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Bingo Clubs
Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will amend the law to allow bingo clubs to advertise their prize money. [13523]
Mr. Kirkhope: The restrictions on the advertising of bingo and other forms of commercial gambling are currently under review as part of the Government's deregulation initiative. The review is well advanced and we hope to consult on our proposals shortly.
Fraud
Mr. Eastham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated figure for serious fraud in large businesses in the United Kingdom for 1995. [13521]
Mr. Maclean: This information is not collected centrally.
Disabled People (Safety)
Mr. Alfred Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the progress of the work of the Home Office working party on the personal safety of disabled people. [14139]
Mr. Maclean: The Home Office working party set up in 1993 to help the Suzy Lamplugh Trust produce personal safety advice for disabled people completed its task in May 1995 when a consultative document, together with a leaflet entitled "Out and About"--which offers advice for disabled people when travelling around--was published.
I understand that the Suzy Lamplugh Trust has followed up this work with further initiatives, including the provision of training workshops for disabled people and carers.
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Mr. Worthington:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners in Britain have requests for transfer to prisons in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland currently under consideration. [14734]
Miss Widdecombe:
As of 8 February, 24 requests for transfer to Northern Ireland and 65 requests for repatriation to the Republic of Ireland made by prisoners in England and Wales were under consideration. In addition, two requests for transfer to Northern Ireland made by prisoners in Scotland were under consideration. No requests for repatriation to the Republic of Ireland have been made by prisoners in Scotland.
Mr. Marlow:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the numbers and proportions of arrivals in the United Kingdom in the last two years from the Indian sub-continent of overseas residents who subsequently left the United Kingdom. [15140]
Mr. Kirkhope:
The information requested is not available.
Mr. Hutton:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many families were deported from the United Kingdom under the provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 in each year since 1985. [14922]
Mr. Kirkhope:
The information requested is not available. Information on the total number of persons removed from the United Kingdom under the deportation process since 1985 is given in table 7.3 of "Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 1994", Cm 2935, a copy of which is in the Library.
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Ms Ruddock:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many environmental appraisals were produced by his Department using the guidance contained in the Department of the Environment's "Policy Appraisal and the Environment" in 1995; and if he will place copies in the Library. [15119]
Mr. Howard:
There is currently no formal monitoring system for environmental appraisals carried out by my Department. However, I understand that the Department of the Environment proposes shortly to commission a project to evaluate the effect of its policy appraisal and the environment document on decision making by Government Departments. The project will seek to identify how far environmental impacts are taken into account in policy decisions.
Mr. Straw:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 6 February, Official Report, column 107, on the number of burglars convicted on a third or greater occasion, what number and percentage were juvenile offenders, what percentage of them were sentenced to immediate custody, and what was the average custodial sentence imposed on them; what number and percentage were young adults, what percentage of them were sentenced to immediate custody, and what was the average custodial sentence imposed on them; what number and percentage were adults, what percentage of them were sentenced to immediate custody, and what was the average custodial sentence imposed on them. [15190]
Mr. Maclean:
The information requested, taken from a sample of those convicted of burglary in three weeks of 1993, is given in the table.
| Age of offender | Number convicted on third or greater occasion | Percentage of those convicted on a third or greater occasion | Percentage sentenced to immediate custody | Average custodial sentence imposed (months) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | 1,135 | 100 | 43 | 11 |
| Under 18 years | 142 | 13 | 33 | 5 |
| 18-20 years | 233 | 21 | 52 | 10 |
| 21 years or over | 760 | 67 | 42 | 12 |
Scott Inquiry
Mr. Robin Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since 1 January 1995 (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had contact with Lord Howe concerning his correspondence with the Scott inquiry. [14819]
Mr. Howard
[holding answer 12 February 1996]: Neither I nor my Ministers nor officials have had any such contacts with him.
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Indonesia
Mr. Jon Owen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much aid has been given to Indonesia in each of the last 16 years. [14948]
Mr. Hanley: Bilateral aid to Indonesia over the last 16 years has been as follows (in £000) and in cash prices:
1980: 9,555
1981: 7,814
1982: 11,264
1983: 9,515
1984: 12,818
1985: 31,781
1986: 7,463
1987: 9,395
1987-88: 7,809
1988-89: 10,758
1989-90: 9,615
1990-91: 17,588
1991-92: 21,197
1992-93: 21,387
1993-94: 22,214
1994-95: 21,418.
Note: From 1992, British Aid Statistics was published by financial year.
British Geological Survey
Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the contracts or work done by the British Geological Survey paid for by the Overseas Development Administration, the nature of the work, and the cost in each case; what arrangements need to be made to continue these programmes if the survey is privatised; and if he will make a statement. [14113]
Mr. Hanley [pursuant to his reply, 8 February 1996, c. 300]: Listed is an update of the current contracts which the British Geological Survey has with ODA:
(4) Indicates a change of figure.
(5) Joint research project with the Natural Resources Institute.
(6) Indicates an additional contract.
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