 |
| Hertfordshire | 401 | 435 | 563 | 565 | 612 | 523 | 438 |
| Humberside | 857 | 1,136 | 1,072 | 943 | 928 | 676 | 665 |
| Kent | 857 | 1,046 | 1,308 | 1,334 | 1260 | 1,140 | 935 |
| Lancashire | 579 | 1,014 | 983 | 874 | 830 | 817 | 684 |
| Leicestershire | 745 | 768 | 1,006 | 948 | 915 | 931 | 856 |
| Lincolnshire | 482 | 501 | 504 | 441 | 455 | 424 | 426 |
| London, City of | 20 | 24 | 34 | 30 | 32 | 37 | 17 |
| Merseyside | 834 | 946 | 873 | 912 | 666 | 620 | 497 |
| Metropolitan Police | 8,343 | 7,800 | 7,193 | 6,725 | 6,717 | 6,288 | 5,976 |
| Norfolk | 503 | 533 | 588 | 573 | 483 | 447 | 359 |
| Northamptonshire | 362 | 300 | 345 | 395 | 348 | 449 | 409 |
| Northumbria | 943 | 990 | 1,018 | 825 | 735 | 657 | 582 |
| North Wales | 465 | 404 | 411 | 388 | 395 | 408 | 402 |
| North Yorkshire | 248 | 309 | 304 | 335 | 332 | 372 | 348 |
| Nottinghamshire | 731 | 805 | 731 | 759 | 778 | 807 | 870 |
| South Wales | 377 | 429 | 528 | 707 | 610 | 622 | 607 |
| South Yorkshire | 524 | 540 | 890 | 1,043 | 878 | 782 | 563 |
| Staffordshire | 757 | 766 | 836 | 865 | 794 | 701 | 782 |
| Suffolk | 363 | 490 | 400 | 407 | 435 | 473 | 489 |
| Surrey | 429 | 468 | 549 | 492 | 397 | 439 | 618 |
| Sussex | 889 | 939 | 1,331 | 1,119 | 1,128 | 960 | 1,034 |
| Thames Valley | 1,398 | 1,500 | 1,517 | 1,456 | 1,680 | 1,580 | 1,617 |
| Warwickshire | 188 | 292 | 268 | 242 | 300 | 265 | 269 |
| West Mercia | 601 | 672 | 706 | 576 | 609 | 740 | 720 |
| West Midlands | 1,849 | 2,137 | 2,434 | 2,325 | 2,329 | 2,140 | 1,786 |
| West Yorkshire | 1,280 | 1,832 | 1,652 | 1,822 | 1,662 | 1,589 | 1,532 |
| Wiltshire | 455 | 404 | 345 | 351 | 419 | 404 | 343 |
| England and Wales | 35,721 | 40,030 | 41,561 | 40,538 | 39,156 | 37,074 | 35,153 |
| Note: | |||||||
| The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years. |
Subjects
Homicide; Sexual offences
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1385-90W; 317568
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Ion Track drug detection devices are possessed by each police force in England and Wales.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Ion Track drug detection devices are possessed by each police force in England and Wales.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
4 March 2010
For answer on
8 March 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
The Home Office allocates funding to the police authority and it is for the chief constables and police authorities to determine their spending on different types of policing activity. It is therefore not possible to provide the data in the format requested.There are two main manufacturers of devices using the ion mobility spectrometry technology to detect either drugs or explosive traces. One of these was known as Ion Track prior to 2003.According to the Department's records, in excess of 150 devices using the ion mobility spectrometry technology have been supplied to police authorities in England and Wales since 2003. Some are used for drugs detection and others for explosive detection.
Subjects
Crime; Drugs
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1392W; 321257
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been found (a) in total and (b) at each of the main ports of entry to the United Kingdom in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many illegal immigrants have been found (a) in total and (b) at each of the main ports of entry to the United Kingdom in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
7 April 2010
It is Government policy to publish border force management information at a regional level, as location specific information could provide value to those seeking to circumvent our controls.The following table provides the number of illegal entrants detected by border force officers in the south and north regions between 2003 and 2009. These figures do not include the number of illegal immigrant's encountered in-country, and do not include those encountered at the juxtaposed borders in France and Belgium.
