§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young offenders received a caution plus in 1998–99 in each police authority area in England. [89922]
§ Mr. BoatengInformation on caution plus schemes is not collected centrally.
§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average time accused young offenders spend between being charged by the police and first appearing in court in each police authority area in England. [90051]
600WDirectorate and (iii) the Immigration Service; and, in each case, what penalties are included in their contracts for failure to deliver to cost, on time and to standard; [89886]
(3) if he will list the information technology programmes that have been planned and those which are currently being implemented to update (a) the Passport Agency, (b) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (c) the Immigration Service, indicating in each case (i) their purpose, (ii) what stages of implementation have been planned and (iii) when it is expected to be fully implemented; [89885]
(4) if he will list (a) the payments received and (b) those currently being negotiated in respect of the failure of companies to fulfil their contracts in respect of the computerisation of the (i) Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (ii) the Passport Agency since 1990; [89887]
(5) if he will make a statement regarding the compatibility of the software and data handling systems currently being implemented in (a) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (b) the Passport Agency; [89884]
(6) if he will place in the Library copies of all documents relating to the computerisation of (a) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, (b) the Document Reception Centre, (c) the Public Inquiry Office, (d) the casework programme and (e) the Passport Agency, listing those pages which have been withheld, giving the reason in each case. [89883]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienIn view of the detail sought, I shall write to the hon. Member.
§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the contracts awarded in relation to computerisation of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, indicating in each case to whom it was awarded and on what date. [89881]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe following contracts are currently used for major computer developments in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.
§ Mr. BoatengThe exact information requested is not available. Information on the duration of criminal cases is available from the magistrates courts Time Intervals Survey which is carried out by the Lord Chancellor's Department. The latest available results refer to 1998 when the survey collected information on cases completed in magistrates courts in one week of each of February, June and October. The date of first appearance in court is not collected by the survey but the date of first listing–which is the same as first appearance when the defendant appears at first listing—is collected. The 1998 surveys do not specifically distinguish between adult and youth 601W defendants, but do differentiate whether a case was completed in a Youth Court or an Adult Court, and the answer is supplied on that basis.
The table shows the average time from charge to first listing for defendants in indictable cases in the Youth Court by police authority area in England, and for England as a whole, in 1998.
Average number of days from charge to first listing for charged defendants in indictable cases in the Youth court, 19991,2,3 Police authority area Average number of days from charge to first listing Number of defendants (sample size) Avon and Somerset 23 50 Bedfordshire 23 12 Cambridgeshire 30 44 Cheshire 33 52 City of London 4 n/a n/a Cleveland 25 75 Cumbria 29 34 Derbyshire 33 47 Devon and Cornwall 27 31 Dorset 22 17 Durham 25 86 Essex 5 33 74 Gloucestershire 29 31 Greater Manchester 26 228 Hampshire 20 100 Hertfordshire5 37 49 Humberside 19 75 Kent 27 82 Lancashire 25 165 Leicestershire 28 56 Lincolnshire 28 20 Merseyside 23 109 Metropolitan 4,5 29 478 Norfolk 25 49 North Yorkshire 21 32 Northamptonshire 33 19 Northumbria 27 229 Nottinghamshire 28 107 South Yorkshire 27 99 Staffordshire 25 111 Suffolk 33 30 Surrey 5 37 30 Sussex 35 30 Thames Valley 27 98 Warwickshire 22 78 West Mercia 26 49 West Midlands 27 139 West Yorkshire 28 186 Wiltshire 39 27 England 27 3,237 1Excludes defendants summoned to court (i.e. rather than charged). 2Defendants for whom the offence to charge time was over 10 years, or where the time from charge to first listing or first listing to completion was over 1 year, are excluded from the analysis. 3 Small sample sizes mean that figures are subject to greater sampling error. Results based on a sample size of less than 100 should be interpreted with particular caution. 4Youths charged by the City of London police are normally dealt with at an Inner London Youth Court and are included in results for the Metropolitan Police Authority area. 5The Metropolitan Police Authority covers parts of Essex, Hertfordshire and Surrey. Defendants charged by the Metropolitan Police but whose case was completed in a magistrates court in Essex, Hertfordshire or Surrey are included in the results for these police authority areas. Source:
Lord Chancellor's Department Time Intervals Survey