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Written Answers
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Written Answers
correctly instructed in their use. It was always our intention to continue the education process after the formal campaign had ended. The material produced in connection with the campaign is still being used, and the television films were shown about 60 times in the first nine months of 1985. In the light of our assessment of the campaign I am considering the feasibility and cost of further campaigns in those areas in which the highest number of air weapons offences have been recorded.
Mr. Cohen asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for firearms certificates relating to the possession and purchase of licensable air weapons have been (a) granted and (b) refused in each year since 1979: (i) in London and (ii)} in total nationally.
Mr. Giles Shaw: This information is not available. Under the Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969 certificates are only required in respect of certain high powered air weapons. I understand from enquiries made of police firearms officers that they receive very few applications for such certificates.
Hong Kong
Mr. Parry asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations he has received on the nationality position of non-ethnic Chinese citizens in Hong Kong after 1997.
Mr. Waddington: About 40.
Inner City Policing
Mr. Marlow asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will reassess the Scarman proposals for inner city policing.
Mr. Giles Shaw: Action has been taken on the specific recommendations for the police in Lord Scarman's report on the 1981 Brixton disorders. The principles of policing upon which Lord Sccarman based his proposals continue to be the underlying principles of policing in this country, and will continue to be developed to try to meet the needs of the community which the police serve.
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Mr. Hayes asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he last met the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; and what subjects were discussed.
Mr. Hurd: I last met the commissioner privately on 6 February when we discussed the use of firearms by the police. The commissioner and a number of his senior colleagues also attended the meeting which I held on 10 February with the London Boroughs' Association, the Association of London Authorities, and the Outer London Districts Metropolitan Police Consultative Association to discuss his recent strategy report. A wide range of subjects was discussed at that meeting, including finance, manpower, ethnic minority recruitment, the force reorganisation, co-operation between the police and local authorities, the Holloway road assault case, standards of professional conduct and traffic matters.
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Styal Prison
Mr. Alex Carlile asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any proposals for increasing the staffing at Her Majesty's prison, Styal; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Mellor: Arrangements have been made for five additional officers to take up post at Styal with effect from 31 March.
Police (Pay)
Mr. Hancock asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department
the salaries of constables, sergeants and
Specters on 1 January in 1979 and 1983; and what is the percentage difference in real terms.
ISTRY
RECEIVE
Mr. Giles
Rank
CLE Shaw The information requested follows:
“January 1979
January 1986 DESK OFFICER AMinimum Maximum Minimum Maximum
Unstable
Sergeant
Chief Inspector
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8.189 4,809 7,212 12.033
4,683
198
5,406 11,508 13,203 7,260 14.991 17.388
The cumulative increase arising from annual pay settlements since January 1979 is 148.3 per cent. Over the period January 1979 to November 1985 underlying average earnings have risen by 106 per cent. while between January 1979 and December 1985 the retail prices index rose by 82.9 per cent. and the tax and price index by 81.3 per cent.
Animals (Experiments)
Mr. Hancock asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which laboratories have been investigated under the Cruelty to Animals Act since 1980.
Mr. Mellor: All premises registered under the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 are visited by inspectors, mainly without notice. The numbers of these visits since 1977 are given in Cmnd. 9574, page 30, table 24 together with the numbers of registered premises concerned. It is not our practice to give details of individual premises.
Immigration
Mr. Dubs asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to seek to amend the immigration rules or the Immigration Act 1971.
Mr. Waddington: As my right hon. Friend announced on 23 January, at column 274 the Government intend to introduce legislation in the lifetime of this Parliament to the effect that an offence of overstaying is committed on the day when the overstayer first knows that his leave has expired and that it continues to be committed throughout any period during which he remains in the United Kingdom thereafter.
As my right hon. and learned Friend, the then Secretary of State told the House on 23 July 1985, at column 894 the Government intend to introduce legislation to put an end to the sexually discriminatory features of section 1(5) of the Immigration Act 1971 in a way that preserves the Government's commitment to firm immigration control.
The Government have at present no plans to amend the immigration rules, but all immigration control arrange- ments are kept under continuous re-examination.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.