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187W Written Answers 26 OCTOBER 2009 Written Answers 188W Mr. Alan Campbell: Poppies are not grown in England for the production of opium but rather for the extraction of morphine. There are currently 38 sites growing poppies for such purposes in England with 19 in the nonmetropolitan county of Hampshire. The total area under cultivation amounts to 4,422 acres with 2,021 acres being grown in the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire. Police Custody: Health Services Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to police forces was of the attendance of doctors in police custody suites in the last 12 months. [293989] Mr. Hanson: The Home Office do not hold the costs incurred by the 43 police forces within England and Wales or the British Transport police for the attendance of doctors within their custody suites. It is an operational matter for the chief officer of each force to ensure that they have an appropriate level of health care provision in place. Police: Manpower Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were employed in (a) Mid Bedfordshire constituency, (b) Bedfordshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England in (i) 1997, (ii) 2006, (iii) 2007, (iv) 2008 and (v) 2009. [295411] Mr. Hanson: The available data are provided in the following table. Data are not collected centrally at constituency level, but have been collected at basic command unit level from April 2002. Police officer strength, by basic command unit, as at 31 March 1 1997 2 2006 3 2007 2008 2009 BCU 4 Bedfordshire n/a 272 503 458 455 County Dunstable 3 n/a 255 5 — 5 — 5 — Luton n/a 338 333 339 363 Central n/a 359 368 410 426 Services Total Bedfordshire 1,094 1,225 1,204 1,207 1,244 East of 9,727 11,043 11,083 11,028 11,309 England England 118,459 133,925 134,265 134,355 136,403 n/a = Not available 1 These figures are based on full-time equivalents that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, due to rounding there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of constituent items. 2 Police strength by police basic command unit was collected centrally for the first time for the period beginning April 2002 and is therefore not available for 1997. 3 Boundary changes for basic command units came into effect in April 2006, and as a result BCU breakdowns in 2006 differ from those in later years. 4 Data at basic command unit level have been provided, since data are not collected centrally at constituency level. 5 Not applicable Prisoners: Foreigners Mr. Davidson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department holds on the number of prisoners from (a) EU A10 accession countries and (b) other EU member states held in Scottish prisons who have been recommended for deportation upon completion of their sentences. [294724] Mr. Woolas: Issues relating to Scottish prisons and prisoners held within them are devolved and a matter for the Scottish Executive. The UK Border Agency works with the Scottish Executive to ensure the removal of foreign national criminals who meet the deportation criteria. In the first two quarters of 2009, the UK Border Agency removed a total of 2,560 foreign national offenders from the United Kingdom. We do not publish information relating to the nationalities of those we deport. Speed Limits: Cameras Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers of vehicles registered outside the UK were caught breaking a speed limit on camera for which a penalty was not paid in each year since 1997. [295010] Mr. Alan Campbell: The data requested are not available. Information held by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice on convictions, fines and penalty notices for motoring offences does not include information on the registration status of drivers. Tuberculosis: Disease Control Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the cost to his Department of (a) implementing and (b) managing its pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis has been since the programme’s inception; [295001] (2) what estimate he has made of the average cost to each applicant of undertaking the pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis; [295002] (3) whether he plans to extend the pre-screening programme for tuberculosis to migrants from more countries; [295003] (4) what evaluation of the effectiveness of his Department’s pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis has been undertaken. [295004] Mr. Woolas: The pre-entry TB screening pilot programme administered on behalf of the UK Border Agency by the International Organisation for Migration covers 15 countries, and complements the system of on-entry checks by port medical inspectors at major UK ports. The Home Office, with a contribution from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, met the start-up costs of $1,803,580 US. The scheme is now self-financing, applicants paying a fee of between $50 and $77 US (up to £50). The Department of Health and Health Protection Agency Preliminary have undertaken preliminary assessments, and a final evaluation is now under way. Following this review decisions will be taken on the future of the programme.
189W Written Answers 26 OCTOBER 2009 Written Answers 190W Vetting Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department has issued to employers and employees in England and Wales seeking a basic disclosure check. [294256] Alan Johnson: Guidance from the Criminal Records Bureau advises individuals seeking a basic disclosure check to contact Disclosure Scotland. CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES Children: Databases Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects ContactPoint to be fully operational. [295514] Dawn Primarolo: ContactPoint is already operational. From late October, local authorities can start training ContactPoint users across England. The speed at which practitioner use of ContactPoint builds up over time will be agreed jointly with local authorities and national partners. Access to ContactPoint is strictly limited to those who need it as part of their work, and who have been security vetted and trained. Our latest evidence-based analysis suggests that the number of users will be 390,000. The ultimate number of users will be determined by local authorities and national partners. Those decisions will be governed by regulations and guidance and, ultimately, by capacity and resources. Children: Poverty Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in rural areas living in poverty in each year since 1997. [293210] Helen Goodman: I have been asked to reply: Estimates of the number of children in rural areas living in poverty are derived from the Family Resources Survey produced by the Department for Work and Pensions. The survey is available on the Department’s website at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs/2007_08/ frs_2007_08_report.pdf A copy is also in the Library. Data on rurality are only available on the Family Resources Survey since 2004/05, so no information is available prior to 2004/05. The information that is available is given in the tables. Due to different definitions of rurality in Scotland compared to England and Wales, and the fact that no information is collected on the Family Resources Survey covering rurality in Northern Ireland, it has not been possible to present figures for the United Kingdom as a whole. This also means that the figures in table 4 are not comparable with figures presented in the other tables. Table 1: Number of children in rural areas in England in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs Million Period Before housing costs After housing costs 2004/05 0.3 0.4 2005/06 0.3 0.4 2006/07 0.3 0.4 2007/08 0.3 0.5 Table 2: Number of children in rural areas in Wales in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07 and 2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs Million Period Before housing costs After housing costs 2004/05 to 2006/07 — 0.1 2005/06 to 2007/08 0.1 0.1 Table 3: Number of children in rural areas in England and Wales in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs Million Period Before housing costs After housing costs 2004/05 0.3 0.4 2005/06 0.3 0.5 2006/07 0.4 0.5 2007/08 0.3 0.5 Table 4: Number of children in rural areas in Scotland in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07 and 2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs Million Period Before housing costs After housing costs 2004/05 to 2006/07 — — 2005/06 to 2007/08 — — Notes: 1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income, sourced from the Family Resources Survey. 2. Small changes should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. 3. The reference period for Households Below Average Income figures are single financial years. For Wales and Scotland, three years of data have had to be combined due to small sample size. 4. A ‘—’ in the table indicates that the number of children in low income households is less than 50,000 in the period. 5. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication “Households Below Average Income”’ (HBAI) series, which uses disposable household income, adjusted (or ‘equivalised’) for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living. 6. For the Households Below Average Income series, incomes have been equivalised using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) equivalisation factors. 7. Number of children in low income have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand. Departmental Publications Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost of production of his Department’s publication Schools of the Future: Inspirational design for kitchen and dining spaces was; and how much was spent on (a) research, (b) preparation and (c) distribution of the publication. [295667] Mr. Coaker: The cost of producing Inspirational Design for Kitchen and Dining Spaces was around £108,000, broken down as follows: Research, writing and graphics—£91,000 Preparation (printing, editing and professional photography)— £15,000 Distribution (including to every local authority)—approx £2,000
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