Football Hooligans (Hansard, 5 March 1996)

§ Mr. Pendry
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people were listed on the National Criminal Intelligence Service's database of suspected football hooligans at the end of each season since 1990–91; and how many are currently listed; [17851]
(2) how many foreign nationals from each of the countries participating in the Euro '96 championship are listed on the National Criminal Intelligence Service's database of suspected football hooligans. [17852]

§ Mr. Maclean
The National Criminal Intelligence Service football unit's computer system does not retain information about the number of people listed on the database on a season-by-season basis. The names of 6,010 suspected or known football hooligans are on the system at present. The database does not hold information concerning foreign nationals.

§ Mr. Pendry
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he has taken to ensure that foreign nationals convicted of football-related offences in their home country are prevented from attending the Euro '96 championships. [17850]

§ Mr. Maclean
The police are working closely with the Immigration Service to ensure that foreign nationals convicted of football-related offences coming to the United Kingdom for Euro '96 are identified on arrival and, if appropriate, refused entry.
The majority of those attending the championships will be nationals of the European Economic Area, EEA—which comprises the 15 member states of the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein—who can be refused entry to the United Kingdom where information on their past conduct, which can include previous convictions, suggests that they pose a genuine and serious threat to public safety. Non-EEA nationals can be refused entry to the United Kingdom under the relevant provisions of the immigration rules.
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§ Mr. Pendry
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the Premier league and Football league clubs together with the number of people arrested and subsequently given an exclusion order under the Public Order Act 1986 for each season since 1990–91. [17849]

§ Mr. Maclean
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The total number of exclusion orders made since part IV of the Public Order Act 1986 came into force on 1 August 1987, is 6,303; 308 orders are currently extant.