| Region | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| South | North | Total | |
| 2009 | 303 | 23 | 326 |
| 2008 | 455 | 45 | 500 |
| 2007 | 487 | 47 | 534 |
| 2006 | 393 | 28 | 421 |
| 2005 | 312 | 7 | 319 |
| 2004 | 241 | — | 241 |
| 2003 | 70 | — | 70 |
Subjects
Undocumented migrants
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
508 c1392W; 317764
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on front-line policing in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on front-line policing in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
For the period 2003-04 to 2007-08, the front-line policing measure assesses time spent by police officers on core policing duties such as patrol and responding to 999 calls. They also include activities of CID and specialist officers, who, while not always visible to the public, are nonetheless carrying out core policing duties.The estimates by year are as follows: 2003-04, 63.6 per cent.; 2004-05, 62.3 per cent.; 2005-06, 63.6 per cent.; 2006-07, 64.2 per cent.; 2007-08, 64.9 per cent. Data for Staffordshire are not available for 2007-08 and these figures therefore exclude Staffordshire.The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling frontline staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces. As recommended by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service, the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08.On 18 March 2010 HM Inspectorate of Constabulary published Value for Money Profiles for the 43 forces in England and Wales. Explanatory material accompanying the profiles contains an overall analysis of the police workforce as at 31 March 2009 which shows the proportion by function as:Aiding the public 47 per cent."Working in the community 36 per cent.""Policing roads 4 per cent.""Taking 999 calls and tasking (control room) 7 per cent."Dealing with criminals 31 per cent."Investigating crime (for example CID) 13 per cent.""Specialist functions (such as air support, firearms, dogs) 4 per cent.""Gathering intelligence 4 per cent.""Processing forensic evidence 2 per cent.""Preparing cases for court (criminal justice) 5 per cent.""Holding people in custody 3 per cent."Helping to support 22 per cent."Operational Support (including planning, estates, vehicles) 8 per cent.""Business Support (including HR, finance, IT) 11 per cent.""Training 2 per cent.""Other (such as catering and stores/supplies) 1 per cent.""Note:""These figures relate to the breakdown of all police personnel by function. They therefore include police staff as well as officers."
Subjects
Bureaucracy; Police
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1280-1W; 319521
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on each type of activity in (a) England and (b) Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of police officer time was spent on each type of activity in (a) England and (b) Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
Table A contains the percentages of police officer time spent on different activities for the financial year 2007-08 for England and Wales. To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009. Activities are grouped according to whether they are related to crime incidents, related to non-crime incidents (e.g. road traffic accidents), or not related to specific incidents. In this last case, these activities could be related to crime (e.g. prison interviews), or to general police duties and activities (e.g. training).The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling front line staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces.Table A indicates that, in 2007-08, the police in England spent 32.7 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.6 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents (although some of this will be crime-related).The comparative figures for Wales are 27.9 per cent., 20.7 per cent. and 51.5 per cent. respectively.Overall, in 2007-08, police in England and Wales spent 32.5 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.9 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents.For the specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of time spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police time, was 2.2 per cent., 2.1 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific time, the figures were 6.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.2 per cent. respectively. There is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.Table B contains police spend on different activities for the financial year 2007-08. As before, crime and non-crime incident-specific activities are differentiated. The categorisation of non-incident specific activities is different in Table B from Table A, however. Table B does not include costs of activities such as training, which are instead treated as overheads and included in the costs of all other activities. Further, Table B separates out some activities which are undertaken by particular staff or roles (e.g. 'intelligence analysis and research')—these are not included in Table A, as activity analysis covered only police officers working on foot, car or beat patrol, CID and traffic duties. Note that costs in Table B do not include 'sustaining overheads' such as running costs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).Table B indicates that for the financial year 2007-08 the police in England and Wales spent 34.9 per cent. of its total budget (excluding sustaining overheads) on crime incident-specific activities. For the same specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of budget spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police budget (excluding sustaining overheads), was 2.0 per cent., 2.2 per cent. and 2.6 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific budget spending, the figures were 5.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. respectively. As before, there is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.By way of context, Table C provides proportions of crime incidents of different types alongside the proportion of time and budgetary spend on crime devoted to these incident types. Thus it can be seen that, in 2007-08, robbery accounted for 1.7 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.7 per cent. and 5.7 per cent. of police time and budgetary spend respectively. Criminal damage accounted for 21 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.3 per cent. of both police time and budget. Sexual offences accounted for 1.1 per cent. of crime incidents, and 7.2 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. of police time and budget respectively.
