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Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's spending on official publications was for (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99, (d) 1999-2000 and (e) 2000-01; and what the planned expenditure is for 2001-02. [141449]
Mr. Straw [holding answer 11 December 2000]: Total annual figures for spending on official publications are available for the financial years 1997-98 onwards. Collated data are not available for the cost of publications produced in 1996-97. For figures 1997-98 and 1998-99,
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I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) on 25 October 1999, Official Report, column 693W, which confirmed annual total expenditure of 1997-98 £4,600,752 and 1998-99 £4,339,587 respectively.
The total expenditure for 1999-2000 was £3,348,854 and current expenditure for 2000-2001 to date is £2,541,317.
It is at this time not possible to provide any figures for planned expenditure for the financial year 2001-02.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list each new publication issued by his Department since 1997; and what the total cost is to the Department of each publication. [141462]
Mr. Straw [holding answer 11 December 2000]: Detailed figures for the production of new publications for the Home Department are available only from 1 April 1999, when the total Department's publications budget became centralised.
Before this, individual Directorates within the Home Department were responsible for production of and payment for publications. It is not therefore possible to provide a complete list of new publications or costs prior to this date.
The following lists cover the financial years 1999-2000 and 1 April 2000 to date (6 December 2000). These costs include preparation, production and purchase of copies for official use, but not staff costs.
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Departmental Policies (Blackpool, South)
Mr. Gordon Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out, including statistical information relating as directly as possible to the constituency, the effect on the Blackpool, South constituency of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [142226]
Mr. Straw: The Home Office is working to build a safe, just and tolerant society in which the rights and responsibilities of individuals, families and communities are properly balanced, and the protection and security of the public are maintained. Detailed information on the impact of Home Office policies across the full range of responsibilities is set out in Home Office annual reports. A copy of the most recent report, "Home Office Annual Report 1999-2000", is available in the Library.
The impact of Home Office policies and actions is not normally examined by constituency and the statistics which the Department collects cannot be matched in the way requested. However, the following are examples relating to Blackpool, South constituency or the immediate locality:
Crime data for all recorded offences are collected centrally at police force area level. Blackpool, South forms part of the Western Division of the Lancashire Constabulary, who have provided the following information on the overall number of recorded crimes in this Division:
- Year ending 31 March 1997: 20,143
- Year ending 31 March 2000: 18,599.
A number of projects have been funded in Blackpool under the Crime Reduction Programme:
- Two projects under the Reducing Burglary Initiative worth a total of £91,200.
- One project under the Targeted Policing Initiative worth £103,000 to tackle vehicle crime and general disorder.
- The Youth Justice Board funded a Splash Programme on the Mereside estate in the 2000 school summer holidays and Blackpool have been invited to run a Splash scheme in Easter and summer 2001 school holidays. The Youth Justice Board has also been working with Blackpool to establish a Youth Inclusion project.
- 376 Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and 154 Youth Offending Teams have been established;
- the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 ensures greater protection for victims in rape trials;
- Ministers have taken proper responsibility for the Prison Service;
- racial harassment and racially motivated crimes have been made criminal offences by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998;
- the backlog of asylum applications has been cut from 103,495 in January this year to 74,380 as at October 2000;l
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