Criminal Records Backlog

Mr. Clegg

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many foreign offence notifications he received in each of the last 10 years, broken down by country. (115890)

[holding answer 15 January 2007]: The latest available information was set out in my statements to the House of Commons dated 10 January and 16 January, and in the Home Office press statement issued on 13 January.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his Statement of 10 January 2007, Official Report, column 285, on the criminal records backlog, how many of the (a) 29 paedophiles, (b) 17 sex offenders, (c) three people convicted of attempted rape and (d) 25 people convicted of rape have been entered onto the Sex Offenders Register. (116279)

[holding answer 17 January 2007]: The latest available information was set out in my statements to the House of Commons dated 10 January and 16 January, and in the Home Office press statement issued on 13 January.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his statement of 10 January 2007, Official Report, column 285, on the criminal records backlog, (1) how many of the 260 most serious offenders entered into the Police National Computer are working with vulnerable people; (116280)

(2) how many of the 260 most serious offenders are working (i) with children, (ii) in the education system, (iii) in the NHS, (iv) with the elderly and (v) with disabled people;

(3) how many of the 260 most serious offenders now entered into the Police National Computer have re-offended since notifications were made;

(4) what estimate he has made of the number of British criminals convicted in non-Council of Europe countries who have been able to return to the UK without being registered on the Police National Computer;

(5) how many Association of Chief Police Officers staff have job responsibilities for clearing the backlog of 27,529 files; and how many had such responsibilities before 10 January;

(6) how many of the 260 of the most serious offenders whose files are on the Police National Computer the Criminal Records Bureau had checked on 12th January.

The latest available information was set out in my statements to the House of Commons dated 10 January and 16 January, and in the Home Office press statement issued on 13 January.

Volume 456: debated on Monday 29 January 2007