To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the non-UK citizens who do not have a right to work in the UK but are licensed to work in the security industry by the Security Industry Authority have been accredited to perform community safety functions under the Police Reform Act 2002. (223146)

[holding answer 10 September 2008]: The Home Office does not collect data centrally on individual accreditations made under the Police Reform Act 2002.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance her Department has issued on the accreditation of (a) EU and (b) non-EU citizens under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme; what checks her Department performs to establish whether applicants from overseas have criminal records in countries other than the UK; and what estimate she has made of the number of foreign nationals accredited under the scheme to date. (223147)

[holding answer 10 September 2008]: The Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) have both produced guidance on Community Safety Accreditation Schemes (CSAS). The guidance is available on the Home Office website at:

http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/community-policing/citizen-focused-policing/community-safety-accredit-scheme/.

Community Safety Accreditation Schemes are established at the discretion of chief constables and, as the ACPO guidance makes clear, it is the chief constable who decides on the checks required of a person seeking accreditation. The Home Office does not collect data centrally on individual accreditations made under the Police Reform Act 2002.