| Table A: Police time by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of time | |||
| Activity | England | Wales | Total |
| Dealing with crime incidents | |||
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 3.4 | 2.3 | 3.3 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| Sexual offences | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Burglary dwelling | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| Robbery | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.2 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Deception/fraud | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
| Theft other | 3.3 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Drugs offences | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage | 2.0 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| Other crime | 5.6 | 2.6 | 5.5 |
| 32.7 | 27.9 | 32.5 | |
| Dealing with non-crime incidents | |||
| RTA fatal/serious | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| RTA minor injury/damage | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Traffic Other | 2.4 | 3.8 | 2.5 |
| Public disorder | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| Domestic dispute | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| Complaint/nuisance | 0.9 | 2.5 | 1.0 |
| Prostitution | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| False alarms | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Missing person | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Sudden/suspicious death | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Other non crime | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
| 14.6 | 20.7 | 14.9 | |
| Non-incident related | |||
| Visible patrol | 13.7 | 15.2 | 13.8 |
| Court duties/escort | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Special operations/events | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Investigate complaints | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Deal with informants | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Community involvement | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Property inquiries | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Non incident inquiries | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Crime prevention activity | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Prison interviews | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Training | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Briefings/meetings | 6.6 | 7.2 | 6.6 |
| Non-incident linked paperwork | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.4 |
| Other non-incident related work | 5.0 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
| Staff development, appraisal, personnel-related | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| Monitoring cellblock PACE | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Relief custody duties | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Call handling/relief control room duties/inquiry desk | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Checking paperwork (supervisory) | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| Budgetary/financial | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| ID parades | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Other managerial/supervision | 3.6 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| Refreshments | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Waiting time | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| 52.7 | 51.5 | 52.7 | |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
| Table B: Police spend by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity | Spend (£000) | Spend (percentage) |
| Dealing with crime incidents | ||
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 395,906 | 4.50 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 346,819 | 4.00 |
| Sexual offences | 226,678 | 2.60 |
| Burglary dwelling | 259,262 | 3.00 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 130,232 | 1.50 |
| Robbery | 170,458 | 2.00 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 195,493 | 2.20 |
| Deception/fraud | 130,792 | 1.50 |
| Theft other | 273,557 | 3.10 |
| Drugs offences | 271,550 | 3.10 |
| Criminal damage | 187,576 | 2.20 |
| Other crime | 452,835 | 5.20 |
| 3,041,159 | 35 | |
| Dealing with non-crime incidents | ||
| RTA fatal/serious | 76,905 | 0.90 |
| RTA minor injury/damage | 105,163 | 1.20 |
| Traffic Other | 243,729 | 2.80 |
| Public disorder | 235,011 | 2.70 |
| Domestic dispute | 175,446 | 2.00 |
| Complaint/nuisance | 99,671 | 1.10 |
| Prostitution | 7,876 | 0.10 |
| False alarms | 13,058 | 0.10 |
| Missing person | 112,040 | 1.30 |
| Sudden/suspicious death | 81,260 | 0.90 |
| Other non-crime | 276,938 | 3.20 |
| 1,427,097 | 16 | |
| Non-incident related | ||
| Visible patrol | 1,207,838 | 13.80 |
| Court duties/escort | 35,643 | 0.40 |
| Special operations/events | 225,440 | 2.60 |
| Deal with informants | 39,985 | 0.50 |
| Community involvement | 169,188 | 1.90 |
| Property inquiries | 32,032 | 0.40 |
| Non incident inquiries | 135,039 | 1.50 |
| Crime prevention activity | 64,865 | 0.70 |
| Prison interviews | 7,332 | 0.10 |
| Role Code—National, international policing, CT and Special Branch | 474,839 | 5.40 |
| Role Code—Crime partnerships | 90,021 | 1.00 |
| Role Code—Maintaining and developing partnerships | 35,687 | 0.40 |
| Role Code—Intelligence Research and Analysis | 368,101 | 4.20 |
| Role Code—Prisoner handling/custody | 399,657 | 4.60 |
| Role Code—Call handling/inquiry office | 603,164 | 6.90 |
| Role Code—Licensing | 23,475 | 0.30 |
| Role Code—Criminal justice | 273,753 | 3.10 |
| Role Code—Police protection | 21,014 | 0.20 |
| Role Code—Family liaison | 19,830 | 0.20 |
| Role Code—Warrants | 16,581 | 0.20 |
| ID parades | 9,698 | 0.10 |
| 4,253,184 | 49 | |
| Total | 8,721,439 | 100.00 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
| Table C: Proportions of crime incidents, crime incident-related activity and crime incident-related spend by crime type, England and Wales¹, 2007-08 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage | |||
| Crime incident type | Crime incidents | Time on crime incidents | Budget on crime incidents |
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 0.5 | 10.3 | 12.9 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 18.8 | 12.4 | 11.5 |
| Sexual offences | 1.1 | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Burglary dwelling | 5.7 | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 6.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 6.7 | 5.7 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 13.3 | 5.4 | 6.3 |
| Deception/fraud | 3.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Theft other | 22.3 | 10.1 | 8.9 |
| Drugs offences | 4.6 | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Criminal damage | 21.0 | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| Other crime | 1.4 | 17.0 | 14.9 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
Subjects
Bureaucracy; Police
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1277-80W; 319518
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attempts were made to gain unauthorised access to each (a) database and (b) ICT system run by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many attempts were made to gain unauthorised access to each (a) database and (b) ICT system run by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
The Department does not comment on issues relating to possible breaches of the UK's national security.
