§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been repatriated in each of the last 12 months.[73220]
§ Beverley HughesThe latest available information on the number of Afghan principal asylum applicants removed from the United Kingdom relates to 2001 and is given in the table. These figures exclude persons departing voluntarily without informing the Home Office.
Afghan principal asylum applicants removed P.E.1,2 January 2001 10 February 2001 * March 2001 5 April 2001 5 May 2001 5 June 2001 * July 2001 5 August 2001 20 September 2001 5 October 2001 15 November 2001 20 December 2001 30 Total 125 Figures rounded to the nearest 5, with *= 1 or 2.
P"Provisional data, subject to change.
EData have been estimated due to data quality issues.
1Includes persons departing "voluntarily" after enforcement action had been initiated against them.
2Nationality breakdown of dependants removed is not available.
I regret that information on the destination of asylum seekers removed or departing voluntarily from the United Kingdom is not recorded centrally and could be obtained only by examining individual case files at disproportionate cost. Therefore it is not possible to determine how many of these persons were returned or departed voluntarily to Afghanistan. However, it has until recently been our policy to not normally enforce returns to Afghanistan, so the majority of those recorded above will have been returned to another (third) country rather than to Afghanistan.
Information on the nationality of asylum seekers removed in the calendar year 2001 was published on 31 July in the Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2001", copies of which are available in the Library and via the Home Office 78W Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (RDS) website at http://www.homeoffice.gov. uk/rds/immigration 1.html. Nationality data for the first quarter (January to March) of 2002 will be published on 30 August on the RDS website.
§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money is owed within the probation service; and(a) by and (b) to whom it is owed. [73225]
§ Hilary BennThe Home Office only has records relating to the outstanding debts on capital raised for Probation Service investment, dating from the period before 1990. The Home Office pays local authorities a grant in respect of the principal and interest on this capital financing debt. A table of the local authority debts, as at 1 April 2001, is provided in the table. Between 1990 and 2001, capital debt was financed by the local authority capital financing standard spending assessment (SSA). Since April 2001 however, local authorities are no longer responsible for Probation Service capital investment.
With the advent of the National Probation Service from 1 April 2001, the National Probation Directorate is now collecting and collating the information relating to the 2001–02 accounts for the 42 local probation boards, including any creditors. When this exercise has been completed and audited, the consolidated accounts will be laid before Parliament.
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Pre–1990 System Loan Debt Outstanding at 1 April 2001 Probation Service Amount Bristol City Council 430,722 Bedfordshire CC 133,011 West Berkshire DC 462,820 Buckinghamshire CC 494,377 Cambridgeshire CC N/A Cornwall CC 453,636 Derbyshire CC 240,286 Devon CC 448,056 Dorset CC 112,802 Durham CC 279,329 Essex CC 295,496 Gloucestershire CC 180,780 Hampshire CC 228,181 Worcestershire CC 177,729 Hertfordshire CC 7,334 East Riding of Yorkshire Council 486,629 Kent CC 164,705 Lancashire CC 821,006 Leicestershire CC 33,726 Lincolnshire CC 129,383 Norfolk CC 344,554 Northamptonshire CC 251,273 Northumberland CC 11,01,053 South Tyneside MDC 268,905 Oxfordshire CC 74,831 Shropshire CC 151,943 Somerset CC 431,524 Staffordshire CC 1,067,882 Surrey CC 15,230 East Sussex CC 72,207 Middlesbrough UA 566,364 Warwickshire CC 75,529 Walsall MDC 1,718,807 Wiltshire CC 139,003 Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District 3,522,361 LB Croydon 67,801 Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames 6,284
Pre-1990 System Loan Debt Outstanding at 1 April 2001 Probation Service Amount LB Barnet 492,116 LB Enfield 22,322 LB Hillingdon 19,713 LB Hounslow 11,917 LB Newham 12,682 LB Redbridge 234,737 LB Waltham Forest 20,626 Bolton MDC 393,825 Bury MDC 269,132 Manchester City Council 632,816 Oldham MDC 322,559 Rochdale MDC 307,784 Salford City Council 331,033 Stockport MDC 431,116 Tameside MDC 2,183,018 Trafford MDC 3,893,774 Wigan MDC 458,527 North Yorkshire CC 59,430 Barnsley MDC 165,094 Doncaster MDC 131,099 Rotherham MDC 82,032 Sheffield City Council 175,721 Bradford MDC 172,178 Calderdale MDC 68,726 Kirkless MDC 139,253 Leeds City Council 259,145 Wakefield MDC 113,580 Carmarthenshire CBC 164,927 Bridgend CBC 4,069 Cardiff City Council 9,843 Neath Port Talbot CBC 365,970 Newport CBC 194,692 Flintshire CBC 101,809 Powys CBC 92,092 Total 26,671,237