UK Border Agency: Crimes of Violence

Jenny Willott
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of violence by asylum seekers against UK Border Agency staff were recorded in each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Woolas
Please see following table which shows the number of physical assaults recorded by location. Please note that UKBA does not record the identity of the individual making the assault and cannot specify whether he or she was an ‘asylum seeker’. The figures in the table therefore represent all assaults on staff by members of the public and not just asylum seekers. Verbal assaults are excluded from these data.

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|City            |Total|2005|2006|2007|2008|2009|
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|Birmingham      |1    |0   |0   |0   |0   |1   |
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|Cardiff         |1    |0   |0   |0   |1   |0   |
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|Castle Donington|1    |0   |0   |1   |0   |0   |
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|Crawley         |1    |1   |0   |0   |0   |0   |
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|Croydon         |10   |0   |0   |6   |0   |4   |
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|Felixstowe      |1    |0   |1   |0   |0   |0   |
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|Folkestone      |7    |1   |0   |4   |0   |2   |
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|Harlington      |1    |0   |0   |0   |1   |0   |
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|Hounslow        |4    |0   |0   |1   |1   |2   |
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|Liverpool       |6    |0   |0   |3   |1   |2   |
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|London          |8    |0   |1   |3   |1   |3   |
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|Manchester      |1    |0   |1   |0   |0   |0   |
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|Poole           |2    |0   |2   |0   |0   |0   |
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|Portsmouth      |1    |0   |0   |0   |0   |1   |
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|Salford         |1    |0   |1   |0   |0   |0   |
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|Stansted        |1    |0   |0   |0   |0   |1   |
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|Not recorded    |12   |3   |1   |7   |1   |0   |
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|Total           |59   |5   |7   |25  |6   |16  |
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