Subjects
Data protection; Home Office
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1258W; 317830
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of police (a) time and (b) budget spent on tackling (i) gang related crimes, (ii) robbery, (iii) criminal damage and (iv) sexual offences.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his most recent estimate is of the proportion of police (a) time and (b) budget spent on tackling (i) gang related crimes, (ii) robbery, (iii) criminal damage and (iv) sexual offences.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
Table A contains the percentages of police officer time spent on different activities for the financial year 2007-08 for England and Wales. To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009. Activities are grouped according to whether they are related to crime incidents, related to non-crime incidents (e.g. road traffic accidents), or not related to specific incidents. In this last case, these activities could be related to crime (e.g. prison interviews), or to general police duties and activities (e.g. training).The Policing Green Paper published in July 2008 introduced a robust programme to reduce bureaucracy and free-up officer time. This is enabling frontline staff to focus on dealing with the public's priorities, as measured against the confidence target—now the only top-down target on forces.Table A indicates that, in 2007-08, the police in England spent 32.7 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.6 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents (although some of this will be crime-related).The comparative figures for Wales are 27.9 per cent., 20.7 per cent. and 51.5 per cent. respectively.Overall, in 2007-08, police in England and Wales spent 32.5 per cent. of their time on all crime incident-specific activities, 14.9 per cent. of their time on all non-crime incident specific activities, and 52.7 per cent. of their time on activities which were not related to specific incidents.For the specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of time spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police time, was 2.2 per cent., 2.1 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific time, the figures were 6.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.2 per cent. respectively. There is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.Table B contains police spend on different activities for the financial year 2007-08. As before, crime and non-crime incident-specific activities are differentiated. The categorisation of non-incident specific activities is different in Table B from Table A, however. Table B does not include costs of activities such as training, which are instead treated as overheads and included in the costs of all other activities. Further, Table B separates out some activities which are undertaken by particular staff or roles (e.g. 'intelligence analysis and research')—these are not included in Table A, as activity analysis covered only police officers working on foot, car or beat patrol, CID and traffic duties. Note that costs in Table B do not include 'sustaining overheads' such as running costs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).Table B indicates that for the financial year 2007-08 the police in England and Wales spent 34.9 per cent. of its total budget (excluding sustaining overheads) on crime incident-specific activities. For the same specific offence groupings of robbery, criminal damage and sexual offending, the amount of budget spent by the police in England and Wales in 2007-08 on incident-specific activities, as a proportion of total police budget (excluding sustaining overheads), was 2.0 per cent., 2.2 per cent. and 2.6 per cent. respectively. As a proportion of total crime incident-specific budget spending, the figures were 5.7 per cent., 6.3 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. respectively. As before, there is no category of 'gang-related crimes'.By way of context, Table C provides proportions of crime incidents of different types alongside the proportion of time and budgetary spend on crime devoted to these incident types. Thus it can be seen that, in 2007-08, robbery accounted for 1.7 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.7 per cent. and 5.7 per cent. of police time and budgetary spend respectively. Criminal damage accounted for 21 per cent. of crime incidents, and 6.3 per cent. of both police time and budget. Sexual offences accounted for 1.1 per cent. of crime incidents, and 7.2 per cent. and 7.4 per cent. of police time and budget respectively.
