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Crime Prevention

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many households have used the Lock Out Crime scheme in Northern Ireland since inception. [178318]

Paul Goggins: A total of 18,216 households registered for the Lock Out Crime scheme and 16,928 homes had additional home security devices installed.

Prisoners: Correspondence

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what monitoring takes place of mail (a) sent to and (b) received by inmates in Northern Ireland prisons. [175793]

Paul Goggins: All mail sent to and received by inmates in Northern Ireland prisons is opened by prison staff and checked for any illicit enclosures or contraband.

A 10 per cent. sample of mail sent and received is randomly censored by prison staff for security reasons.

The only exception to this is legal and privileged mail. A record is kept of all mail sent to, and received by, inmates.

Rape

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what arrangements are in place to provide counselling and advice to victims of male rape in Northern Ireland. [174860]

Paul Goggins: The provision of counselling services to victims of rape is now the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Administration, however, the Northern Ireland Office does fund Victim Support Northern Ireland to provide information, help and emotional support to all victims of crime. Victim support will also make onward referrals to organisations such as Nexus who provide counselling services to victims of sexual violence.

The Northern Ireland Office is working jointly with the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to develop a cross-cutting regional strategy on sexual violence which will be published in spring 2008. One of its key objectives is the establishment of a Sexual Assault Referral Centre which will provide immediate medical care, advice and other support services to all victims of sexual violence.

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many accusations of rape were withdrawn in circumstances where admission of false allegations were made in Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years. [174861]

Paul Goggins: Figures relating to the numbers of rape allegations which are withdrawn in circumstances where there is admission of false allegations are not recorded in the format requested.

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Insolvency

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when the administration and liquidation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International began; what fees were collected by insolvency practitioners and their advisers in relation to the Bank; and when the liquidation was finalised. [178446]

Mr. McFadden: The UK operation of BCCI was placed into provisional liquidation on 5 July 1991. At about the same time BCCI operations in Luxembourg (its place of registration) and in the Cayman Islands were also put into provisional liquidation. On 14 January 1992, attempts at rescue having failed, the High Court ordered that BCCI be wound up and similar orders were made in the other jurisdictions at about that time.

The most recent date at which the costs of the liquidation are available is 15 January 2007, from the annual report to the Secretary of State. The English liquidators’ remuneration totalled US $337 million paid and legal fees incurred by the English liquidators totalled US $225 million. In addition to those legal fees are the amounts which have been paid to the Bank of England following the abandonment of the liquidators’ action in 2006, which totalled some £85 million, including VAT and interest. It is noteworthy that despite the high costs total moneys received by the UK liquidators as at 15 January 2007 amounted to just over US $4.1 billion and there had been five dividends to
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creditors who had by then received 81 per cent. of their debts. The liquidators paid a further dividend of 3 per cent. on 27 November 2007 and expect to make a further payment but are unable to provide detail at present.

The liquidation is not yet finalized. The liquidators are making every effort to conclude the liquidation and pay final amounts to creditors as soon as possible, however, the English liquidation is one of several worldwide that are closely linked and only when they are all substantially complete will it be possible for a formal conclusion in this country.

Bankruptcy

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many individuals in each (a) age cohort and (b) London borough filed for bankruptcy in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [178420]

Mr. McFadden: The number of bankruptcies by age, and separately, by London borough can be seen in tables 1 and 2 as follows. This level of detailed information is only available for the years 2000 to 2006.

Table 1: Number of bankruptcy orders in England and Wales
Age group	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Under 25	876	1,051	1,254	1,725	2,648	3,498	4,006
25 to 34	5,810	6,258	6,339	7,233	9,319	11,844	15,539
35 to 44	6,358	6,964	7,210	8,265	10,377	13,590	18,532
45 to 54	4,181	4,413	4,410	5,128	6,206	8,447	11,644
55 to 64	1,662	1,908	2,145	2,633	3,405	4,707	6,662
65 and over	403	418	587	713	983	1,470	2,262
Missing ages	1,980	2,266	2,082	2,151	2,762	3,720	4,300
Total	21,270	23,278	24,027	27,848	35,700	47,276	62,945

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Table 2: Number of bankruptcy orders in London boroughs
London borough	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Barking and Dagenham	49	45	40	82	86	132	224
Barnet	66	86	85	94	135	215	250
Bexley	62	69	66	89	119	178	182
Brent	55	58	47	68	91	112	197
Bromley	60	77	64	80	123	219	312
Camden	42	66	50	105	143	202	264
City of London	7	1	2	5	6	7	10
City of Westminster	58	63	82	99	123	169	190
Croydon	72	76	85	96	139	207	282
Ealing	58	43	55	74	108	154	194
Enfield	53	71	66	76	119	120	187
Greenwich	58	48	77	90	121	190	250
Hackney	29	45	58	76	129	195	265
Hammersmith and Fulham	30	36	52	45	98	134	147
Haringey	52	39	54	62	113	135	217
Harrow	50	56	50	55	64	98	153
Havering	62	56	49	89	94	169	181
Hillingdon	69	49	47	74	83	163	202
Hounslow	41	61	44	62	120	153	202
Islington	46	45	67	76	142	199	243
Kensington and Chelsea	53	58	60	83	125	149	181
Kingston upon Thames	42	23	55	46	79	89	130
Lambeth	56	73	95	154	372	403	319
Lewisham	59	60	52	70	109	180	238
Merton	41	36	43	64	91	107	105
Newham	53	38	61	98	112	150	243
Redbridge	42	62	51	73	95	143	195
Richmond upon Thames	33	45	65	64	81	103	136
Southwark	35	54	69	107	182	246	274
Sutton	31	41	59	59	98	125	183
Tower Hamlets	88	76	102	131	169	214	249
Waltham Forest	45	48	31	55	96	134	216
Wandsworth	50	57	48	87	93	140	164

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