| Table A: Police time by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of time | |||
| Activity | England | Wales | Total |
| Dealing with crime incidents | |||
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 3.4 | 2.3 | 3.3 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| Sexual offences | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Burglary dwelling | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| Robbery | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.2 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Deception/fraud | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
| Theft other | 3.3 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Drugs offences | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage | 2.0 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| Other crime | 5.6 | 2.6 | 5.5 |
| Total | 32.7 | 27.9 | 32.5 |
| Dealing with non-crime incidents | |||
| RTA fatal/serious | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| RTA minor injury/damage | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Traffic Other | 2.4 | 3.8 | 2.5 |
| Public disorder | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.0 |
| Domestic dispute | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| Complaint/nuisance | 0.9 | 2.5 | 1.0 |
| Prostitution | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| False alarms | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Missing person | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Sudden/suspicious death | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| Other non crime | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.1 |
| Total | 14.6 | 20.7 | 14.9 |
| Non-incident related | |||
| Visible Patrol | 13.7 | 15.2 | 13.8 |
| Court duties/escort | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Special operations/events | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Investigate complaints | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Deal with informants | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Community Involvement | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Property inquiries | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Non incident inquiries | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Crime prevention activity | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Prison interviews | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Training | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Briefings/meetings | 6.6 | 7.2 | 6.6 |
| Non incident linked paperwork | 7.4 | 7.0 | 7.4 |
| Other non incident related work | 5.0 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
| Staff development, appraisal, personnel-related | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| Monitoring cellblock PACE | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Relief custody duties | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Call handling/relief control room duties/enquiry desk | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Checking paperwork (supervisory) | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| Budgetary/financial | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| ID parades | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Other managerial/supervision | 3.6 | 2.7 | 3.5 |
| Refreshments | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Waiting time | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Total | 52.7 | 51.5 | 52.7 |
| Grand total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
| Table B: Police spend by activity, England and Wales¹, 2007-08 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity | Spend (£000) | Spend (percentage) |
| Dealing with crime incidents | ||
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 395,906 | 4.50 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 346,819 | 4.00 |
| Sexual offences | 226,678 | 2.60 |
| Burglary dwelling | 259,262 | 3.00 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 130,232 | 1.50 |
| Robbery | 170,458 | 2.00 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 195,493 | 2.20 |
| Deception/fraud | 130,792 | 1.50 |
| Theft other | 273,557 | 3.10 |
| Drugs offences | 271,550 | 3.10 |
| Criminal damage | 187,576 | 2.20 |
| Other crime | 452,835 | 5.20 |
| Total | 3,041,159 | 35 |
| Dealing with non-crime incidents | ||
| RTA fatal/serious | 76,905 | 0.90 |
| RTA minor injury/damage | 105,163 | 1.20 |
| Traffic Other | 243,729 | 2.80 |
| Public disorder | 235,011 | 2.70 |
| Domestic dispute | 175,446 | 2.00 |
| Complaint/nuisance | 99,671 | 1.10 |
| Prostitution | 7,876 | 0.10 |
| False alarms | 13,058 | 0.10 |
| Missing person | 112,040 | 1.30 |
| Sudden/suspicious death | 81,260 | 0.90 |
| Other non crime | 276,938 | 3.20 |
| Total | 1,427,097 | 16 |
| Non-incident related | ||
| Visible Patrol | 1,207,838 | 13.80 |
| Court duties/escort | 35,643 | 0.40 |
| Special operations/events | 225,440 | 2.60 |
| Deal with informants | 39,985 | 0.50 |
| Community Involvement | 169,188 | 1.90 |
| Property inquiries | 32,032 | 0.40 |
| Non incident inquiries | 135,039 | 1.50 |
| Crime prevention activity | 64,865 | 0.70 |
| Prison interviews | 7,332 | 0.10 |
| Role Code—National, international policing, CT and Special Branch | 474,839 | 5.40 |
| Role Code—Crime partnerships | 90,021 | 1.00 |
| Role Code—Maintaining and developing partnerships | 35,687 | 0.40 |
| Role Code—Intelligence Research and Analysis | 368,101 | 4.20 |
| Role Code—Prisoner handling/custody | 399,657 | 4.60 |
| Role Code—Call handling/inquiry office | 603,164 | 6.90 |
| Role Code—Licensing | 23,475 | 0.30 |
| Role Code—Criminal Justice | 273,753 | 3.10 |
| Role Code—Police protection | 21,014 | 0.20 |
| Role Code—Family liaison | 19,830 | 0.20 |
| Role Code—Warrants | 16,581 | 0.20 |
| ID parades | 9,698 | 0.10 |
| Total | 8,721,439 | 49 |
| Grand total | 4,253,184 | 100.00 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
| Table C: Proportions of crime incidents, crime incident-related activity and crime incident-related spend by crime type, England and Wales¹ 2007-08 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage | |||
| Crime incident type | Crime incidents | Time on crime incidents | Budget on crime incidents |
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 0.5 | 10.3 | 12.9 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 18.8 | 12.4 | 11.5 |
| Sexual offences | 1.1 | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Burglary dwelling | 5.7 | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 6.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 6.7 | 5.7 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 13.3 | 5.4 | 6.3 |
| Deception/fraud | 3.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| Theft other | 22.3 | 10.1 | 8.9 |
| Drugs offences | 4.6 | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Criminal damage | 21.0 | 6.3 | 6.3 |
| Other crime | 1.4 | 17.0 | 14.9 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| ¹ Excludes Staffordshire, as this force did not submit AA data for 2007-08. |
Subjects
Police
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1273-6W; 317836
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) drug dealers, (b) people dealing in counterfeit currency and (c) people dealing in counterfeit goods in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) drug dealers, (b) people dealing in counterfeit currency and (c) people dealing in counterfeit goods in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given in respect of a previous question on 4 June 2008, Official Report, column 997W.
Subjects
Crime
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1257W; 317772
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy not to combine the identity card and biometric passport schemes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy not to combine the identity card and biometric passport schemes.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
22 February 2010
For answer on
25 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
The Government's intention is to offer British citizens aged 16 and over the choice of being issued with a passport or an identity card or both documents and for applicants' identity details, including facial image and fingerprint biometrics, to be held on the same National Identity Register. As the Government are to introduce fingerprint biometric passports and essentially the same information will be recorded for the issue of a passport or identity card, it will be far more cost effective and secure to introduce a single application process and to hold the identity information of people issued with passports and identity cards on a single register rather than duplicating that information on separate but almost identical databases.
Subjects
Biometrics; Identity cards; Passports
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1269W; 318773
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means police in Greater Manchester are able to verify that an identity card is valid.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what means police in Greater Manchester are able to verify that an identity card is valid.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
28 January 2010
For answer on
1 February 2010
Answered on
6 April 2010
We expect a number of checks will be based on visual verification of the card. We have provided detailed guidance on the security features that can be checked to ensure an identity card is genuine. Also, the police can request that the Identity and Passport Service check the validity of an identity card against the National Identity Register for prescribed purposes set out in legislation. These are for the prevention and detection of crime, national security, or to help identify a victim of an event which has caused loss of life or injury.
Subjects
Identity cards; Greater Manchester
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
508 c1269W; 314774
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what five types of activity, excluding front-line policing, accounted for most police officer time in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what five types of activity, excluding front-line policing, accounted for most police officer time in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
30 March 2010
Front-line policing was defined in Home Office Guidance on Statutory Performance Indicators for Policing 2007-08, to include the following activities which have been measured using policy activity analysis (AA).Dealing with crime incidents; Dealing with non-crime incidents; Visible patrol; Special operations/events; Investigate complaints; Deal with informants; and community involvement.In each of the years between 2003-04 and 2007-08, the first three of these categories were consistently the activities on which the police spent most time. After the activities which comprise front-line policing, the same five activities took up the greatest proportions of police time over the same 2003-04 and 2007-08 period. They were, in descending order of time taken:"Non-incident-related paperwork""Briefings/meetings""Other non-incident-related work""Refreshments""Other managerial/supervision."The amount of time spent annually on these activities in total over the period 2003-04 and 2007-08 was as follows:"2003-04: 26.9 per cent;""2004-05: 7.6 per cent;""2005-06: 26.9 per cent;""2006-07: 24.3 per cent;""2007-08: 25.6 per cent."To reduce paperwork burdens on police officers, the collection of data about time spent by officers on police activities ceased after 2007-08 in response to the recommendations by Sir David Normington in his review of data burdens placed by the Government on the police service published in February 2009.
| Table A: proportion of time spent or policing activities, by activity and year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 200-06 | 200-07 | 200-08 |
| Violence against the person—S20 and more serious | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| Violence against the person—S47 and less serious | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| Sexual offences | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| Burglary dwelling | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| Burglary—commercial and other | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
| Theft of or from motor vehicle | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Deception/fraud | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| Theft other | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| Drugs offences | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.8 |
| Criminal damage | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| Other crime | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 |
| RTA fatal/serious | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| RTA minor injury/damage | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Traffic Other | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Public disorder | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 2.0 |
| Domestic dispute | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
| Complaint/nuisance | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| Prostitution | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| False alarms | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Missing person | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Sudden/suspicious death | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Other non crime | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| Visible Patrol | 14.8 | 15.7 | 14.4 | 14.0 | 14.4 |
| Court duties/escort | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Special operations/events | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Investigate complaints | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Deal with informants | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Community Involvement | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| Property enquiries | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Non incident enquiries | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| Crime prevention activity | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Prison interviews | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Training | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
| Briefings/meetings | 6.9 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 6.5 |
| Non incident linked paperwork | 7.8 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 7.3 |
| Other non incident related work | 4.5 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Staff development/appraisal/personnel related | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Monitoring cellblock PACE (Domain 2) | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Relief custody duties (Domain 2) | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 |
| Call handling/relief control room duties/enquiry desk | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Checking paperwork (supervisory) | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Budgetary/financial | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| ID parades | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Other managerial/supervision | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
| Refreshments | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| Waiting time | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| All crime | 30.1 | 29.3 | 30.7 | 33.1 | 32.6 |
| All non-crime incidents | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 | 16.0 | 15.6 |
Subjects
Bureaucracy; Police
Date
30 March 2010
Reference
508 c935-7W; 319522
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of police officer time spent (a) inside police stations and (b) on the street in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of police officer time spent (a) inside police stations and (b) on the street in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
30 March 2010
No such estimate has been made centrally.
Subjects
Bureaucracy; Police
Date
30 March 2010
Reference
508 c937W; 319532
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) British and (b) non-British citizens have been (i) convicted and (ii) imprisoned in relation to human trafficking offences in each year since 1998.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) British and (b) non-British citizens have been (i) convicted and (ii) imprisoned in relation to human trafficking offences in each year since 1998.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
28 January 2010
For answer on
1 February 2010
Answered on
30 March 2010
I have been asked to reply.The offences of trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour were introduced under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004.From the commencement of these Acts until the end of 2008 there were a total of 113 convictions resulting in 110 terms of imprisonment. Of those convicted and imprisoned up to the end of 2008, six were British citizens and 107 non-British citizens.The statistics broken down by year of sentence are as follows:
Figures for the full year of 2009 are not yet available.
| Total | British National | Foreign National | |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 21 | 1 | 20 |
| 2006 | 29 | 1 | 28 |
| 2007 | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| 2008 | 38 | 3 | 35 |
Subjects
Convictions; Human trafficking
Date
30 March 2010
Reference
508 c1082W; 314749
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding his Department allocated for the (a) recruitment and (b) training of police officers in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding his Department allocated for the (a) recruitment and (b) training of police officers in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
25 March 2010
The Home Office does not allocate specific grants for recruitment of police officers and since 2008-09 the former specific grant for the Initial Police Learning Development Programme has been absorbed into the main police grant at the level prevailing in 2007-08 of £16.2 million. Expenditure on recruitment and training is a matter for each individual police force.Centrex prior to its abolition, and since 1 April 2007, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), through National Assessment Centres has managed the recruitment of police officers funded from its overall grant in aid from the Home Office.
Subjects
Finance; Police
Date
25 March 2010
Reference
508 c522W; 317611
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure his private office incurred on (a) entertainment, (b) travel and (c) overnight subsistence in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure his private office incurred on (a) entertainment, (b) travel and (c) overnight subsistence in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
10 February 2010
For answer on
22 February 2010
Answered on
25 March 2010
The expenditure incurred on entertainment, travel and overnight subsistence in Private Office for the last two financial years is as follows. Information relating to years before this is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.2008-09"Entertainment: £2,719""Travel: £111,269""Overnight subsistence: £5,192"2009-10 (to February)"Entertainment: £727""Travel: £46,260""Overnight subsistence: £13,570"The term 'entertainment' encompasses working lunches, tea and coffees and sandwiches for all meetings attended by outside stakeholders.
Subjects
Home Office; Ministers' private offices
Date
25 March 2010
Reference
508 c521W; 317766
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people of each sex in each age group from each country have been awaiting a decision on an application for asylum at each location in each year since 1997;
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people of each sex in each age group from each country have been awaiting a decision on an application for asylum at each location in each year since 1997;
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
25 March 2010
Information is published quarterly on the number of asylum applicants awaiting an initial decision and as at the end of December 2009, the latest published period, the total was 6,900 (excluding dependents). This figure is derived from the cumulative effect of applications received, decisions made, and applications withdrawn, applied to the total outstanding cases figure produced from the manual count at the end of August 2001. Figures are rounded to nearest 100. The original manual count was a total figure only and consequently the figure cannot be broken down by nationality, gender and age.Information on asylum applications is published annually in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom bulletin and on a quarterly basis in the Control of Immigration Quarterly Statistical Summary.These publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:"www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html"
Subjects
Asylum
Date
25 March 2010
Reference
508 c514W; 319528
House
House of Commons
(2) how many people are awaiting a decision on an application for asylum.
(2) how many people are awaiting a decision on an application for asylum.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
25 March 2010
Information is published quarterly on the number of asylum applicants awaiting an initial decision and as at the end of December 2009, the latest published period, the total was 6,900 (excluding dependents). This figure is derived from the cumulative effect of applications received, decisions made, and applications withdrawn, applied to the total outstanding cases figure produced from the manual count at the end of August 2001. Figures are rounded to nearest 100. The original manual count was a total figure only and consequently the figure cannot be broken down by nationality, gender and age.Information on asylum applications is published annually in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom bulletin and on a quarterly basis in the Control of Immigration Quarterly Statistical Summary.These publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:"www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html"
Subjects
Asylum
Date
25 March 2010
Reference
508 c514W; 319654
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many biometric enrolment centres are in operation; where they are located; how many applications they are expected to process in the next 12 months; and how many people they could each process and provide with identity cards each year...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many biometric enrolment centres are in operation; where they are located; how many applications they are expected to process in the next 12 months; and how many people they could each process and provide with identity cards each year...
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
22 February 2010
For answer on
24 February 2010
Answered on
24 March 2010
The Home Office has opened a total of 34 biometric enrolment offices across the UK. These are operational in the following places:Enrolment offices"Aberdeen""Battersea""Beckenham""Beeston""Belfast""Blackburn""Bracknell""Brighton""Cambridge""Camden""Cardiff""Central Manchester""Croydon""Derby""Durham""Earls Court""Elephant and Castle""Glasgow""Kingstanding—Birmingham""Liverpool (2)""London""London City Airport""Middleton—Manchester""Manchester City Airport""Old Street—London EC1""Oxford""Queensway—Birmingham""Redditch""Romsey""Sheffield""Solihull""South Shields""Stamford"Anticipated capacity for enrolment for identity cards is 650,000 to 700,000 per annum.
Subjects
Biometrics; Entry clearances
Date
24 March 2010
Reference
508 c345-6W; 318707
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported in (a) England and Wales, (b) each constituency, (c) each police force area, (d) each local authority area and (e) each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported in (a) England and Wales, (b) each constituency, (c) each police force area, (d) each local authority area and (e) each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in...
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 February 2010
For answer on
26 February 2010
Answered on
22 March 2010
The number of incidents of antisocial behaviour as defined in the National Incident Category List were requested as part of police forces annual data return in 2007-08 and 2008-09. Collection of National Standard for Incident Recording (NSIR) data through ADR 342 came into force on 1 April 2007. Prior to that, data returns for NISR were not mandatory.Data are not returned by (b) constituency or (d) local authority area.A copy of the detailed tables showing the figures for England and Wales, each police force area and the smallest geographical area available (police force basic command unit) in 2007-08 and 2008-09 have been placed in the House of Commons Library.The data are normally for management information only and are not subject to the detailed checks that apply for National Statistics publications. They are provisional and may be subject to change. The data represent calls for service as recorded by police forces under the relevant categories and may be subject to local variation in reporting and classifying.
Subjects
Anti-social behaviour
Date
22 March 2010
Reference
508 c49-50W; 319523
House
House of Commons